February 2010
30 posts
January 2010
36 posts
Crime and Punishment
was really great.
- Petrovich: Do you believe in Lazarus rising from the dead?
- Raskolnikov: Well, I suppose I do.
- Petrovich: And do you believe in God?
- Raskolnikov: Does it matter?
- Petrovich: It might.
Boy Lilikoi
Jónsi
Boy Lilikoi- Jónsi
When I uploaded Pocahaunted to my itunes, their genre said “Christian gangsta rap.” hahha
“The power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power. When workers go on strike, huge corporations lose their power. When consumers boycott, huge business establishments have to give in. When soldiers refuse to fight, as so many soldiers did in Vietnam…the war can’t go on. When enough soldiers refuse, the government has to decide we can’t continue. So yes, people have the power. If they begin to organize, if they protest, if they create a strong enough movement, they can change things.”
— Howard Zinn
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Nothing is pure anymore but solitude.
Into your house, why don’t we share our solitude?
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Bulletproof… I Wish I Was- Radiohead
This is what today sounds like.
30 days until Have One On Me comes out.
I haven’t been this excited for a new album in a long time.
Jeopardy is over and now I have nothing to do.
I guess i will watch a movie.
Candy Land
CocoRosie
Candy Land- CocoRosie
“The unreal is more powerful than the real.
Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
Because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.
But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
If you can change the way people think…the way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. And that’s the only lasting thing you can create.
Besides, at some point, your memories, your stories and adventures, will be the only things you’ll have left.”
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“President Bush was responsible for destroying Haitian democracy in 2004, when he and American forces abducted President Aristide and his wife, taking them off to Africa, and they are now in South Africa. President Clinton has largely sponsored a program of economic development that supports the idea of sweatshops. Haitians in Haiti today make 38 cents an hour. They don’t make a high enough wage to pay for their lunch and transportation to and from work. But this is the kind of economic program that President Clinton has supported. I think that is sad, that these two should be joined in this kind of effort (to coordinate aid relief in Haiti).”
— Randall Robinson, founder of TransAfrica
Southeast Christian is the bane of my existence.
Sunday mornings:
- Wake up at 7:45 to get ready for church.
- Drive to church while listening to contemporary Christian music.
- Arrive at church. Listen to more contemporary Christian music.
- Awkwardly avoid taking communion.
- Watch baptisms, usually of 8-12 year olds who don’t know (and probably will never know) anything other than what their Christian parents and Christian schools have taught them. But it’s okay, because they are “making the decision for themselves.”
- Watch thousands of people give hundreds of thousands of dollars to the church.
- Listen to a sermon with faulty arguments, and of course, the obligatory pop culture reference.
- More contemporary Christian songs.
- Drive home. Listen to parents talk about how they agreed with the church service. Disagree with them (while listening to contemporary Christian music).
Repeat weekly.
