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1128 days ago
www.flickr.com/photos/bentdent Yay flickr, boo Space thingys.
1188 days ago
Take death, for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, And often consider it's instusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. If death were indefitely put off, The human psyche woud end up, Well, like the gambler, in the Twilight Zone Episode. - Ray Kurzweil Alright, so I only read the Age of Spiritual Machines because an Our Lady Peace album was inspired by it. So what? The same album got me to read 1984. Both of those books are among my favourites. Now I just have to read On the Road by Kerouac. Ray Kurzweil has a new book out. It's too expensive in hardcover, but it's coming out in trade paperback in September. Why am I telling you this? Because you should ...
1205 days ago
Fireworks! You should all know the song. Fireworks, exploding in the distance, temporary tower soar, fireworks, emulating heaven, til there are no stars anymore. Anyhoo. There were fireworks last night on the bridge. Very very good ones. There are fireworks tomorrow night on Banook. The ones last year on Banook were pretty bad. They better not suck this year. And then on Wednesday there's fireworks in Eastern Passage. Which are ALWAYS good. So everyone go. I've decided that there's three vocalists who can do anything. I don't mean each one can do anything, I mean all together, they can do everything. They are: Mike Patton, Raine Maida, and Phil Anselmo. Yes, I'm biased. Of course I am. But with every one of these people, it was their voices that drew me to the band. Of course the band had to not suck, as well. Anyway, with just these vocalists, you get all these bands: Our Lady Peace, Pantera, Down, Superjoint Ritual, Mr Bungle, Faith No More, Fantomas... there's probably ...1218 days ago
I was looking through this blog archive thing, and realized I haven't actually ranted in a while. Is it because there's nothing to rant about? No. Actually, when I started getting headaches is basically when I stopped ranting so much. Now I'm on two different prescriptions. One I took through all of last semester every night, now I just take it when I get a headache, and new ones I take every night to prevent headaches. (Stay with me here, I have a point). Here's the thing. The new drugs are for anxiety. Isn't anxiety a part of your personality? It might not be a good part, but it's there. And so far it's only been minorly debilitating. I can deal with it. And if I can't right now, I can figure out a way to deal with it, without being prescribed something. My problem is with everyone taking prescriptions for everything. Especially mental things. Like depression. I know, I know, some people have a disease that does cause them to be depressed. BUT... I have a huge problem with a binch ...
1226 days ago
Female singers I actually like. (Because I keep forgetting.) Annie Lennox (She doesn't whine. She has a strong voice.) k.d. lang (Same reasons as Annie.) Chantal Kreviazuk (I like her lyrics. They're weird. Case in point: Who's the strange lady with the big silly hair, and berries on her face, dressed like a pear.) Fuck the Facts lady (She doesn't sound like a girl. And she's nuts.) Rebekah del Rio (I've only ever heard her do the cover of Crying by Roy Orbison, but good god she has a powerful voice. None of this whiney wavering bullshit.) The singer from Heart. It's either Anne or Nancy Wilson. (She's got a rock n roll voice.) And that's all I can think of. I guess my problems with chicks singing is the high pitched voices, and the whining and moaning. Just SING goddamnit.
