December 2009
“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost...”
– Mark Twain.
This is the opposite of what I want to be.
last day of 2009
2009 has 23 hours left.
This year has been amazing in so many ways. In January I was returning to AU after a long break at home, and losing one of my oldest friendships at the cost of a new relationship. February I felt more part of a single collective group at college; whereas before I hung out with a lot of different people, now there was a settled clique of people who all knew each other....
dark night of the soul
Humans are the beings in existence with the most capability of seeing beauty, truth, and love, and making the most out of their environment. We can attach the ideal to the real, defining meaning in the world, but this comes at the price of awareness of our own deaths.
I’m nineteen, I shouldn’t be having these constant intrusive thoughts so early. Terror and despair at my own mortality...
I need to remind myself to not read existentialist philosophy immediately before going to bed. It preoccupies my mind with the thoughts that healthy people shouldn’t be thinking constantly. After a lot of thought, some of which chilled me to the bone and filled me with despair, I believe that the soul continues after death, if not in the same consciousness as our bodies, and that...
Javier Bardem is scary.
No Country For Old Men is amazing.
We wanted a horror film, but settled on NCFOM - it was just as suspenseful and frightening as the best of horror films.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Country_for_Old_Men_(film)
Aiya Earendil elenion ancalima
I’m rereading Lord of the Rings again, for the first time since freshman year high school. Such a blast from the past…
Hey remember that time I knew elvish? Whoops I thought so, let’s forget about all of that.
More interesting things I have seen, heard, or...
Something I wrote while fucked up, Fall 2008 – “everything is a phallic symbol, like gatorade bottles – they’re shaped like cocks to make us look at them and buy them. the temperature of the earth determines our culture” I still have no idea what this last part means, or how it followed. Still thinking about it.
“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of...
List of interesting things I have heard,...
In Victorian England, some men and ladies referred to constables as ‘thingstables.’ Con meant ‘cunt’ in French, and sounded too much like it in English.
Ad Astra – Ab Imo Pectore: To the stars – From the bottom of my chest (heart)
Declaration by Athletic Mic League is a song I heard a long time ago, wrote down, but have never been able to find again on the internet. Other songs I’ve looked for...
The Lonesome West
Continuing my Martin McDonagh wave by reading the Beauty Queen of Leenane.
The city was so cold today I could feel my muscles spasm. Disappointing in some ways, but reassuring in others. My dad’s cooking in the kitchen, listening to the Grateful Dead - everything is as it should be.
The Eagle, “Sex-perimentation,” and How... →
consensual:
By Richard Phillips- AWOL Magazine
Most political movements, especially those with ambitious or even radical goals, require some level of confidence in their ideals in order to function. Yet too often, a movement’s confidence can morph into stiff rules that are disconnected from the complexities of the real world. The recent controversy over The Eagle’s sex column entitled...
Drake and Fairview, Staten Island
Ain’t gonna worry,
You live ‘til you die, wanna drown
With nowhere to fall into the arms of someone
There’s nothing to save, I know
You live ‘til you die.
So here I am tumbling now. I’vebeen having a lot of free time over break, so I guess tumbling is a good way to make use of that, writing blogs, posting poetry, and analyzing crime, organized and otherwise, in the state of New Jersey. I stay...
