I am so bored. I need motivation >_>
1. Organize Cops for Cancer
2. Go to the gym
3. Get another job
4. Learn to play "Morning Lullabies" on the piano
5. Write a song
6. Stop avoiding social engagements
7. Go camping, tubing, and waterskiing
8. Watch less TV, and by TV, I mean Family Channel
9. Get black nail polish
10. Pay for New York....
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
RIP MJ?
Listening: Eet by Regina Spektor
Yes. We are all saddened by the death of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. But honestly?? It's all I've heard about all day. The fact that people are "schocked and saddened", well.. it shocks and saddens me a little. Someone dies every second.. lots of those people are kids dying from terrible sanitary conditions, or hunger, or war. Why don't we focus on those deaths? How come that isn't something we post on our Facebooks and Twitters and Blogs at every oppurtunity? Because it happens so often? Because they're so distant it doesn't matter to us? Or because they never had a chance in the first place? Maybe because they can't sing Thriller, or they're not a Charlie's Angel. AUGH I'm so fed up with people's obsessions with celebrities' lives. Even flipping through channels the other day with my friend, Jon from the reality show "Jon and Kate Plus 8" was saying something along the lines of "We have men from our country dying overseas all the time, and all people care about is what I'm eating for lunch??". Even someone the centre of the tabloid's attention doesn't understand it. Just imagine... if people took the money they spent on gossip magazine's alone.. that's 3 or 4 bucks a week.. and put it towards anything, AIDS, homelessness, the SPCA, War Child... can you imagine what an impact that would make? If 100,000 people buy something like US Weekly, that's around $350,000n a week. Can you imagine? If everyone replaced reading Perez Hilton with reading up on women's rights under Taliban, or child soldiers in Africa, so much more would be accomplished, and we would be so much more knowledgable about the world around us. I feel as if this generation was raised to praise everything above us and ignore everything below us. Then again, how does that differ from the norms of the past 100 years?
Yes. We are all saddened by the death of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. But honestly?? It's all I've heard about all day. The fact that people are "schocked and saddened", well.. it shocks and saddens me a little. Someone dies every second.. lots of those people are kids dying from terrible sanitary conditions, or hunger, or war. Why don't we focus on those deaths? How come that isn't something we post on our Facebooks and Twitters and Blogs at every oppurtunity? Because it happens so often? Because they're so distant it doesn't matter to us? Or because they never had a chance in the first place? Maybe because they can't sing Thriller, or they're not a Charlie's Angel. AUGH I'm so fed up with people's obsessions with celebrities' lives. Even flipping through channels the other day with my friend, Jon from the reality show "Jon and Kate Plus 8" was saying something along the lines of "We have men from our country dying overseas all the time, and all people care about is what I'm eating for lunch??". Even someone the centre of the tabloid's attention doesn't understand it. Just imagine... if people took the money they spent on gossip magazine's alone.. that's 3 or 4 bucks a week.. and put it towards anything, AIDS, homelessness, the SPCA, War Child... can you imagine what an impact that would make? If 100,000 people buy something like US Weekly, that's around $350,000n a week. Can you imagine? If everyone replaced reading Perez Hilton with reading up on women's rights under Taliban, or child soldiers in Africa, so much more would be accomplished, and we would be so much more knowledgable about the world around us. I feel as if this generation was raised to praise everything above us and ignore everything below us. Then again, how does that differ from the norms of the past 100 years?
Monday, June 22, 2009
No One's Laughing at God When They're Saying Goodbye
Laughing With- Regina Spektor
Yeah, so, if you've associated with me over the past 3 or so months.. well.. you would probably guess that relegion's the last thing on my mind. I've committed many, many sins (except not those involving hurting people [not intentionally, anyway]).. and recently it's all I can think about. I guess I've lost a lot of faith lately, more in myself, as a good person, then in anything else. And with most of my friends (big "manly" dudes and/or drama boys? ha.), it's not likely they have the attention span for that conversation. Hm. Where's my journal at?
Yeah, so, if you've associated with me over the past 3 or so months.. well.. you would probably guess that relegion's the last thing on my mind. I've committed many, many sins (except not those involving hurting people [not intentionally, anyway]).. and recently it's all I can think about. I guess I've lost a lot of faith lately, more in myself, as a good person, then in anything else. And with most of my friends (big "manly" dudes and/or drama boys? ha.), it's not likely they have the attention span for that conversation. Hm. Where's my journal at?
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
WHOOP
Sara McGuigan and Alex Arslanyan...
ARE GOING TO SAVE THE WORLD!!
AKA the Gorge. We has a plan to clean it.
ARE GOING TO SAVE THE WORLD!!
AKA the Gorge. We has a plan to clean it.
I Don't See What Anyone Can See, In Anyone Else...
Song: All Cleaned Out by Elliot Smith
Have you ever read Macbeth?
This is something I always think about. Everyone seems to think that their life is more significant and special than those of everyone else on the planet. But really.. let's say you live 70 years.. the planet's been around for 4.5 billion years, that means your life takes up approximately .00000000015% of Earth's time. It's a speck of dust in your the planet's house. When it comes to the universe itself.. timewise and sizewise, you are a microscopic organism in New York City. Now what about that is unique, amazing, separate? Why even bother? I don't know if you've ever looked through a microscope, but when there appears to be nothing on the surface, there's actually an amazing amount of biodiversity, and different levels of bacteria, protists.. everything's different. And one itty bitty one does nothing on its own.. but all of them together can cause a disease, disintegrate huge things.. I dunno, just thinking about how tiny we are is absolutely mind-blowing to me.
Have you ever read Macbeth?
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
This is something I always think about. Everyone seems to think that their life is more significant and special than those of everyone else on the planet. But really.. let's say you live 70 years.. the planet's been around for 4.5 billion years, that means your life takes up approximately .00000000015% of Earth's time. It's a speck of dust in your the planet's house. When it comes to the universe itself.. timewise and sizewise, you are a microscopic organism in New York City. Now what about that is unique, amazing, separate? Why even bother? I don't know if you've ever looked through a microscope, but when there appears to be nothing on the surface, there's actually an amazing amount of biodiversity, and different levels of bacteria, protists.. everything's different. And one itty bitty one does nothing on its own.. but all of them together can cause a disease, disintegrate huge things.. I dunno, just thinking about how tiny we are is absolutely mind-blowing to me.