Short Lived
051805-1950
The site is short lived, sadly. I am moving my writing to The Flak - a group blog I've started for youth to assemble and disccus and debate.
In God You What?!
051605-2236
Let me take you back to just 5 months after 9/11. People were crazy - for a resonable circumstance though. This was a time where you were an over-zealous, patriotic, Bush-lover or... you were Satan.
In February of 2002, legislation was brought up in a number of states including Indiana (which it was shot down), Virginia (which it was passed), Florida, Utah, Arizona, New Jersey, and Michigan to have our national motto - "In God We Trust" - posters hung on public school walls.
Personally, I know plenty of students here - dozens - that would disagree with believing in any God. Yet, this is one school of hundreds of thousands who practice this mandate to this day. What even more amazing is that some people, like Stephen Ehardt (R), consider that the four word phrase have zero religious meaning! Excuse me? How is it secular? Trust is great - but I believe it was granted in my Constitution that it wouldnt be pressed on me without a fair balance to appreciate other types of religion and government. And yes you are blending the two so you also enact my freedom to post my beliefs in government as well.
Maybe not so, which recent student president candidate (and now winner) C. G. was denied posting anarchists symbolism on his campaign fliers. A hall strewn with LOGOS fliers including Christianity symbolism.
That ain't right. What are the reprecussions for stealing that poster?
Musical Lookout #3 - The Good Life
051605-1738
Yes, it's been a half a year since their last work - but it may never be too late for a little of The Good Life. You can check out Saddle Creek and then bands and the appropriate selection would then take you to various tidbits of info on the band.
If you do so possess yourself to check out the melodic Good Life - who to me sounds at most times a subdued, blissful Decemberists.. with a few high decible moments - check out "Notes in His Pocket" and "You're Not You" in particular.
You're Not You... Anymore
051505-2138
Feeling so uninspired to write - and yes I love thunderstorms like something great but they always make me really tired. I just felt disgusting after slowly drying in the stagnant Farm Fresh air for 6 hours. Home was such a relief.
Slowly considering a multi-user blog, but just wrestling the idea of Blogger or another service.. and customizing it.. the pain.
Apparently, in a rather exciting news event - von Frisch's half-century theory on bee dances is proven true, that the dance codes distance and direction to a food source. The bees even counter for wind change. How fricken great it is to thing such pesky, often hated creatures, with brains the size of bread crumbs can do such a thing. Amazing.
TechElect #1
Microsoft and the Devil vs. Sony and Apple
051305-0009
This segment - part of what will eventually be a four tiered coverage on anything news related (one being already developed The Google Juggernaut) - will be devoted to tech news not related to Google or the #1 story of the day.
For today's coverage - I am denouncing Bill Gate's ridicule and his counterpart analyst's claim that the Xbox 360 will be the console and all purpose hub to replace iPods.
Well I disagree on many of the points Microsoft has made. I made my point semi stated here. Yes the new Xbox 360 will be neat and multi purposeful. But, this does not single handedly throw Apple or Sony out of the water. You've only given Sony the time it needs to top Microsoft by Xmas (when it matters) and no one (including the 3 major companies here and the Devil himself) have hopped on the bandwagon to make the mobile phone the next big portable music. But yes, I admit - the first person owning an enormous cellular business to wisely affiliate with Apple to blend phone and iPod will be a wise man for a long time.
It's Hard to Live in a Basement
And never get Carried Away
051205-2345
For the first time in a long while, a tv show (albeit my tired self watching an amazing episode of West Wing in school) enticed me for a minute to actually feel alarm and distress for a character. I was in such a boring ass world when that bell rang.
I helped Karl through a LiveMotion crisis. Figured out my final large art project. I decided on avoiding any large brown-cloaked emperor-resembling demon figures. So now my youthful child image will only be offering his heart and passion to a field of surrounding bubbles (one very large one mostly). The bubbles represent a wide range of things, but mostly the truth that the youth of our nation is dying to hear - but the high and mighty and sadly conservative dominant government doesn't want to give it out.
Then I worked 5 hours on top of sore muscles from Dillard yesterday. The quads and the muscles in the upper chest area (name anyone? not quite pectoral I don't think?). But - Dillard is and was still so worth it - locals need to come out next Wednesday.
The Headlines are Beacons
051105-2244
Yay for Arianna Huffington - with her recent release of her new Blog/News site HuffingtonPost.com. Make sure you not only dabble daily in the blog section but post and debate comments in the News Wire section to boot!
So today was a large day of stress relief. AP Government is out of the way, school seems very easily handled and it just felt so bloody good playing frisbee at Dillard. And, by the way to any Williamsburg locals - Dillard frisbee will be every wednesday @ 530 from now on, and eventually on Mondays as well.
I dont get Farm Fresh's (the grocer I work at) decision to place a quarter candy machine near the left exit. Granted its been there for a while and has no other logical home, but why have it at all. Do you really need that extra twenty to forty bucks a month from pathetically begged-after quarters. It causes distress in kids, in their parents, in the customers awkwardly trying to get around them or into the store, and in the employees often pushing 4-9 carts at a time with nowhere to go because one soft mother caused a twenty person backup in a space only wide enough for two middle weight citizens. Get rid of it Farm Fresh - it just doesn't work there, especially with its minimal profit.
I Wonder If I'm Alone...
In Your Head
050805-0132
I am craving, for the moment, to get il/legal copies, any copies, of Photoshop 8 and Flash MX 2004 on my computer. I may be wrong, but I feel like after my newfound skills in 'ol LiveMotion that I may be able to adapt to Flash quickly. So in turn from sudden inspiration, I resurrected this very site.
The Google Juggernaut #4
050805-0128
Although some are getting sketchy, some claim controversial, I say heck why not hand me 2 more seconds of my life, It will be well spent at some point during the day.
The May List
050805-0108
It has come time that I will give my month's playlist (of music I own) out as my own "The List". The first two are longer than what will only be 12 songs (6 of which will be recycled).
The MAY List:
"Holland, 1945" by Neutral Milk Hotel
"The Sporting Life" by The Decemberists
"Tiny Cities Made of Ashes" by Modest Mouse
"Kill" by Jimmy Eat World
"Teeth In the Grass" by Iron and Wine
"Sunday Drive" by Early November
"The Velorium Camper II" by Coheed and Cambria
"Waiting" by Cake
"Skylight" by Breaking Pangaea
"Of Angels and Angles" by The Decemberists
"Walrus" by Breaking Pangaea
"Amsterdam" by Coldplay
"Ender Will Save Us All" by Dashboard Confessional
"Nature Co." by Evan and Jaron
"Conversation" by The Get Up Kids
"Whatsername" by Green Day
You can find the unannounced April List as well.
Write me at chudzta17@gmail.com