So lets see. Tomorow is Christmas. Tomorow is the day when millions of people celebrate the birth of Christ, which, supposedly, actually happened in April, by spending lots of money to buy their loved ones lots of presents. How wonderful. I'm not even Christian. Christmas has grown from a religious holiday to a time of mass consumerism. The heart of the tradition has been lost. The core of the tradition is now what used to be the cause of the tradition.
Don't get me wrong. I like getting all these presents. But sometimes it seems kind of, I don't know, futile. Like we are trying to make up all the time we should be with our family by buying them stuff. Maybe we should just cut all this religious crap, make new songs, and create a whole new religion devoted to Christmas.
The Seven Commandments of Christmas
You must spend at least 50 bucks on close relatives, 10 on others.
Chritmas
You must buy a present for each of your friends, even if it is small.
Christmas.
You are must be politically correct to everyone you meet on Christmas day.
Christmas.
You must meet at least some of your family that you do not live with.
Christmas.
You must not rip the wrapping paper of your presents.
Christmas.
Do not touch a present that you are not giving or receiving.
Christmas
You must go see the cool pictures that Google has for Christmas, they're always cool.
Hey, I'm halfway to my own fascist state. Aren't I cool.
Have a hapy holidays, everyone.
The Royal We, Sasha Brown
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Why Should I
Yesterday, I was sitting with my friends in Health class, even though its not my class, and a man came in to talk about himself. I though he seemed strong and wise. a leather jacket, he walked as though he thought that he was cool, like everything was cool around him. Was I wrong? You decide. He told us that he was a police officer, and that his life is fucked up. He talked about how he was beat as a child, by his father and teachers, how, to avoid being beat by avoiding school and home. He talked about how, as his dad would walk through the back door, and he would walk out the front. He talked as a man who had accepted his fate. He was sitting with his chair backwards, comfortable in his discomfort. He talked about how he gave the wrong answers consciously, to resist. He talked about starting to smoke, to prove to his parents and his friends and his teachers and himself and the whole world that he could do what he wanted.
While I was watching and hearing and feeling his life, I said to myself, "Wow, this world is seriously fucked up, man." He also talked about how is sisters were treated like royalty, and how they had been top students. He explained that he was a police officer because, since when he was a child he had no control, he wanted not only to control himself, but everybody else. He talked about how he isn't afraid of having a gun pointed at him, but afriad of himself.
This man was born and raised here in my home town, Ithaca. Beautiful Ithaca. So basically, this could happen to anyone. What protects us. If we get messed up, there is nothing we can do. This is cour only life, you don't get another chance. So what if someone else fucks it up. You don't have insurance on your mind, so you're just stuck with it.
I don't want that to happen to me. I'm scared of that. I don't want to have panic attacks, where for three minutes, I think that I am going to die.
Right now, I am wearing a green Under Armor shirt that is too small for me. And jeans. No socks. I need a haircut soon, but maybe its cool like it is. I am listening t Aesop Rock, which I just bought from iTunes with someone else's money. Its 2:21, and all I have done is watch Seven Samuris. Wow, its vacation. So, what now.
Whatever...
While I was watching and hearing and feeling his life, I said to myself, "Wow, this world is seriously fucked up, man." He also talked about how is sisters were treated like royalty, and how they had been top students. He explained that he was a police officer because, since when he was a child he had no control, he wanted not only to control himself, but everybody else. He talked about how he isn't afraid of having a gun pointed at him, but afriad of himself.
This man was born and raised here in my home town, Ithaca. Beautiful Ithaca. So basically, this could happen to anyone. What protects us. If we get messed up, there is nothing we can do. This is cour only life, you don't get another chance. So what if someone else fucks it up. You don't have insurance on your mind, so you're just stuck with it.
I don't want that to happen to me. I'm scared of that. I don't want to have panic attacks, where for three minutes, I think that I am going to die.
Right now, I am wearing a green Under Armor shirt that is too small for me. And jeans. No socks. I need a haircut soon, but maybe its cool like it is. I am listening t Aesop Rock, which I just bought from iTunes with someone else's money. Its 2:21, and all I have done is watch Seven Samuris. Wow, its vacation. So, what now.
Whatever...
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Friday, December 22, 2006
The End of the World as we Know It
Just started da blog. The point of this blog will be to have exciting themes, share my emotions, and comment on the meaning of life and our existence upon this planet. Maybe if their are people on other planets too. Maybe. The World That We Know is everchanging, never really the same, and yet maybe never different. The point is, wait, the World That We Know does not have a point, for it is gone. We now know another world. A world where people are diffferent from what they just were.
For it truly is The End of the World as we Know It
For it truly is The End of the World as we Know It
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Today's Topic: Translation
On pourrait dire : voilà l’idée simpliste et surtout bien banale depuis que Pierre Maurois a popularisé la formule : « on ne peut avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre. ». Mais on aurait tort, parce que c’est le discours qui ressort en période électorale depuis fort longtemps, et il n’est pas près de disparaître…. parce que ça marche toujours
We could say: here is a simple idea and most of all trivial since Pierre Maurois had a popularized opinion: "We cannot have the butter and the money from the butter." But we would be mistaken, because it is the speech that drives the electoral periods strong for a long time, and he was not close to dissappear?... because we walk all day
Hope you had a fun time. Maybe.
We could say: here is a simple idea and most of all trivial since Pierre Maurois had a popularized opinion: "We cannot have the butter and the money from the butter." But we would be mistaken, because it is the speech that drives the electoral periods strong for a long time, and he was not close to dissappear?... because we walk all day
Hope you had a fun time. Maybe.
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