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October 28, 2005
i demand beauty from others
first off... i'm writing about the paste thing for the bagpipe, so when i finish the article i'll post it.
sorry i never update. frankly i don't care if people don't read it... but then when someone told me they never read it because i don't post often enough, i thought... well, for you, i will post more often. only for YOU.
i have decided that i like blogs because often when i read the ones i like, they provoke thoughts or make me remember beauty. i return to beautiful things. i think i've written on some blog somewhere before that we return to beautiful places and people and things. we do not know why we prefer to sit and read in a garden by a fountain with the sound of trickling, because it might be most convenient to study in the car, idling in the parking lot as your housemate buys groceries.
i also like familiar beauty, but i have to be away from it long enough for the beauty to remain fresh. i love new beauty, if it is in some way familiar, like the rolling hills of Nepal in pictures, because they remind me of my hometown. when i first saw pictures of the homes in Mexico, they were not very pretty to me, because they did not look like my home. but after living in santa barbara, where there is a strong influence of Spanish architecture, i greatly enjoy the white stucco and red-orange roofs often seen in Hispanic culture.
today i remembered that a picture of the ground after it has rained is pretty.
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October 24, 2005
Paste Magazine festival in Decatur
I made my title very distinctive because I want to advertise for this event. I attended the inaugural (first ever) Paste Rock n Reel festival this weekend in Decatur, Georgia (Atlanta suburbs) and it was a great event. They plan to make it annual.
I got to see the trendy area where the Paste headquarters are located, called East Decatur Station, where I am happy to say there is no starbucks. I say this because East Decatur station, I was informed by Phillip Harvey, is a part of the wave of new urbanism, which puts little urban-style businesses in the suburbs. But it caters more to walking rather than typical strip malls. Some of the businesses may have been chains, but there was no monopoly-supporting going on. It was also a great area for concerts.
I was there Saturday and Sunday. Saturday I saw the creators of homestar runner (more on that later), a sequence of mediocre film shorts, Elf Power, one of my favorite bands Over the Rhine, and Low. Sunday I saw Denison Witmer, Mindy Smith, The Modern Skirts, academy-nominated film shorts, Giant Sand, and Victoria Williams. There was so much more I could have done and seen, but you have to choose your own adventure.
I think the highlight of the event for me was Over the Rhine, and the short film, Most. I will write more at a later time.
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October 18, 2005
coping mechanism
my coping mechanism is showers. they beat me, they warm me, they clean me, they give me a fresh start, i can make my own noise (cry sometimes), i can hear my thoughts, i can sing, i can't hear anything else.
what would life look like if it had no need for coping mechanisms?
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October 16, 2005
music was my mother and father
I just watched a documentary on Jeff Buckley and he said, “Music was my mother and my father. I try to give back what it gave me. I do it for the music and to see other people who love it, and to see the world.”
other thoughts from my notebook, both copied when i worked at the boys and girls club this summer:
"That afternoon, when the wind had died down and the barnyard was quiet and warm, the grey goose led her seven goslings off the nest and out into the world." -E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
"Ole Golly says description is good for the soul and clears the brain like a laxative." -from Harriet the Spy
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October 07, 2005
POLITICAL ME
| You are a Social Conservative (28% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (35% permissive) You are best described as a:
Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test |
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October 01, 2005
a concept to take with you in your blog reading
"If we believe that the Spirit of God is the only Fountain of truth, we shall neither reject nor despise the truth itself, wherever it shall appear unless we wish to insult the Spirit of God... Shall we deny the light of truth to the ancient lawyers, who have delivered such just principles of civil order and polity? Shall we say that the philosophers were blind to their exquisite contemplation and in their scientific description of Nature? Shall we say that wthose who by the art of logic have taught us to speak in a manner consistent with reason, were destitute of understanding themselves? Shall we accuse these of insanity, who by the study of medicine have been exercising their industry to our advantage? What shall we say of all the mathematics? Shall we esteem them the delirious ravings of madmen? On the contrary, we shall not be able even to read the writings of the ancients on these subjects without great admiration; we shall admire them, because we shall be constrained to acknowledge them to be truly excellent. And shall we esteem anything laudable or excellent, which we do not recognize as proceeding from God?"
-name that theologian
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