That must die, but this is not dead
Swear. Currently I’m busy working on http://zenmusic.wordpress.com
Also, I am sidetracked with other things in “life,” but I plan on writing more as I get the time!
Swervedriver concert from yesterday
It was a rad show. Here are some pictures.
And here:
And a couple short vidyos. The sound quality really sucks, but k.
It was a really, really cool show. Man, it was awesome.
The bassist had on a Dig! shirt, Waiting Room played before the bands began, a Pixies CD played before Swervedriver came on, Dinosaur Jr. t-shirts, people talking about Slowdive.
…Man, it makes me realize how much I hate Elbert.
YARGLE.
Oh yeah, I saw him do this live:
So gross, yet so hilarious. Sgt. Gutpile for you. What a nutjob. But if any of you ever get the chance to see him live, do it. It’s so funny.
Anyone care to join me for a Mandingo party?
Enon
is pretty cool!
Tying into the last entry, the Bad Astronomer, who is normally pretty cool, linked to this guy’s blog tonight. The entry is a little sketchy and points, but I was unaware that these aliens lacked original sin! I haven’t read the actual report from this Catholic astronomer bro, but if the aliens are supposed to lack original sin, that’s some pretty funny stuff. Original sin is transfered from generation to generation through sperm, obviously, so why would we even presume that these aliens would have anywhere similar reproductive methods to our own? This may actual be the first thing the Catholic Church has ever said that makes the vaguest bit of sense.
HEADLINE: “ALIENS ARE MY BROTHER!”
This made me laugh.
“According to BBC, the director of the Vatican Observatory stated in an article titled ‘Aliens Are My Brother’ that intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space. ‘The search for forms of extraterrestrial life does not contradict belief in God. — Just as there are multiple forms of life on earth, so there could exist intelligent beings in outer space created by God.’ Mind that this is not the same director who said that evolution is more than a mere theory — that was Father Coyne. I myself agree. There might be intelligent beings created by God in outer space even if there are none here on earth.”
Hat tip to Slashdot for this one.
I’m afraid of Roger Moore
Dudes and dudettes, I spent the part of this afternoon that I was awake looking into politicians and their views on “the issues.”
This started a couple days ago - Mother’s Day, to be exact! - when I was harangued propositioned with a voter registration form. I had nothing better to do, so I took a look at it and decided, hey, what’s the worst that could happen? Of course, as it turns out, I had none of the registration info on me. And to be honest, standing right in front of the road with people all over you while you’re trying to read a form is stressful! So I wouldn’t recommend registering when you’re surrounded by mobs of massively huge numbers of mom-loving freaks.
Anyway, a couple days after this trauatic event, I went on the internets and downloaded the PDF (EWW) voter registration form. I’ve filled it all out and I’m ready to take it in to the county clerk, like, whenever. I’ve checked the party affiliation as Libertarian, but I’m not sure I really want to do that the more that I think about it. I can’t register Democratic or Republican or Green or Constitution party without wanting to slit my wrists (oddly, the Socialist Party is not on the ballot in Colorado). This leaves me with “Libertarian” or “Unaffiliated.” There is no official spot for “Independent,” which is cool by me. I’ve always found these so-called Independents to be a bit like agnostics. They’re sort of fey, flakey quality to them. They think themselves more open minded than the rest of us, and it’s somewhat irritating, because I think it’s really evident that if anything, they’ve made their minds up well before the rest of us. Usually Independents are just Leftists in disguise. I’ve not met many right wing nuts who are registered as Independents.
Anyhow, like I said, I’ve marked the Libertarian box. But is that really what I want? Some Libertarians are just fucking insane. Let’s get that out of the way. There are some people in the party that give it a really, really bad name.
For instance, from Wikipedia:
Other followers of the libertarian philosophy may consider the Libertarian Party tactically ineffective; or wish to distance themselves from the “big-l” Libertarian Party, which sometimes suffers from unwanted headlines generated by some members. For example, Stan Jones, a 2002 Libertarian senatorial candidate in Montana, turned his skin permanently blue from consuming colloidal silver in anticipation of medicine shortages stemming from the Year 2000 problem.
There is a killer not-cool effect to the Libertarian party because of jackballs like this Stan Jones guy. The Libertarian convention is in Denver this year. It’s coming up in a couple weeks. I was looking at it, you know, to see how much tickets cost, who was going to be there, how it worked - that sort of thing. On the page to buy the tickets, I see an ad for a book by Richard C. Hoagland. For those of you who don’t know who this moron is, consider yourself lucky. Just looking at his page on Wikipedia it’s plain to see that the man is a joke. I just… think it would be hard to register with the Libertarian party because of folks like this. Then again, it’s either this or “Unaffiliated.” Sigh. This is a big, “FUCK THE MAN!” moment.
Speaking of The Man, who am I supposed to vote for this presidential election? I read Bob Barr’s platform. He’s the former Republican congressman from Georgia who had this “revelation” and is now a Libertarian. I was fine with his politics until it came to civil rights issues like gay marriage. Barr claims to be a supporter of individual rights, but how can he be when he denies people the right to marry? The highlight is that he supports allowing gays in the military because they’re equal to straight people in every way. So we can let the homos get mowed down, but they’d better not go down! Okay, that line sucked. But regardless, it’s sort of like letting people join the Army at 18 and not letting them drink ’til they’re 21.
So I decided I couldn’t vote for Barr.
I am pretty much sure I can’t vote for McCain. He’s sort of like an allllmost socialist in moderate Republican clothing. Plus, he’s all like, “RAWRRR, WAR!” That sort of thing makes me nervous. Very nervous. To be honest, I’m a little freaked out by the possibility of another war in the Middle East - or anywhere else. And electing McCain could possibly bring all these whacked out neoconservatives back. Next thing you know, we’ve invaded Iran.
That’s how these things always start. “Oh, it’ll just be an air campaign.” “Whoops, sorry guys, we’re sending the Army in now!” And before you know it, you have hundreds of thousands of people in this backwoods country.
Plus, I don’t dig McCain’s whole sudden, “I got religion!” thang. It’s pretty cheap. If he’s the maverick he and others say he is, he should still give these people the finger and just deal.
As for Obama. Meh. I could conceivably vote for him because he hasn’t, like, outrighted lied or changed his appearance as much as anyone else running has. This is partially because no one really knows his history - which doesn’t really bug me, but I could understand why it makes others suspicious. Anyway, there was that whole free trade thing right before the Ohio/Texas primaries, but at least we learned from that that Obama wasn’t exactly going to shut down all free trade. That’s good. Plus, and I haven’t seen a lot of people pay attention to this, he has an interesting collection of economists advising his, uh, economic policies. The ones I heard mentioned are from the University of Chicago. They’re not exactly far out lefties. Obama would probably be more conservative with money than Mrs. Clinton, which is… I don’t even know what it is because I’m sleepy.
Anyway, Obama is the only one I could see myself even potentially voting for, but I still don’t really dig him. I think it was Penn Jillette talking about how voting was so stupid because you’re unlikely to ever find a candidate who’s really going to reflect what you want. So maybe I just shouldn’t vote at all. Maybe not voting sends as much a message as does voting.
Sigh. Well, good night. Tell me who to vote for. Seriously. Make a case for who I should vote for.
