Tuesday, September 30, 2008

all about me again

this was sent as a mass(sadly small) email to the names i have in my gmail account. if you never received it, that means you haven't sent me an email.. how sad. so please do to get the next one.... when ever that may be


So its been a month. I figure ts time for an update.
After all the shareholders deserve to see that there investments are being put to good use.

The only class so far that I've had any tests in is computers, so I'm doing awesome. Grannie will be happy to know i never wasted any of the money she sent; i bought a counter top dishwasher. It'll be with me for life and every day it makes my life nicer!

I have 2 roommates, well 3 if you count the guy who doesn't talk. He can i know, because hes asked the rest of us to “keep it down” one night. He spoke as though he was appealing to our humanity and we ought to respect him as a person. My question is, when i say “good morning” when i see him in the kitchen, or “hay, hows it goin” if i see him in the living room. Would not that same humanity state you go through the arduous task of muttering a “hay” in return? So after 3 weeks of him acting as though he was a conscientious objector to our occupation of the house, I've decided, that the laws of war apply. As the occupier i must assume that i was the victor and thus the stronger party. Therefore, i must do all in my power to quell the dissidents. Of course i would prefer to do this by making the “natives” feel at home and like they belong... but Machiavelli also has a bit to say on the matter. (just kidding, i don't have time to have a little war at home. I have a polly-sci teacher who has an unhealthy Conservative bent who requires most of my attention.)
I KNOW! A CONSERVATIVE PROF!!!! Well I'm sure she thinks of herself as liberal as the rest of “intelligentsia” but shes got a thing where she still believes that Conservatives in this country are libertarians. Like the fact they want to regulate the citizen but not the bushiness is not to be discussed in class, just that Laissez-faire economics means that your less regulated... I digress.
Maybe i ought to have made that its own paragraph. Its more of a complete idea unto its self, than a closer to the previous thought.

I Digress.

If ever write a biography thats what I'll call it.
or maybe put that on my tombstone; Scott Sinclair: I digress.

Any way...
so no less than 2 hurricanes have blown past and neither one was much of a storm. I'm sorrily disappointed. No lightning at all. I do realize that I'm from Lethbridge, but even the winds were calm. Just a little rain and thats it. I remember the day god killed my rabbit with a flash hail storm. That little diddy will remain in my memory long after these so called hurricanes have faded in to the ever growing library of unimportant moments in my life.
Did i do something wrong? Like the “Hockey riots” i was in were not ciaos, it was thousands of people, being relatively law abiding, (a little public drunkenness, but that was all for the most part.) never got to see a tornado despite all the time i spent in central Alberta trailer parks trying to sell vaccumes. I've lived with prostitutes and drug dealers, purposely walking down dark alleys alone. And now 2, 2! hurricanes and still no ciaos. As i pause on my birthday to see if I'm doing anything worthwhile with my wobbles around the sun; the most chaos i have encountered is the fragments of dreams that have stuck with me from my youthful night terrors. Its clear that a modicum of intelligence and an alert guardian angle is all that is needed to make the western world safe. Don't get me wrong. I don't like pain. And i definitely don't want to die. But I'd like to experience some of the events that people talk about with that “awh” tone that separates events, from conversations of deck stains... and of course bathroom functions at the dinner table.
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that is not me digressing. ( is digressing a word? Either way this is definitely digressing now, ill just close the brackets and get back to it.) that is the biases of me starting to formulate a plan. I want to spend my summer over seas. Perhaps in a 3rd world country. Too see what life is like amongst desperation. I'm not sure if I've got the balls to go to Baghdad right off the bat. But i want to see if maybe its all hyped a little too much.
I figure either way i win. If its as bad as they say i can have my fill of WOW moments, allowing me to live life with out taking needles risks. Or it is hype, and i can come back with the smug knowledge that I know and no one else does. I like feeling smug, admit it you do too. In fact doesn't hiding how smug you are make you feel a little better; not only do you fell smug for what ever reason, but you can feel smug about how your soo much better at hiding how smug you feel than everyone else... if they only knew....
ahem.. ya;

So any ideas as to how i can put this plan in to action would be helpfull. I think i herd it was rebeca that just came back from a mission. So maybe thats an option. I don't know.

Well i need to get to class (maybe get some class) so i'll let you all get back to your lives.

Halifax is beautiful, and if i can get facebook to allow me to upload pictures ill show you all there.
One month in and every thing is going so well that my complaints are (obviously) trivial.
My email (livesin@gmail.com) inbox is too often empty HINT HINT!
I love you all and miss you lots!!!!

remember
people vote conservative because they are scared of the future
people vote liberal because they are scared of the Conservatives

What are you scared of?

I'm voting NDP this time.




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Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Thursday, July 10, 2008

a limited veiw of life or god

OK I got goaded in to a discussion on gods plan, and the nature of man while i was off white watter rafting. the people i was talking with either had a very limited view of god or of life or, heaven help them, BOTH. on issues such as Gods plan; they pshawed when i told them that it was gods plan that i once stole a carton of cigarettes. To them it seemed impossible that gods plan could include such a blatant sin as theft. the thought that i am needed to do more on this earth, and need the correct skill set to do that, some how escaped them. to them "Thow shalt not steal" is the be all end all. OK i get it was literally written in stone, however; Getting caught stealing that carton of smokes, had a major effect on on my life. not only did i learn a "valuable lesson" but i was exposed to many other situations causing me to learn many more things and altering my perspectives, my experiences. Altering me! As someone who believes that I'm am on the course that God has planed. it is impossible to at the same time believe that stealing those 200 cigarettes was not gods will.
I understand that respecting others property, and not stealing are important. I am NOT advocating the wanton disregard for others and their property.
i AM saying that we are obviously altered by our experiences. Gods plan would have to include learning and growing. Have to.
the entire conversation had been started by Rick, (innocently enough) asking why there weren't more men in church. I for one enjoy debating, learning the deeper points of an issue. this an activity that is easier to find by going to the bottom of a bottle of rum with a friend than by going to a tabernacle.
This predominately church going group found deeper meanings either meaningless or were incapable of looking for them. what passed for depth amongst this crowd, was that because one member loved his daughter her life was not her own! my obviously blasphemous assertion that god gave me/ us all free will and there for we own our own lives, was met with more pshaws. he said "i look at my daughter (1yr old) and i can tell you her life is not her-own."
At that age maybe not, but my mind filed with the fights this por lad was going t have in 3 or so years as his own flesh and blood proves him wrong. Isn't part of loving some one allowing them to be themselves?
weather by car wreck or enlightenment i think god needs t cleans his house of the mind-locked arrogance found building up there. But that is just my first instinct, perhaps that is where it belongs.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

head smashed

i dont mind being governed by cowards and fools

i do how ever have a few questions id like answered

how long are we going to continue on a crash course that we know is going to destroy us?

its ok, im not going to raise a ruckus, or alter events, i just want to know

it obvious that working hard and being a good person is not going to make a better life for you,how long do we continue working hard and being good?

its obvious that viewing the world through an economic prism is not going to make life better for us
we can see that allowing privet companies to distribute medications allowing supply and demand to set the price, is killing millions

how long do we sit by and allow those with the resources of power dictate our lives?

we know

1) the power stems from fear

control of the citizens stems from individual people who are willing to use guns and other weapons for pay. our police and military do their JOBS, and if they were not paid they would not use their guns to enforce laws

2)our money is meaning full only as long as we place value on it.

the value of items change in direct relation to how much we WANT something
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3)emotion is controlled very effectively through music.

the musicians i know want to make more money. they feel that their trade ought to be to gain more items and valuables

4)a peaceful revolt requires nothing more than changing the perceptions of money in the populous.

and in order to do that we must learn to truly understand what money is now, how it works , and exploit the holes in monetary theory.

not just the glaring discrepancy between the right of ownership and the right to maintain your survival. (a starving man feeling its wrong to steal from Safeway)

but the more insidious ones. the ones that are tricks of math and spreading costs out to many while diverting profits to the few.
(the cost of dealing with pollutants is shared across the entire planet, while the profits from selling oil are concentrated in a few shareholders)

im not going to rock the boat, im not going to stop us from running in circles. in short im going to run towards headsmashedin along with the rest of you. i just want to know what we are running from and if any one else thinks its kinda dumb?

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

sue the government

the Alberta government is passing a law tis week that ties Alberta and BC's economy together. as a bonus it adds in a small tidbit allowing bignesses to sue the government for passing any law that infringes on profits.
if business's can sue the govt for passing laws that infringe on profits. it makes the act of outlawing any thing impossible. it makes increasing business tax impossible. this means that all the tax burden will have to fall to the citizens.

citizens who don't have the right to9 sue if the government passes laws that are unprofitable to them.


things such as supplying safety equipment and minimum wage would be impossible to legislate in to existence if this law were in place in the past. do we really believe that minimum wage should not be raised ever again? like in 30years do we still think 8.50 or what ever it is will suffice?

hiring new police could reduce the demand for security guards, hence security companies could sue to prevent that.

upgrading our watter treatment plants could cut in to the sales of bottled water. think of any law passed, it has to cut into someones profits some ware. it doesn't take too much imagination to realize that the government would be unable to alter any thing with out spending more $$ fighting lawsuits. would instituting a clean energy plan hurt the profits of “dirty” energy?


and once the law is passed a new law would be needed to repeal it. but because it would have to be passed during this laws standing, it could be brought top court as a n unprofitable law. (especially to lawyers)

meaning that only an over throw of the provincial government would be able to remove the law, but we cant just over throw the Alberta government, with out effecting the Federal government.

this is a government basically legislating themselves inn to powerlessness. the vote is the way we the people exert our power over our surroundings. if the power of that vote is removed, then our democracy becomes as meaning full as Barbie's hairdo.

amongst all the corruption and lies we see in politics, it can be difficult to remember that the reason we have politicians, and a house of Representatives, and elections, is to allow US to decide what we will and will not allow to happen. not courts and high priced lawyers. not business executives, or multinational corporations. but US

the people. and we should be free to change our minds if we find out we were wrong. if we decide that we thing Internet communications is an essential service shouldn't we be free to create city wide wifi zones? or should the ISP's be ensured of there profits? could we decide that dentistry be covered under heath care? could we decide that we wanted a larger share of the oil sands?

could we decide that all kitchen staff in restaurants sanitize their hands after using the washroom?

No the only laws that will be able to pass are ones that further tax citizen's and reduce tax and safety measures on business. fucking idiot Conservatives we have anyway

revolutions of the middleclassed?

all the revolutions I've read about have stemmed from a poor population able to live in the wilderness while waging there attacks. what of a populous who still has homes? does the act of having a residence negate the ability to revolt? if so is keeping us housed part of the plan to usurp our rights? (doubt-full, homelessness is not a priority for our leaders)

Monday, March 31, 2008

meaning?

when life gets the better of us, and bad things happen it is normal for people to question the meaning of life.
the idiots response
i cant figure it out therefor it makes no sense therefor there is no god
the the simpletons response
i cant figure it out , but id like it to make sense, therefor there must be a god
the enlightened response
i cant figure it out therefor it needs more consideration, therefor there may be a god
My response
i figured it out therefor...

Sunday, March 30, 2008

my email to mandel

My mother is nearing 60. As a professional single mom , she had her hard ships. Now she is being forced to move in with her mother (nearing 80) so they both can afford to live. But this letter isn't about anything so trivial as the loss of dignity for a couple of loving soles. Its about the fact that now i am also considering moving in with them. Not to relieve the pressures of living in a economic boom ,but to protect them from the unprecedented violence this city is experiencing.
“The art mayor” the one who will go down in history as the proof that even during economic access “the left” can't run a city.
While focusing on necessity such as road sign triangles, and a new stadium, (that we all believe wont cost tax payers any thing), the superfluous things have gone unattended. Things like police. We have had the Guardian Angels come in to attempt to pick up the slack left by an under funded mismanaged police force. Because thats what a city needs; a charity group police. If we cant assure the safety of the people, why do they pay taxes? Why not pay it to the growing number of gangs. and see if maybe they would be willing to defend their income base. My mother walks her dog less than a block from the latest shooting. How am i to rest thinking that a midnight piddle run could put her in the line of fire?
I'm sure as mayor you have more important things to worry about. But we know once Albertans choose a political mistake we stick with it. So you have many terms to immortalize your self. and in the not too distant future, you can have a plaque on the new hockey house. A plaque i can run my nieces and nephews past sheltering them from the LA style gang wars.
sincerely hating my city
Scott Sinclair

Friday, March 28, 2008

pay for it?

it may be part of some lie , or a broad stroke of corporate brain washing. but we in the west like to shop. and well, it may be true that we need to fix our selfs of this compulsion to hide our inner needs in shopping... we don't have time.
the planet is entering an ecological tail spin. if we don't fix it first we all die. causing no more compulsion to shop. problem solved.
most of us are hoping for a bit more animated solution. so lets stop fighting up hill battles. will someone PLEASE work out the dollars and cents of what it would cost to fix our ill planet. if we had a number no matter how absurdly large, we could get people motivated. hell celebrities could auction off the dresses they were photographed puking out the sides of cabs in. some thing the un-caring masses can but and show their equally self absorbed friends that they are indeed purchasing the cure.
i mean there has to be something else i can buy other than adbusters to display that i am the cure. like trading cards for the earth.

Monday, March 10, 2008

52% dident vote and a maybe dead cat

a long time ago people got mad at being controlled by kings who had no right other than birth to rule. what passed for left wing politics at the time, returned with the idea of us doing it our selves. so as a group we decided to govern our selves. but some how this ratfuck town has for gotten all of that. we can pay 1.2 million dollars for big signs on the road, but cant afford a police department to keep us safe. so much now that the government is relying on the guardian angels to come in and pick up the slack. we can put up a new stadium for a privately owned hockey club. but cant extend the buses so the populous can get around. the government has ceased to be a voice for the people and has become a funding arm for large corporations. you get to the provincial level and we have health care always under the gun as not being affordable, we have had our roads go to hell, and we subsidize the oil company's to take our oil and sell it back to us. you know why people don't vote? its because we can see the government isn't our voice, no party is. and its not about us, its about business. if some one < ANY ONE gave us something to vote for, then you may get over half the people to actually vote. but when all party's are on a slide rule of how much $ to offer or limit to various company's... well we don't give a shit. tell me how your going to put things in place for the PEOPLE. id say we have only a coupla years before the people get tired of being marginalized, and grab guns. and it would be the end of a good idea of a country. but its becoming a worse and worse country so maybe thats why they are letting it die.
i cant understand it. thinking out side the box is easy; but like Schrödinger's cat; its trying to figure out what the fuck is going on in the inside thats the challenge.

think about it first

USE your mind.
no seriously, take time to think about stuff that doesn't easily flow through your predigest, things that take energy to wrap your mind around. not like math problems, although they can be used but to really understand things like the sun never sets and Australasians don't fall off the world , how do they view the globe. what was my grandfathers childhood really like and how did he think of the future. accept that your view of the world is probably wrong and construed through the layered beliefs placed on you by fear laden hearts. people who didn't mean bad, but were trying to protect you from a world that had hurt them or worse scared them. challenge all of your beliefs. the more commonly held an opinion the more you need to search for a reason to maintain it. your life is just a short rhythm on your sole and you really don't have time to to be lost in others fears. when you can clear your mind and use it to do your bidding other than just cycle through fear based emotional spasms. then, Then you can ask me your questions.
strip your self of fear so when you stand in gods presence you can stand.
god will not have fear and to rejoin him you may not either
your fears are now yours, and are now your fault. you must cure yourself.
the good news is its easy. just challenge every thing that you think. tear at your thoughts as a starving dog goes at the marrow of a bone.
don't look to others for approval. you must find approval within your self. only do what you approve of you doing. never regret. NEVER. for your past has lead you here. and from the here and now you are going forward. relentlessly pursue your self your own mind your own moment. the place ware all eternity cant be with out. it is that place in your mind you cultivate.nothing is too big or small to be questioned. there is no blasphemy in thought. the only true blasphemy, comes from not thinking. from being to lazy to use your mind thus accepting anothers ideas as truth. use YOUR mind.

Saturday, March 08, 2008

i think i figured it out. i have always just done as i felt was right. but through some mind fuck twist i have started worrying about how i am perceived to others.i haven't even been blogging because i now feel the need to answer to people about what i was thinking... it says up there ^ that its a spot to post my thoughts. not fodder for your conversation. just if you want to know what im thinking, then its hear. if you want to question my thoughts? don't expect me to wast my time
i dont know what im doing right now.
ive spent my life just following a path that was laid out for me. i never had to worrie too much b/c i had seen the end and was alright with it.
until recently.
in the last year the sense that im doing nothing has grown up around me. more terrifying still, is that doing nothing is the wrong thing.
a latent stress is piling on as if to warn me that i need to do something... any thing and that the longer i wait the more work its going to be.
this could be a caffeine thing though so ill get back to ya

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

an open responce to a privet quarry(sp?)

I can only think of 2 things to write right now

1) w bush is proof we have lost democracy to the bureaucrats.





2) i was told that god is infinite love. the world has pain and sorrow in it, therefor maybe the world is shielded from god in some way. makes some sort of twisted sense.
***Blasphemy alert****
if you think about it the Catholic god wants you to be obedient and subservient. and to spend your eternity in the praise of him. But supposedly we are his creations and he has given us the amazing ability to question, as well as the need we all feel to create (and destroy).
Our creative drives; and our destructive drives; have the ability to fill and charge us. To make your life seem to make sense while caught up in the midst of it. And these are the very drives that are to be sublimated and repressed in order to gain some treat from our maker?
well maybe if god is stupid. but it sounds like Frigidaire saying it holds a special “prize” for all the fridges it built that can stay room temperature regardless of voltage and freon levels.
I create and I destroy. And those are the only 2 times when i feel truly ok with myself. the only times i feel “alive”. the only times i don't feel awkward and out of place.
IF i was created by some thing with reason and logic, then it would make sense that the traits i was designed for are the ones i naturally display. this be good and obedient crap is absolutely against my hard wired functions. so if god were blocked from seeing me, and thus this world is ruled by a devil, then i could kinda understand the promise of eternal life given to the simple obedient ones, because the promise is a lie.


or maybe not, but i am sure about the first thing.

Saturday, December 15, 2007

truth?

question: define truth
Is it not the antonym of lies
if when confronted a person considers speaking a falsehood and the reconsiders and does not; we could not fault him for lying. thus a lie must be spoken to be.
if truth is the antonym of lies, and a lie must be spoken to be; then truth must remain silent to be.
question: define truth.
answer: impossible.

Friday, November 09, 2007

social transaction?

This unfortunate 40’something man wades in to the store with a small radio playing scratchily from his frumpy coat. The radio is a new touch but this guy wanders through the store almost every day. I turn to a co-worker and whisper how this guy gives me the creeps. I don’t intend to be rude but I seriously fell my fight or flight reflexes kicking in when I see people like this. He has meandered past my till with his face half stained the unmistakable colour of vegetable soup. His hair is always a messy mop awkwardly piled in various clumps. I don’t recall having ever actually seen sticks in it, but it wouldn’t surprise. He’s not actually dirty though, just un-kept. He has those blank eyes of one who instead of really thinking is drawn from place to place by emotional spasms. Today thankfully there was no soup stain on his face; but he had stuff stuck in his crooked teeth, that added a terrifying effect to his big dumb grin.

As if to punish me for my honesty, the co-worker replies that this fully horrifying life lives in a government home near by.

My mind is flooded with images. They are unemployable, hence they spend much of there days alone rejected from society. Staying in the ‘home’ day after day week after week, Year after YEAR; they need some outside stimulation. They wander through shopping centers. Gaining the so much needed human interaction in the short time it takes to complete there meaningless transactions.

“Hello how are you today?-is this every thing?” I have Miranda syndrome. I’ve said these words so many times today they have no meaning.

He’s buying a piece of crap plastic coffee mug that’s even overpriced at our store. He can’t pick up on the subtle clues I sometimes give to the old ladies who are about to make bad shopping choices.

He’s saying something similar to having a good day or something. I avoid looking at him in any way. I know the revulsion is to help me from feeling the helpless sorrow. I don’t have the time or mental fortitude to befriend him and alleviate some of his loneliness. I doubt I would if I did. Am I a horrible person?

“Well thank you and have a pleasant evening”

The static-y little radio accompanies him out side.

The fight or flight feeling and revulsion subside, leaving me with the dull anger that this is the world. And the type of moot sorrow we feel after seeing starving children and abused animals on television commercials.

“Hello, how are you today?-is this every thing?” ….

Thursday, November 08, 2007

daily quotes

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

This is a quote from non other than Albert Einstein. It’s a well known quote, and often heard.

On my homepage I have Einstein quotes of the day. It’s a cute little app. and I like to think it keeps me thinking. I’d like to add a Steven Hawking one but I haven’t found one yet. Today when I opened my browser and saw this little axiom I thought nothing of it. Then I read it again. And again. Some thing was wrong. I just couldn’t put my finger on what it was.

Then I realised it was the “WW IV” thing. Einstein knows better than to portray conjecture as fact. I mean he was one of the smartest people we as a species have had the pleasure of learning from.

But that wasn’t it either, something else was bothering me about this so common quip. How could he possibly believe that WW4 would be fought with stones? Its understandable that he was trying to hammer home the power of nuclear weapons… wait that was it.

He was certain that we as a people would have another world war. That nukes would be used, and we still wouldn’t learn. He was certain that we would not be able to maintain our collective saintly and refrain from destroying ourselves, and worse yet, that before we were able to even rebuild we would have yet a 4th. It was the way he was stating the nature of man, not the nature of war.

Creepy

I also have “Bush-isims” on my homepage, it was some thing about evildoers wageing war at the whim of a hat.

Very Creepy

Sweet dreams yall

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

the beginings of an idea, this will definatly be a later rant.

In the 70’s and 80’s the fashion industry was targeted by women’s liberation groups for being controlling, oppressive, and sexist. The fashion industry responded to the charges, with maxim magazine. Every year now fashion is more and more invasive in “male culture”.

This is called progress.

The blacks of the United States were denied votes, Admissions to “good” schools and healthcare institutions. The american Indian are segregated. Many reserves still have inadequate sanitary systems. In fact it would be hard to distinguish between a modern reserve and a third world refugee camp.

The inner cities are receiving less and less help; are becoming economically dissolute.

“Jobs” are the call of the masses as the divide between needs and means increases.

It is important to remember that the racist oppressions served governments far less than they served large manufacturers. The plantation owners lost much more by freeing the slaves than the politicians did.

The current trends are moving more and more towards “indiscriminate oppression”. This makes sense. It is defiantly easer to maintain control of a group if the group is hard to define. The 1970’s, “gives women a poor body image”, claims from the woman’s lib. movement sound oddly quaint after viewing a CK underwear add. Now the attempts to solve the body image problems are worsened. Instead of doubling their opposition, the fashion industry divided it. Both men and woman may now develop a negative body image now, but it leads to decidedly different outcomes. Males are more likely to use steroids than become anorexic. As well as the line of who is an oppressor and who is oppressed has blurred beyond simple definitions. No longer is the fashion industry predominantly male and the customer predominantly female. Now males and females are dispersed across both lines.

This is called equality, and it too is known as progress.

How does the fashion industry continue to force its notions on the public? I mean aren’t we free to chose to ware what ever we want? If its making us feel bad about ourselves are we not free to just stop buying and force their bankruptcies?

In the most basic answer is of course. Unfortunately basic thinking is wrong. As long as we as a people judge one another on appearance; (and it seems as long as sex is a primal urge we will) then one who buys in to the industry will elevate them selves. It would take all of us, enemas to turn away and as a whole refuse to be a part of it. I don’t see it happening any time soon.

It is important to also note that by socialism, I do not mean Marxism or Stalinism or Leninism or Maoism or even communism. I do mean a social collective of the populous. Democracy was/ is a socialist ideal.

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Is it sexist, if I really appreciate when she makes the side dishes?

I think the reason I will never be married, is if I spend a large amount of time with one person, I find other sides of my personality moaning of starvation. I’m sure that if I was a truly well rounded person, I wouldn’t find this kind of nagging emptiness.
I hate Edmonton! Before I moved here I had a circle of friends that allowed me to exercise many parts of my personality, I had a girlfriend who if not ecstatic, was resigned to a partitioned time segment. I did miss my family. But I had resolved to never move back to Lethbridge, so the longing I felt for my family I was able to chalk up to the bitter sweet, pain of being my own man. As if I had won and earned the feeling and it ought to be worn proudly as a battle scar.
But now my family has moved to Edmonton, so I get to see them more often. This however is tampered with the more severe (because it has to be kept secret) pain of not having much of a life to share with them. When we are together, I feel I have nothing to contribute, and fall in to the role of late night talk show host. I come in tell a few jokes, and then interview others to feel as though we were having a conversation. Thank god for my brother whose unabashed desire to be the center of attention, draws all the focus. So we as a family can all feel we have done something together, by laughing at /with Sonny.
If I ever do marry, it will surly be so that I’m not saddled with the chore of trying to feed myself each and every evening. Seriously, it might be worth it to not have to decide on something tasty, affordable, easy to make, And Different! Each and every day. I have that pesky belief in equality, that would make it so I’d have to go through this “devils triangle” every other night. But still 50% freedom from this chore is worth the cost of a ring.
Every one goes through this eventually; hence Moorse makes money renting tuxes.
What ever his reasons were, my best friend was starting to make this decision. And his cute unassuming nefarious tart, was having a real problem with his own exercising of other areas of his personality. Hilarity ensued. No seriously, if loosing my best friend to her manipulation and out and out attacks didn’t hurt so much, the battles would have been comical.
Being as how I’m slow to warm to new people, (or it takes them a while to figure out it’s just a joke), I have found myself spending most of my time with one person. Exclusively. I am a little short on people to “round my self out” with so instead of actively pursuing other interests and fields; I retreat back to this one person. And she great, I’m not complaining about that. I’m just stating that the other sides of me are screaming for food.
I refuse to believe that returning to school was a mistake, therefore it must be moving to Edmonton. Or; I just had this thought; it could be that I’ve just stayed too long. I haven’t stayed in the same place for longer than 2 years since I moved out from my moms. And I’ve been in Ed for 3 and a half. Well there’s a new superstition for me to test.
So now I’m deciding on returning to Saskatoon to continue my schooling, or to try some ware new.
If I go some ware new, I may develop problems at the 2 year mark, which isn’t good, considering I’m taking a 7 year degree. If I return to Saskatoon, I know things wont be quite the same, as well as I may have worn out my 2 years there, And it has the whole going backwards thing, unless going here was the mistake then its not going backward its correcting (like someone ought to do to this run-on sentence).
I have other reasons for leaving Edmonton. Pragmatic ones like the cost of living and such. So what do you think I should do?

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

a reveiw, sorta

It’s so much easier to believe that its just me, when its inside my own head.
Now it may just be that im reading the sane society right now. But its getting to the point that every ware I look people are saying there’s something wrong with our world.
Blue man groups megastar 2.0 that I saw last night didn’t even try to mask the message that modern life is sick, from the “I saw my self on a bathroom door today” to the standardisation of audience participation in our entertainment venues, The show was an entertaining barrage of contemporary life is not life.
The opening act, mike relm, seemed to be the only part of the show that was Ok with life. I’m not disappointed, only concerned that the celebration of life that art was trying to use as a counter attack to the machine lifestyle, is gone. We are left with the message being stated as clear as possible that things are broken. But it seems the artists are no longer wanting to guide others, they are more concerned with prodding the unmoving. That’s not how we were going to fix this thing. The plan WAS, we are going to have a good time, and that will entice others to come and see what a joy the world could be. It seems now we are trying to begin a motion from the inert. I’ve seen this happen to many of the “road signs”. From adbusters complete withdrawal of all peaceful prototypes of the future, to all the rock bands doing overtly political songs. We can not lead the world to a saner, happier place using fear. Fear is the enemies tool. The adage is you can lead a horse to water but you cant make him drink, while you cant get the horse to go any ware if you just yell the waters dirty in your pen. Horses can’t understand much English as well as they are unable to open the gate them selves. We need only to open the gate and enjoy the field ourselves. That will be enough to bring the horses out.

If your life is not a joy, why would any want to be like you?
1 decide you will not obey needlessly
2 enjoy your life
3 repeat as conspicuously as necessary.

It was stll an entertaining show and I do recommend going to see blue man group if you have the opportunity. And especially go see mike relm!