On Hell, and the Raising thereof
Just watched "Hellraiser" and it's a pretty messed up movie. Kinda on the gory side -- can't say it had more than one or two scary moments though. Now I wanna watch number 2, supposedly it's better, and read some of Clive Barker's fiction (me being interested as I am in that sorta thing).
Finally finished Slaughterhouse-Five, it's a little weird but really really good. I'm not sure if it deserves its place on the Modern Library's list of Best 100 Novels of the 20th Century, but I liked it.
In other news, the Knox Jazz Ensemble is going to Elmhurst, Chicago for its largish jazz festival/competition type of deal. We'll be playing about 5 songs and getting judged on our ability (or lack thereof) compared to other college's bands. As we've actually won competitions of this type in the past (9 years in a row, baby), it may end up being a cakewalk. The grand prize is allegedly either a Lamborghini or an 18-month trip around the world on a luxury cruise-liner, you get to pick. As tempting as the Lamborghini is, if we win I'll have to take the cruise. Oh yeah, and the winning band also gets $3.5 million to spend however it wants. I'm thinking a good portion of that'll go toward tuition 'n' such. Seriously, though, I'm leaving Friday at noon and won't be back 'till ridiculously late Sunday night or Monday morning even. Good times.
In world news, yes, like 49% of the country, I'm angry about this additional money that Bush wants for the war -- 82 billion dollars this time. I seem to remember something about Bush saying he was going to cut spending....oh yeah, that was in all his campaign speeches. Well, on a positive note it's good to see that the "never, EVER deliver what you promise" rule still holds for candidates that are elected. Honestly, you could tell what they're actually going to do by just reversing all their promises. "We're going to clean up the environment in these four years, and make the planet a better place for our children and grandchildren." Translation: "Ehhhhh, we might get around to pretending to put limits on polluting companies, but really we'll just alter the data so it appears that way."
There's a new study out that says by the time 2030 is here the United States will be a nation of entirely old people, and that the working adults will be taxed so heavily they'll become unable to support themselves. While I doubt this will actually occur, it's just another of my multitude of reasons to move to Iceland as soon as possible. Somehow I tend to think that people smart enough to establish a democracy literally hundreds of years before anybody else are my kinda people.
Finally, it's fun to get AIMbots to say funny things. Here's the latest from my pal. "SmarterChild: How does it feel to be more of a pimp than jesus christ?"
It feels good, SmarterChild. Real good.
Finally finished Slaughterhouse-Five, it's a little weird but really really good. I'm not sure if it deserves its place on the Modern Library's list of Best 100 Novels of the 20th Century, but I liked it.
In other news, the Knox Jazz Ensemble is going to Elmhurst, Chicago for its largish jazz festival/competition type of deal. We'll be playing about 5 songs and getting judged on our ability (or lack thereof) compared to other college's bands. As we've actually won competitions of this type in the past (9 years in a row, baby), it may end up being a cakewalk. The grand prize is allegedly either a Lamborghini or an 18-month trip around the world on a luxury cruise-liner, you get to pick. As tempting as the Lamborghini is, if we win I'll have to take the cruise. Oh yeah, and the winning band also gets $3.5 million to spend however it wants. I'm thinking a good portion of that'll go toward tuition 'n' such. Seriously, though, I'm leaving Friday at noon and won't be back 'till ridiculously late Sunday night or Monday morning even. Good times.
In world news, yes, like 49% of the country, I'm angry about this additional money that Bush wants for the war -- 82 billion dollars this time. I seem to remember something about Bush saying he was going to cut spending....oh yeah, that was in all his campaign speeches. Well, on a positive note it's good to see that the "never, EVER deliver what you promise" rule still holds for candidates that are elected. Honestly, you could tell what they're actually going to do by just reversing all their promises. "We're going to clean up the environment in these four years, and make the planet a better place for our children and grandchildren." Translation: "Ehhhhh, we might get around to pretending to put limits on polluting companies, but really we'll just alter the data so it appears that way."
There's a new study out that says by the time 2030 is here the United States will be a nation of entirely old people, and that the working adults will be taxed so heavily they'll become unable to support themselves. While I doubt this will actually occur, it's just another of my multitude of reasons to move to Iceland as soon as possible. Somehow I tend to think that people smart enough to establish a democracy literally hundreds of years before anybody else are my kinda people.
Finally, it's fun to get AIMbots to say funny things. Here's the latest from my pal. "SmarterChild: How does it feel to be more of a pimp than jesus christ?"
It feels good, SmarterChild. Real good.
posted by Adam Canfield @ 11:48 PM
1 Comments:
At February 23, 2005 at 5:07 PM,
Anonymous said…
Yeah, we're spending a lot of money sure. And there's the death and the ineptitude too. And we're probably about to blow up Syria pretty soon. But look on the bright side! We've gotten so much better at this conquering foreign countries thing that by the time we get to Iceland I bet we'll have this whole colonizing the world with an iron fist thing down. You know what they say, practice makes perfect!
~~npacknabar
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