Monday, November 21, 2005
Things you should know about me but maybe don't
I'm not a terrible volleyball player for spending the past five years hating the sport, my roommate is Jesse Van Hove's art student twin, I'm a half-assed vegetarian (I eat fish), I'm Seattle Pacific University Flag Football B-League Intramural Champion, my dad is moving to his hometown of Walnut Creek, CA in January with my mom to follow later in the spring to pastor his sister's church, I secretly hope my sister Katia and bro-in law Micah move to Seattle area next year (but they won't) while I hope my sister Sara goes to UC-Davis or UC-Berkeley law schools (I know, she's brilliant) so she's close to my parents and I won't feel obligated to visit as much, both my ears are pierced, I am double majoring in two of the following (maybe): philosophy, journalism/communications, sociology, political science, english, I'm really frustrated with the Dolphins and Hurricanes right now but the Seahawks are thriving, Dwayne Wade>Dontrelle Willis>Nick Saban(loss to Browns on Sunday makes me nervous)>Ronnie Brown> Miguel Cabrera (attitude problem)>Kyle Wright in the pantheon of the future of Miami sports, I haven't seen the last two episodes of Lost, Death Cab show receives a 8/10, I had a dream that James and I did something illegal, and I kinda like sports.
Sunday, November 06, 2005
Vegetarianism #3 (also, sucking at Halo but not sleepy is condusive to blogging)
So again, in attempting to reply to all the comments, I found my self with a really big paragraph so I figured I'd post it up here where everyone would actually read it:
Adam, numbers : From Good News for All Creation (Kaufman and Braun, 2002): "Yet worldwide in 1998, 37 percent of all harvested grain was fed to animals being raised for slaughter; in the United States that figure was 66 percent. Meat wastes between 66 and92 percent of grains’ proteins and calories." They have their figures sourced from different journals and books. When writing the posts, I quickly grabbed my figures from a U of Penn website I pulled off google, so that's how i got the water numbers and the 70% compared to the 66%. As for the amount of people starving to death a day, that's the figure I've heard several times in the past year, somewhere in the range of 30 to 40 thousand daily. I just briefly browsed around and got 16 thousand children dying a day of hunger related diseases from bread.org, 1/3 of the world is well fed, 1/3 is under fed, and 1/3 is starving according to the World Health organization, and according to thinkglobal2005.org, 10 million people died in 2003 of starvation, which comes to about 28 thousand a day. Likewise, according to makepovertyhistory.org, 30,000 children die of poverty related causes. So I think I was thinking of poverty, not just starvation, for my 30 - 40 thousand number. But my point remains the same, way way way too many people are dying for us to be so careless with a essential to life resource.
Secondly, Dan - the whale comment about Free Willy was intentional at the end, but good catch.
And since I have nothing else to add, I may as well began to ramble on about my economic justice paper, too. The premise of this paper is that billions around the world live in unjust conditions while David chillaxes ('99, what) with his 20 t-shirts, six pairs of shoes, and lots 'o cable tv up with the affluent west. Basically, I'm saying in this paper that we all have a duty to provide far more aide than we currently now give, and the failure to give such aide is akin to murder. Hopefully, just because I'm a major hypocrite (I've failed to even reach a basic 10% tithe the past 4 working years of my life) on this topic (throwing out the ad hominem on myself before all y'alls drop it on me) doesn't mean the arguments I'm trying to make are invalid. By the way, I don't really feel like searching up a bunch of quotes about how x number of people are living on y number of dollars a day while zee (not zed) number of billionaries have more money than n number of countries. But those numbers do exist, they aren't disputed, and they are staggering. Anywho, listen to me ramble, yo:
Lemme first establish some points crucial to my argument: Every person has a right to a healthy life, which includes a helluva lot of other things (shelter, clothing, etc) . Every person has right to his or her own property and to decide to do with such property as he or she wishes unless it compromises human freedom, dignity, or anything along those lines. The right to life of every human being far outweighs any property rights of any amount of persons. In other words, if I am able to destroy a hundred thousand hummers owned by a hundred thousand different people to save one human life, I have a directy duty to that one person to do so. If I take no action to save that one life, I have committed a moral wrong - something akin to murder. Maybe not murder exactly, but my point here is inaction resulting in a violation of a basic human right in almost equal to action resulting in a violation of a basic human right. Follow me? AKA, not preventing (if able without any harm to self and others) someone from killing someone is almost as bad as shooting someone in the head yourself. Ace? See where I'm headed with this?
We have the ability to satisfy so much essential need in the world, but instead, we satisfy our own superficial material needs and desires. Example: "To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US $13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year. " (http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm) Dude, I have three bottles of axe sitting on my dresser right now. Who the hell needs three? People are dying, but I like smelling good. What my actions say is, it is more important for me to smell good for a couple months than it is for a fellow human to have food for a month or whatever the h-bomb $25-30 will getcha. This is a grave moral wrong committed by a helluva lot of people (you and me included) that is akin to murder. People die, I spend hundreds of dollars a year on vanity. Now I'm going to stop writing and you're going to stop reading, and we're both going to go do something else and forget about this injustice and inequality we daily contribute to because, quite honestly, it is very uncomfortable, depressing, and guilt inducing. I'll hopefully have the stones to return to this later, and hopefully, maybe I can grow up and help someone or something. And I don't know, maybe you and I both can start thinking about how maybe we shouldn't go out to eat, maybe we shouldn't pick up the new broken social scene album, or buy that dwayne wade poster, or that dwayne wade jersey, or that dwayne wade shirt, or more make up, or more perfume, or more shoes, or, and this one is directed right at stewart, more man-thongs (or any sort of thongs). Anyways, I've become incredibly cliche so i'm going to run and hide in the bathroom stall where the poster of hilary duff watches me poop until I feel original again. Love.
Adam, numbers : From Good News for All Creation (Kaufman and Braun, 2002): "Yet worldwide in 1998, 37 percent of all harvested grain was fed to animals being raised for slaughter; in the United States that figure was 66 percent. Meat wastes between 66 and92 percent of grains’ proteins and calories." They have their figures sourced from different journals and books. When writing the posts, I quickly grabbed my figures from a U of Penn website I pulled off google, so that's how i got the water numbers and the 70% compared to the 66%. As for the amount of people starving to death a day, that's the figure I've heard several times in the past year, somewhere in the range of 30 to 40 thousand daily. I just briefly browsed around and got 16 thousand children dying a day of hunger related diseases from bread.org, 1/3 of the world is well fed, 1/3 is under fed, and 1/3 is starving according to the World Health organization, and according to thinkglobal2005.org, 10 million people died in 2003 of starvation, which comes to about 28 thousand a day. Likewise, according to makepovertyhistory.org, 30,000 children die of poverty related causes. So I think I was thinking of poverty, not just starvation, for my 30 - 40 thousand number. But my point remains the same, way way way too many people are dying for us to be so careless with a essential to life resource.
Secondly, Dan - the whale comment about Free Willy was intentional at the end, but good catch.
And since I have nothing else to add, I may as well began to ramble on about my economic justice paper, too. The premise of this paper is that billions around the world live in unjust conditions while David chillaxes ('99, what) with his 20 t-shirts, six pairs of shoes, and lots 'o cable tv up with the affluent west. Basically, I'm saying in this paper that we all have a duty to provide far more aide than we currently now give, and the failure to give such aide is akin to murder. Hopefully, just because I'm a major hypocrite (I've failed to even reach a basic 10% tithe the past 4 working years of my life) on this topic (throwing out the ad hominem on myself before all y'alls drop it on me) doesn't mean the arguments I'm trying to make are invalid. By the way, I don't really feel like searching up a bunch of quotes about how x number of people are living on y number of dollars a day while zee (not zed) number of billionaries have more money than n number of countries. But those numbers do exist, they aren't disputed, and they are staggering. Anywho, listen to me ramble, yo:
Lemme first establish some points crucial to my argument: Every person has a right to a healthy life, which includes a helluva lot of other things (shelter, clothing, etc) . Every person has right to his or her own property and to decide to do with such property as he or she wishes unless it compromises human freedom, dignity, or anything along those lines. The right to life of every human being far outweighs any property rights of any amount of persons. In other words, if I am able to destroy a hundred thousand hummers owned by a hundred thousand different people to save one human life, I have a directy duty to that one person to do so. If I take no action to save that one life, I have committed a moral wrong - something akin to murder. Maybe not murder exactly, but my point here is inaction resulting in a violation of a basic human right in almost equal to action resulting in a violation of a basic human right. Follow me? AKA, not preventing (if able without any harm to self and others) someone from killing someone is almost as bad as shooting someone in the head yourself. Ace? See where I'm headed with this?
We have the ability to satisfy so much essential need in the world, but instead, we satisfy our own superficial material needs and desires. Example: "To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US $13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year. " (http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm) Dude, I have three bottles of axe sitting on my dresser right now. Who the hell needs three? People are dying, but I like smelling good. What my actions say is, it is more important for me to smell good for a couple months than it is for a fellow human to have food for a month or whatever the h-bomb $25-30 will getcha. This is a grave moral wrong committed by a helluva lot of people (you and me included) that is akin to murder. People die, I spend hundreds of dollars a year on vanity. Now I'm going to stop writing and you're going to stop reading, and we're both going to go do something else and forget about this injustice and inequality we daily contribute to because, quite honestly, it is very uncomfortable, depressing, and guilt inducing. I'll hopefully have the stones to return to this later, and hopefully, maybe I can grow up and help someone or something. And I don't know, maybe you and I both can start thinking about how maybe we shouldn't go out to eat, maybe we shouldn't pick up the new broken social scene album, or buy that dwayne wade poster, or that dwayne wade jersey, or that dwayne wade shirt, or more make up, or more perfume, or more shoes, or, and this one is directed right at stewart, more man-thongs (or any sort of thongs). Anyways, I've become incredibly cliche so i'm going to run and hide in the bathroom stall where the poster of hilary duff watches me poop until I feel original again. Love.
Saturday, November 05, 2005
Vegetarianism continued
I originally started this as a comment for the blog before this, but it got long, so I figured I through this as a post and add the social aspect to my vegetarianism:
Okay, so I think most of you missed my point about why I eat fish. I don't believe fish are fully concious, and don't truly suffer. If you reread my post, you'll notice that I mention conciousness as necessary for moral standing. Without conciousness, an organism lacks the ability to fully suffer. Thus, I eat fish, or plants for that matter. Secondly, James, I would very very strongly disagree with your statement that a purpose of animal is to be food. I strongly believe, and I can give you tons of scripture to back this up, that creation was not created for us, but for God. Cows, dogs, monkeys, chickens, and Free Willy do not all exist for our enjoyment and to satisfy our tastes but for God's enjoyment and glorification. However, I also believe that, if necessary for our survival, God gives us his blessing to eat his animals. But it is not necessary for our survival. We eat meat solely to satisfy a taste. Thirdly, Adam, Free Willy was a dolphin (orcas are actually dolphins, not whales), not a fish. So I wouldn't eat Free Willy either, cuz he's pretty concious. Plus, you totally see him suffer in the movie: like when he gets really popular and everyone's banging on the windows under water? dude, poor whale.
Now for my huge social justice reasons for not eating meat besides fish: something like 35% of the world's and 70% of America's grain goes to feeding livestock. Thirty to forty thousand people starve to death every day. The grain consumed by such animals a year could go to feed 800 million people a year. Likewise, it's also wasteful of water: the amount of water needed to produce a pound of meat is fifty times that necessary to produce a pound of wheat. This is a gross mismanangement of a needed resource. Secondly, meat consumption is a primary reason for environmental devastation. It greatly contributes to deforestation: "the primary reason for the destruction of rainforests in countries like Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia, is to provide grazing land for cattle, virtually all of which goes not to the poor in these third world nations, but rather is exported to wealthy countries like the United States" (Mohr).
Anyways, I'm out to 1 AM Thai, later.
Okay, so I think most of you missed my point about why I eat fish. I don't believe fish are fully concious, and don't truly suffer. If you reread my post, you'll notice that I mention conciousness as necessary for moral standing. Without conciousness, an organism lacks the ability to fully suffer. Thus, I eat fish, or plants for that matter. Secondly, James, I would very very strongly disagree with your statement that a purpose of animal is to be food. I strongly believe, and I can give you tons of scripture to back this up, that creation was not created for us, but for God. Cows, dogs, monkeys, chickens, and Free Willy do not all exist for our enjoyment and to satisfy our tastes but for God's enjoyment and glorification. However, I also believe that, if necessary for our survival, God gives us his blessing to eat his animals. But it is not necessary for our survival. We eat meat solely to satisfy a taste. Thirdly, Adam, Free Willy was a dolphin (orcas are actually dolphins, not whales), not a fish. So I wouldn't eat Free Willy either, cuz he's pretty concious. Plus, you totally see him suffer in the movie: like when he gets really popular and everyone's banging on the windows under water? dude, poor whale.
Now for my huge social justice reasons for not eating meat besides fish: something like 35% of the world's and 70% of America's grain goes to feeding livestock. Thirty to forty thousand people starve to death every day. The grain consumed by such animals a year could go to feed 800 million people a year. Likewise, it's also wasteful of water: the amount of water needed to produce a pound of meat is fifty times that necessary to produce a pound of wheat. This is a gross mismanangement of a needed resource. Secondly, meat consumption is a primary reason for environmental devastation. It greatly contributes to deforestation: "the primary reason for the destruction of rainforests in countries like Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia, is to provide grazing land for cattle, virtually all of which goes not to the poor in these third world nations, but rather is exported to wealthy countries like the United States" (Mohr).
Anyways, I'm out to 1 AM Thai, later.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
I hate white people
"So at SPU, in the autumn quarter of your freshman year, you have to take a University Seminar. They have USem's (as the cool kids call them) on all sorts of things, and mine is on ethical contreversies. The first issue we studied in the class was animal rights, and the one were just kicking up is abortion. I had never really given much thought to animal rights before, though I was always all for protecting the environment. But after some soul searching and really deep thought on morality a couple weeks, I decided I couldn't justify myself eating the flesh of conscious animals anymore. So for the past three and the half weeks, I have not eaten any meat with the exception of fish.
What's your reasoning behind this?, you ask inquisitively. The answer is multi-fold, I respond vehemently. And yes, this is just an excuse to say vehemous."
Hey look, kids, its a draft I wrote on October 17th! Eerie times.... Anyways, I guess I haven't really discussed my relatively new found vegetarianism. Basically, I've come to the conclusion that something has moral standing if it can suffer. Something can suffer if it has conciousness. Cows, pigs, chickens, and monkeys, among other things, have conciousness. Therefore, cows, pigs, chickens and monkeys have moral standing. Thus, they have a right to life. I, too, have conciousness, and have a right to life. However, meat is not a non-basic need for me, as I can live a healthy and nutritional life without it. Therefore, I do not eat cows, pigs, chickens, human babies, monkeys, and other things with conciousness. There are, of course, other social justice reasons to go along with this, but I don't really feel like talking about those reasons yet.
Anyways, another thing I originally wanted to talk about when I started my post, and hence titled it 'I hate white people', is slavery. Duude, slavery is terrible. The human race has done some bullshit bullshit things to eachother, and it really breaks my heart unbelievably. I don't really want to get into this much about the book on Frederick Douglas or anything else I'm reading because its super depressing and I'm not in the mood to feel all heavy and that jazz. However, one thing I'll probably be mentioning later and that I'm writing a term paper on is economic justice. And, yes, half the reason I'm mentioning this now is because I'm giving Bucholtz a chance to start researching and preparing and doing whatever he feels he needs to give him the slightest chance in the storm to come. I'm also disappointed with the lack of abortion arguments. YOU'RE GOING DOWN BOOSH. much love, later
What's your reasoning behind this?, you ask inquisitively. The answer is multi-fold, I respond vehemently. And yes, this is just an excuse to say vehemous."
Hey look, kids, its a draft I wrote on October 17th! Eerie times.... Anyways, I guess I haven't really discussed my relatively new found vegetarianism. Basically, I've come to the conclusion that something has moral standing if it can suffer. Something can suffer if it has conciousness. Cows, pigs, chickens, and monkeys, among other things, have conciousness. Therefore, cows, pigs, chickens and monkeys have moral standing. Thus, they have a right to life. I, too, have conciousness, and have a right to life. However, meat is not a non-basic need for me, as I can live a healthy and nutritional life without it. Therefore, I do not eat cows, pigs, chickens, human babies, monkeys, and other things with conciousness. There are, of course, other social justice reasons to go along with this, but I don't really feel like talking about those reasons yet.
Anyways, another thing I originally wanted to talk about when I started my post, and hence titled it 'I hate white people', is slavery. Duude, slavery is terrible. The human race has done some bullshit bullshit things to eachother, and it really breaks my heart unbelievably. I don't really want to get into this much about the book on Frederick Douglas or anything else I'm reading because its super depressing and I'm not in the mood to feel all heavy and that jazz. However, one thing I'll probably be mentioning later and that I'm writing a term paper on is economic justice. And, yes, half the reason I'm mentioning this now is because I'm giving Bucholtz a chance to start researching and preparing and doing whatever he feels he needs to give him the slightest chance in the storm to come. I'm also disappointed with the lack of abortion arguments. YOU'RE GOING DOWN BOOSH. much love, later
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Dece
So I'm back blogging, for the sole reason that this preferable to studying for my psychology test on Friday. Speaking of tests, I had two biggies on Monday, which wasn't very nice because some Kira girl was down for the weekend from Friday morning til Monday afternoon. But, considering the context, I laid 'em downizzle. The tests, I mean, not Kira.
But yeah, my life is fitting together killer ace. I'm enjoying my classes, but I still don't really know what I'm going to major in at all. Right now I'm having this huge passion for people, since I'm currently in Psychology and Sociology intro, which both are all about studying people, but with different approaches. Psychology focuses on the individual, where as sociology focuses on societies and cultures in general. Woo-hoo, y'all. Woo-hoo, indeed. Right now in my ethical contreversies class we're hitting up abortion. (My take: fetus not quite a person, abortion not murder, should not be prohibited by the state for a lot of reasons, yet still morally wrong in most circumstances). I'd love to talk more about this issue with any of you (Bucholtz) if you wanna hit me up.
College social life is something special, fo'sho' (but leaves me pretty deprived of sleep), Seattle is a special city and I love being in such a super urban campus with so much to do everywhere, and intramural sports (playing saturday morning football and monday night volleyball) are a real good time. So yeah, life is fun and good, which is nice, and not always true, so it's nice to enjoy it while it lasts while trying to remember what's really important and happening in the world. Life is full of beauty and pain everywhere, and I think it's just as important to remember the pain happening all over the place while immersed in the beauty as it is to remember all the beauty while immersed in the pain. But yeah, I'm talking like I have any idea what I'm talking about, which I really don't, ever.
Ooo, good story: So I met this girl Andrea from Linden, Washington about a week and half ago. Well, we're hanging out for awhile and it comes out that she has a lot of family from Denver, which is cool because I have a lot of family from Denver, since that's where my mom grew up. Well, it turns out our grandparents go to the same church and her dad and my mom went to the same high school about the same time. The next morning, during chuch listening to a sermon by a pastor who I swear is related to Robbie Kim somehow, it suddenly hit me that during the summer of '04, my mom went down to a funeral in Linden of a man who she went to high school with and whose parents were a very good family friend. Well it turns out that was Andrea's dad who passed away and our families have all these connections together, which was pretty cool. Since then, her and I have gotten to become really good friends which is awesome, and I think it was really cool for her to meet some people who know her dad and all these super inspiring stories about him. My heart goes out to all of the people I've met who have lost a parent, but, for the most part, these friends are some of the strongest, most mature, and inspiring people I've ever met. So thank you, friends, for your impact on me and I want to know I think about all y'alls a lot. When something super hard and difficult happens in your life, you can either let it make you or break you, and I've met a lot of people who've let their circumstances make them instead of break them. Inspiring stuff.
But yeah, my life is fitting together killer ace. I'm enjoying my classes, but I still don't really know what I'm going to major in at all. Right now I'm having this huge passion for people, since I'm currently in Psychology and Sociology intro, which both are all about studying people, but with different approaches. Psychology focuses on the individual, where as sociology focuses on societies and cultures in general. Woo-hoo, y'all. Woo-hoo, indeed. Right now in my ethical contreversies class we're hitting up abortion. (My take: fetus not quite a person, abortion not murder, should not be prohibited by the state for a lot of reasons, yet still morally wrong in most circumstances). I'd love to talk more about this issue with any of you (Bucholtz) if you wanna hit me up.
College social life is something special, fo'sho' (but leaves me pretty deprived of sleep), Seattle is a special city and I love being in such a super urban campus with so much to do everywhere, and intramural sports (playing saturday morning football and monday night volleyball) are a real good time. So yeah, life is fun and good, which is nice, and not always true, so it's nice to enjoy it while it lasts while trying to remember what's really important and happening in the world. Life is full of beauty and pain everywhere, and I think it's just as important to remember the pain happening all over the place while immersed in the beauty as it is to remember all the beauty while immersed in the pain. But yeah, I'm talking like I have any idea what I'm talking about, which I really don't, ever.
Ooo, good story: So I met this girl Andrea from Linden, Washington about a week and half ago. Well, we're hanging out for awhile and it comes out that she has a lot of family from Denver, which is cool because I have a lot of family from Denver, since that's where my mom grew up. Well, it turns out our grandparents go to the same church and her dad and my mom went to the same high school about the same time. The next morning, during chuch listening to a sermon by a pastor who I swear is related to Robbie Kim somehow, it suddenly hit me that during the summer of '04, my mom went down to a funeral in Linden of a man who she went to high school with and whose parents were a very good family friend. Well it turns out that was Andrea's dad who passed away and our families have all these connections together, which was pretty cool. Since then, her and I have gotten to become really good friends which is awesome, and I think it was really cool for her to meet some people who know her dad and all these super inspiring stories about him. My heart goes out to all of the people I've met who have lost a parent, but, for the most part, these friends are some of the strongest, most mature, and inspiring people I've ever met. So thank you, friends, for your impact on me and I want to know I think about all y'alls a lot. When something super hard and difficult happens in your life, you can either let it make you or break you, and I've met a lot of people who've let their circumstances make them instead of break them. Inspiring stuff.
Sunday, October 16, 2005
Back so slack.
I'm tired....need food. I was intending on blogging on my oh-so-fun weekend, but I'm way too lazy. Plus, the Seahawks are almost on. Music update: Coheed show was amazing, like always. Really looking forward to Copeland tomorrow night. Oh so fun.
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
catch for us the foxes
Okay, I swear, I have tried to write two posts since my last blog. Each time, I wrote a single paragraph, left from the computer, genuinely intending (really) on returning to complete with more beautiful writing only to forget completely about blogging or anything to do with that. Unfortunetly, these lost paragraphs have disappeared into the hidden mountain of lost cyber material. But, to dissuade all rumours (I debated for awhile whether or not to include the 'u'), I would like to make two things very clear: a) I am not dead (though to all 'da fly hunnies hoping for some sweet david love I might as well be ;)), and b) Seattle, and spefically SPU, is very very very ace.
So to be very brief: my classes are good, my floor and my dorm is good, my job pays good, the scene is so so good (going to Coheed and Cambria and mewithoutYou tonight), my relationship with kira is good, my new people are good, my vegetarianism is good, and, as always, I look so ridiculously good. Much love from Sixth Ashton, I'll be back very very soon.
Edit: oh, and Brennan is good. He's still not down with pushing the beds together, but I'll win him over soon enough.
So to be very brief: my classes are good, my floor and my dorm is good, my job pays good, the scene is so so good (going to Coheed and Cambria and mewithoutYou tonight), my relationship with kira is good, my new people are good, my vegetarianism is good, and, as always, I look so ridiculously good. Much love from Sixth Ashton, I'll be back very very soon.
Edit: oh, and Brennan is good. He's still not down with pushing the beds together, but I'll win him over soon enough.
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Dag
So I'd like to apologize for the complete lack of blogs the past couple months. I'll get rolling once I'm in Seattle tomorrow. I'm basically packed: four boxes, three bins, and two suitcases = all the things belonging to me that I can afford to have with me, plus a snowboard and golf bag of clubs to come at a later date. It's refreshing to know that if I forget something or want to impress my sexy roommate Brennan with something from home, I can come grab it in a week.
Speaking of Brennan, I'm convinced I'm going to be super disappointed with him. He's just been so hyped up with all my friends. Basically, its at the point where if he's not an incredibly flaming Mexican immigrant or an insanely homophobic redneck, it'll be disappointing.
There are a couple long, semi-serious blogs in me right now, but it's not 3 in the morning, so I'll save them for later.
Dave from Burnaby
War new Sigur Ros, war new Coheed and Cambria, war new girlfriend, war new Dolphins Coach Nick Saban.
Speaking of Brennan, I'm convinced I'm going to be super disappointed with him. He's just been so hyped up with all my friends. Basically, its at the point where if he's not an incredibly flaming Mexican immigrant or an insanely homophobic redneck, it'll be disappointing.
There are a couple long, semi-serious blogs in me right now, but it's not 3 in the morning, so I'll save them for later.
Dave from Burnaby
War new Sigur Ros, war new Coheed and Cambria, war new girlfriend, war new Dolphins Coach Nick Saban.
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
starved for your attention
I want you to weep for me.
I want to weep for you.
I want selfishness to die.
I want humanity to never lose empathy, if it's still alive.
I want hypocrisy to die.
I want to weep for you.
I want selfishness to die.
I want humanity to never lose empathy, if it's still alive.
I want hypocrisy to die.
Saturday, August 27, 2005
it's official
at 4:14 AM, I really want to drink chocolate milk and watch Wes Anderson movies with Robyn.
then commit really (scene mutual lover suicide)
then commit really (scene mutual lover suicide)
Monday, August 08, 2005
Understanding in a Car Crash
"We don't stand a chance in this threadbare time." - Thursday, Understanding in a Car Crash
Felt that song is a little appropiate, considering the events of last night. I was driving with Jeff to go pick Kira up from her work at Earls when a car pulled out from a parking lot right into us. I veered left to avoid him, but he clipped us (corner to corner contact apparently) sending us skidding to the right, with all our momentum still moving forward. Well, beautiful ol'inertia keeps going as my mother's focus barrel rolls one complete turn, forunately leaving us right side up on our tires. This happened in a span of roughly 3-5 seconds. Fortunetly, Jeff and I were completely fine, kinda in shocked, kinda freaked out about what could've happened, kinda super stoked that we just executed a flawless barrel roll. The car is most likely totalled, and we had to spend a few hours strapped on stretchers with huge neck braces staring up boring ceilings - all precautionary measures. I got a couple scratchers here or there, am still digging out glass from my hair, and probably will be fairly sore in the morning, but other than that, am 100% healthy. I'm really choked that tomorrow's trip to Seattle to visit SPU, shop, and catch (fun to pun) a Mariners game is delayed though. But, with perspective, it's no biggie whatsoever.
Plenty of what if questions pop into my head - what if I was driving my pickup like usual instead of my mom's Focus (kinda random decision), what if the accident had occured after we picked up kira, with her or jeff in the back seat, what if I had been speeding, what if one of us was seriously hurt or worse - and I know we were really fortunate.
Lately, I've been almost bitter(not really the right word) about the privileges I've been gifted for no other reason except for being the result of the situation I was born into. So many things have just been handed to me on a silver platter. I feel somewhat resentful. There is so much suffering, so much pain, so much horror in the world. Why do i get so many gifts? My Grandpa Van Dyke always says that to those that have been given much, much is required, ya know, the whole Spiderman shpeel. I definetly know that pressure to make the most of my oppurtunities and help others. But the world is so unfair: I think 80-90% of who you are is determined by factors you can't control at all. Welp, chalk the gift of safety and health tonight up to these uncontrollable factors. Just another gift that adds on to responsibility I have to really make a difference in solving the problems of society's problems. This is just another reminder that 15-10% I control about the person I am better be full out, just givin' 'er, hardcore helpful and loving to this world. That's so much more important than anything else: my enjoyment, my temporary happines, my desires. After all, the world needs all the love and help it can get.
I hope God is real. He needs to be real.
Felt that song is a little appropiate, considering the events of last night. I was driving with Jeff to go pick Kira up from her work at Earls when a car pulled out from a parking lot right into us. I veered left to avoid him, but he clipped us (corner to corner contact apparently) sending us skidding to the right, with all our momentum still moving forward. Well, beautiful ol'inertia keeps going as my mother's focus barrel rolls one complete turn, forunately leaving us right side up on our tires. This happened in a span of roughly 3-5 seconds. Fortunetly, Jeff and I were completely fine, kinda in shocked, kinda freaked out about what could've happened, kinda super stoked that we just executed a flawless barrel roll. The car is most likely totalled, and we had to spend a few hours strapped on stretchers with huge neck braces staring up boring ceilings - all precautionary measures. I got a couple scratchers here or there, am still digging out glass from my hair, and probably will be fairly sore in the morning, but other than that, am 100% healthy. I'm really choked that tomorrow's trip to Seattle to visit SPU, shop, and catch (fun to pun) a Mariners game is delayed though. But, with perspective, it's no biggie whatsoever.
Plenty of what if questions pop into my head - what if I was driving my pickup like usual instead of my mom's Focus (kinda random decision), what if the accident had occured after we picked up kira, with her or jeff in the back seat, what if I had been speeding, what if one of us was seriously hurt or worse - and I know we were really fortunate.
Lately, I've been almost bitter(not really the right word) about the privileges I've been gifted for no other reason except for being the result of the situation I was born into. So many things have just been handed to me on a silver platter. I feel somewhat resentful. There is so much suffering, so much pain, so much horror in the world. Why do i get so many gifts? My Grandpa Van Dyke always says that to those that have been given much, much is required, ya know, the whole Spiderman shpeel. I definetly know that pressure to make the most of my oppurtunities and help others. But the world is so unfair: I think 80-90% of who you are is determined by factors you can't control at all. Welp, chalk the gift of safety and health tonight up to these uncontrollable factors. Just another gift that adds on to responsibility I have to really make a difference in solving the problems of society's problems. This is just another reminder that 15-10% I control about the person I am better be full out, just givin' 'er, hardcore helpful and loving to this world. That's so much more important than anything else: my enjoyment, my temporary happines, my desires. After all, the world needs all the love and help it can get.
I hope God is real. He needs to be real.
Sunday, July 31, 2005
Because you care, deep down.
Update: I ended up saving the sandwich for lunch: best decision of my life.
War Bill Simmons, war Emery, war being really lazy for once this summer.
War Bill Simmons, war Emery, war being really lazy for once this summer.
Thursday, July 28, 2005
i like music
Album of the week: One Fell Swoop by the Spill Canvas
Song of the week: Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl by Broken Social Scene
Line of the week:
Song of the week: Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl by Broken Social Scene
Line of the week:
And here I rest: where disapointment and regret collide,
lying awake at night
Props if you can name the song (most of you should be able to).
FU SPU
So I went down to Seattle today to register for classes and stuff like that. Got me really pumped for September, but I'm kinda bummed that its still two months away. The trip, however, did remind me one of the major benefits to SPU - the 3-2 girls-to-guys ratio. And the talent pool is deep, my friend, the talent pool is VERY deep. So it was definetly sweet to meet people, make friends, and all that social jazz which I'm super pumped for. Definetly super looking forward to some sweet times.
As far as classes go, I'm currently registered for a U-Seminar on contemporary contreversies in ethics which explores moral issues such as gay rights, abortion, death penalty and the like. Gonna be some good times, but I'll prolly make a few enemies as a result of my super passionate, competetive debate style (Sorry again tamlin for scaring you at salt spring island). Anyways, thanks to a decisive game of rock, paper, scissors with the ever so lovely Tarra, I also have General Psych, which I might drop for something else, seeing as its an 8 AM class, and Foundations of Social Services which is a 2000-level class. I'm on the waiting list for both a Chritianity and American Politics class and a Intro to Sociology class, which if I get into I'll prolly drop Psych.
Anyways, to clear it up, my schedule looks like this:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday:
8 - 9:20: General Psych
9:30 - 10:50: USem
Tuesday, Thursday:
10:30 - 12:50: Foundations of Social Services
So it'll be nice having free afternoons and evenings. I was hoping to get into the Christianity and American Politics, which would've given me classes only on Monday, Wednesday, Friday mornings, leaving me with a day and half between any classes. But I'm happy with this schedule too.
Stay classy,
David
P.S. Anyone want to decide my major? Future career? Whether to save my sandwich for lunch tomorrow or eat it later tonight? Please?
As far as classes go, I'm currently registered for a U-Seminar on contemporary contreversies in ethics which explores moral issues such as gay rights, abortion, death penalty and the like. Gonna be some good times, but I'll prolly make a few enemies as a result of my super passionate, competetive debate style (Sorry again tamlin for scaring you at salt spring island). Anyways, thanks to a decisive game of rock, paper, scissors with the ever so lovely Tarra, I also have General Psych, which I might drop for something else, seeing as its an 8 AM class, and Foundations of Social Services which is a 2000-level class. I'm on the waiting list for both a Chritianity and American Politics class and a Intro to Sociology class, which if I get into I'll prolly drop Psych.
Anyways, to clear it up, my schedule looks like this:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday:
8 - 9:20: General Psych
9:30 - 10:50: USem
Tuesday, Thursday:
10:30 - 12:50: Foundations of Social Services
So it'll be nice having free afternoons and evenings. I was hoping to get into the Christianity and American Politics, which would've given me classes only on Monday, Wednesday, Friday mornings, leaving me with a day and half between any classes. But I'm happy with this schedule too.
Stay classy,
David
P.S. Anyone want to decide my major? Future career? Whether to save my sandwich for lunch tomorrow or eat it later tonight? Please?
Saturday, July 23, 2005
Favorite albums mid-2005
Alright, not a lot of crazy stuff happening, just good times with good buddies. Some issues with the people that had sex to make me, but hey, who doesn't have issues with them? Anyways, 2005 is more than half way through, so I'd figure I'd make a best of list for so far this year:
Top Ten Albums:
10. Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
9. Circa Survive - Juturna
8 Acceptance - Phantoms
7. Iron and Wine - Woman King
6.Copeland - In Motion
5. Sherwood - Sing, But Keep Going
4. The Rocket Summer - Hello, Good Friend
3. Mae - The Everglow
2. Armor For Sleep - What to Do When You Are Dead
1. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Honorable Mentions:
Bright Eyes - Wide Awake, It's Mourning
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
The Starting Line - Based on a True Story
Fall Out Boy - From Under Cork Tree
Safe to say it's been a fantastic half year for music, and it's only gonna get better: Death Cab, Coheed and Cambria, Broken Social Scene, possibly Brand New, and Emery all looking to release albums, among others. This is a good thing.
Favorite movies:
They all suck. Hollywood sucks. No more freaking remakes, no more freaking sequels, no more freaking formulaic, cliché, feel good stories. All these things happen, maybe I'll start watching new movies. Until then, I missed a decade of fantastic movies because I was in elementary school, so I'm happy exploring those.
Some movies off the top of my head I really want to see but haven't yet:
Pi
Mangolia
Resevoir Dogs
Lost in Translation
Sideways
The Motorcycle Diaries
Good Will Hunting
Fo'sho'.
Top Ten Albums:
10. Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
9. Circa Survive - Juturna
8 Acceptance - Phantoms
7. Iron and Wine - Woman King
6.Copeland - In Motion
5. Sherwood - Sing, But Keep Going
4. The Rocket Summer - Hello, Good Friend
3. Mae - The Everglow
2. Armor For Sleep - What to Do When You Are Dead
1. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Honorable Mentions:
Bright Eyes - Wide Awake, It's Mourning
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
The Starting Line - Based on a True Story
Fall Out Boy - From Under Cork Tree
Safe to say it's been a fantastic half year for music, and it's only gonna get better: Death Cab, Coheed and Cambria, Broken Social Scene, possibly Brand New, and Emery all looking to release albums, among others. This is a good thing.
Favorite movies:
They all suck. Hollywood sucks. No more freaking remakes, no more freaking sequels, no more freaking formulaic, cliché, feel good stories. All these things happen, maybe I'll start watching new movies. Until then, I missed a decade of fantastic movies because I was in elementary school, so I'm happy exploring those.
Some movies off the top of my head I really want to see but haven't yet:
Pi
Mangolia
Resevoir Dogs
Lost in Translation
Sideways
The Motorcycle Diaries
Good Will Hunting
Fo'sho'.
Sunday, June 26, 2005
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Yesterday, I set up a blog. Today, I worked on homework for 30 minutes. First time since beggining of May. Working on a screenplay for writing, except I don't really have a plot or any real ideas in mind, so it's more like a vomit of images that pop into my head whenever I'm writing a scene. It sucks, but maybe one day I'll get something out of it. Anyways, I used the word vomit, which is a Jamesword .
Works Cited
Harskamp, James. vomit, VK Publishing Inc, 2004: Portland
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
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