Road of the Bells

Lonesome roads...
are all that's known,
to the moon and stars,
with no one to call their names.
we reach into every corner of the universe.
make everything ours.
That lonely bell is ringing,
but there is no one there to hear it.
Since when did that mean it didn't ring?
Listen to that lovely, lonely bell.
stricken on the cracked pavement.
A whole world of sight no one will watch.

Don't Take Your Guns To Town

I have digital cable. Granted, i don't watch T.V. much. 2 nights a week, regularly and outside that i either order Bill Mahr (an asshole really, a bit too liberal for me, but some of his points are decent. I tune out the rest.) or watch the History Channel. (Digging For The Truth; a very good show!) I don't bother with MTV anymore, it's all rap and random reality show stars embarassing each other for money, and the WB seems to have hit bottom this year.
Anyway, i was passing through my t.v. room and i noticed a show on Logo. I have personally never watched the channel before, since i stick to the same shows on repeat most of the time. Honestly, I've never seen the channel, its among those 100-somethings that i skip because well, i've never heard of half of them. (call me dull...go ahead, i dare you!) Geez i get off topic! ANYWAY...they were playing a movie called Prom Queen, and i caught the end. Now i'm considering waking up at 3 am to watch the movie in it's entirety. It's 2 hours long, so it's a pretty stupid idea to get up so early (since i dont get to sleep until around that time anyway) but its a tv movie, so the chances of me ever seeing it again seem very slim.
Other Movies On My Watch List:
-Underworld 2
-Waking Life
-The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys
-Ghost World (i saw it once a year ago...i miss it)
-Brokeback Mountain
-Broke Down Palace (it's been so long!)
-Jarhead
-Donnie Darko(because its the best movie in the world!)
There's more but i don't know their titles. I'll have to IMDB them later.

Song Of The Moment: Don't Take Your Guns To Town- Johnny Cash
Quote Of The Day:
[as Brian works on fixing a radio]
Guard: You should get some help with that.
Brian: Sir, I'm the president of the electronics club, the mathematics club, and the chess club. If there is a bigger nerd in here, please point him out.
-The Day After Tomorrow

Within Reach

Grey skies,
grey houses...
regardless of the brick color.
Life is not supposed to be black and white.
trees peek up on the skyline...
veins in the sky,
pumping hope to my brain.
I want to pull the strands of pink and orange,
the shades that tinge the sky,
barely visable in the corner of my window.
I want to pull them and place them in a bottle....
To look at on a shelf forever.
But that would destroy it's freedom,
And shelves with pictures of a sunset,
are the reasons no one looks out their windows anymore.

Education Needs to Be Spread.

I was in a discussion today with a large group of people over what qualifications should be enforced when running for president. Now, I am somewhere between a Liberal and a Democratic liberal, and i'm very opinionated. We came to the point of marital status and religion, and whether or not it mattered in a president. Instantly, i was ready to fight. Here's how a first part went:
Girl1: Well, I wouldn't want the president to be like, a buddist or something, because i'm a christian."
Guy1:"But it's not just about you."
Girl1:"Yeah, But i would be more comfortable with a President of my religion."
Guy1:"What's your religion?"
Girl1:"I am a christian. So's the majority of the country, and a president should represent the majority."
Me:"But it's not the presidents job to govern the majority...it's his job to govern EVERYONE. And not everyone's a christian."
There was some general grumbles at this point, which made me laugh, because i am friends with Girl1...although our points are very different on many things. But, the conversation continued elsewhere. At some point, Gay Rights came up. This had me, once again, set up...because my largest problem with the government is the unchanging marrige laws. Anyway, the talk was about why religion shouldn't be a major point, and i said;
"Religions should have nothing to do with our Presidential canidates because some religions don't allow the union of Gays and Lesbians. So, the government then doesn't allow these marriges. Which isn't fair at all, the government is then encroaching on a citizen's choice as an individual, and the President's religion then affects the lives of people all over the place who just want to celebrate their love for one another through a union."
My point had spoken. But then, from the back of the group, someone says."But i don't want someone who's Gay to run my country." If I could have slapped her, i would have. I found it a disgrace, to think of anyone as anything less because of a personal choice. I realize she has a right to her opinion, and i should respect that, but i honestly couldn't. I don't understand how one person could say to another that they think of themselves as higher or more correct or anything. I don't understand that mine frame, the lack of respect. I hope her eyes open up one day...and she realizes that the world is diverse and her way may not neccessarily be the right way. If she doesn't, her life will be a very uncultured one.

Titanic

A Conversation I Took Part In, semi-changed due to lack of sufficcient memory on my part.That, and i may just lie to make it more interesting. Biased-fiction.

Me:(upon hearing a strange whistle in the background) That sounds like the whistle from Titanic. When they're going back to look for survivors.
Friend 1(B): (agrees with me and mumbles a bit, i don't actually hear her...it's a loud room.)
Friend 2(K): B.'s parents came over on the titanic?
Me: What?
B: Yeah, K, My parents came over on the titanic in 1912. My mom was born in 1909 too!
K:(Still not catching on to the sarcasm dripping from our voices) Oh, sorry. I meant your grandparents.
Me: Yeah, her grandparents came over on the Titanic.
K:Did they survive? Oh, nevermind. Stupid question. But still, it's really cool to have grandparents that came over on the titanic.
Me: K, please never take too close a look at your life.

Censorship Tells People To Fear Diffrences.

I didn't update my blog tonight because I updated my Xanga instead. So my non-updates are not out of laziness...just a different choice.


Quote Of The Day:
"Why Are You So Petrified Of Silence?"

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