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leighblackHooray! I can turn my head today! There's definitely still something wrong with my neck, but it's not crippling painful anymore. Driving was kind of complicated without not being able to look behind me.
I would rant about traffic and people and how much I hate them, but I don't have the energy. I'll just say that my almost new car has a huge chip in the paint from a rock, a ding in the windshield from another rock and SOME FUCKING MORON SWIPED MY BUMPER AND IT IS NOW SCRATCHED UP AND MISSING PAINT. It either happened at my apartment or at Hallmark and I am VERY MUCH NOT HAPPY.
*ahem*
The Will.i.am CD is horrible. Yeah, I know. What was I expecting? But it's even worse than that. =/
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f_o_n_y gave me a list for the interest meme. Five of them are actually tied together.
celebreality
Oh VH1! How I adore you and your cheesy, addicting Celebreality TV shows! What would I do on Sundays if I didn't have Rock of Love and Flavor of Love and My Fair Brady and Surreal Life to watch? They also have one of the best blogs around, which I created an lj feed for:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
vh1celebreality
Sven Sundgaard
I'm kind of a news junkie. And on March 10th, 2006 (yes, I remember the exact day) KARE-11 introduced their new weather guy, the adorably elfin Sven Sundgaard. I was immediately smitten! How can you not adore someone named Sven? It became my life's goal to meet him, which finally happened at the State Fair on my birthday this year. Sven has a blog too, which I also created a feed for:svens_blog
it's just a ride
The other five interests jenni gave me all have to do with brilliant comedian Bill Hicks. "It's Just a Ride" is the title of the documentary that was produced about Bill's life after he died from pancreatic cancer in 1994. But it's really a philosophy that Bill would try to teach at his shows.
"The world is like a ride at an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round and it has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while."
"Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: 'Is this real? Or is this just a ride?' And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and they say 'Hey! Don't worry, don't be afraid - ever - because... this is just a ride.' And we kill those people.
'Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride! Shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry; look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.'
It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that - ever notice that? - and we let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because... it's just a ride, and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort. No worry. No job. No savings and money. Just a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy bigger guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.
Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, into a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense each year and, instead, spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would do many times over - not one human being excluded - and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever. In peace."
illuminate the collective unconscious
Bill's shows were just as much of a preaching session as they were about comedy bits. He often talked about how the human race was making itself dumber as a whole by watching things like American Gladiators and listening to people like Rush Limbaugh. He preached about trying to wake people up and making them realize that we need to better ourselves and make ourselves smarter so that we can move forward as a whole race.
squeegee your third eye
This is kind of the same concept as illuminating the collective unconscious. Clearing your mind (with or without the use of drugs), removing the haze put over us by the media and the government and seeing the world how it really is through your third eye.
people who hate people
One of my favorite Hicks bits is about creating a new political party, the People Who Hate People Party. They're having a little trouble getting together though. "People Who Hate People! Come together!" "NO!" *snicker*
Beelzebozo
Bill had a bit of an alter-ego that would come out during his shows, Beelzebozo. The satanic comic. He was pretty crude and rude and fucking hilarious.
I would rant about traffic and people and how much I hate them, but I don't have the energy. I'll just say that my almost new car has a huge chip in the paint from a rock, a ding in the windshield from another rock and SOME FUCKING MORON SWIPED MY BUMPER AND IT IS NOW SCRATCHED UP AND MISSING PAINT. It either happened at my apartment or at Hallmark and I am VERY MUCH NOT HAPPY.
*ahem*
The Will.i.am CD is horrible. Yeah, I know. What was I expecting? But it's even worse than that. =/
f_o_n_y gave me a list for the interest meme. Five of them are actually tied together.celebreality
Oh VH1! How I adore you and your cheesy, addicting Celebreality TV shows! What would I do on Sundays if I didn't have Rock of Love and Flavor of Love and My Fair Brady and Surreal Life to watch? They also have one of the best blogs around, which I created an lj feed for:
vh1celebrealitySven Sundgaard
I'm kind of a news junkie. And on March 10th, 2006 (yes, I remember the exact day) KARE-11 introduced their new weather guy, the adorably elfin Sven Sundgaard. I was immediately smitten! How can you not adore someone named Sven? It became my life's goal to meet him, which finally happened at the State Fair on my birthday this year. Sven has a blog too, which I also created a feed for:
svens_blogit's just a ride
The other five interests jenni gave me all have to do with brilliant comedian Bill Hicks. "It's Just a Ride" is the title of the documentary that was produced about Bill's life after he died from pancreatic cancer in 1994. But it's really a philosophy that Bill would try to teach at his shows.
"The world is like a ride at an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round and it has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while."
"Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: 'Is this real? Or is this just a ride?' And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and they say 'Hey! Don't worry, don't be afraid - ever - because... this is just a ride.' And we kill those people.
'Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride! Shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry; look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.'
It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that - ever notice that? - and we let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because... it's just a ride, and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort. No worry. No job. No savings and money. Just a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy bigger guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.
Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, into a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense each year and, instead, spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would do many times over - not one human being excluded - and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever. In peace."
illuminate the collective unconscious
Bill's shows were just as much of a preaching session as they were about comedy bits. He often talked about how the human race was making itself dumber as a whole by watching things like American Gladiators and listening to people like Rush Limbaugh. He preached about trying to wake people up and making them realize that we need to better ourselves and make ourselves smarter so that we can move forward as a whole race.
squeegee your third eye
This is kind of the same concept as illuminating the collective unconscious. Clearing your mind (with or without the use of drugs), removing the haze put over us by the media and the government and seeing the world how it really is through your third eye.
people who hate people
One of my favorite Hicks bits is about creating a new political party, the People Who Hate People Party. They're having a little trouble getting together though. "People Who Hate People! Come together!" "NO!" *snicker*
Beelzebozo
Bill had a bit of an alter-ego that would come out during his shows, Beelzebozo. The satanic comic. He was pretty crude and rude and fucking hilarious.
