A Blowjob Behind The Tilt-A-Whirl
09.02.06 (4:11 pm) [edit]"George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil. All my friends are always like 'He can't even complete a fuckin' sentence!' Hang on, George Bush can speak perfectly well, just not when he's being caring or compassionate or concerned about human beings. That's when he stutters and says shit like 'Hey it's hard to put food on your family.' Which he actually said, he said it's hard to put food on your family. Do you know why he said that? 'Cause he could give a fuck how hard it is for you to put food on the table for your family. But you know when he gets really downright poetic and articulate and focused is when he's talking about war and death and murder and retribution. All of a sudden he's Dylan Thomas." - Patton Oswalt
1.) The Bill Evans box set The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961 RULES THE FUCKING COSMOS. Very few things on this planet compare to the glorious sound of that trio. Scott LaFaro's bass playing makes my weenus into STEEL, I tell you.
2.) I'm nearly done with that book Misquoting Jesus. Which will make it the first book I've FINISHED in eons. As much as I like it, it's a tad annoying how often Ehrman repeats shit he just said, and I wish he'd go into more detail, though the details he does go into are often fascinating. A little tidbit for those into Christianity - the New Testament verse (the only one) that most explicitly sets out the dotrine of the Trinity? Added into it at a later date. And the part of Jesus' speech at the Last Supper that is the basis for communion? (You know, the bread and wine thing that Christians stole from pagans?) Also added in later. The amount of shit added in or changed to suit the theology of later scribes is pretty impressive.
That said, I want to clarify something since I like to write about this shit so much - I don't have anything against Christians per se. SOME of them, yes. The ASSHOLES among them, yes. Not Christians as a whole. Not even anything against Jesus. It's CHRISTIANITY that I have a deep loathing for. There's a difference between Christ (who was probably fun to hang out and drink Aquafina with), Christians (who I might not always agree with but who are usually nice enough people), and the bullshit religion known as Christianity (which pretty much sucks cock as far as I'm concerned.)
For a great way to appreciate the fun of taking apart stupid religions while respecting the basic humanity of people who happen to believe that shit, go watch the South Park episode "All About Mormons", from their 7th season. The last minute of that is a great twist, and something that I need to be reminded of sometimes myself. but the religion is still horseshit.
3.) I've got a crazed and probably unworkable idea in my head of a two-day jaunt in mid-October involving a Keneally show in St. Louis with a few stop for genealogy research in southern Illinois on the way there and back. It'll involve sleeping in my car and eating bolonga, but that hardly seems important.
4.) The guy who told me a year ago that utitlies in this town were markedly cheaper than anywhere else? Either he's a lying piece of shit or it's changed in the past year. My power bill today was a very annoying surprise. I'm figuring (based on it apparantly including more than one month since I moved here in the middle of a month) that it's 50% more here than what I was paying in Indy. Oh, and I now pay over FOUR TIMES as much just to have garbage taken out of here as I did in Indianapolis.
So, thank fuck I didn't stay in goddamn California, eh?
5.) Shit, I miss the desert...
6.) I cna't think of anything else. Have a nice weekend, fuckers.
Love,
Dougie
posted by: d9 (reply)
post date: 09.02.06 (4:39 pm)
Hmmmmmmm - a road trip in October, huh? Depending on how work things are going at that point (hopefully they'll have slowed down some) and all the other usual stuff, I might be tempted into taking part in such an adventure.