having to pick music for this week's cultural discerner meeting led me to rediscover showbread. my first and lasting love of their is 2004's cd "no, sir, nihilism is not practical". searing, honest Christian-leaning lyrics, raw metal rock sound, southern GA natives (sounds awesome, right?) check them out here
movie half nelson: ryan gosling? incredible (and good-looking too) as the good-guy-with-faults. in trying to fight the system, he (a young white teacher in a ghetto black middle school) incurs some damage in the form of drug use and relationship abuse. he gets into a niggling relationship with one of his sudents, who has alot more going on than she voices. they meander around that how-close-is-too-close line, and offer up no clear answers, no resolve. this movie was great.
high school friends: if i've done all i can to try and keep in touch, and they still don;t find it worthy of their time to respond, it is a waste of energy for me to sit here and be upset over it. a shame, but if they aren't fazed, why should i be? it hurts no one but me.
movie religulous: well, first of all, it was really a mockumentary. he was not attempting to be unbiased at all, and clearly had an agenda to try and make as many religious (Christain and otherwise) figures look as stupid and laughable as possible. and he did get some chuckles- he is a comedian, after all. but the stories of Christianity aren't as simple as he tries to make them. and he was downright rude and purposefully provocative at times. but ultimately, he advocated abandoning religion and embracing an all-encompassing doubt of any beliefs who claim anything close to absolutes. but that really is his own religion, that he just made up- a belief in adhering to doubt, religiously. i haven't gotten a chance to discuss this film with many people, but i am glad i saw it, and was given provocation to sort though why i believe what i believe....
my leopard chucks finally came today!! so excited! though they are way too clean and new-looking. i'll have to fix that.
eating way too much peanut butter and trail mix recently, but what's new?
also, i made a delightful cup of soy cocoa today
my posting may be erratic, but i am determined to keep it up
till next time...
1 comments:
hey, i talk and im a highschool friend!?!? lol, yeah i understand, they never talk to me either. life is a real bitch sometimes, but if it never was, then where would the excitement be? and i know excitement right now... (just sold house, wrecked truck, changing major, single, crappy roomy, and no sleep). But thus is life and according to Psalms 37, the only way out is to grow closer to God, thus lots of time spent in the scriptures and pleading with Christ for forgiveness and strength/patience. Is this a long comment? lol, maybe i should start my own blog?
Post a Comment