President Bush Has Kept Us Safe

There was a great article by Thane Rosenbaum in the Wall

can even imagine I am sure.

That doesn’t mean that I support absolutely everything that
telephone or reading my messages.

9/11 terrorist attacks.

Those very same people quite suddenly changed their tune as
terrible idea from the very beginning. They’re vehemently supporting Barack

Now you could make the argument that the people that I speak

The article is absolutely correct in saying that the winds
are now so against. They are the ultimate hypocrisy.

The Greatest Songs of All Time: The Diamond Sea

From Various Thoughts on Music


where they were recording, as well as other miscellaneous information.
It should be fun!

The Diamond Sea by Sonic Youth

was first released on the brilliant Washing Machine album. There are
was released in 1995 as the first single from the Washing Machine
song which used compiled footage from the 1995 Lollapalooza tour, Spike
Jonze and several other well known directors were involved in the
creation of the video.

The lyrics read:

time takes its crazy toll
and how does your mirror grow
you better watch yourself when you jump into it
cause the mirror’s gonna steal your soul
I wonder how it came to be my friend
that someone just like you has come again
you’ll never ever know how close you came
until you fall in love with the diamond rain
throw all his trash away
look out he’s here to stay
your mirror’s gonna crack when he breaks into it
and you’ll never ever be the same
look into his eyes and you can see
why all the little kids are dressed in dreams
I wonder how he’s gonna make it back
when he sees that you just know it’s make-believe
blood crystallized to sand
and now I hope you understand
you reflect into his looking-glass soul
and now the mirror is your only friend
look into his eyes and you will see
that men are not alone on the diamond sea
sail into the heart of a lonely storm
and tell her that you’ll love her eternally
time takes its crazy toll
mirror falling off the wall
you better look out for the looking-glass girl
cause she’s gonna take you for a fall
look into his eyes and you shall see
why everything is quiet and nothing’s free
I wonder how he’s gonna make her smile
when love is running wild on the diamond sea

greatest ever recorded. The music is simply gorgeous, a masterful
will most certainly continue listening, waiting for that breakthrough
song can seem a sonic stillbirth, an amalgamated abortion of sounds

The lyrics are much the same. They are an expansive
journey inward and within ones deepest self, tickling our egos and
insecurities in ways that we never thought were, and hoped not
doing writing like this, playing 20 minute explosions of emotion,
touching us on nearly every level? This was unchartered territory for
wanted to expand their musical horizons.

Lyrics written,
Exploring how not only this revelation affects you, but how others
and overcoming whatever insecurities that you personally may have had
by ripping them to shreds with words and feedback seemingly from
definitely not on until The Diamond Sea.

Then in the end, we
come to an understanding and hopefully even an acceptance of what we’ve
accept the innermost feelings that we allow to be affected.

seeing and understanding that these things are not of any great
prejudices, whatever they may be, and truly be free.

Ride a Bike

Posted on Various Thoughts on Culture


I am very pro cycling myself. I have an
extreme dislike for the car culture that we have here in the US in
general. I absolutely feel that if mass public or self transportation
without the use of a motor vehicle is possible, then it should be used
in nearly all cases.

Personally I do not drive currently and I do not even own a car.
Using mass transit and self transportation is environmentally sound and
much more cost effective than operating a motor vehicle of your own.
That’s why I don’t understand the car culture that we have, I don’t
understand how it has spread and is generally accepted everywhere, even
in our large cities.

That’s why I thought that Bloomberg’s tax was a brilliant idea for
NYC. Having actually biked through New York on a regular basis, it’s
not exactly the greatest experience that I’ve ever had, and certainly
not something that I would want to do every morning to get to work. If
there were less vehicles, less congestion and less hostility in general
though, then I would be all for cycling to work most of the time. But
still it isn’t a huge issue as we have a fine public mass transit
system in our subways.

Anyway, I’m hoping that the recent housing issues in the US will
make more and more people come to the cities, which should lead to less
reliability on vehicles for people in general if they have a quality
system for public transportation in place.

I have other huge issues with suburban sprawl and the whole suburban
culture here in the US as well, a different topic, I know; but it has
to be stated as it undoubtedly plays a key role in the want and need
for motor vehicles by many Americans. If we didn’t live 20 miles away
from where we go to school and work, then there would be much less of
an issue and the car culture in the US would simply dissolve. It is
honestly ridiculous to live so far away from the places that you need
to go on a regular basis when you could just as easily live in the
city, much closer to the places that you need to go.

Both are huge issues that people need to get over in my opinion. You
don’t need an acre or two of land surrounding your home, really. There
is absolutely no need for that, it’s wasteful and harmful to all of us
in the long run. Living in the city is a much better option. Hopefully
more and more people in our future generations realize this and stop
moving into and building new unnecessary suburbs.