Songs that remind me of you
There are nights in the summer
I expect I will miss the very image of you.
Cheeks flushed in the blanketed heat,
Knees bruised and scarred,
The slight protrusion of your tongue
In that smile you flaunt.
Nights where a raspy voice
Sends you instantly into my…
Rule 1 - Post the rules.
Rule 2 - Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post and then make 11 new ones
Rule 3 - Tag 11 people and link them to your post
Rule 4 - Let them know you’ve tagged them.
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1. What are your greatest flaws & assets?
Greatest flaws: anger, hypocrisy, selfishness, impulsive desire to disagree with people
Assets: motivation, creativity, problem-solving, self-reliance, confidence, critical thinking
2. In your opinion, should the government be reformed? How?
Well, in the literal sense of re-forming the government, yes absolutely: complete destruction of the state and all ideological apparatuses in favor of communal governance; destruction of the nation-state in favor of localized government built on sustenance and sustainability in place of growth.
3. Who is your idol and why?
I try to refrain from idolizing people. I guess I’d have to say Pete Seeger. Jesus. Buddha. I don’t know, people who practice what they preach, who don’t just soak up praise and worship but who really care more about what they can give to others than whether their name is recognized or their bank account is well-stocked.
4. What is the best food you’ve ever tasted?
Hot sauce
5. What is your opinion of tumblr, your blog, the interface, the users, your experience?
It is simultaneously my greatest source of hope and despair. I have no opinion of my own blog, I just use it to “think out loud” or whatever. I guess I’d call it pretty mediocre if my intentions were to make a blog that people would love to read, but I rarely have any intentions when I log in. It’s a frustrating place. Hoardes of people who are just plain ignorant, people who are just repeating the ideas of other people without actually giving an ounce of thought to it, people who are so desperate to feel a part of something that they embrace movements that are contradictory at best and downright harmful at worst, etc. But then there are quite a few good apples out there, too. Sometimes I worry that a community that is so polarized is bound to stay that way, kind of a self-perpetuating hatred for the “other side” or whatever, but I think it’s easy to find people who rest in that middle ground even though they seem to be smaller in number. My experience has been great on Tumblr. I’ve made friends, both real life and internet, and it’s really helped me learn about my own views by having them down somewhere. Also, people are stupid.
6. One thing you are proud of?
My garden
7. Name your top 10 favourite films.
Not a huge fan of film, tbh. Or maybe I just haven’t really found the right films yet, but I honestly can’t list a single movie I’d say I’m crazy about. I guess number one would be Up, but after that meh.
8. What do you think are the best and worse things in the world?
Best: dogs
Worst: people
9. What do you want to do for a living? What are you doing now?
Small, organic and mostly self-sufficient farm
But right now I wait tables and practice when I have time off
10.How would you rate your school experience?
School wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever been through, but I feel like it was utterly pointless and an exercise in obedience more than anything. I value school more for the relationships it created than anything else. I was never really taught anything that wasn’t either common sense/logic or easily accessed in other ways. Ideological state apparatus #1
11.Are you happy? Why or why not?
I don’t feel comfortable saying I am either. As a human being, I am happy with who I am and where I am in my life, but at the same time complete happiness is near impossible because I recognize that I am a part of a machine that is contrary to my beliefs on many levels. I guess I can answer this question by saying that my happiness on a given day is directly related to how isolated I am from those things that make me question my own actions. The more time I spend outside in my garden or hiking away from the landscaped world of humanity, the more time I spend playing music or being engrossed by the company of friends, family, my dog, the more I feel like I am drifting away from relying on destructive means of living the happier I am.
My questions:
1) Favorite genre of prose and why?
2) What you would change about the world if you could only change one thing?
3) Your favorite thing about yourself?
4) Top 5 travel destinations?
5) What do you feel you’ve been called to do in life? If nothing, what is your greatest passion?
6) Based on your experience so far, what would you say is the meaning of life?
7) Are you a consumer or are you a product?
8) Three things that define you (not allowed to use things you own)?
9) Fate or chance?
10) Best concert you’ve ever seen?
11) One experience that still affects you to this day?
tagging:
1) http://buffleheadcabin.com/
2) http://socialuprooting.tumblr.com/
3) http://ybosaeslehc.tumblr.com/
4) http://thetenenbaums.tumblr.com/
5) http://goldmouthscry.tumblr.com/
6) http://lifeincommas.tumblr.com/
7) http://ibelieveingatsby.tumblr.com/
8) http://thatbigrockinchairwontgonowhere.tumblr.com/
10) http://thistlog-is-yourtlog.tumblr.com/
11) http://littlecartography.tumblr.com/
(Source: reflectionsofabritishmuslimah)
Anonymous askedAccording to Young etc. Again, hearsay is not the equivalent of absolution.
Gay Ind. teen expelled for bringing stun gun to school attacked, hate crime to be decided
Dynasty Young, a 17-year-old, gay youth from Indianapolis, Ind. was attacked by an older man yesterday evening after making national news for bringing a stun gun to school.
When bullies began threatening him and school officials refused to step in, Young’s mother Chelisa Grimes protected her son the only way she could: by providing him with a somewhat harmless stun gun.
While at work yesterday evening, a man approached Young and said he knew his family, before insulting him with harmful statements regarding his mother and sexuality.
“He said my momma was a stupid b—— for giving me a taser… (and that) I’m f—-ing up Indiana,” Young said.
When Young chose not to listen, the man stepped closer to him, threateningly pointing a finger in his face. When Young asked him to get out of his face, the man punched him.
Rather than hit him back, Young stepped backward and security at his workplace stepped in and prevented a second hit. The man has been charged with assault and battery and could be charged with a hate crime in the near future.
“I still am going to fight for what I believe in… but it is affecting my life,” Young said.
Read more about Young’s story at http://trymodern.com/post/22799989675/exclusive-dynasty-young-my-own-words-dynasty .
Classic two-wrongs-make-a-right scenario from a biased source. Listen, stun gun is considered a potentially deadly weapon in some cases and here it is “somewhat harmless.” You cannot just use a term like that an not expect to have to prove the existence of such a difference.
Why is it not a potentially fatal weapon in this instance but the equivalent of a snowball fight?
“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.” - JFK
(Source: cosmosonic)
Some real questions about Barack Obama’s “evolved” stance on same-sex marriage
What are your questions?
Dropping fabulous bombs everywhere.
Thomas Jefferson (via estempus)
“Free to sell their labor but reap only a tiny fraction of the wealth it creates. Free to consume. Free to be white, property-owning males. Free to live in indentured servitude to the rich. And think, all this while enslaving the rest of the world. Ain’t life wonderful? High five that Invisible Hand.”
I know I’m a little late on this but as I’m sure most of you know, Sacha Baron Cohen stopped by SNL this weekend to do an in-character promotion of his new film The Dictator. Around the time of the Oscars, when Baron Cohen released this video in response to being banned from the event and after he pulled this stunt on the red carpet, where he pretended to spill the recently deceased Kim Jong Il’s ashes on Ryan Seacrest, I briefly spoke out about how Baron Cohen’s character and his new film are extremely problematic and racist and why this is concerning even though it’s all “just for comedy.”
As the film’s release date nears, Baron Cohen and the cast are increasingly doing promotional appearances, including the video I’ve posted from SNL’s Weekend Update segment. Perhaps I’m looking in all of the wrong places but where’s the substantive discussion about how problematic this film and recent SNL appearance are? In this clip, Baron Cohen greets Seth Meyers, who may or may not be Jewish (I can’t get a definitive answer), by calling him a “Zionist,” playing into the misconception and stereotype that all non-Jewish Middle Eastern individuals blindly regard all Jews and Westerners as Zionists, as if the joke is that Zionism is actually a good thing. (It should also be noted that Sacha Baron Cohen is an Ashkenazi Jew with an Israeli mother.)
“Death to the West,” Baron Cohen’s character, Admiral General Aladeen, then declares, because, clearly, all Middle Eastern leaders, even the “good” ones, are stuck in some cage match against the West. The Middle East and the West are vehemently opposed to one another and those who denounce the West are “crazy” and “irrational.” Just look at Admiral General Aladeen. He seems pretty Middle Eastern and backwards, right?
Baron Cohen’s character goes on to reveal a kidnapped Martin Scorsese, film critic Roger Ebert’s severed thumbs, and reads a blood-splattered review from a “tortured” New York Times journalist, playing, of course, on the stereotype that the Middle East is inherently violent and its residents are violent, demanding terrorists. The Middle East is all about solving problems with bombs and that violent, backwards, “radical Islam,” the latter of which Baron Cohen jokingly alludes to as his character reiterates some of his previous films, “The 14-year-old Virgin” and “The 7-year-old Virgin.”
As if the Xenophobic anti-Arab and anti-Muslim climate in the West didn’t make the premise of The Dictator problematic enough, Baron Cohen’s character Admiral General Aladeen hails from a fictional republic in North Africa, where we’ve been witnessing historic revolutions take place. Call me oversensitive but it seems to me that generalizing a very diverse region to mock a culture and peoples at such a vulnerable moment for the purposes of Western entertainment is just highly inappropriate and insensitive. It might be good fun to mock some of the dictatorial Middle Eastern leaders but lest we forget precisely who propped them up, even directly installing others, and helped create the conditions many of the people of the Middle East face today.
Where’s the discussion about how problematic all of this is? Or are the laughs Western entertainment brings more important than the stigma engendered by racist frat boy depictions of a very diverse populace already demonized by Western media and politics?
Jesus fucking Christ… do people not recognize satire anymore? He’s MAKING FUN of these stereotypes not reinforcing them. The fact that it is comedy, that we are supposed to laugh at these “generalizations,” is the whole point. It undermines the stereotypes by making it into a joke. No one is going to this movie to get an accurate picture of North African culture and current events. No one is going to this movie because they think it represents real life. It’s a fucking spoof. I just…people man…
What’s more is he uses the character of the dictator to demonstrate how many similarities the U.S. regime shares with our “enemies.”
Think for two seconds about the entire context of something before you declare it offensive. It’s not something to be taken for its surface value, you have to actually pay attention and think critically for a bit. It might hurt at first, but it gets easier… *eyeroll*
NVKLHBOIF that poor guy XDDD
I couldn’t help but chuckle at this.
If the roles were reversed nobody would be laughing.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Apparently, this isn’t her first time doing something like this, either.
And does anyone else find it interesting that it says that she “demanded too much sex”? If it had been a male nympho and a female victim, anyone else think it would have been worded differently?
Here’s an example from the same site. Oh, the hypocrisy.
What’s even more disgusting is the comments. “He’s a pansy.” “Oh, I wish this could happen to me.” “Where’s her contact information?” “MAN UP!”
If a woman’s raped, it’s an atrocity. If a man’s raped, it’s a punchline - and it’s not even worth labeling “rape,” even though it is.
President Obama can order the assassination of an American citizen but he cannot order the performance of a same-sex marriage. The problem isn’t his lack of power in the second case but his appropriation of power in the first. Yet his equivocation about marriage may matter in November at least a little; stating a position for or against it could matter a lot; his assassination authority will likely matter not at all.
Make war, not love. The targeted assassination of citizens merely suspected of terrorism enjoys popular support (a 79 percent approval rating), while same sex marriage passionately divides us, generating heated controversies that the president hesitates to touch. It’s an ugly portrait of post-9/11 America: More people are concerned with restricting their neighbor’s right to marry than the president’s power to kill.
(via socialuprooting)
and even more will wilfully ignore the presidents record of killing in return for some empty rhetoric about equality, go lefties woo!
(via theyoungradical)
Anybody is capable of hatred. Privilege or lack thereof has nothing to do with it.
I hate the term “CIS” since all I see it used for is to attack people for being themselves, and a certain way, which is quite ironic considering those some people claim to be against discrimination. That aside the above should be basic obvious fucking truth, but it seems it still needs to be said.
Wrong. Wrong. And even more wrong. Discrimination, prejudice and hatred aren’t the same thing as privilege and power. It’s not that simple. Try again.
And privilege & power is not the same thing as racism/sexism/homophobia/transphobia…
“Don’t treat others the way you don’t want to be treated.” These are great.
(Source: ionapoma)
It is 2012 and still, not all women can feel confident with their bodies!
I need reality because it’s 2012 and people are still blaming society for all their problems.
A society that mass produces images of a particular body image for women as “ideal” or “normal” IS a problem. How’s life in that box of yours?
People have more evidence in 2012 than ever before for societal causes of these problems, get with the program.
22. Musician. Writer. Student. Humanist. Spiritualist. Mother Nature's Son. This is my personal blog for miscellaneous things that are...personal.
