Fox News Does It Again!

A great interview with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

Legends Never Die

Here's one from the archives! This is the recording of a live show from my old band 'My Business Failed in 3 Weeks.' This was at our CD release party in which we played all the tracks plus a few new ones for our friends and fans that came out.

This is also a test of the Mixtape.Me website and how well it works with embedding into webpages. Luckily I have a crappy blog to do this kind of thing on!

Enjoy!

Sound of Silence

Hello darkness, my old friend,
Ive come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of
A neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one deared
Disturb the sound of silence.

Fools said i, you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence.

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisperd in the sounds of silence.

Nationalization and Entitlement

There's a growing debate around these parts about nationalizing health care and I hear both sides. Some people would like it, some people don't. If you've talked to me, you probably know that I don't want to pay for someone elses doctor bills. Somebody in New Jersey that wants to eat fast food everyday for lunch, smoke 2 packs a day, down a 6 pack of PBR and wind down after work with a bag of potato chips can pay for his own health care. I choose not to partake in so many unhealthy habits in order to avoid a slippery slope of problems in the future.

I found an interesting article from Britain concerning the health care system there which is very nationalized:

Gary Reinbach started drinking alcohol with friends when he was 13. Now 22, his is one of the worst cases of cirrhosis of the liver among young people that his doctors have seen.

His mother has chosen to speak out in an attempt to reverse the verdict that he is not entitled to a liver transplant, which would give him a 75% chance of survival. Without one his chance is about 30%, according to his doctors.

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You see that word in there, "entitled"? If he worked and saved his money, he could fly to the U.S.A. and pay for his own liver transplant. He made the decision to drink himself into this situation. And if the people of the U.K. pay for his transplant, whose to say he won't start drinking again and ruin his new liver just to start this whole mess again.

I Love You Beth Cooper

Left to Right: Paul Rust, DJ Ruden (me!) and Chris Columbus.

First off, I realize that blogger compressed the image and made it look bad so I encourage any readers to click on it and it'll take you to my flickr page where you can see it with better resolution.

Secondly, I would like to thank my friend Paul for inviting me out to the set of 'I Love You Beth Cooper' last summer and getting to meet all his costars and director and many of the people involved in making the movie. They were all great!

Thirdly, the movie comes out on friday!

Equality in Iowa

Good news! Finally Iowa came around to the reality that gays and lesbians live here and decided to give them equal rights. From the Des Moines Register:

The Iowa Supreme Court this morning upheld a Polk County judge’s 2007 ruling that marriage should not be limited to one man and one woman.

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This means that I can now end my marriage strike I started on July 8th, 2006.

What's the point of being married now that everyone is doing it? Seems kind of lame to me :P... It is nice being a progressive state tho. Maybe now our politicians can work on important things instead of this obvious stuff. How about some lower taxes? That'll be the day!

Colonialism, Russell, Means