captainamerika

Less than one week to go until my M.A. oral comprehensive exam. Please God, make this stuff stick in my head and come out of my mouth in some kind of coherent way. Its all or nothing, pass or fail, and no second chances. Everything else is finished. I either get the M.A., or I don't. Kinda stressful, but I will prevail. Please God...

Now we are launching missiles at Libya. Why? I don't really understand it. I am no friend of Gadhafi by any means, but why do we care? I do not understand.

Why is my tax money being used to drop bombs on Libya? What the FUCK?!?!

We are addicted to war.

Another night online. Tonight I'm watching PJ Harvey videos, among other things. She's been making music which has captivated me for 20 years now, I guess. She doesn't have anything close to a lame album, hardly even a weak song. There are very few artists making popular music who stand up to her in terms of longevity and quantity of quality. There are a few;...
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Hello all. Captain Amerika sends greeting from Washington, DC, where the new congress is now in session. What will happen? Is this government being called to account by the will of the people, or one more step towards literal fascism? Will Captain Amerika be able to stop the villains, give aid and comfort to the good, and generally help get turn Amerika back into America?...
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I felt restless this evening, and just had to get outta the apt. Looking thru the local nitelife paper, I saw that Rev. Horton Heat was playing in town, so I set out for the show. I don't go to too many shows anymore, but he (or would I say 'they'?) is one of the good ones.

Anyway, I got there during the second opening...
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"They say goldfish have no memory.
I guess their lives are much like mine,
And the little plastic castle
Is a surprise every time.
It's hard to say if they're happy,
But they don't seem much to mind."

Do ya ever feel like Ani in that song? The capacity to forget is a great blessing.

Good day all. Spending a morning w/ the internet. Lovely to have time to myself. Watching videos on youtube, mainly old James Brown stuff and some videos of music by Karlheinz Stockhausen. I've been studying the life and music of Miles Davis lately, in preparation for a book I am writing, and they were both big influences on him. Thank God for youtube. It makes...
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My studies have led me back to Gandhi. His life and the non-violent techniques he developed remain important for us today. Might I develop a life based on his principles and faith. Not that I would ever become Hindu, but it seems like you cannot go wrong dedicating your life to Satyagraha, or truth-force.

We here in the U.S. really do need to learn and...
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