Our Baby

Capree and I decided to take the plunge! We are having a....XBOX 360!!! Woo!

Oblivion and Call of Duty 4 here we come!

Thoreau

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau.

is-ˈkāp : to avoid a threatening evil

Reading:



The theme of escape has come up a few times in the last week or so, whether it is above mentioned book, No Country For Old Men, Bicycle Thieves, or many other examples in my life. I've been trying to make sense of the significance of escape and how my awareness of its meaning has heightened.

Escape has always seemed to me a negative trait. I perceive people do temporary and usually damaging things to escape from their stress and problems. Drugs, alcohol, sleeping around, etc. Escape is a cop out and its cruel irony only causes people to childishly further ensnare themselves.

While it is true that people often choose poorly when faced with the opportunity of escape (i.e. Llewelyn Moss in No Country taking the money), it sometimes isn't ultimately up to us. Fate or outside forces or whatever you want to call it keeps us
from having full control (see: Antonio Ricci in Bicycle Thieves). And that is scary and frustrating to know that no matter what you do or how you attempt to escape from something, there is a possibility that you will never escape.

So with all this media and personal experience laid before me, I'm writing this mostly to remind myself: I can't control everything that effects my outcome and life. It's not so much the placement and stature of life, but how it is lived.

The most admirable people live with honor and adhere to their code of ethics, regardless of the fire and damnation that befalls them. Their code may not seem the most logical at times, but it allows them to escape a threatening evil: themselves.

I can stop the monster.

Paints

Just got home from the paint store! We finally purchased some paints for our home. Grape green for one wall, half moon crest (a medium gray) for the main, base color, and decorators' white (a slight offwhite) for our alcoves.

Things will look great yet.



Now, if we could get our Twig light to be shipped... Hurry up USA custom-made light!

Gos

Also, I misspelled goes as well. So it gos.

Alot.

Apparently, I misspelled a lot. I do that alot.

9 to rinse and repeat

Now Playing: Bill Fay - Time Of The Last Persecution

The energy comes and gos.

I voted FOR the referendum. I felt that more choice for people has more potential. In the long run, there could be alot of wasted breath over the issue because of lack of volume. Teachers afraid of losing their jobs or thinking that the referendum is a vote of no confidence in regards to the public school system are also in the wrong. If anything, the best part of capitalism - competition - will help spur both of these systems to excellence. Public schools will be subsidized for any defectors from their schools anyway. The 24 children per teacher policies are stupid anyway, and I don't think NCLB is helping either.

Winter is coming and the sky turns gray. I think we'll make it this year. Conquering (and eventually painting) the new place. I'll find my way with music yet. Flirting with the idea of making a music profile page on MySpace. I need 1 or 2 more tracks to be finished....if only I had the time or energy to do it right now. I would rather work on a mix for that house party I promised a while ago.

Capree and I have been absolutely captivated with Weeds. We've watched 3 years of television in a two week span. There is something about the jacked up suburban family being portrayed in such a biting, satirical, and yet light-hearted way. Mary-Louise Parker and Kevin Nealon pretty much carry the show.

I need to set goals and follow them through. Life can pass me by way too easily now that I'm done with school and working my mind off.