So i've ignored this thing with about as much fervor as one might expect a techno savvy white middle class male with a hypographia problem to NOT ignore his Web-Log...i suppose i've just been loathe to let myself ramble on and on as is my self serving way. oh well.
i've discovered a few things in these past months (weeks, however long its been since i've written here)
1. Red Stripe Jamaican Lager
2. Stella Artois Belgian Lager
3. Brotherhood 2.0
4. The occasional joys of recreational marijuana use (perhaps this would be better phrased of the joys of occasional marijuana use...yesh)
5. Guy Gavriel Kay's novel "The Last Light of the Sun"
6. Girl Talk's CD "Feed the Animals"
First, and i suppose second; its been a trial and tribulation for me to find any kind of beer that i like. mixed drinks have been a friend to me since i started drinking because with the liberal application of liqueur and monin flavored sugar one could mask the taste or unrefined oil as easily as one could Vodka. since i've been sampling the various ales, lagers, beers, whatevers of the various countries i've found that i prefer it if americans had little to do with its creation. Guiness, Red Stripe (num), and Stella Artois are a few, though i do like Sam Adams: White Ale but i dont consider boston an american city so much as a very far removed english province.
Next, which is in fact third, is the Brotherhood 2.0. i've found that i'm taken with video blogs. a couple years ago i cranked through ZeFranks video blog and loved every minute of it. i've now found Brotherhood 2.0; a video blog between two brothers intended to take the place of any textual communication over the course of a year. one is an award winning young adults author and the other is a blogger and web master, so they're both very well read and verbose, so i enjoy watching them entertain each other.
Fourth. Weed. i've fallen a good deal further from my raised family and religious ideals than i ever expected, but honestly i've found that taking life a little more at face value and allowing that the afterlife will be what it is and i am, at least at this stage of my life, satisfied to let this world and then next do as they please so long as they let me do the same. i've given up on a religion that has turned to proselytizing and continues to hold of on acknowledging gay marriage. i have taken allot from religion but i think that as far as my personal ethics are concerned i'll mix and match from now on. i cannot abide a dogma that, in the same breath, advocates the acceptance of all men, women, and children then deny's women place in the highest echelons of administration and gay's valid participation in the community of the faith.
okay, lets amend four as my discovery of my agnosticism. FIVE is weed. its fun, i enjoy it, and once i can get my mitts on a vaporizer it will be a truly harmless vacation for about 20$. i'm far from a pothead, but i'm not afraid of accepting this stuff into my life.
six (what would have been five) is the novel. i'm taking two reading intensive courses in this, my last semester of undergrad, and one of them is a sci-fi/fantasy course. our first book was a contemporary novel of an alternate world almost a perfect mirror of ours in the time of king alfred and his fighting off of the viking hordes. this one has faeries and magic in but i think that kay's approach to pro's is at the same time epic, while tongue and cheek enough with the seriousness of the situations that he can make you laugh just after you were cheering for your favorite hero. oh, thats another thing: he's got like four heroes and all of them are sympathetic, and at one point or another they'll be pitted against one or another of each other...heh, fuck you grammar. anyway. he composes his story in a world entirely without some outside malevolent force directing the actions of its characters. there is neither Goodness, nor Evil: simply human choice and motive. recommended indeed.
Girl talk is one of my favorite DJ's. of course i think he's one of the only DJ's i actively listen to, but he's wonderful. he takes mainstream pop music and mixes it masterfully with rap and R&B beats and lyrics so even the whitest of white boys (me) will bounce his ghe-to booty like he's being paid by the jiggle.
love to all, and i hope you're having as much fun as i am.
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