dead like me..and on that note...

I must be the last to know about this, right? Showtime renewed Dead Like Me with an increased budget. No clue when the second season starts. Also, the Season 1 DVD will be out May 2004. The 4-disc set includes commentary and deleted scenes! *squee*


[11:31pm] My mom just called. My uncle just died. Huh. Oh well. I know that reaction is callous and strange, but I've only met the man a handful of times and he's always been such a bastard to everyone. He was a drunk and he basically drove my aunt insane... no really, she's been diagnosed with dementia and with the way he treated her, I have a fair idea of how it developed. So, no, I don't feel bad and I don't care.

I'm going to bed now :-P Day off tomorrow. Yay!

the passion of.. shut the hell up!

I'm not cutting.. because I don't feel like it. No spoilers because I haven't seen it. Although... how do you spoil a plot that's been around for over a thousand years? Moving on...

So all this drama over The Passion. Meh. It's a movie. Yeah, I know it's about a very heavy religious topic, and it's super bloody, and some Jews think the movie was made to destroy them!!!11!! Liekomg. And Christians are all "If you love Jesus, you will make Mel Gibson more money go see it!" See it, don't see it. I don't friggin care. Don't go and bitch about how intense it was and how it's inappropriate because your Bible has white-washed everything. Hello, people, use some logic. It's a Mel Gibson film (Braveheart, anyone?), it's about the death of Jesus at the hands of the Romans, and it's been marketed as a realistic, violent, bloody film. The Romans weren't exactly a friendly bunch, especially if they were going to put you to death. Crucifixion wasn't a special thing they developed for the Son of God, you know - it was a pretty normal event. Like hangings.

[Edit: I just wanted to make a correction to the statement I made above about the white-washing of the Bible. The Bible itself is filled with many violent stories. I should have specified that I meant the crucification of Jesus.

From a reply I left below: Jesus' torment is described very briefly (Matthew 27:26-44; Mark 15:17-37; Luke 23:26-43; John 19:17-27) and in rather vague detail (IMO). Obviously, I don't know if they were purposely edited or if the original writers wanted to spare their readers the graphic nature of the subject. Then again, it's possible that they didn't need to describe it as crucifixions were a common enough spectacle that people knew what happened. In any case, I apologize for my blanket statement. /edit]

People are coming out of the theaters shaken and disturbed. Good. I mean, don't go on a violent killing spree or anything, but good! Maybe it will make you think, make you question. Maybe you'll really think about Jesus' message and not the garbage that the Church wants you spreading around to "save the heathens!" Jesus was all for the love, acceptance, and forgiveness - not religious brainwashing. Afterall, he and his apostles were a rogue religious faction - the Hebrews didn't like Jesus and his followers because... they had different religious beliefs. Liekomg!! They questioned the religious leaders of the time. How dare they!

I heard on the news this morning that a woman collapsed towards the end of the movie and later died in the hospital. If she died of a heartattack, do you think they'll pull the film or rate it an NC-17? I mean, "Young Adam"'s getting an NC-17 and that was just for flashing Ewan's penis for however many seconds. You would think brutal, bloody, realistic torture and execution would rate higher than an R, but what do I know?

Having babbled all of that, I haven't seen the film yet. I probably will, but I don't know if my mother will want to go. My father.... hey, I would take him if he'd have a heartattack at the end too.. oh that was mean but he'd either be really confused, fall asleep, miss the point entirely, or worse, become a raging born-again. Maybe I'll go with my brother while my mom's in Arizona. Why am I going? Certainly not because I'm supporting psycho-Christians or Mel Gibson or because I hate Jews. I'm going because it looks like an interesting, bloody, violent movie... and it's in a foreign language. I'm easy, really.

+ NYU student Spencer Somer's trailer satire: Kill Christ
+ from Wired News: The Passion Inflames the Web

De-friend, flame, comment, link, whatever.

Tom McRae MBE KCRW show

Will need to post an update at Tomination, but the new KCRW show with Tom McRae is up. He and the Ollies perform three new songs: "How the West was Won," "Packing for the Crash," and "It Ain't You." All very good, so have a listen. Really loving "It Ain't You," so I hope that makes it onto an album.

thanks to voleuse for the heads up.

someone rip this for me please?!

Mkay. I gotta go make breakfast/lunch. Today's To Do:

+ cancel heath insurance
+ finish Tai's layout (animations! Whee!)
+ wash the dog
+ Velvet Chain rec

i jump ze vagon

I am writing about antheia writing about buhfly writing about thebigfatman writing about aeire writing in her journal.

Explanation here.

oh so true...

except for the bit about the poem


Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.
"I don't care. If it doesn't rhyme, it isn't
a poem."
You are a type A personality. You like bright
things, you don't call in sick to work, and you
have devastating opinions about art.


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What I believe...

I was having a pretty interesting, non-inflammatory religious discussion with superswank here and here. In that second thread she asked me what deity I believed in and the reply kind of spiraled out of control. So this is really for superswank (but everyone feel free...) and is probably TMI.

( I believe... )

It's late and I've babbled enough. Hopefully there aren't too many typos and I've explained most of my beliefs well enough. If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask :)