Lights go out and I cant be saved Tides that I tried to swim against Have bought me down upon my knees Oh I beg, I beg and plead Singing Come out of things unsaid Shoot an apple off my head And a trouble that cant be named A tigers waiting to be tamed Singing
I've been quite philosophical lately. Perhaps it's just the surrealism that I encounter everyday that makes me ask: why?
It's the same story the crow told me;
It's the only one he knows.
Like the morning sun you come and like the wind you go.
Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait,
Woh - oh, what I want to know, where does the time go?
Like in Uncle John's Band, I find myself with no time to hate. I shouldn't really complain because my life is not that bad. It would be a lie to say I'm truly happy, but it would be a lie to say that I'm truly sad. True happiness is probably not real. I mean most things one is happy about is usually just because something else is being ignored. Bad things happen every moment. I would like to say that generally good prevails over evil but it's hard to say.
The Iraq war has been on my mind a lot lately too. People I know know will soon be in harms way fighting for unknown reasons. WMD? Terrorism? 9/11? God? America? A war on terrorism is by definition impossible to win. <tin foil>But it's probably been arranged that way -- you know part of the New World Order.</tin foil> It seems nowadays that reason, rational thought, critical thought and the like are alien concepts. I fear doublethink is taking over :(
My mom picked up the re-released Wilburys double-cd/DVD set for me. I'm totally stoked.
From wikipedia: The release surprised everyone when debuted straight at number one in the UK Album Charts [1].
The collection entered the charts at 9 in the U.S.(Billboard Magazine,
for the week ending June 30, 2007). The group also hit number one on
the Australian album charts [2], Amazon's pre-order and sales list, and Apple's iTunes. Even more important, The Traveling Wilburys Collection debuted at #1 in the United World Chart. The album has sold 500,000 copies worldwide during the first 3 weeks.
If we actually do have Free Will (a discussion saved for a later date), people do not understand the true power they have. Lately some friends of mine have been going through tough times. These situations probably weren't entirely their fault, but people they had faith in betrayed them.
These people chose to do this, perhaps not willingly, but nonetheless they caused a lot of emotional harm to people. Who is right? Who is wrong? It's hard to really know for sure.... Life is complicated like that. As rational and logical we are as a species, we seem to find ourselves inexorable in contradictory situations. Where right is wrong and wrong is right? Paradoxical.
I don't know how I've been feelin' lately. It's kind of weird. Life has been good, but when I read the news or watch TV I can't help but realize how fucked up the world really is.
When I'm sitting on the couch just trying to relax and watch Law and Order, I have to watch some retarded commerical trying to convince me that I actually want to eat a Quiznos Sub. Fuck Quiznos. Fuck re-consolidating my debt and Visa credit cards. It bothers me that someone gets paid a rediculous amount of money to trick people into thinking that taking some perscription drug that will kill your liver is good for you. "Warning, if you experience an errection for more than 4 hours please seek medical attention." No fucking shit.
Wow... that came out a lot more belligerently than I thought it would. It's sad when I read the newspaper and have to hear about Islamic fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, 10 billion dollar profits for oil companies... Maybe I just have the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Educational Complex blues... who knows. It's sad that I give away so much money to taxes... sometimes I have to ask myself what for.
