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friday morning
okay. lets see what i have to say thiis morning.
spent last night downloading more music. this time more dar williams. yes, i really like her. and i decided to go get some iris dement. she's really bad. not her lyrics.. she's on the "songcatcher" soundtrack, and in the movie, and i thought that she was only in character, but she's not. i've decided she's a female bob dylan. lots of people love her, but her voice grates on me. but while i was downloading all this music i happened to download a lucy kaplansky song, now she's great! so, i'll be going after her now, instead of iris dement. i also went after more steve earle, but most of his stuff is just a bit to hard for my tastes right now.
what else? oh, a friend might be coming west around the next set of holidays. i'm hoping it happens cause i could use the visit. even though my finances are ultra tight over the next two months. i know she'll be understanding about that. i actually said to smudge a couple of minutes after i woke up "do you think if i do xxxxxxx that the goddess will be more inclined to send xxxxxxxxx west?"
this space is going to be redesigned once i get an idea. the flower just aren't the right thing for my state of being anymore.
i've added a bunch of new news services over there --->. this space is my portal to the world. and that being said, i've become interested in what is being said beyond the very much slanted mainstream american news services, and the very much slanted liberal news services. yeah, i said that. all news services are terribly slanted. so, i've put up what i believe are a smattering of news services from areas of the world that i'm intersted in. i've put up both isreali and palestinian news, and one that works to show both sides, i've put up the official news service of the iraqi government, the addis tribune -- no real big bias there, just my own personal interest cause my dear stepfather is there for 2 years and my mom goes over there a whole lot, transitions online- news from central and eastern europe, common dreams, and of course the guardian and the bbc.
i've always known how very much american centric i am, we are in the states. but this world of ours.. well, its really fucked up. and i'm in this place in my life of change. i'm in this place in my life where i have time to see what is being said in different places. and i believe its important for me to see what is being said. its important for me to see the word enemy and to know that thats me.
it all plays into what might be next. which i'm not sure. but i might have ideas playing into my head. i might want to do something international. *sigh* i really don't know. but there is a whole world out there, beyond eugene, beyond blacksburg. whole peoples and places. and whole different ways of thinking. whole different perspectives. that jolt was made very evident on 9/11/2001 and the aftermath in which we are living.
i'm just rambling. i do that exceptionally well, if you don't already know that.
and on that note, i should probably put some substenance in my body.
Posted by brooke at November 29, 2002 11.08.37 AM
