NEW SIDEBAR: We've reached the stretch run of the election, and as my own meager contribution a new section of links has been added to the pizzle. Politrix covers a few of my very biased but still useful political websites. Visit them and peruse and think and consider and then click on the register to vote link and go vote in November, because really, what the fuck do you live in a Democracy for anyway?
I'm especially excited about the Muslim Wake Up link. Finally, a haven for all of my like minded pro-choice, anti-death penalty, pro-gay marriage Muslim friends. I really like the Sex and the Ummah section, where short pieces of fiction are posted periodically. It's honest, frank and open ("You just said three words that mean the same thing") about sexuality, Islam and any and all conflicts in between. Pullitzer-caliber literature its not, but you have to love a site that gives outlet to paragraphs like this:
"The night I have to bail him out of jail for public intoxication and battery, Shoshanna and Mona are crying: “Fuck this, Aida, let’s just go. You have to leave this asshole!” I want to explain to them that I need this, need to keep going to school and have a father for the kid, need to be able to tell the God, on the day of judgment when I crawl out of my grave and I’m all alone and shards of sky are crashing down on me, that look, dude, I tried."
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Impressions of San Diego: Love the big-little city feel, just like Austin...I'm so glad we found a place to live that didn't involve a crazy foot-condom lady...I really, really, really wish my car had a sunroof...I'm praying my work schedule doesn't interfere with my life-long (and by life-long I mean about 3 months) desire to learn to surf, if it does, I will probably be stuck in my room watching the Endless Summer DVD over and over again as the cool Pacific breeze wafts in through my window, carrying away my hookah smoke.
I can't stop listening to: The Killers - Hot Fuss (see Spins section). Catch them now before the hype blows them far, far away into a future of opening for Oasis on the 2015 BTSBG (Bands That Should Have Been Great) tour. Cheap Cure knock-offs? Yeah, but The Killers are damn good at it, and though I'm hoping for it, I'm just not sensing any staying power. Favorite song of the album, track 2 "Mr. Brightside". A perfectly poignant and uplifting ode to the pain of being the "other" guy. Over a impossibly catchy and soaring synth groove The Killers touch the heart of any of us who have ever been the odd man out in a love triangle ("I just can't look, its killing me"), but ultimately we are left, at least for me anyway, with a positive message,
"But it's just the price I pay, Destiny is calling me, Open up my eager eyes...."
Word.
Posted by sheelpi at August 2, 2004 11:33 PM