When they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
January 23, 2008 - 11:53 p.m.
I didn't leave the house today. The furthest I got from my front door was my stoop to pick up the newspaper. This is going to be a very busy weekend so that really isn't a bad thing. On Friday I'm volunteering from 6AM to 6PM. I have to pick up Nora first so that means leaving my house around 5 AM. I am not driving her home so I'll be back at my house by 6:30 PM.
On Saturday we are volunteering from 8AM to 1AM then I'm dropping off Nora at home and driving down to Staten Island for my Fantasy Baseball League's party. I'm going straight from there to Port Washington to see Red Molly and Pat Wictor. It is a 48 minute drive to the party and an hour and 7 minutes from the party to the concert. That's a lot of driving. The concert is at 8 PM but I'm doing merch so I have to get there early.
Sunday is the easy day. I'll be at WFUV from 8AM to 5 PM. Of course I have to pick up and drop of Nora too. Don't expect an update on Saturday. I'll write something up Friday night then again on Sunday night.
So what did I accomplish today? Not much but I did change the valve on the radiator. It is nice to not here a hissing noise whenever the heat comes on and I'm downstairs. I turned the alarm on my alarm clock so I won't have a repeat of Tuesday's fiasco where I overslept.
Tonight I did something I've never done before. I bought a pay-per-view movie and watched it alone. It was Day Watch, the sequel to Night Watch a wonderful Russian film I saw in the theater. I don't know how I missed Day Watch but somehow I managed it. There is going to be a third film in the series. Day Watch was not as good as Night Watch but was still really good. They are the best vampire films since Near Dark came out in 1987. I am a huge horror fan but I don't like most of what has come out in the last 10 years, maybe more.
Arrrggghh! I just saw that they are remaking Near Dark. Have I mentioned that I hate remakes? OK have I mentioned it more than 500 times? That film was perfect and timeless. There is absolutely no reason to remake it. I don't see the commercial reason to remake it either as the original was not a financial success. I don't know anyone that saw it in a theatre other then Aubrey who saw it with me and Carey who saw it on my recommendation. Carey and I became a cult of two for the film. It was the first VHS that I bought.
The cult of two almost didn't happen because of part of the cost of doing business with Carey. I raved about the film to him and told him that he absolutely had to see it. I knew he'd appreciate it as much as I did. So he did see it. He did think it was an amazing film, a classic. He just never thought of telling me that he saw it. I only found out when I saw it was playing at a revival house or second run theatre and told him about it and he then told me that he'd seen it. It wasn't like we weren't talking often so I he forgot about it next time he saw me. In those days we talked every day and saw each other once or twice a week. He just didn't see why I'd like to hear about him loving the film I so heavily recommended to him. Sharing passions means a lot to me. Carey, not that Carey, the other Carey, once wrote a great entry about the joy of finding other people that love the same things you do. I got joy from finding that we shared that.
There are only two more days left in Festivus. On Friday I'll have to take my Festivus pole down. I'm not going to be like those people that keep their Christmas lights up till the spring. I put it up the first day of Festivus and I'll take it down the last day. I didn't get a lot of presents this year but I loved what I got. I didn't get the thing I most wanted but there is still two days left so there's still a chance. If not like the Brooklyn Dodgers I'll wait till next year, or perhaps my birthday.
It's time once again to play, What's on my CD changer.
- Mia Dyson – Parking Lots
- The Rogues – Roguetrip
- The Lovell Sisters Band – When Forever Rolls Around
- Abbie Gardner – Honey On My Grave
- Richard Hawley – Coles Corner
Against The Gods Intelligence Itself Contends in Vain. - July 02, 2008
Lies My Ego Told Me - June 30, 2008
Don't Believe Everything You Read; Not Even Here - June 28, 2008
Red Molly and Sinatra;, Together Again - June 27, 2008
Adventures in Adventures - June 25, 2008
Email me: GordonLew at gmail
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Horvendile January 23, 2008
