So Many Roads, So Many Roads
I just had probably the wildest weekend ever within the state of Oklahoma. Friday night was pickin, grinnin and spinnin at the Ashram. I played 2 folk sets (two rockin' ones) and then MC Chortle, DJ Steve, and DJ J-Luv kept the party goin until five in the morning! Then I slept all day and got up Saturday evening and played a set at my cousin's birthday party. It was a house party with a crazy mix of people, at least 50 perhaps as many as 75 (?) and it was a tie-dye theme so I played Grateful Dead songs all night. When I launched into 'Scarlet Begonias' this one guy yelled "hey, he's playin' Sublime... awesome!" and i just had to laugh... So i played until about 12:30 and then packed up my equipment and went home shortly thereafter. I didn't wanna leave anything out for drunk frat kids to stumble over. People who listened seemed to really enjoy it but most of the people there were congregating in the kitchen and back of the house so they could slur their speech at each other.
Then I swore up and down I would go to the library and spend some time catching up on my reading and preparing for class this week. I have a couple paper proposals I should have turned in last week and a big test in my most difficult class on Tuesday... so I really should have done that but my priority list is topped by RELIGIOUS ROCK AND ROLL EXPERIENCES and so my heart (and my cousin's car) carried me to Tulsa to see the Yonder Mountain String Band at the legendary Cain's Ballroom. It was my 3rd Yonder show at the Cain's and they did not disappoint. Me and three very awesome young women rambled hard for several hours and before I knew it the weekend was over. I woke up today and frantically began preparing for an intense Study and Review session for my Women & Religion midterm... which is now less than 24 hours away. I still have lots of reading to catch up on and a crap-ton of notes to obtain from somebody who took good, detailed notes. (On the days I took notes I spent more time doodling pictures of the Boognish than writing about feminist theologies.)
So that brings me to now. I am really just putting off studying by writing this. I am already skipping my Capstone class (which only meets on Mondays) to be prepared enough to get something out of the review session that is being held today at 6pm. I have to work tonight 8-2 but I'm considering calling in so that I can have some more time to study before I fade back out of consciousness for an undertimined amount of time.
Ex-President of Mexico Vicente Fox is speaking about a block from my house in a little while. Lots of suits on campus today and well-dressed (office-dress-suit) men and women carrying clipboards and briefcases all around campus. I wonder how many of them know that Vicente Fox is not worth listening to. I don't care how damned famous/powerful/well-connected he is... he obviously plays 'the game' way too easily to be trusted. It's pretty well documented that along with his connections to people like our esteemed and fearless leader George W. Bush (as well as David Boren, the president of OU and himself a high-profile 'power broker') he is also connected to the heads of several Mexican drug cartels. It is not doubtful that Vicente Fox himself helped facilitate large-scale illegal drug operations both before, during, and after his presidency. No - most of the people who are going to hear him talk would probably never even believe that. Of course most people wouldn't believe most of the things I say, but when asked if they REALLY trust politicians I have never heard an affirmative response. Why then, is it so hard to believe that they are working against us? Most people think it just happens that they are in their own world and they don't know how to really do their jobs right. Does this actually make sense?? NO, of course not! They know exactly what they're doing.
The same principle applies to the media... do you think the media is really that out of touch with America? Well in a sense they are, at least now, because most poeple are getting their news from alternative and internet-based news sources. So the media corporatocracy is losing its hegemony... but that doesn't mean that it is just incidental that they are talking about Britney Spears and Anna Nicole Smith - they could literally talk about ANYTHING and get people to watch it, so why don't they show some responsibility and report on something that MATTERS? Well its because the extremely rich multinational corporations that control these large media conglomerates don't WANT people to know what's really going on. They don't WANT people to investigate the details and find out that Iran poses no threat to us, nor did Iraq, nor did the Taliban. They don't WANT people to know that Dick Cheney could at any time be charged with a felony for endangering National Security by leaking the name of an undercover CIA agent to the press.
I will stop my rant because I could literally go on for hours.
Then I swore up and down I would go to the library and spend some time catching up on my reading and preparing for class this week. I have a couple paper proposals I should have turned in last week and a big test in my most difficult class on Tuesday... so I really should have done that but my priority list is topped by RELIGIOUS ROCK AND ROLL EXPERIENCES and so my heart (and my cousin's car) carried me to Tulsa to see the Yonder Mountain String Band at the legendary Cain's Ballroom. It was my 3rd Yonder show at the Cain's and they did not disappoint. Me and three very awesome young women rambled hard for several hours and before I knew it the weekend was over. I woke up today and frantically began preparing for an intense Study and Review session for my Women & Religion midterm... which is now less than 24 hours away. I still have lots of reading to catch up on and a crap-ton of notes to obtain from somebody who took good, detailed notes. (On the days I took notes I spent more time doodling pictures of the Boognish than writing about feminist theologies.)
So that brings me to now. I am really just putting off studying by writing this. I am already skipping my Capstone class (which only meets on Mondays) to be prepared enough to get something out of the review session that is being held today at 6pm. I have to work tonight 8-2 but I'm considering calling in so that I can have some more time to study before I fade back out of consciousness for an undertimined amount of time.
Ex-President of Mexico Vicente Fox is speaking about a block from my house in a little while. Lots of suits on campus today and well-dressed (office-dress-suit) men and women carrying clipboards and briefcases all around campus. I wonder how many of them know that Vicente Fox is not worth listening to. I don't care how damned famous/powerful/well-connected he is... he obviously plays 'the game' way too easily to be trusted. It's pretty well documented that along with his connections to people like our esteemed and fearless leader George W. Bush (as well as David Boren, the president of OU and himself a high-profile 'power broker') he is also connected to the heads of several Mexican drug cartels. It is not doubtful that Vicente Fox himself helped facilitate large-scale illegal drug operations both before, during, and after his presidency. No - most of the people who are going to hear him talk would probably never even believe that. Of course most people wouldn't believe most of the things I say, but when asked if they REALLY trust politicians I have never heard an affirmative response. Why then, is it so hard to believe that they are working against us? Most people think it just happens that they are in their own world and they don't know how to really do their jobs right. Does this actually make sense?? NO, of course not! They know exactly what they're doing.
The same principle applies to the media... do you think the media is really that out of touch with America? Well in a sense they are, at least now, because most poeple are getting their news from alternative and internet-based news sources. So the media corporatocracy is losing its hegemony... but that doesn't mean that it is just incidental that they are talking about Britney Spears and Anna Nicole Smith - they could literally talk about ANYTHING and get people to watch it, so why don't they show some responsibility and report on something that MATTERS? Well its because the extremely rich multinational corporations that control these large media conglomerates don't WANT people to know what's really going on. They don't WANT people to investigate the details and find out that Iran poses no threat to us, nor did Iraq, nor did the Taliban. They don't WANT people to know that Dick Cheney could at any time be charged with a felony for endangering National Security by leaking the name of an undercover CIA agent to the press.
I will stop my rant because I could literally go on for hours.