I am always a fan of good music, and sometimes I am a fan of bad music too, but every once in a while you find a CD that really makes you think, and speaks to a deeper lever of your soul that just the part that feels the kickdrum. David Ramirez is that guy. He played at a house show in Florence not long ago (shocking, I know) and I bought his album right away. It’s called American Soil. I think the reason his album speaks to my soul like it does is because he decided to go live in…
If there is one thing I really like, it is problem solving. Not all kinds of problem solving, mind you. But solving problems that I deem to think are problems. For instance, if you were playing with matches and burned off your poof bangs- that’s not a problem. You won’t have my help. In fact, I would probably applaud those matches probably for doing you a favor. Or, if you stand in middle of a circle of caffeinated seventh graders who are throwing exacto-knives at each other and you get sliced (which acutally sounds a lot like my first year…
One of my dreams is to build a commune where all of my friends can come and live. We will have an organic garden, a community swimming hole, a couple of grass fed cows, some free range chickens, community homeschool thingy, and weekly family fun nights with different themes. Hippies Rejoice! Maybe what I am asking for is a bit too ambitious, or maybe that is what heaven is for, but my version of the American dream is looking a little more communist every day. It takes a village, right? But not a village made of dumb old sticks-in-the-mud. It…
So I went to see the movie Julie and Julia this weekend. Our friend, who reccomend that I see it, said it reminded him of me. I didn’t know much about it beforehand, except that it was about a girl who blogs about her dull life while trying to be as awesome as Julia Child. I did enjoy the movie. It was entertaining, Merryl Streep did an amazing job as Julia Child, and made me want to be just like Julia. She lived in Paris with a husband that she adored, and got to spend her days figuring out what…
For the past year or so, I have been really interested in Natural Healing and Holistic Medicine. Since everyone has suddenly become really into healthcare because of the healthcare debate, I thought I would add my two cents worth, so that the two and a half people who read this will know what I think. My philosophy can be broken down into a few simple principles: 1. The food we eat is poop. This means that all of the processed goodies that we have come to love so much like Chicken pot pies, Canned Meats, Froot Loops Cereal, Tater Tots,…
I stink at average things. Things that average people seem to master quickly like conversational english, holding a pencil, or the proper way to operate an automobile don’t seem to absorb into my brain very quickly, if at all. Things that come naturally to the rest of the world, things that people call “common sense” don’t make sense to me. I function in a realm outside of common.
I blame the educational system.