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February 21, 2012
Song & Man
"Revolutionary Costume for Today" by Christine Ebersole
Mary Chapin Carpenter - This Shirt
Along with my sister, Angie, today is the birthday of folk star Mary Chapin Carpenter. She turns 54. Aimee Mann and Mary are my two favorite songwriters. This song by MCC is a favorite.
February 20, 2012
5 Songs Before Bed
"Our Town" by Iris Dement - This would go on my list of greatest songs ever recorded.
"Henry Russell's Last Words" by Joan Baez
"Change of Heart" by Cyndi Lauper
"Ain't Gonna Lose You" by Brett Dennen
"I've Had It" by Aimee Mann
"Henry Russell's Last Words" by Joan Baez
"Change of Heart" by Cyndi Lauper
"Ain't Gonna Lose You" by Brett Dennen
"I've Had It" by Aimee Mann
My New Favorite Commercial
The actress here is hilarious.
Song & Man
"Girl Fight Tonight" by Julie Brown
February 19, 2012
Fun.: We Are Young ft. Janelle Monáe
A great pop tune. This is why I avoid bars, though. Somebody's always looking to bash a wine glass over my head.
5 Notes To Living
Salvation is your only purpose. I read this once in an Eckhart Tolle book, and then had a dream where someone I knew told me those exact words. The phrase has popped up here and there since then and I can't help but feel there is a reason for it. What does it mean? I can't remember exactly how Tolle explained it, but for me it means that, in the end, salvation is getting to the end, surviving and having learned at least a little something. Living is in and of itself Life's purpose. Experience.
Something in the universe loves me. Let's forget tagging it with a moniker as limiting as "God." SOMETHING loves me. I feel it in my core. Something wants me to keep going. To make it just one more day past all the hurtles and hate. Something has nested in my soul. Or maybe my body has evolved around it. If SOMETHING is god and god is inside all of us, then we are all god. And I heard once that god is love. When you pray, you are not reaching out into the sky but inward.
God is Being, not a being. That tingling in your fingertips. That is god.
Rethink everything you've ever been taught. Research. Never follow someone blindly, no matter how wise they seem. There is no Truth. No really. The world and all its history is a matter of perspective. The rest is illusion, right? I firmly believe that no human can know everything. No person has ever hit on precisely what happens after we die, be they preacher, pope, or politician. If someone knew exactly what happened after death, why, that person would be amazing. And here in our world we have people running around like birds squawking "Heaven and Hell!" or "alien abduction" or "nothing at all." What gall to think we know anything about what happens after death. Every idea of the After anyone has ever thought of is impossible because our minds are too limited. Heaven or Nothing. Neither can exist. But then, in saying that, I've made a philosophical loop, haven't I? If anything anyone has ever thought of the After cannot be, then neither can what I've just postulated.
Forgiveness is giving up hope that you can ever change the past. This one hit me just recently. I really needed to hear it. For a while - for years, in fact - I have been thinking to myself, "Damn! If only I had listened to my inner voice and not gone out that night. Then I wouldn't have been tackled and gotten sick. If only...If only..." But thinking like that is a waste of time and energy. In this universe I did fall, I did get sick. What ifs are useless exercises and serve only to bring one down.
So say-ith the Arvin!
Something in the universe loves me. Let's forget tagging it with a moniker as limiting as "God." SOMETHING loves me. I feel it in my core. Something wants me to keep going. To make it just one more day past all the hurtles and hate. Something has nested in my soul. Or maybe my body has evolved around it. If SOMETHING is god and god is inside all of us, then we are all god. And I heard once that god is love. When you pray, you are not reaching out into the sky but inward.
God is Being, not a being. That tingling in your fingertips. That is god.
Rethink everything you've ever been taught. Research. Never follow someone blindly, no matter how wise they seem. There is no Truth. No really. The world and all its history is a matter of perspective. The rest is illusion, right? I firmly believe that no human can know everything. No person has ever hit on precisely what happens after we die, be they preacher, pope, or politician. If someone knew exactly what happened after death, why, that person would be amazing. And here in our world we have people running around like birds squawking "Heaven and Hell!" or "alien abduction" or "nothing at all." What gall to think we know anything about what happens after death. Every idea of the After anyone has ever thought of is impossible because our minds are too limited. Heaven or Nothing. Neither can exist. But then, in saying that, I've made a philosophical loop, haven't I? If anything anyone has ever thought of the After cannot be, then neither can what I've just postulated.
Forgiveness is giving up hope that you can ever change the past. This one hit me just recently. I really needed to hear it. For a while - for years, in fact - I have been thinking to myself, "Damn! If only I had listened to my inner voice and not gone out that night. Then I wouldn't have been tackled and gotten sick. If only...If only..." But thinking like that is a waste of time and energy. In this universe I did fall, I did get sick. What ifs are useless exercises and serve only to bring one down.
So say-ith the Arvin!
February 18, 2012
Song & Man
"The Memory of Trees" by Enya
February 17, 2012
This Week's Bullet Points
1. The new Amnesty International Bob Dylan collection, Chimes of Freedom, which includes Dylan covers by 76 different artists from Johnny Cash to Flogging Molly, is quite a treat. The best cover is Mariachi El Bronx's version of "Love Sick."
2. Am I the only one who was excited about the return of Cougartown? Everyone seems so embarrassed to admit liking that show.
3. My new horror short story, "Miss Locks", has been accepted by Untreed Reads. Woot! More on that later.
4. Smash is really good. I wasn't expecting that.
5. Viola Davis should be in at least 5 films a year. That woman is brilliant.
6. Goal update: Regarding my goal to change my living situation this year, today builders began on an addition to the house. There's a lot of banging going on (not in the porno way), disrupting my writing. But goals require sacrifice to be achieved. Hope all this disruption doesn't piss off any of the old ghosts in this place.
7. I reached 1000 Twitter followers today! I realize that's not Ashton standards. It's a start, though.
2. Am I the only one who was excited about the return of Cougartown? Everyone seems so embarrassed to admit liking that show.
3. My new horror short story, "Miss Locks", has been accepted by Untreed Reads. Woot! More on that later.
4. Smash is really good. I wasn't expecting that.
5. Viola Davis should be in at least 5 films a year. That woman is brilliant.
6. Goal update: Regarding my goal to change my living situation this year, today builders began on an addition to the house. There's a lot of banging going on (not in the porno way), disrupting my writing. But goals require sacrifice to be achieved. Hope all this disruption doesn't piss off any of the old ghosts in this place.
7. I reached 1000 Twitter followers today! I realize that's not Ashton standards. It's a start, though.
February 16, 2012
Song & Man
"Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)" by Mika
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