Michael Kindt's Blog, page 432
December 21, 2011
I asked for your book for Christmas. I want it NOW.
Ha! Cool :) Merry Christmas!
One of the things I love about tumblr
I have a voracious interest in religions. Not necessarily dogma, but religious history and practice. Does that surprise you? Well, I do. I'm ridiculously heavily read on the topics of various religious beliefs, practices and origins, living and dead, and one of the things I love most about tumblr is our diversity. We are some awesome people from all different walks of life who come together here in this little corner of cyberspace to share our lives with impunity. How cool is that?
The winter holiday season brings with it lots of different celebrations of different faiths and non-faiths, and even widely different traditions within the same faith. I love this. I like to read about your celebrations and your beliefs and their importance to you. Even secular ones because secular celebrations can have some really wonderful traditions, the origins of which are often unknown but hold no less meaning for the people who practice them. One of the things tha first drew me to Amyk1ns was her honesty about her beliefs and the important role they hold in her life. I love her for her honesty and the sharing of her truth.
So this week, if you get a minute or two, please share with me how you celebrate your holiday(s), what's important to you, what makes it special and dear to you. Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Pagan, Atheist, whatever. Traditionally, this is the season of being with loved ones, struggling through the darkness and solitude of winter and loving one another and what's dear to you. So please share if you take the notion.
I'm truly interested.
I'm also fascinated by religion and especially the religious impulse or drive in the human being. I have no particular religion. I used to be atheist, but atheism is truly ridiculous to me, even more so than the cardboard cutout theism it rebels against.
In my mind, it's an impossibily for a human being to be an atheist, to be truly godless. Many atheists are some of the most religious people I've ever encountered. So stop with the "no god" thing. It's just been replaced with a new god, i.e, the self, humanity, science, money, sex, some concept like there being no god, whatever. Like Bob Dylan says "You're gonna have to serve somebody."
I update my religion on facebook to whatever I'm studying, currently Hermetism, an ancient religion that Christianity essentially "reblogged".
I celebrate Christmas like most people in America, with shopping and a tree—real—and more shopping and getting together with family and eating too many sweets. Apart from my whole family getting together for a little while, it holds no deep meaning for me. I do it cuz I've always done it.
I hate Christmas music unless my mom plays it on the piano and I love snow and winter until about February, when I officially become sick of it. I love the colors of Christmas and I do feel a real sense of joy—whether because I'm actually joyous or am picking it up by osmosis, I'm not sure. Does it really matter, though?
Merry Christmas!
Bond, James BondI mentioned briefly last night about watching my...
Bond, James Bond
I mentioned briefly last night about watching my first James Bond movie. Well, I enjoyed it so much I completely lost my mind and marathoned them. Over 8 hours, straight. Some people work for a living. Me, I stay up all night watching James Bond movies in my robe and drinking green tea and LAUGHING MY ASS OFF because Mr. Bond is so hilarious.
My favorite is Roger Moore, a perfect storm of gracious gentleman and complete slimeball.
I realize that there are moments in every James Bond movie that are meant to be funny, but I contend that they are total comedies, without even a second of seriousness. Surely, I can't be the only one who sees them for what they are? I mean, Moonraker—come on. I practically pissed my pants and my belly is still tender. That laser fight in outer space. That dude Jaws. And—oh my god—the zero gravity scenes where everyone's moving really really slow because when there's no gravity you still walk around normally, just really really slow. Tears. I literally had tears.
James Bond movies are the greatest thing in the world. Gleefully cliche! Charmingly whack-a-doodle! Austin Powers is supposed to be a parody, but, seriously, that's redundant, right? How can you parody a parody? We're all lucky that the Austin Powers flicks were so stupid or they may have, like, torn a hole in the universe or something.
Anyway, good morning.
December 20, 2011
I have never watched a whole entire James Bond movie before.
It's most amusing. I like the the background theme music, how it gets localized where ever 007 might be. If he's in India, a sitar plays it. If in Mexico, a mariachi band. It's hilarious. Apparently these movies are supposed to be action flicks, but I don't buy it. They are so totally comedies.
I'm downloading some more!
I used to want to be cremated and have my ashes spread somewhere, like in a mountain stream or something.
Fuck that. I may be a lot of things, but a hippie ain't one of them.
I want a monument, a six-foot high granite exclamation point to my life.
HERE LIES MICHAEL KINDT. HE PUNK'D THE UNIVERSE.
And I want the period after 'universe' to be a button and when you push it "Jesus Built My Hotrod" by Ministry starts playing.
CLICK!
December 19, 2011
dovemans replied to your photo: My meads, hanging out in a corner of the basement….
one of the...
one of the best (and oldest) beers in belgium, (which happens to be one of my favourites) has chafed lemon peals in it's recipe.
Belgium is like the heaven of beers. It's a country no bigger than my living room with 10,000 beers in it. All of them amazing. How there isn't a special star shining down on Belgium I'll never know. Next time I'm in Heaven, I'll bend God's ear about it. See what's what.
Who am I kidding I love him
I know what you mean. I feel the same way about Vladimir Putin. I mean, shit, have you seen him without his shirt? He looks almost human.
Shimmer, Shimmer Like A Girl ~ Veruca Salt
Remember when girls...
Shimmer, Shimmer Like A Girl ~ Veruca Salt
Remember when girls rocked?
cannothearthefalconer replied to your post: I am sort of drunk now,
Euripides…really….sometimes you...
Euripides…really….sometimes you wax too philosophical for me. ;)
Iphigenia in Aulis. I checked it out at the library today. No, I'm not reading from point A to point B, but flipping around, mostly looking at how the language flows and sounds and pans out. I don't even really care about the meaning….
