Howl's Moving Castle (11/28/06)

Just saw Howl's Moving Castle on Sunday and LOVED IT!! What an amazing story! I was feeling kinda tired before it was about to show but I stayed up and it was well worth it. It felt so wonderful watching just in the first five minutes, I stated crying. Not our right bawling but a few tears slipped. When it was over, I wanted to watch it again and again but it was a one time deal on the movie channels on Dish. Studio Ghibli has made wonderful movies (My Neighbor Totaro, Sprited Away, Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke) and this movie was no different. I love Studio Ghibli films. They are an amazing combination of imagination and folk lore not to mention the graphics aren't bad either.

Extra Study Hall (11/07/06)

Bind my hands so I may not feel
Cover my eyes so I cannot see
Burn my tongue so I may not taste
Fill my nose with sulfur and
My ears with water

 I will still be free
For my soul and mind are unattainable
My dreams and faith unbreakable
I will survive Extra Study Hall

Lesson of a Moth (09/20/06)

i was talking to a moth
the other evening
he was trying to break into
an electric light bulb
and fry himself on the wires

why do you fellows
pull this stunt i asked him
because it is the coventional
thing for moths or why
if that had been an uncovered
candle instead of an electric
light bulb you would
now be a small unsightly cinder
have you no sense

plenty of it he answered
but at times we get tired
of using it
we get bored with the routine
and crave beauty
and excitement
fire is beautiful
and we know that if we get
too close it will kill us
but what does that matter
it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while
so we wad all our life up
into one little roll
and then we shoot the roll
that is what life is for
it is better to be a part of beauty
for one instant and then cease to
exist than to exist forever
and never be a part of beauty
our attitude toward life
is come easy go easy
we are like human beings
used to be before they became
too cilvilized to enjoy themselves

and before i could argue him
out of his philosophy
he went and immolated himself
on a patent cigar lighter
i do not agree with him
myself i would rather have
half the happiness and twice
the longevity

but at the same time i wish
there was something i wanted
as badly as he wanted to fry himself

***In Navajo tradition the moth represents crazyness. With their need to burn them selves in open flame and the way they fly in circles, it is no wonder why. It is said that if you catch a moth and hold it in you hands then you too will become like the moth and go crazy.***

Lost in Translation (06/22/06)

There is something lost in a joke when you replace the cuss word with a "clean" word. Like in the End of the World joke. Where three men are allowed one with then they jump off the cliff and get their wish but the last one says "I wish I was...", steeps in shit, says "SHIT!" and becomes shit. If you replace 'shit' with 'poop' or any other clean word then it's not the same.
Same applies with an expression. If you slam your finger in a car door and yell out "FUCK!". But if you yell out something like "Great-Goog-A-Moog-A" then it's just not the same. You don't let out all the pent up pain and anger at your ill luck.
So why can't we just allow the potty-mouths be?
Because it's not 'Lady Like'. You girls out there know what i'm talking about. Correct me if i'm wrong but wasn't 'Lady Like' sipping tea, holding a parasol, or being afraid of being unmarried at the age of sixteen? Guys refuse to be gentlemen (or at least they guys i've met and been around). Don't get me wrong, they are out there but they are rare. I believe in equal treatment, how you treat me is how i'll treat you (with a few minor exceptions). I just don't get why some words are branded 'bad.' Is it not like kids where none are born (in this case made) bad but taught (again this case meant to be) bad? Do females have more of a problem with 'potty-mouths' then males do?