Black Is Beautiful

I remembered National Day, Liberation Day, Valentine's Day and my ex's Bdays. However, I forgot the most important thing about February. This past month was Black History Month and I didn't celebrate like I did in my college years. Watching blaxploitation movies and attending activist events. It passed me. Maybe because no one here thinks its of importance. But the black movement was a human rights movement and it broke many barriers in the civil rights medium. I am proud of all of the figuregheads of that time from Martin Luther King Jr. to Fredrick Douglass to Rosa Parks. It takes strength and courage to be like them and still to this day Black people suffer from discrimination and prejudice in White America, or should I say Red State America.

This is a picture of Rosa Parks getting fingerprints after being arrested for refusing to get up out of her seat in a bus for a white woman.

Music: Everyday People - Arrested Development

An Award Dubya Deserves

Graffiti in Bratislava.
Beating such established Hollywood hunks as Colin Farrell and Vin Diesel, President Bush won the Golden Raspberry Award on Saturday for Worst Actor of the year for his appearance in Michael Moore's documentary 'Fahrenheit 9/11.' Britney Spears won Best Supporting Actress for the same flick.

I love the liberals, even when we are political we are creative.


Music: Overrated - Siobhan Donaghy

This Liberation

Foam everywhere, flags on everything and smile on veiled faces and others. That's how I picture my country to be (minus some things). But, it is only for one day and the social constraints still hold us down. Like woman being harassed and whatnot. However, as a staunch liberal on liberation day, I refuse to take its existence seriously. I enjoyed the celebrations, I did. But at heart I am yearning for a day when this country realizes its grand mistakes. Liberations day? I don't feel liberated.


Music: Galvanize - The Chemical Brothers

This Independence

It is independance day and I don't feel independant. It's nice to see the celebrations, but the people are rejoicing for something that they don't know about. However, it is a time to reminisce about the fact that Russia vetoed Kuwait's validity as a sovergien country so the local tribal government had to seek civilized means (like establsihing ties with local parties that were denied speech and democratic methods) to lead the country, thus differentiating us from other totalitarian regimes in the region. That's why, children, Kuwait was accepted exactly 44 years ago as an independant country.


Music: Erase/Rewind - The Cardigans

Sinking In Corruption

I detest this society we've created and the things that come with it. I cant understand how everyone is okay with this cesspool of indecency our predecessors created, much ado to other interventions. This system is corrupt and this society is that of liars. We have gotten so used to covering up things that we lie to ourselves. I do not wish to take part in this atrocity. I think I'll move on...


Music: Brazen (Weep) - Skunk Anansie

Riverdale Syndrome

I have been watching the much-talked-about OC, which, even though I have been watching it, is not really that fabulous and sometimes downright boring. I am having a hard time appreciating anything American. It all looks cookie-cutter to me. I feel like all teen dramas fall pray to the Riverdale Syndrome of the same template. Other than the fact that Adam Brody (the geeky, sarcastic urban outfitters-clad hottie) is on the show playing Seth Cohen, the show is not really all that new. The Archie resemblance applies to all those American shows. Check this out:

Archie

The all-american boy looking for the special all-american girl.
Beverly Hills, 90210: Jason Priestly
Dawson's Creek: Joshua Jackson
Friends: David Schwimmer
Saved By The Bell: Mark-Paul Gosselaar
The OC: Benjamin McKenzie

Veronica

The rich bitch who is really a great friend deep deep deep inside.

Beverly Hills, 90210: Shanon Doherty (later: Tiffani-Amber Thiessen)
Dawson's Creek: Michelle Williams
Friends: Jennifer Aniston
Saved By The Bell: Tiffani-Amber Thiessen
The OC: Rachel Bilson



Jughead

The geeky best friend who is always the bane of comic relief

Beverly Hills, 90210: Brain Green
Dawson's Creek: James Van Der Beek
Friends: Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow
Saved By The Bell: Dustin Diamond
The OC: Adam Brody



Betty

The undecided doe-eyed virgin.

Beverly Hills, 90210: Tori Spelling
Dawson's Creek: Katie Holmes
Friends: Courtney Cox Arquette
Saved By The Bell: Elizabeth Berkley
The OC: Mischa Barton



Reggie

the jock who everyone hates yet is never out of the picture

Beverly Hills, 90210: Ian Zeiring
Dawson's Creek: John Wesley Shipp
Friends: Matt LeBlanc
Saved By The Bell: Mario Lopez
The OC: Chris Carmack

Music: Sugar Sugar - The Archies

Second-Class Citizens

Even if it boasts so, Kuwait is not a real democracy. For many reasons, but the most evident one is the fact that almost half of the population cannot vote merely because they have a reproductive organ. Why? isn't that where all humanity comes from? It is a sad sad state that we are in. When a man who dropped out of school at 16 and cannot read with a criminal record can vote, while a woman with a PhD can't. What level of extremist sexism have we reached? I am appalled at anyone that has power and makes woman second-class citizens. Keep your feminism soaring still, we need you. Read on...


in 2003:

-at least 4 million women and girls were sold into sexual slavery each year;
-two-thirds of the world's 875 million illiterate adults were women;
-510,000 women die each year from pregnancy-related complications;
-women are four times more vulnerable than men and 1.3 million die each year as a result of HIV/AIDS;
-an estimated 25 to 30 percent of all women experience domestic violence; and
-130 million women were victims of female genital mutilation.


Music: Can't Hold Us Down - Christina Aguilera

Questionable Pride

Waht should it be? As most of my readership knows that I take pride in titling my blogs. I do so carefully for each one with as much musical and political connotation as possible. But for today's blog I am in a dilemma. My ceebs thinks I should call it cheekily "Comfort Me," when I addressed the happenings of the day to him.
You see, today was a day of people asking me to strengthen my relationship with them and, as of lately, I have followed a more solitary approach. The have promised to better things. All my figureheads, from familial ones to an ex to a friend. I don't know what to do. Or maybe I should forgive all and start a new page. But I know my deep-rooted anger is rearing its ugly head. I want thing to be better. But it was only when I showed all those people that I am not in need of them did they exhibit this yearning for strengthening ties. Is it sincere? Questions and no answers. I feel better now about these situations, though. At least none of them were unapologetic. But they all had to happen at the same time. Why? Am I becoming increasingly arrogant and proud?

More questions, but I have answered the first one.

Music: 4 Page Letter - Aaliyah

Partied Out

Dry mouth, many regrets, eye-headache and still in jeans. I am experiencing the ultimate hang over. The one that makes you never want to drink anything Russian again. I am totally partied out.
The music was fabulous and the crowd was mostly eager to dance. The theme was misunderstood but, then again, this is Kuwait.
It's nice to meet fellow bloggers. We've created somewhat of a community and I love it.

The bad thing about it was ex drama. I mean, I feel like I should never get into relationships because of the clingy ex phenomenon that has haunted me from all of them. I said things I shouldn've said and I give the ex way too much of my time. I don't care if you want back, I don't. But, I have to say that I felt I had proven my point.

I had the last laugh.

Music: Spice Up Your Life - Spice Girls

The Grand Plan

Sometimes the planning is more fun than the party, if you know what I mean. On a totally different note: The grammies have lost all credibilty and have become a boring institution all about music industry politics. Who decides, anyway? Probably some boring old music gits who think the dull Norah Jones is god's gift to thier Bang & Oulefsen.

Music: Love The One You're With - Will Young

Within Breach

Al-Watan:

Twenty eight homosexuals were detained recently by Salmiya security authorities on charges of creating disturbance to a number of residents in the area. The detainees were congregating at a fast food restaurant on Al-Balajt Street in Salmiya.

Meanwhile, the Director of Hawalli Intelligence Department Sheikh Colonel Ahmad Al-Sabah affirmed that he issued orders to his officers to focus on apartments located in the governorate, in order to make certain that those apartments are not used for illegal activities or as brothel houses.

Now they are arresting people for being gay? And what do brothels have to do with gay people? Are gay people sexual nymphs rotting in cesspools of dirty intercourse? This is in complete breach of human rights and it is happening right here. I am livid. Someone do something.

Music: Volcano Girls - Veruca Salt

Three Things

THREE THINGS I DON'T UNDERSTAND:
1. George Bush and his posse.
2. Copy-controlled CD's
3. Conservatives

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE ME:
1. Paranoia
2. Mortification
3. Lowbrow people

THREE THINGS I'D LIKE TO LEARN:
1. Spanish
2. Queer Theory
3. Break-dancing


THREE THINGS I'M WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. Velvet blazer
2. White TopMan shirt
3. Worn-out Diesel Ravix

THREE THINGS ON MY DESK:
1. A picture of Mariah Carey
2. Dance Mix CD
3. Graphs and tables

THREE THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE:
1. Release a successful debut album with 5 #1s.
2. Release a successful sophomore duets album with 5 #1s.
3. Release a Greatest Hits album with 2 #1s.


THREE BAD THINGS ABOUT MY PERSONALITY:
1. Tempermental
2. Indecisive
3. Flight-of-thought

THREE PARTS OF MY HERITAGE:
1. Nomadic tribes
2. Pearl divers
3. Club diva

THREE THINGS MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME:
1. I love Full House
2. I want to be a punk
3. I'm a Laban-Up fiend.

THREE THINGS I SAY THE MOST:
1. "Ay Shay"
2. "Whatever"
3. the word "Gay," in a good sense not in the derogatory way.

THREE PLACES I WANT TO GO:
1. Andorra
2. Scandinavia
3. Cape Town, Fiji, Sydney, Dominican Republic, Prague, and Ibiza, again!

Take this list and answer it on your blog. Spread it. Thanks to SheWhines.

Music: The Heart Brings You Back - Blues Traveller

Seeing Red

It's so sketchy. Everyone's in celebration of what they think is love. Pink and red everywhere, roses or carnations, chocolate and love songs in the Whitney Houston calibre. However, I have always refused to participate in it. For many reasons, of which:

1. Valentine's day is a christian celebration. St. Valentine to go ahead with marrying people defying a new rule imposed by the reigning Roman leader to stop marriages for young men, since he believed they would perform better in war as bachelors. Then the priest was jailed and fell in love with his jailor's daughter sending her the first of millions of cheesy valentines card signing it: "From Your Valentine." You know that feeling when you eat so much sugar you feel like you want to through up?

2. Increased heterocentricity. It seems that everyday is not enough. On valentine's day people immediately assume that love is between and man and woman (even concentrating on marriage), thus disenfranchising millions.

3. Everyday should be a day of love. Why assign one measly day. Shouldn't that be the standard, always?

4. Cheese. I feel like innovation has taken a vacation during valentine's day. I mean, the whole thing is celebrated so boringly. Hearts, chocolate and red. Come up with something new, please.

5. Commercialization. Enough said.

I do appreciate my lovelys who got me flowers and such. I understand it is thier way of saying I love you and I love you, too. I don't want to shun people who like it or celebrate it, I am merely explaining why, to me, it is disregarded as a valid event. I love you all, everyday.

Music: Real Love - Mary J. Blige

Something Kitsch

Merriam-Webster

Main Entry: kitsch
Pronunciation: 'kich
Function: noun
Etymology: German
: something that appeals to popular or lowbrow taste and is often of poor quality
- kitsch adjective
- kitschy /'ki-chE/ adjective

Dictionary.com

kitsch ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kch)
n.
Sentimentality or vulgar, often pretentious bad taste, especially in the arts: “When money tries to buy beauty it tends to purchase a kind of courteous kitsch” (William H. Gass).
An example or examples of kitsch.

adj.
Of, being, or characterized by kitsch: “The kitsch kitchen... has aqua-and-white gingham curtains and rubber duck-yellow walls painted in a fried-egg motif” (Suzanne Cassidy).

Yet, kitsch recently developed into a word of beauty used to describe the arts. Like something so tacky that you can't help but love it (i.e. rubber duckies). However, there are Kitsch songs like Like A Virgin and Thriller and YMCA and there are kitsch movies The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Glitter. It has evolved into a compliment.

What is kitsch to you?

Music: Lady Marmalade - Christina Aguilera, Mya, Pink and Lil' Kim

Dread Label

Due to the esculation of security because of what Islamists are doing, many smugglers of good alcohol have halted business. That equals a frowning 1814. The whiskey (ew!) bottle is 50 KD. (btw, why is Red Label so available everywhere? I mean if you smuggle a carton of Southern Comfort its still require the same method...food, or drink, for thought.)
Now the vodka is around 70 KD, Smirnoff not Absolut, keep in mind. Am I enjoying a drink or paying a loan? What is this bullshit? All I want to do is chill with friends and kick back. I guess that thing worked for the Islamists in some weird, twisted way. But, nothing can stop the level-headed liberal. Watch me prance.


Sidenote: I have had a binge on 90's soul while making a mix for SheWrites. I can't stop listening to Mary J. Blige and Monica. Also, if anyone can download/find a complete version of Nikka Costa's new hot single "I Don't Think We've Met" on her cantneverdidnothin album. Then, please send it my way.

Music: Can We Talk - Tevin Campbell

Righteous Babe

Backing the glory of winning her first Grammy last year, DiFranco delivers a set of tracks that have a prettier twist than her former efforts. DiFranco’s rawness and fierceness has dwindled down with every album from straight-up angry anthems like “Fire Door” to, more recently sad sulkers like “I Know This Bar.” Knuckle Down doesn’t go very far away from its weak predecessor Educated Guess.
Her recent albums have fallen pray to commonplace melodies and new wailing vocals that DiFranco recently picked up and should drop (see: “Knuckle Down”). But there are other songs that have a promise, like dejected “Studying Stones” and the freshest track on the album “Sunday Morning.”
This album marks the first time DiFranco teams up with a co-producer, Joe Henry. However, it seems that DiFranco, being as adamant as she is, did not grant any power for development for the reason that tracks like “Seeing Eye Dog” and “Modulation” sound like regurgitations from another monotonous release titled Evolve.
Then, in continuation of that mundane string of albums, there are songs like “Minerva,” which DiFranco would not even consider as a B-side in the early part of her career. Plus, the spoken word “Parameters” is an ode to self-evolution.
Unlike Educated Guess, this album does have its moments. Other than “Sunday Morning,” “Manhole” is a carefully entwined piece of folk rock fusion.
Somewhere in-between Revelling / Reckoning and So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter DiFranco lost some of the magic and primitiveness and strayed into routine and run-on songs. Knuckle Down is a slightly tweaked Educated Guess.
Lately, the most interesting aspect of DiFranco’s albums has been the packaging, which is the reason why she won the Grammy.

Music: Manhole - Ani DiFranco

Nocturnal Haze

When everything is humdrum, one's hunger to apply Carpe Diam is silenced. This phenomenon is not specific to Kuwait by all means, However it does occur more abundantly, especially in youth. I am speaking about being nocturnal. When you live in a place where narrow-mindedness is ever-evident and there is nothing to do outside of the house, then you tend to lose faith in the day and start having long nights. You know that feeling when you wake up at 6 pm simply because there is nothing to do during the day so you might as well. In all the places I have lived, Kuwait is alive at night, not because of the lavish nightlife but because of the dull daytime. Everyone's awake and TV and internet are the sole escapes in Kuwait.
So I, in tribute to Kuwaiti routine, started doing the same. Until I read one of my old poems on the beauty of mornings from back in college. And I decided to pull a tiring all-nighter to mend my nocturnal haze. So, here I am awake and listening to today's beautiful song. I feel fresh and I can conquer the world. Yet, the only thing I can reward my effort with is to stick my head in cyberspace.

Music: Lovely Day - Bill Withers

February Recommendations

Second month down. 2005 hopefully in escalation. Still music and movies are always there to make us feel fantabulous. So, with some tracks here and there, this is what you should be getting / doing in February '05:

Audio: Friday's Child - Will Young

At first, I dismissed him as with any reality show contestant (er, Clay Aiken?), then I bought the Pop Idol DVD that was the haribinger for all music contest shows. I have grown this big-chinned winner. Although he started out living off of cover versions. But, with this sophomore album and a brit award, this is one gay boy with Aretha in his heart.

Audio: Between The Sheets - The 411

New pop band from the UK. Quartet girls with a knack for R&B and little experimentalization. Download: "On My Knees,""Dumb" and/or "Teardrops."

Movie: Kinsey

Refer to Biographical Bliss blog. Beautiful movie and great tale.

Movie: A Home At The End Of The World

This one was recommended by a friend. A polyamorous relationship with Colin Farrell and an outstanding performance by the cast. A movie that breathes air into the alternative family.

Electronics: Business Card CD-R's

They are sleek, They hold a whole audio song, The look smart and sophisticated. Put your resume's on them. I currently have one with the next recommended thing on it.

Single: It's Like That - Mariah Carey

This is not available, yet. But, you can download it. Mariah's comeback is on its way. She never really faded away, really, being the monumental talent that she is. Listen to it.



Get them and tell me what you think!

Music: Your Game - Will Young

Nipplegate Anniversary

So, the superbowl was a bore. I am not into sports (but, I have friends who will kick me if I say bad things about them). They got Paul Mcartney who played some old Beatles / Wings songs and then meandered into oblivion.
The thing is, what was wrong with what Janet Jackson did? I know I am a fan, but still, what is wrong with the female naked body. Why is it censored and hidden. We were born this way and we shouldn't hide anything. Not everyone believes in organized faiths, does that mean we have to live by what christians tell us is right and wrong?
I am sure the whole Janet issue has an underlaying racial factor. As the beer commercials which feature bouncy blondes during the superbowl are more scandelous than a woman's bare boob in theatrics.

Now is that so bad? I mean its just a boob. America is so contradictory. I mean it's ok to bomb a village and kill children, but it's not ok for someone to show a nipple. This incident caused a stir and an investigation was launched soon after, even faster than the one for September 11. Then CBS, NFL and MTV get all tied up in a bunch over it. For what?
Janet's great album Damita Jo was not publicized enough and tanked as a result, MTV refused to play the lead single. How dare a black woman show her breast to suburban America, the bane of the world? What amazes me is that Janet Jackson was blamed for what people call a "disgrace" and uninvited to attend the Grammies, while white boy Justin Timberlake who actually revealed the nipple to the world won Grammies and was embraced.
Why is it that the black woman suffers in her career and is made to apologize and be punished for what happened? Because America's racism has many facets, and any woman that is strong enough to express her sexuality without the intervention of red-state morality, especially African American, are made to suffer.

I'd rather see Janet Jackson's nipple flashing repeatedly on a TV screen then watch 5 minutes of CBS News broadcasting the murder and atrocities that Bush inflicts on a daily basis, as a result of all the white hicks voting him back in.

Get Damita Jo. It's a great album. Janet you didn't have to apologize. People who listen to your music have all thier teetha dn brains in place, they won't be deterred because of something so mundane like that.

Music: All Nite (Don't Stop) - Janet Jackson

Blogmania

Have to say, that there are only some blogs that I like reading. I don't like woe-is-me blogs or unopinionated ones. I have a hard time reading Arabic blogs, I haven't honed my mother tongue and don't intend to. And, I don't like blogs that are not updated.


I love blog culture and you can tel so much about a person when you read thier blog. It's everywhere, it's like beatlemania. And the weird things that come with it like this and people knowing too much about you. But hey, no publicity is bad publicity.

Feel free to link me, just leave a comment so I can link you, I am trying to make this a domain for all the misunderstood children in a closeted world.

Music: Make You Feel My Love - Joan Osborne

Heterocentricity

(noun): The assumption that everyone and everything is heterosexual without considering other orientations.

For many year many people have been slaves to heterocentricity and I am sick of it. This subject is so unspoken about that the masses don't even know what that word means, yet they know ethnocentricity. So, it is my obligation to inform you.


Like, for example today a friend handed me a copy of the new Bazaar Magazine celebrating the christian Valentine's Day. No not that I believe that that is the day of love, it should be everyday, but I am angered when I see the cover that completely ignores anyone who is not hetero. A silhouette of a man and a woman eclipsed with a heart in the middle. Hello? Are gay people devoid of love?

to some of us...



Like Alicia Keys, whose own sexuality is questioned all the time, singing on A Woman's Worth:

"Cause a real man knows a real woman when he sees her
And a real woman knows a real man ain't afraid to please her
A real woman knows a real man always comes first
A real man just can't deny a woman's worth"

Are we not real?

Music: My Heartbeat - Annie

Downloading Revolution

The record execs did not know what was coming thier way after over-charging us all these years for music and abusing artists. A little thing called the Internet, which I insist on capitalizing as it is more important than other things that get that treatment, has brought us a free space where thought anarchy can roam, if it wants to. The download culture has changed everything. Forcing capitalism scum to succumb to it and use it to thier advantage, My Boo for 99 cents anyone?
Remember how they raged over Napster then stole it and made it boring and profitable? Even when it's creator who rose to stardom committed suicide after all the lawsuits. He was just a kid that loved music. Moreover, everyone did the same with cassettes, everyone had a bunch of pirated cassettes. So, they made the CD, which was, for the longest time unburnable, until technology, yet again, preceded monopoly.

Still to this day we have Kazaa and other file stealing softwere. Limewire, is my program of choice. I spent the whole night with a friend downloading great oldies and new tracks and live ditties. And of course, those unreleased remixes that sometimes sound so much beter than the original or creates a club twist to it. Tamia and Deborah Cox, wouldn't amount to anything if it weren't for those.



So keep downloading and getting it for free before they shut it down on you. I am sorry, but I am not going to dish out $17.99 or 6KD for Holly Valance's crap album just to listen to one song.

Music: Roam - B-52's

The Modern Individual

In this age of rampant globalization and the breaking down of the nuclear family, everyone is more concentrated on themselves. It's as if modernity produced seflishness. Everyone cares for themselves first before anyone. Gone are the days of devotion and sacrifice taking with them the notion of comprimise. Now most of us have a few close friends and that's it. Some people we solely communicate with via internet or SMS. It's the way it should be. But, loneliness is made harder in this increasing urbanized world. They say it takes a village to raise a child, now it takes cash to raise a child. The individual is one. Is there anything as love for someone else. It seems that today to love, whether romatic or platonic, is to want to be loved. Was it ever different back in the day? Is there getting without giving? Has economy become the new intimacy?

Do you still care?


Music: Smoke - Natalie Imbruglia

Masculinity Overrated

I don't know what is up with people who prefer to be in a relationship or enjoy some sort of friction with masculinity. It seems that hetero girls and gay boys alike tend to make this a number one priority when it comes to finding an eligible bachelor. They'd prefer masculinity over intellegence, beauty, and anything else. I mean, I don't see why it is so essential or needed. I find it to be a turn off.
When it comes to straight women, most look for a "manly man." Whether he is stupid, dumb, rich, poor, smart, whatever. In gay culture, it is also evident. There is this top and bottom phenomenon that was adopted from the straight notion of how relationships should be. It's cool to be a top and not so cool to be a bottom. What would everyone do in a world full of tops? And why are they different?
In this specific local culture, tops are not even considered gay. Hello? If you are getting off on another guy it is still a homosexual act.
I believe that this love of masculinity is the reason for sexism and it's subsect: homophobia. I mean people are prejudiced against women because they think they are weaker, because feminity is associated with weakness. Gay men, who statistically get so much more hate crimes than lesbians, are the subject of sexism because, how dare they act/do things that are traditionally associeted with feminity.
Some gay men advertise themselves as "Straight-acting," what kind of bullshit is that? That shouldn't be a reason for pride. Masculinity is overrated and overappreciated.
A boy who is not afraid of being prissy is so much more commendable than a boy acting "straight."
This masculinity-is-suprior notion is passed to us through heterosexual bourgious ideals of what society should be. Because our history is erased and organized religion has oppressed us for eons. Guess what, these beliefs are all wrong and are designed to control people, especially the poor and the "non-desirable" minorities.
I want to give props to all the people who further blur the lines, from drag queens to female constructions workers to intersexed peeps. There is not exact differentiation between human kind in all genders and sexes, if you look at the subject globally. Even the organs are mixed up in some people (every 1 in 1000 is born with both organs), is that considered a dysfunction? Not really. Unless you want to impose your lifestyle on anyone. Maybe I want both if societal rules didn't force me to choose.

For further insight, watch these movies: Kinsey, Bad Education, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Boys Don't Cry, The Laramie Project, But I'm A Cheerleader, Ma Vie En Rose, Paris Is Burning, Get Real, If These Walls Could Talk 2, Billy Elliot, Monster and much more just ask me.

Don't draw lines where there aren't any.

Happy Bday S.

Music: In Or Out - Ani DiFranco

Biographical Bliss

I had another night of the double movie. Well, I had the extended version of Ray. So, I continued the flick from another night. I think it is one of the greatest movies. It seriously combined 4 things that I love. It catered to my black cinema obsession, then it had popular music, biography and the battle for civil rights all in one script. I have to say that I loved it and I cried, as per usual. What they forgot to indicate was that Ray Charles was the innovator behind rock and roll, not Elvis. But, it is always a white boy taking credit for ethnic art. Eminem, anyone?

Another biography, this time of scientist Kinsey, which I have studied the research of, alot previously. I knew all about Kinsey because he was a sex researcher who found out that everyone is innately bisexual and embraced sexual orientation as a normal preferance, way before anyone realized the truth. This movie introduced a new light to me, nonetheless, and I find it to be equally as charming and great as Ray, if not an little more. This story should not have been left untold. I recommend this epic to anyone with a free mind and the will to learn more about human sexuality. It's also nominated for an Oscar. Don't miss it.


Music: Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles

Conservatism Is A Social Disease

Although, I don't want to even bring it up in an attempt to make the new page look new, still. But, the reverberations of 2004 have come upon us. Being the colassal mess that it was, I feel like this one can only be better. It was the year that Bush won (again, but also for the first time). When conservatism won over liberalism and changed our whole lives. But, the freaks are still here and we won't go away, it takes more to make us react. Anyone who refers to themselves as a conservative, it means that they have something to hide. Whereas, liberals want liberation and openness because they don't want to hide. Conservative stay reserved and don't succumb to thier human instincts. For example the conservative anglo-saxons deterred the burp as an act of the savage and rude. However, in pre-colonialist liberated Africa a burp was a sign of fulfillment. Now, the reality is a burp is the body's way of releasing air to make room for digestion. You know what I am saying. Liberals are humans, conservatives are robots.

There is no pride in calling oneself conservative:

Conservatives imprisoned, and still do, many women.
Conservatives killed Galileo because he said the earth was round
Conservatives condemned Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, The Beatles
Conservatives killed single woman for witchcraft
Conservatives lynched and murdered many slaves for wanting to read a book
Conservatives destroyed gay literature, earsed gay history
Conservatives bombed abortion clinics
Conservatives still refuse to give alternative families the right to exist
Conservatives created all religious wars
Conservatives are hipocrites
Conservatives created plutocracy and hated democracy
Conservatives tried to stop greats from Ghandi to Madonna
Conservatives are boring
Conservatives fund drug trade but stand against it
Conservatives are dictators
Conservatives impose thier religion on other
Conservatives were responsible for the Crusades, World War II
Conservatism breed imperialism
Conservatism gave rise to capital punishment and torture
Conservatism tried to rid the world of art
Conservatism is the bane of every society

Be Free. Be Liberal. Believe what you believe but don't force anyone to anything.

Do whatever, as long as you don't hurt anyone and let people make thier life choices for themselves.

This list explains who made 2004 a mess, I don't completely agree with thier choices (like, Michael Jackson and others), but it is almost accurate and fun.

When the pope was angry that Madonna was going to perform in Rome in her blonde ambition tours, which features homoerotic acts and a masturbation scene, he demanded to be there to make sure everything went according to his conservative ideals.

Madonna said: "If the pope wants to see the show, he can buy tickets like everyone else."

Another Madonna quote: "Is sex dirty? Only if you don't take a shower."


Music: Justify My Love - Madonna