Well, once again, the server isn’t sending mail quite as quickly as I’d like.
but that’s… okay…
Posted on January 26th 2003 in General
Posted on January 24th 2003 in Music
Quoted from your site:
“We believe that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema’s actions are in fact hate speech. The movie is intentionally being named The Two Towers in order to capitalize on the tragedy of September 11. Clearly, you cannot deny the fact that this falls under hate speech. We believe that if they will not willingly change the name, the government should step in to stop the movie’s production or to force a name change.”
http://www.twotowersprotest.org/faq.htm
Which would be fine and good, except for the fact that maybe, just MAYBE, Peter Jackson named the second movie “The Two Towers” because that’s the name of the second book of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, published in 1955 by Ballantine Books.
The WTC towers were built by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 1973…
Should there be compassion for the people that died 9-11-2001? Absolutely. Should that compassion mean that anybody that does anything that reminds anyone else of 9-11 is somehow evil and doing it intentionally? I don’t think so.
If you can’t seem to put your pain down long enough to see that what you’re doing doesn’t make any sense, at least try to do something positive that will actually *HELP* the people who were affected by 9-11. Go volunteer somewhere. Find out if there’s any kids in New York that lost a parent on 9-11 and maybe that kid needs an extra Christmas present (or clothes, or a trust fund).
Your outrage at something as simple as an escapist story written almost fifty years ago as somehow being responsible for the tragedy in New York only goes to show how detatched you actually are from the people who are hurting. How about you ask the survivors (or the victims’ families) what THEY want you to do to help, instead of attacking a box-office smash in order to try to collect money.
I hope you are kidding (but if you are, I don’t see the joke), and if you’re not, I hope you’re ashamed of yourselves. Think about what you’re doing (or trying to do). Wanting to help, and wanting to blame someone are totally natural feelings. Make sure you’re helping the victims, and not just yelling at anyone that makes you have an emotional response.
It’s okay to hurt, and it’s okay to be angry about what happened, but there’s really no point in attacking a movie that had nothing to do with terrorists, or Americans. It’s a story about good and evil. So’s the bible. So’s life sometimes.
Rage and hatred is not what is needed to help people heal from 9-11.
Rage and hatred is what caused 9-11.
Posted on January 24th 2003 in Music
Sorry for the hellacious URL.
Whois info for, twotowersprotest.org:
Registrant: two towers protest
32 pender street vancouver,
bc y6e3j2 CA
Domain Name: TWOTOWERSPROTEST.ORG
Administrative Contact: towers, two
twotowersprotest@twotowersprotest.org
32 pender street vancouver,
bc y6e3j2 CA 1 800 657 3499
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Posted on January 24th 2003 in Music
NO.
Nuts.
Posted on January 24th 2003 in Music
Just plain works. How rare.
New pics are up.
Posted on January 24th 2003 in Music
Very cool collection of dreams though:
Was working on a laptop (that I don’t own), trying to get the picture to come up, but I could only ever see it remotely. Never directly.
Got the image up, but was somehow transported back down the hall to the cabinet, and ended up reading through some old letters & poems (maybe some of the first album of DCD/Colourbox – fix this later).
On a boat that was on-ground, but full of water. Canopy-style, warm & welcoming. Was washing my hair with this weird clay/putty stuff. It was soap, but not normal soap. Felt really great, and caused these totally hilarious dread-like thingies in my hair.
Found myself rolling around in this weird (but amazingly great) rave. The way raves always pretend they’re going to be, but never are. Deseo Remix playing. All these great coloured (and sprung?) pillows and toys that makes little musical sounds when bounced off each other. Some of them like little Jello things, some of them more like pancakes (frisbees?).
Trying to walk out of the arena, (bowl) of people, but they were all so busy listening to the music (spoken word, “Hey man, BACK-OFF” being repeated over and over again) with people waving happily at each other from across the arena. It was silly, and loving, and yet everyone giving each other distance in a very serious way.
The geographical location shifted to somewhere near the PNE grounds, and had that same sorta gritty, sweaty, vaguely slimy feel to it. Ended up sitting up near the edge of the tent (tent?) with some I didn’t know as they watched what looked like a small army of little kids with red backpacks coming up the hill.
I started to wake up, but there was a panic to it. Not fear of being awake (there was assurance that I could “go back” in a moment’s notice), but of losing the thing I was supposed to be getting: The collection of notes/letters/cards.
Most of them were at the bottom of a stack of stuff underneath computer parts. The lyrics for “It’ll End In Tears” by This Mortal Coil.
I take it, my good friends, that my fever broke some time around 2am tonight. :)
Feeling good. Feeling like a found a piece to a puzzle I didn’t know I hadn’t finished. Something clicked.’
Hi Zen!
Posted on January 24th 2003 in Music
1. Deep Floresta (5:59)
2. Intercity 125 Mix (7:46)
3. Speed Deep (6:36)
4. Master Mute Vs. the Tone-E Programme Mix (7:22)
5. FSOL Deseo Reconstruction (7:51)
6. Amor Real (8:58)
7. Master Mute Instrumental Mix (7:17)
8. Bless This (7:19)
Posted on January 24th 2003 in Music
