11 posts from February 2008

Lūgēte, ō Venerēs Cupīdinēsque,

et quantum est hominum venustiōrum:

passer mortuus est meae puellae,

passer, dēliciae meae puellae,

quem plūs illa oculīs suīs amābat

nam mellītus erat suamque

ipsam tam bene quam puella mātrem,

nec sēsē ā gremiō illius movēbat,

sed circumsiliēns modo hūc modo illūc

ad solam dominam usque pīpiābat

quī nunc it per iter tenebricōsum

illūc, unde negant redīre quemquam.

at vōbīs male sit, malae tenebrae

Orcī, quae omnia bella dēvorātis:

tam bellum mihi passerem abstulistis

Ō factum male! Iō miselle passer!

tuā nunc operā meae puellae

flendō turgidulī rubent ocellī.

tonight i watched a movie about james hendrix. how he started out, how he started learning to play that guitar in seattle. and it reminded me of something that i had nearly forgotten about.

when i was younger my parents and i went to jimi hendrix's grave on his birthday. we spent the day hanging there. and apparently, we weren't the only ones who remembered. a journalist from the seattle times came as did a man (and i think a woman) who loved the music. my dad and my mom are huge hendrix fans and let's just say that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

the writer wanted to know why we decided to come out. i remember that to me it sounded like a very silly question. why wouldn't you come out? it as the jimi hendrix experience.

the man that was there had brought large pieces of paper and some colored graphite so that we could rub the graphite over his gravestone and take that home with us. he was actually the one that did it, because none of us could mix the graphite colors well enough to create the beautiful pictures that he created.

we all spent the day there. we stayed until the sun went down.

when i was a kid i remember watching mtv and listening to the forbidden marilyn manson. he was so fascinating to me. the way he dressed (or rather, didn't dress, at the time), his makeup, his gender neutrality. everything about him fascinated me. not to mention, i thought the music was hot shit. i hadn't ever been able to go to the concerts but this year, i was not going to miss it for the world.

ended up buying tickets the day that they started selling, right when they started selling. i got general admission because sitting is for wussies - if you can't mosh at a manson show, then seriously, the terrorists have won (oh simon amstell). i went to the show with jeff. so we got there earlier to make sure we had good parking so that we didn't have to try and find our way back to some obscure parking lot in downtown seattle. we got off good - parked right next to the paramount. you could tell a lot of people had really brought out their finest goth gear for the show - jeff and i seriously looked like the most normal people ever compared to everyone else there. we went to go stand in line when doors opened only to realize that there were protesters. as we walked to get to the back of the line they were ranting on and on about how we had lost jesus and how we would all go to hell (the sign was actually: god jesus? it's hell if you don't!). not to mention that we're all homosexuals! a few people took pictures with the protestors, which was hilarious. and one woman actually tried to light their sign on fire. i liked her. :)

we got frisked on the way in but mostly for actual weapons, they were pretty chill with chains and stuff because honestly, most people were mostly wearing chains as clothing. i'm not sure making them take the chains off is a good idea.

the paramount isn't huge but it isn't a small club venue either. we walked in and were relatively close to the stage so i was pretty happy about that. the first band came out - Ours - i really wouldn't recommend them at all. they just... aren't a great band. in fact, most of us just stood there and tried to keep our ears from bleeding during most of the times the lead singer opened his mouth. they got boo-ed off stage because seattle OLDER folks seem to be very impatient.

after they got off-stage - the lights came back on and we just kind of stood there waiting for them to set up manson's set so that he would come out already. there were really irritating arseholes that were standing next to us - one kid in particular who kept crying out for manson randomly and going 'WE HATE LOVE, WE LOVE HATE' - trying to get us all to say it. nearly got punched in the face, really.

fast-forward. the lights turn off - you can hear the sound of a guitar and drums - someone doing a hell of a job on the bass - and then you can see a very very skinny man's outline on the dropped curtain and then everyone in the place went nuts. i won't get into the details of the show - track listings, etc. - i will say this though. he played two songs from eat me, drink me and most of the rest of it was older tracks, some that i wasn't expecting. he played "rock n roll nigger" which was probably the highlight of 2008. i literally went nuts when i realized that he was actually performing this song, and i was looking at him, and he was in front of me, close enough that he looked real. it was phenomenal.

he encored like four or five times because we just would not let the man leave. at the end of the show, he had a little podium put up for him and he was leaning over it and into the audience the entire time,  with his lipstick all over his face and his shirt ripped to shreds. it was absolutely beautiful.

when the house lights turned on, i was so sad to have to leave but you know, i enjoyed every second of that concert (even the half-naked moshing jerks who kept running into me!).

nothing sounds better than going outside, wearing comfortable jeans and an old but warm sweatshirt. taking along a very warm blanket and my mistress's sparrow is dead. breathing in the fresh air and ignoring all other obligations.

(i'm going to hate myself if i lose this) i accidentally stumbled upon the Situationist International(e) - SI - a little while ago. i ran across a political poster of theirs actually. i'm starting to really become big on that entire idea. the political poster that i found had a message in french on it - so i tried searching for that to find out what the heck this meant and what it was related to. the quote is "une jeunesse que l'avenir inquiete trop souvent" (a young girl disturbed by thinking too often of the future). as i was researching this group - these people - i ran across an article from 2001 called 'demanding the impossible' and it was just absolutely beautiful. it talked about the group and summarized what the group's vision was. and it had a very now take on the SI.

"People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth"- Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution Of Everyday Life

i love you.

st. valentine didn't die for nothing.

so this is an xkcd comic called 'family circus' that i just happened to love. mostly because i'm a psychology major and i really like studying obsessive-compulsive disorders and also because it is very funny (it's xkcd, nuff said). i'm made fun of a lot by my friends for what they like to refer to as my obsessive-compulsive disorder (or selena is very particular). i refuse to believe that i suffer from any disorder. to further make fun of me this was made:

politics is consuming my life.
this is unreal.
never have i felt this passionate about a political campaign.

i don't usually like discussing politics in a place where it is open to the world but i sincerely do not care because this presidential candidate... is worth of all the potentially negative things i will hear because of this post.

OLYMPIA — Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire endorsed Barack Obama for president Friday, providing a last-minute lift to the Illinois senator on the eve of the state's hotly contested Democratic caucuses.

Gregoire, announcing her choice in an interview with The Associated Press, said that taking sides in the close contest for the Democratic nomination was tough, given her great admiration for Sen. Hillary Clinton.

But she said Obama is a charismatic and skilled leader who can bring the country together, help solve nagging problems, and restore the country's image abroad.

Gregoire planned to join Obama in a major campaign rally at Seattle's KeyArena on Friday.
(courtesy of the Seattle Times)

the presidential caucuses are taking place this Saturday. I knew electing Gregoire had been one of the best things this state has done.

Also, way to go Bush on the economic stimulus plan. I'm not sure that it will work exactly as it is planned to work and that it will save America from the recession that is bound to happen - but it will at least make it less severe. Maybe it would have been better for the plan to have been passed before the situation was this bad, but better late than never.

Last but not least, thank you John McCain for changing your mind, although, ideally, you should have voted for this in the first place.

"Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the likely Republican presidential nominee, who had not voted Wednesday, voted for the [economic stimulus] plan Thursday."
(courtesy of the Seattle Times)