Tuesday, April 22, 2008

A Dog's "Artistic" Death

I am so disgusted right now, I can't even begin to discribe. I just read that a so called "artist", Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, decided that it was artistic to take a dog off the streets, tie it to an art studio wall, and have everyone watch it die. I don't feel good. Seriously. I might throw up.

To call this art is barbaric and disgusting and cruel. It just sat there and starved to death. And what makes me all the more angry is that the Visual Arts Biennial of Central America invited him to do the same at their Biennial of 2008!

Sign this petition to stop this from happening again. They should do the same to the artist...or feed him to a dog!

http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html

I'm Annoyed

Why did our school block facebook? Why? WHY!!! Schoolwork is too tedious to focus on for long!

Angst

I was reading over some poems I had to write in free verse for my advanced english class, and I realized how much they sucked. They're full of angst. Here's one.

DEAREST FRIDA

Violent red; murky brown; sooty black; pallet of her choice:
The world is dark, for dearest Frida,
And life is the depth of regret, hatred, sorrow--
The crushing oblivion--she feels in her heart.

Bound by myriads of excruciating pain, numbness, rage, dearest Frida begins to paint
A world of lost dreams, nightmares. Daymares.
Her life spins in a haze of death.
A haze of disillusion.

Crashes, dying child, pain severs the connection with reality
A reality too harsh for dearest Frida.
The suffering unceasing, falling, smashing
As her child wanders away. Forever gone.

Youth, a concept lost forever in the violent accident of a mere hour, nay, minute;
Love, a time felt trick on the soul of dearest Frida
Who yearns, but never reaches, knowing there is no use
Poor, dearest Frida.


If I didn't know me, I'd say I was depressed and on something. Ha ha, I'm neither!

Monday, April 21, 2008

Painful

I feel as though something in me has been drowning for the longest time, and I realize that it's confidence. Not the confidence they talk about in self-help books, but confidence in others; confidence in those I care about. Whenever I look around me, I see things and people falling apart. More than that, though-they're becoming hollow.
I know, that makes no sense. But nothing means as much as it did to me before. My parents divorced at the end of march, and my father told me he was engaged less than a week later. I'll be attending his wedding in a few weeks.
One of my best friends is no longer talking to me, and I have absolutely no idea why. He's decided that I no longer fit into his life, and for this, I feel more angry than I should.
Another good friend has drifted from the person she once was, and I can't respect her in the same way I once did.
Another one of my friends is yearning for someone to love her the way love has always been portrayed for her, and I'm afraid that such a love doesn't exist. I don't know how to tell her, so all I can do is watch and wait and continue trying to persuade her to be more careful with her heart.
Another one of my friends is settling for someone who does not deserve her, and she won't listen to me. I'd let it be, but he's hurt her before.
Another one of my friends found out that she has cysts, and consequentially may not be able to have children, but we're still waiting and praying.
My friend's father is dying, and I think that this is what hurts me the most. He hurts so much, and all I can do is sit around aimlessly and watch, give a few hugs, etc. I want to help so much, but I feel useless. There should be a way to comfort him.

I'm complaining so much, but I'm too upset right now to care. maybe I shouldn't post this.

Too late.

Hmph

I wonder what prought Sophocles to put "Oedipus Rex" to pen. I'd rather he didn't. The entire story had me upset with him for being so ignorant when the facts were in front of him. Pride is nothing to his ignorance. True, pride blinds him, but it is more than that. He doesn't want to believe that he killed his father and married his mother, as I doubt that incest was looked highly upon. The entire story is disgusting.

And I appreciate the part that says "blood splattered from his ruined sockets like hail."

Nice.

Friday, April 18, 2008

Why are things so complicated?

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Oz: Read This!

I am writing this because I care about you and I want you to be happy. I know right now you are hurting and you want to forget about the feelings you had. But you can't shut yourself up in a hole. You are an extremely interesting and deep person.

You must understand that Rachel didn't mean to hurt you. That doesn't stop it from hurting. I know that I have little understanding of your situation, and for that I am sorry. If I am behaving ignorantly, I apologize. But I don't want you hurting.

I am sorry, but you are too good of a person to do something you regret. You say that you have lost everything, but it is still your choice. You can decide how you are going to emotionally handle this. I hope you will choose to forgive Rachel. I know it would take a long time, and a lot of strength on your part (and truthfully, some whiskey-filled evenings), but I think you could do it. I care about you and I don't want you hurting.

Simply Oscar Wilde Quotes

SOME ARE MORE FAMOUS THAN OTHERS, BUT ALL ARE WORTH THE TIME. THERE ARE QUITE A LOT, BUT I COULDN'T CHOOSE ONLY A COUPLE; THEY ALL MAKE ME SO CONTENT WITH WIT.


A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

All art is quite useless.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Everything popular is wrong.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I can resist everything except temptation.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.


I WISH I COULD BE WITTY, BUT I'M CONTENT WITH RELYING ON THE WIT OF OTHERS. GO WILDE!

Friday, April 4, 2008

My Favorite Inspirational, Ironic and Sarcastic Quotes

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
- Pierre Corneille

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling

We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
- John W. Turk

A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
- Chinese Proverb

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
- Roy Disney

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain

I'd rather be right than President.
- Henry Clay

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
- Margaret Chase Smith

Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

I could care less about your dog, and I hope your cat dies tomorrow.
-me to my blabbering friend

We're Getting To The Ones I Enjoy Now:

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.
- Ashleigh Brilliant

I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here.
- Stephen Bishop

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
-Groucho Marx

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
- Frank Zappa

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
- George Bernard Shaw

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
-Oscar Wilde

He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
- Victor Borge

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
-Mark Twain

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
- Clarence Darrow

If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?
- Charles Pierce

You have delighted us long enough.
- Jane Austen

Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-Mark Twain

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

He is a self-made man and worships his creator.
- Irvin S. Cobb

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
- Billy Wilder

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.
- Forrest Tucker

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
- Ambrose Bierce

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victems he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Samuel Butler

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- Eric Hoffer
(very true of modern society)

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
- Kin Hubbard

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
- Oscar Levant

The trouble with a kitten is that it eventually beomes a cat.
- Ogden Nash
(I have the same problem)

FEEL FREE TO ADD SOME OTHER NEAT QUOTES IN THE COMMENTS AREA...I'M IN NEED OF INSPIRATION!

Genius of William Goldman, Real Author of The Princess Bride

If anyone has seen the movie The Princess Bride, you understand this genius already, though possibly not fully. In the beginning of the movie, the grandfather says as he opens the book, "by S. Morgenstern. S. Morgenstern does not exist, or at least did not write the book. So the novel was in fact not abridged and the notes detailing the contents of the original novel (such as saying that there were 40 pages detailing the wedding decorations) are fictitious, and made up simply for Goldman's pleasure.

Favorite Princess Bride Quotes


“Mawwage is what bwings us togwether today....”

“This is true love... you think this happens everyday?”

“You've been chasing me your entire life, only to fail now. I think that's the worst thing I've ever heard; how marvelous.”

“Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.”

“" As you wish' of course what he really ment was, 'i love you'”

“I do not accept excuses. I'm just going to have to find myself a new giant, that's all.”

“Have fun storming the castle!”

“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.”

“You seem a decent fellow, I'd hate to kill you. "
" seem a decent fellow, I'd hate to die.”

1: I told you I would always come for you. Why didn't you wait for me? 2: Well, you were dead 1: But death cannot stop true love...All it can do is delay it for a while.”

"Inconcievable!"

“It just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.”

“I'll explain, and I'll be sure to use small words so that you'll be sure to understand. You wart-hog-faced-buffoon!”

“No more rhymes now - I mean it !"
"Anybody want a peanut?"

“1)If you're in such a hurry, you could lower a rope, or a tree branch, or find something useful to do. 2)I could do that. I have got some rope up here. But I do not think that you would accept my help, since I am only waiting around to kill you. 1)That does put a damper on our relationship.2)But, I promise that I will not kill you until you reach the top.1)that's very kind of you, but I'm aftaid you'll just have to wait.2) I hate wait."

“Is this a kissing book?”

“1)Who are you? 2)No one of consequence. 1)I must know. 2)Get used to disappointment.”

“Would you consider me as an alternative to suicide?”

"I'm not a witch; I'm your wife!"

“1: Surrender! 2: You mean you wish to surrender to me? Very well, I accept.”

“Am I going mad, or did the word 'think' just escape your lips?”

“You mean, you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people?”

There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. 'Twould be a pity to damage yours.


Give us the gate key.
I have no gate key.
Fezzik, tear his arms off.
Oh, you mean this gate key.

I want my father back you son-of-a-bitch

Fin!

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Mexico Humor

This is from my awesome friend.

Pedro and Jose are both beggars in Los Angeles. Pedro drives a Mercedes, lives in a mortgage free house and has lots of money to spend.

Jose only brings in $20 to $30 a day. Jose asks Pedro how he manages to bring home buckets of $20 bills every day.

Pedro says, 'Look at your sign - It says, 'I have no work, a wife and six kids to support.' Americans who see that do not feel as if they have accomplished anything by giving you money. You will still have no job and a large family. Now look at my sign.

So Jose looks at Pedro's sign which reads, ‘I only need another $20 to go back to Mexico.’

Makes me laugh, in a sad way.

Sweet and Uplifting Poem

Just for this morning, I will leave the dishes inthe sink, and let you teach me how to put thatpuzzle of yours together.

*Just for this afternoon, I will unplug thetelephone and keep the computer off, and sit withyou in the backyard and blow bubbles.

*Just for this afternoon, I will not yell once, noteven a tiny grumble when you scream and whinefor the ice cream truck and I will buy you oneif he comes by.

*Just for this afternoon, I won't worry aboutwhat you are going to be when you grow up, orsecond guess every decision I have made whereyou are concerned.

*Just for this afternoon, I will let you help mebake cookies, and I won't stand over you tryingto fix them.

*Just for this afternoon, I will take us toMcDonald's and buy us both a Happy Meal soyou can have both toys.

*Just for this evening, I will hold you in my armsand tell you a story about how you were bornand how much I love you.

*Just for this evening, I will let you splash in thetub and not get angry.

*Just for this evening, I will let you stay up latewhile we sit on the porch and count all the stars.

*Just for this evening, I will snuggle beside youfor hours, and miss my favorite TV shows.

*Just for this evening when I run my fingerthrough your hair as you pray, I will simply begrateful that GOD has given me the greatest giftever given.

*I will think about the mothers and fathers whoare searching for their missing children, themothers and fathers who are visiting theirchildren's graves instead of their bedrooms, andmothers and fathers who are in hospital roomswatching their children suffer senselessly, andscreaming inside that they can't handle itanymore.

*And when I kiss you good night I will hold youa little tighter, a little longer. It is then, that I willthank GOD for you, and ask Him for nothing,except one more day.

A boy I know, my age, ran away a while ago. He was found a little more than a month later at a mission or shelter, and the end of this poem reminded me of him.