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Jerry Garcia.

Spending his whole life doing what he loved, and sharing his love with thousands of people for longer than I've been alive. Staying true to his principles throughout it all.

And when he died, they named a flavour of ice cream after him.

-Trevor

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Northern California, the place I call
home, has more spiritual workshops per capita than anywhere else on
earth. On a given weekend, you can choose from yoga retreats, meditation
classes, astrology intensives, and a hundred other adventures in woo-woo.
Grizzled veterans of the scene have a phrase to describe the attitude of
workshop leaders who are overly proud of how enlightened they are --
who ooze a pretentious solemnity that belies the divine grace they're
supposedly championing. The term is "stinky Zen." It's a perfect way to
convey the fact that humorless self-importance can sabotage even the
finest ideals. Be on the alert for this stench, Sagittarius -- not only in
New Age types, but in everyone else, too. I nominate you to be the earthy
whistleblower who makes sure that all the deep truths stay fun and funny.

(from Rob Rezny's Free Will Astrology www.freewillastrology.com)

-Trevor

Has anyone else noticed that David Lynch always features some incredibly hot sex scene in his movies? Usually it's the only thing in the movie that seems out of place. But I think he's on to something.

If you're going to be a genius, everyone has to know about you.

He puts something in each of his films that everyone can get, and that everyone remembers so that even people who don't like or understand his movies will remember at least that.

I was in After Dark last night talking to my friend who works there when a guy came in looking to rent a movie.

"Is this one any good?" he asked.

I read a little bit of the review, it got four Ns from Now magazine, and it seemed prety interesting. None of us were sold though until we hit the words "slutty french daughter." The three of us immediately agreed that it was the movie he should rent.

This is how and where our art is selected by our audience. We've got to make it exciting enough that it competes with Armageddon and Pirates of the Carribean.

David Lynch knows it, and look what it's done for him. When are you going to figure it out?

Or maybe you already have.

So when are you going to start doing it?

-Trevor

It's not thinking differently, it's getting other people to think differently.

-Trevor

Okay, people, Haiku is not about 5, 7, 5.

So with that in mind, I've devised an English form of Haiku: the Newhaiku. There are three lines. The first and third lines must be things. The middle line has to be a question. The idea is that the first two thoughts are connected in an un-obvious way and the third makes the connection clear. Oh and no punctuation.

Feel free to e-mail me your own Newhaikus, I'd be interested to hear them. Also, if you can suggest any refinements to the form, I'm open to those as well.

Here are my first few attempts:

the baby in the bathwater
what did you say
busy signal

siphoned gasoline
who did the vampire bite
the imf

individual birds
did I miss the polkaroo again
metamorphosis

Look forward to hearing yours!

-Trevor

Be around enough good ideas, and your ideas start to be good enough.

-Trevor

When it comes to sex, men and women both want it the same way: like they do it in the movies.

The problem is, they're watching different movies.

-Trevor

So why are you here? Why do you not tie a rock to yourself and jump into the ocean, I wonder?

Are you spending every moment as the white and pure light of God in the lives of all who surround you? Are you touching beauty and truth and purity in every tiny act in your day?

Are you giving so much that it hurts and then giving away the hurting and then giving away the thing that is hurt? Are you giving everything?

So why are you here? Why do you not tie a rock to yourself and jump into the ocean, I wonder?

Why?

I was sitting in this room, and all my friends were there. We were drinking, having a good time, it was everything I wanted.

And then she came.

And now I'm sitting in the same room, with all the same friends. We're drinking the same drinks, having the same good times and it's still everything I want.

But now there's music playing.

Okay, okay. I know I've been neglecting you. (Question: is "you" you, or am I talking to the site?) That's because my last year of University is like a game of Breakout. I have to keep running around keeping that ball in the air or it'll get past me. Then the screen will flash and I'll lose a life... I guess. The point is, I'll be preoccupied until the rest of the bricks are broken. So, in the meantime I've decided to post some of my homework, which is actually pretty rad and not like work at all. I have to write 200 short reviews about songs of my choosing. Here's number one...

(Also, check out Breakout 360)

The Constantines: “Justice” The Constantines (2001)

According to Three Gut Records, The Constantines “come from a planet held together by extension chords and safety pins.” (threegutrecords.com) Maybe by way of Guelph, Ontario where they founded in 1999. “Justice” is from their first, self-titled album which was released in 2001 and garnered a Juno nomination for Best Alternative Album. It also came close to breaking the record for the longest charting album in campus radio history. (subpop.com) The Constantines’ grass-roots grass-fire success is linked to that of their original record label, Three Gut Records, which grew out of the fertile soil surrounding Guelph 4-track genius, Jim Guthrie and still bears his (backwards) name.

Justice uses a slightly more developed version of the loud/quiet dynamic that is common in alternative music and which became a cliché in 90’s “grunge”. The song opens a solo organ intro, joined quickly by the band in a fairly subdued mode for the first verse. When the chorus, “you shock me” hits, the lead guitar repeats a high chord, only to cut out along with the bass and drums as the song returns to the solo organ after the chorus. For the last chorus, both guitars play intensely and build until the song. The Constantines are interesting for lyrics like, “that Eucharistic beatbox can take some shocks,” which are surprisingly verbose for a rock song. Justice, along with the rest of the album was recorded at The House of Miracles in London by prolific Ontario indie producer, Andy Magoffin. So, it’s interesting to note the backing vocals by Lorien Jones, formerly of London’s The Weekend. Her sweet harmonies contrast the gruffness of Bry Webb’s lead vocals.

It's a miracle. A party, called out of thin air through the force of sheer will and phone calls. But the phone calls were just expressions of the will, which is just an expression of...

Let go of your other commitments. Can they not wait? What, in this moment, is more important than your personal fulfillment and happiness?

If your commitments are to things that fill you and bring you joy, then go and do them. But if they are not things that bring you happiness, why do them at al?

The connection might not be direct--I need to have a house to throw parties for my friends, and to have a house I need to pay rent, so then at some time I must work to make money to pay rent.

But if I don't need a house, I don't need to pay rent, I don't need to work.

Even though work is not partying, working *is* partying, because without the work there is no party. But I don't need the parties. I choose to throw them because it brings joy to my friends. I work to bring happiness and fulfillment to others in my life, which is all that brings me fulfillment and happiness.

So what are you doing tonight? Does it bring you and those around you joy? Is your work a party? Or is it just work?

Mine is both.

-Trevor