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[04 May 2009|03:36pm] |
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Aida opens friday....kill me.
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[07 Mar 2009|12:27am] |
work is hell.
same amount of customers and half the employees.
it's titanic.
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[05 Mar 2009|11:12am] |
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Watchmen tonight!
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[28 Feb 2009|04:00pm] |
Rush Limbaugh is on t.v. right now.
???
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[22 Feb 2009|02:04pm] |
What is my culture?
I have no idea so i've been taking bits of stuff i like, raised with, and drawn to.
however, I wish i had something more concrete.
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[21 Feb 2009|11:27pm] |
Some Soldiers workin' it out to the Cha-Cha slide.
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[17 Feb 2009|11:55pm] |
Wow i forgotabout livejournal.
hi.
so....i'm in a musical...Aida....we'll see how it goes.
Work blows and it seems like it's going to close anyday now.
my spacebar keeps fucking up.
I got an xbox...
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[21 Nov 2008|02:35am] |
just got back from a midnight show of "twilight".
I had no intention of seeing this movie, let alone at midnight.
However, the books have been insanely popular so i thought i'd check it out.
this is a perfect case of a good story, good actors....TERRIBLE director.
However Cedric Diggory/Edward...whatever his real name is....is hot as hell. so is the guy that plays emmett(sp?).
good night. gotta be at work in like 4 hours
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[14 Nov 2008|12:21am] |
Halloween
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[14 Nov 2008|12:06am] |
So, keith olbermann from MSNBC, he gave a really nice and invigorating commentary after Prop 8 in california passed....
From Keith Olbermann on last night's Countdown on MSNBC:
Finally tonight as promised, a Special Comment on the passage, last week, of Proposition Eight in California, which rescinded the right of same-sex couples to marry, and tilted the balance on this issue, from coast to coast.
Some parameters, as preface. This isn't about yelling, and this isn't about politics, and this isn't really just about Prop-8. And I don't have a personal investment in this: I'm not gay, I had to strain to think of one member of even my very extended family who is, I have no personal stories of close friends or colleagues fighting the prejudice that still pervades their lives.
And yet to me this vote is horrible. Horrible. Because this isn't about yelling, and this isn't about politics. This is about the human heart, and if that sounds corny, so be it.
If you voted for this Proposition or support those who did or the sentiment they expressed, I have some questions, because, truly, I do not understand. Why does this matter to you? What is it to you? In a time of impermanence and fly-by-night relationships, these people over here want the same chance at permanence and happiness that is your option. They don't want to deny you yours. They don't want to take anything away from you. They want what you want—a chance to be a little less alone in the world.
Only now you are saying to them—no. You can't have it on these terms. Maybe something similar. If they behave. If they don't cause too much trouble. You'll even give them all the same legal rights—even as you're taking away the legal right, which they already had. A world around them, still anchored in love and marriage, and you are saying, no, you can't marry. What if somebody passed a law that said you couldn't marry?
I keep hearing this term "re-defining" marriage. If this country hadn't re-defined marriage, black people still couldn't marry white people. Sixteen states had laws on the books which made that illegal in 1967. 1967.
The parents of the President-Elect of the United States couldn't have married in nearly one third of the states of the country their son grew up to lead. But it's worse than that. If this country had not "re-defined" marriage, some black people still couldn't marry black people. It is one of the most overlooked and cruelest parts of our sad story of slavery. Marriages were not legally recognized, if the people were slaves. Since slaves were property, they could not legally be husband and wife, or mother and child. Their marriage vows were different: not "Until Death, Do You Part," but "Until Death or Distance, Do You Part." Marriages among slaves were not legally recognized.
You know, just like marriages today in California are not legally recognized, if the people are gay.
And uncountable in our history are the number of men and women, forced by society into marrying the opposite sex, in sham marriages, or marriages of convenience, or just marriages of not knowing, centuries of men and women who have lived their lives in shame and unhappiness, and who have, through a lie to themselves or others, broken countless other lives, of spouses and children, all because we said a man couldn't marry another man, or a woman couldn't marry another woman. The sanctity of marriage.
How many marriages like that have there been and how on earth do they increase the "sanctity" of marriage rather than render the term, meaningless?
What is this, to you? Nobody is asking you to embrace their expression of love. But don't you, as human beings, have to embrace... that love? The world is barren enough.
It is stacked against love, and against hope, and against those very few and precious emotions that enable us to go forward. Your marriage only stands a 50-50 chance of lasting, no matter how much you feel and how hard you work.
And here are people overjoyed at the prospect of just that chance, and that work, just for the hope of having that feeling. With so much hate in the world, with so much meaningless division, and people pitted against people for no good reason, this is what your religion tells you to do? With your experience of life and this world and all its sadnesses, this is what your conscience tells you to do?
With your knowledge that life, with endless vigor, seems to tilt the playing field on which we all live, in favor of unhappiness and hate... this is what your heart tells you to do? You want to sanctify marriage? You want to honor your God and the universal love you believe he represents? Then Spread happiness—this tiny, symbolic, semantical grain of happiness—share it with all those who seek it. Quote me anything from your religious leader or book of choice telling you to stand against this. And then tell me how you can believe both that statement and another statement, another one which reads only "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
You are asked now, by your country, and perhaps by your creator, to stand on one side or another. You are asked now to stand, not on a question of politics, not on a question of religion, not on a question of gay or straight. You are asked now to stand, on a question of love. All you need do is stand, and let the tiny ember of love meet its own fate.
You don't have to help it, you don't have it applaud it, you don't have to fight for it. Just don't put it out. Just don't extinguish it. Because while it may at first look like that love is between two people you don't know and you don't understand and maybe you don't even want to know. It is, in fact, the ember of your love, for your fellow person just because this is the only world we have. And the other guy counts, too.
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[21 Sep 2008|05:14pm] |
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[14 Aug 2008|10:09pm] |
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I have no fucking clue what I want to do with my life. no clue. I have ideas. but its that leap from ideas to actions that i'm getting stuck on. ugh.
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[31 Jul 2008|07:53pm] |
The Emmy's are a fucking joke. have you guys seen who is nominated?
boston legal? who the fuck watches that show? that show is awful. seriously.
madmen got like 16 nominations which is cool, i've been meaning to watch it.
AND WHAT MY DEAR FRIENDS HAS BEEN SNUBBED???
Battlestar galactica (cause it's sci-fi and everyone pre-judges it) "The wire" (cause it has a predominatly minority cast??)
the only category those two shows got nominated for is in writing. well, i think bsg got an editing nomination.
it's just frustrating i guess. good shows going unnoticed due to marketing/corporate bullshit.
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[30 Jul 2008|10:26pm] |
ok, new harry potter trailer.
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[18 Jul 2008|03:14am] |
Just got back from midnight showing of batman.
IT WAS SOOO good.
heath ledger was mesmerizing...seriously. when he was on the screen, i was enthralled.
and batman rides and breaks shit in millenium station. amazing.
ok. gotta sleep now.
peace.
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[07 Jul 2008|02:03am] |
Alex came up for the 4th and we rented a room at the W in the loop. we drank fancy cocktails all over that place. and we went to marche for dinner. so delish!
( more pics here! )
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[26 Jun 2008|02:59am] |
thanks everyone for being so supportive! it only took me 25 years to tell my parents the truth.
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