If you pay any attention to the media today, especially the entertainment media, you know a few things. 1.) our media services pay too much attention to blonde bimbos who have eating disorders and do too much coke (oh, you know who they are...I don't speak their names) *A quick aside note* The media also spends too much time on who has gained weight and who is looking too skinny. They may know they have huge pull on people and their self image. And too point out how people are too skinny or too heavy is WRONG! It can ruin people, I'm talking celebrities and everyday people. Who gives two shits about how people look. That just shows the superficialness (I may have just made a word up) of our society. Be who you are and embrace that. *Aside note over*
Where was I.... right, 2.) There is a movie coming out here pretty soon. The Golden Compass. I had never heard of the books, but apparently they are huge in England and surrounding areas. Basically, take the religious undertones of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and set them on fire. This three book series is the anti-Narnia as it was proclaimed in an article. One character wants to do away with god and people's souls, etc. etc. etc. Pretty harmless right? Don't tell the religious right that. They are ready to tear down the walls. This movie has got people up in arms and makes me want to go see it, even though it isn't suppose to be that good. Worse comes to worse if I go see it, I'll just stare at Nicole Kidman or get lost in Daniel Craig's accent (hey, I don't discriminate here).
So I got to thinking after reading an article about it at work last night. The huge christian organization doesn't want anyone to see this movie because it revolves around killing god (in a nut shell). What did atheists and agnostics think about The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe? Or even better, what did they think about The Passion of the Christ? Did they pound the pavement saying that this movie was horrible because it was demeaning to their thoughts and beliefs (or lack there of)? Maybe they did, but who took them seriously? No one really. Some people may have even laughed at them. If no one payed attention, if they did make a big deal about it, no one should pay attention to the far right religious freaks who are making a big deal about the Golden Compass. If someone goes and see this movie and it changes their views on life...well, let it because a movie shouldn't have that kind of power. Unfortunatly, the state of this country is the way it is right now and the organized church can't stay within it's own walls and has to dabble in the media. I've got no problem with religon, just stop dabbling in the media...if you can.
And now for something completly different. Music that makes me smile. Songs I've grown up with, or some songs I have come to love. Comfort music, if you will. Some songs that your friends may look at you and say 'you like what song?' I just got to thinking about it today. With the emergance of iTunes, you can get any song you want really. Which is nice so you don't have to buy an entire album for just one song. Anyway, I complied a small list of these songs. Laugh if you want to, but these songs I can listen to over and over:
Country Roads, Take Me Home (John Denver)
Thank God I'm A Country Boy (John Denver)
House of the Rising Sun (The Animals, my dad's favorite song ever)
Centerfield (John Fogerty, mmmm...baseball)
Just Before the Battle Mother (the version I have is by John DuRant)
I Want to Conquer the World (Bad Religion)
Here Comes the Sun (The Beatles, possibly my favorite song [that or Blackbird])
Need I Say More (George Strait, A's and my wedding song)
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Gordon Lightfoot...come on, its Gordon Lightfoot)
The Rain Song (Led Zeppelin, my favorite Zeppelin song)
Dr. Feelgood (Motley Crue, thanks Michelle)
Freedom (Rage Against the Machine, undertones about AIM activist Leonard Peltier)
She Has A Girlfirend Now (Reel Big Fish, the song that made me like Ska/punk music in high school)
Paint It, Black (The Rolling Stones, another of my dad's favorite songs)
Tonight, Tonight (Smashing Pumpkins, I liked them more than Nirvana back in the day)
God Save Ireland (The Wolfe Tones, Unite Ireland and oust England)
Kathy (Jeff Daniels, yes Jeff Daniels! A great acoustic album [Live and Unplugged to Benefit the Purple Rose Theatre] and a great love song)
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