Monday, November 1, 2004

"Can I borrow your CD player? I need a Riverdance fix."
Oh, the things band kids tell you. Though frankly, I needed a Riverdance fix too.

Yes indeed, it's gonna be a Riverdance week. That means, to combat my current anger and somewhat sadistic feelings about people so I can talk to them without either crying of screaming, I need to spend about a week listening to real, ######## Celtic music and living "Caoineadh Cu Chulainn (Lament)" and "Over the Sea to Skye."

I'm working on this, as is evidenced by the fact I just sat through all of O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? for the music.

Man, tomorrow, we're playing a few towns over for the opening of their new hall, and I really sucked today.

Okay guys! LOOK FOR IT! In the music video for "Nobody's Home," in one the scenes where Lavigne is dressed like the old-time singer with the ensemble behind her, they do a close up of a guy playing bassoon!

You know, we were talking in history today, and the teacher was talking about blogging, because a girl that some kids at school know is now on the no-fly list for posting against Bush. Nothing threatening, but not for him. I have to say, I was surprised. I mean, I know most of that class blogs. The teacher blogs too, for goodness's sake! I just thought that was odd.

Well, ... I guess I'll refrain from commenting on how I feel that Kerry is the better of the two ...

Anyway, one of the things we were talking about a lot in that class was the gay marriage issue. And you know what? I'm surprized that so many people don't know how to talk about it. True, I like in very liberal Massachusetts, where we allow it and all, and my school has a pretty decent population of gay people, so maybe I'm just a little more exposed, but I can't believe the way some people talk. You can't say people are evil and all for being gay for two big reasons: 1) These are people. You simply cannot label people who are gay as evil. It makes it a very personal and touchy issue, and the second problem I have with that is this. 2) It's a very religion-based statement. Sorry, but to determine "evil" is a religion-based statement to begin with, and to label gays as evil is even more religion-based.

Religion in politics gets to me anyway. What's worse is when the teacher generalized conservatives as "Christian." The conservative view is not Christian, or it ought not be, but the Christian view often aligns with the conservative view. Yes, I am Catholic, yes, I heard once a week for so long that we have to vote against gay marriage, yes, I hear once a week now that we must vote against abortion, but still, that does not mean that because I am Christian, I agree.

But on abortion: I don't know what to think, because frankly, the idea seemed okay to me in many cases until I read SHE'S COME UNDONE. After that, the idea began to disturb me quite a bit. All I have to say on that is, it's one thing when it's, "Daddy? I kinda made a mistake last month ... can I have some cash?" It's another when some girl's been raped, abused, or can't support a child to begin with.

Honestly? I think the war should be less of an issue right now. We started it, whether or not we ought to have, and it has to be finished, but it's going to be a mess regardless of what is done. The thing that's going to matter later is abortion, gay rights, civil rights, and whatever our economy thinks it's up to.
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