"why are americans passively accepting the biggest tax rip-off ever ( Read more... )

I actually like the TV show. Yes, its flashy and sometimes corny, but its still funny and surprisingly refreshing in many ways. The same cannot be said, however, for the film.

From beginning to end, its just another flashy rom-com with slightly more dirty jokes and nude scenes (like 3 or 4) and an endless consumerism love-fest.  These women can, ( Read more... )

obsessions: sophia coppola films, phoenix (the band), the darjeeling limited, spicy soups, blogging, alienation, surrealism, warmth ( Read more... )

I suppose this is the time to give thanks, and look on the bright side. Let me show an exchange which occurred today, and reflects the dynamics of my family ( Read more... )

i never want to leave. i want to disappear here forever and live as an expatriate, become fluent in french, eat pain aux chocolat and cafe aux lait every morning, go to work, get a sandwich jambon for lunch at a boulangerie, go on the metro and shop at the Galeries Lafayette, then get a drink at a late night cafe with friends. after that, sure i'll ( Read more... )

so the first half of summer i'm going to be away in france, and i won't be back until july 21st. thus i cannot take summer classes in junior colleges or cal states, since they're all on semester system. that leaves UCI summer school, which doesn't have the classes i need to take for the second session. thus, i'm stuck with UCLA summer school, but i ( Read more... )

where I should be grateful, I should be satisfied....    but my heart is returned to Sister Winter.

Now my heart is as cold as ice....

All my friends, I've returned to Sister Winter

All my friends I apologize.... I apologize.....

Now my heart is as cold as ice......

i wish i could be the way i am when i'm drunk all the time. this is because i am relaxed, carefree, and anxiety-free. also, not self-conscious and uptight. this state may be better than when i'm not.

isn't it sad that the only time i'm actually happy is when i'm drunk? this has to be a symptom of something.

so, Plato tells us that each person has some talent that they are good at (this is highly simplified, pardon me) and that virtue involves doing that which we are gifted, like a carpenter is gifted in woodworking and so should not be a farmer, etc. Aristotle says "wealth is not the good we are seeking, since it is merely useful for some other end," ( Read more... )

its amazing, how things can change. this is what i love about life, and why, even in the deepest sadness, i don't want to let go. i want to know what happens next ( Read more... )