The first Veruca Salt song I ever heard was Number One Blind which is on an album called American Thighs. I didn't make the connection from the band's name to the girl from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory until much later.
Seether is the song that Veruca might have sung in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory if her character was a little older. The one she does sing, "I Want it Now," might be better.
I want the world,
I want the whole world.
I want to lock it all up in my pocket.
It's my bar of chocolate.
Give it to me now!
I want today,
I want tomorrow.
I want to wear them like braids in my hair and I don't want to share them
And the last line: Don't care how I want it now!
Mary Shannon reminded me of Veruca Salt, and that line from the movie. She's put a lot of that attitude into her version of Julia Barnes. We love you Julia! posted by Jim Somewhen | Link | Guestbook | Add Comment
Wednesday, August 29, 2001
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I'm an anarcho-capitalist when it comes to politics, but please don't label me (heh). How else can you deal with someone you don't know (except via blog) if it isn't by labeling and categorizing them?
Anyway, just to foul you all up, I thought I'd point out the Adbusters web site. I buy their magazine from Barnes & Noble every once in a while. It's good. They're pretty much raging socialists or communists or whatever they are these days. But that doesn't mean that there's nothing to criticize about bourgeois capitalism, does it? Check out their spoof ads section, and this gem, which says something, you morons.
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Here is some objectionable content:
Yesterday the Israeli army invaded a Palestinian town called Beit Jala.
I have relatives who live there.
The Israelis occuppied a church and an orphanage. They came in with tanks.
I get angry every time I see a news story about the region, or when I read in the Associated Press how a soldier in the Israeli 'Defence' Force (read: a professionally trained and armed combatant) shot and killed a Palestinian child in "retaliation." This would be in retaliation for resisting the invasion and occupation of their land, or the destruction of their homes? Maybe it is retaliation for throwing stones. Maybe it is in retaliation for trying to kill some of the soldiers who are killing them. "I am killing you for resisting when I tried to kill you." Does this honestly make any sense to anyone?
As of yesterday, 620 Palestinians have been killed and over 15,000 have been wounded by Israelis. Oh, but Israelis have died too. Some civilians. Mostly soldiers. Soldiers are people with automatic weapons, tanks, helicopter gunships armed with guided missles. . . About 160 Israelis have died. Four Palestinians die for every Israeli. Most dead Palestinians are civilians, including women and children. Most dead Israelis are soldiers.
A four to one death ratio is not mutual violence. The Israelis aren't the ones under siege. You'd never know that, sitting here in the U.S. of A.
Human Rights Watch has been keeping track of things. In April they wrote this (the emphasis is mine):
Israeli forces were responsible for the most extensive abuses, the report found, including excessive use of force against unarmed demonstrators, unlawful killings, indiscriminate and disproportionate fire in response to Palestinian attacks, and a consistent failure to protect Palestinians from attacks by Israeli settlers. Israel has restricted Palestinian movement with varying degrees of severity since March 1993, but the curfews and blockades now imposed, are the most extensive to date. These restrictions have had a devastating impact on all aspects of Palestinian life, including education, health, employment, and access to basic necessities. Jewish settlers in Hebron have also been responsible for frequent abuses against Palestinian civilians in Hebron. The Israeli authorities, especially the army, rarely intervene to stop or prevent settler attacks against Palestinians. Settlers in Hebron, who are not subject to the stringent curfew and closure restrictions, regularly beat Palestinians, attack their homes and businesses, and shoot and stone Palestinian drivers. Settlers have also targeted independent observers, humanitarian workers, diplomats and journalists during attacks that largely go unpunished.
My cousin Lara lives there. She's engaged to be married. My tax dollars are being spent on the weapons that ruin her life. posted by Jim Somewhen | Link | Guestbook | Add Comment
Everyone in Chicago is reading the same book. I read an article about it.
Basically, the idea is that everyone is encouraged to go out and read To Kill a Mockingbird. Someone just told me (hi Anopsia) that it's one of their favorite books. I haven't read it yet. But anyway, so tons of Chicagoans read the book, and then they randomly see each other on the bus or in a cafe or whatever and who knows, maybe they are all talking about it.
It seems like a great way to make a big city feel more like a community. It reminds me of a great (but impossible) fantasy I had where instead of individual people going on vacation, whole cities would travel together. So, say, for a week, everyone in Barcelona would come to New York for a holiday. They'd all travel together. Maybe there would even be this section of NY (of every city, really) that was left open, to receive guests. So they would have apartments and whatnot to stay in.
How cool would this be? Travel the world with your town. Naomi and Ann and Neil made fun of this genius, but jealousy does terrible things to people. posted by Jim Somewhen | Link | Guestbook | Add Comment
Tuesday, August 28, 2001
I need to buy a new watch. My last watch was mostly silver, and even though I had it for years and wore it every day, people who'd seen it before would always ask me if it was new. That was kind of nice.
I took it into the Mediterranean Sea on my last vacation (to Egypt, which I just got back from on Sunday) and it was ruined. Even though it said in friendly letters on the face of the watch:
Water Resistant. 330'
I might have gone 12' down, but I don't think I hit the three hundred and thirty mark. Hmph.
This is the first post to my blog. I haven't explained it's title or anything. I mostly just talk about needing a new watch. Also, just before the end, I digress into a meta-discussion about the post itself, which is probably a way of appearing like I'm too cool to be focused solely on material possessions like watches.
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Thursday, August 30, 2001
