celebration of freedom

Posted on April 17, 2007

i just got back from a show, it was originally going to be a benefit for Josh Wolf, but then he got released and didn’t need any more benefits…
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Death of a President

Posted on April 14, 2007

So, I just finished watching the film ‘Death of a President’, which was suprisingly well done. The mainstream reviews at the time of its release, of course, were full of outrage and condemnation that anyone would dare to make a film about the assassination of a currently sitting president, as though making a film was equivilant somehow to handing a would-be assassin a rifle and saying “go to it!”; but after actually watching the film it comes across as an argument for why assassination of george “bomb the world” bush would be a bad thing – Cheyney as president, patriot act III and the final destruction of civil liberties, more wars, all that.
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sleepless

Posted on April 13, 2007

so i couldn’t sleep tonight, as usual, too many thoughts and songs in my head. in particular as i was laying there I could hear my grandfather Richey singing one of his favorite songs, one that he used to sing a lot at family get-togethers. it’s a silly old song and not worth reposting here, but it made me sad because it reminded me of him….

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