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As we speak, they are preparing the Astrodome to house thousands of displaced people from New Orleans. It is the talk of the town. Usually I am pretty numb to natural disasters because they have never affected me (yet) and because I am a cold-hearted bitch, but I saw something on the news last night that struck me. Have you ever read the book (or maybe you saw the tv movie with Halle Berry) Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston? Great book. Towards the end of the novel, the heroine and her lover are fleeing from a hurricane and are almost dramatically torn apart. It seems like such a romantic tale, it could never really happen. I mean this is real life. But life doesn't get any realer than a man desperately trying to hold onto his wife as a violent flood slowly tears her away and she says to him, "Just let go. Please. Not both of us. Take care of the kids. Take care of the grandkids." And just like that she is gone. He is on the evening news, tearfully recounting his story into the microphone as he holds his grandchildren close to his skinny, ragged pants-legs. I can only hope to love and to be loved like that.
An enterprise, perhaps involving the creative arts, which you've long since given up on may suddenly rear its head again, this time as a definite opportunity. You might find yourself wondering if this is real, and once you're aware that it is, you still might have trouble believing that it's finally happening to you. Friends, along with your current love interest, may accept it more readily than you do. Enjoy your success and make the most of it! 
There is so much you don't know. If only I could tell it! Alas, I cannot. I am too ashamed. Or perhaps afraid. What if you didn't look at me the same way?? What would I do then? Probably the same thing I'm doing now.
I am so happy today because Jeff Gordon is now officially in the "Chase" for the Nextel Cup after coming in 6th place at Bristol last night. I will explain for all those who do not know what this means (like me a couple of months ago.) The Chase is like the playoffs. You get so many points for every race depending on where you place. To make the playoffs you must be in the top ten drivers based on Nextel Cup points standings. And as of last night, Jeffy is now 10th! Yay!
I just got finished watching Dead Poets Society for the first time. I can't understand why I have never found time for this movie until now. I am a sucker for the nonconformist teacher. I also can't understand why every movie Ethan Hawke is in makes me cry. I cried because I don't believe tenderness like that shown by the boys (and men) in this movie truly exists. Or maybe not anymore. Perhaps our society has ruined us for love. With great freedom comes great carelessness. It seems that oppression breeds great love and beauty, be it through desperation. Which shall I choose? I cannot tell. The romantic's heart can be bent and torn but never broken. It can be tortured and severed but only through gross inactivity can it be destroyed. Modern carelessness via overwhelming freedom I fear will slowly suck and extract all that I know as beauty from this world. Marshall McLuhan spoke of narcosis of the mind due to reckless and free communication. If we are free to love everything--as we are in modern times--would that not thrust our heart into the same kind of narcosis our minds already experience?? If only there were some kind of balance. I long for freedom, beauty, and love, but can one person ever truly attain all of these?


I think perhaps I was feeling bad yesterday because I was getting sick and I didn't even know it. I had this dream last night that I was at a family reunion for my mom's side but the Southpark kids were there, which made it funny. Well we all went to the mall and I was very feverish and I asked the lady behind the counter at the department store for a thermometer. So she gave me one of those old school mercury thermometers, which I thought was weird, even in the dream (who uses those anymore?) It showed I had a 104 fever. Then I woke up feeling feverish. So I asked my dad if he had a thermometer...and guess what--he handed me the same fuckin old school mercury thermometer from my dream. Creepy. I guess that answers the question. My dad still uses an old school mercury thermometer. Anyway I do have a slight fever, which means I don't really have to work today--hooray!I gotta give a shout out to my boy Jason at Saddle Creek Records for replying to my email so quickly yesterday. I wrote asking about why Bright Eyes' tour skipped over Texas and he nicely replied that it was a short tour and they were hitting towns they'd skipped over this spring and summer. I was so surprised that they wrote me back at all--much less within an hour--that I forgive them for not coming down this fall. Saddle Creek Rocks!
Listened to "Going to California" the other day and remembered why Led Zeppelin is the best band to ever come down from heaven and play on Earth.
Ashlee Simpson scares the shit out of me.



Whatever happened to the word "fartknocker"?? What a great word. I was watching this video I have of a Beavis and Butthead moron-a-thon taped off of MTV in 1995. It was fucking hilarious. Like opening a time capsule. You should have seen the commercials. Take video games for example. They were talking about how Mortal Kombat for Sega Genesis had "revolutionary" graphics. Do you remember what Mortal Kombat for Sega Genesis (and don't forget Super Nintendo) looked like?? Shit. An absolute fucking joke. And music videos...what happened?? Music videos used to be interesting. Take Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden (thanks Yos) for example. A backyard barbeque turned hellish vaccuum where the actors heads melt in different directions and mom is masturbating in the backyard with a vibrator. Now that's art. When did half-naked strippers become the best an "artist" could do on MTV?? It's a sad, sad world. Something I thought was ironic was the fact that if you are watching tv in the '90s, things look gritty. More real. (Or maybe that was just the VHS.) And they were trying to be commercial. Now I am watching tv and everything I see is so disgustingly commercialized but labeled "reality." What does that say about our present society?? This shit could fuck up an entire generation. Watch. But what I really learned from my VHS experience was that toilet humor is timeless. Trancendent, if you will.
This weekend was completely extra-ordinary. (I hyphenate to accentuate the meaning of that word because it is oftentimes misused. And because I care.) Anyway what I thought was going to be the lamest motorcycle rally of them all was frickin' fun as shit. I'm having a hard time telling this story (finally I have one to tell!) because there is so much you don't know, but I'll try to do my best and fill you in. It had to be done I guess.
I am diggin on Robert Earl Keen so hard this morning. I can't believe I'm going to miss him at ACL--it has been too long since I've seen him play. Rich Brotherton is one of the most amazing guitarists I've ever seen or heard about. If you don't download some REK, you're really missing out. And he's a Texas Aggie, like me...whoop! I have finally put my artwork up on the web, so please check it out when you get the time--the link's to the right--Mali Hues Art Works.
Also, I have now been spammed, so I'm disallowing annonymous posting. If you don't have a blogger identity and would like to comment, you can check my profile and email me.



Thank God I did something this weekend, I have been posting too much politics. Last night I went to the final performance of "As You Like It" at the University of Houston Shakespeare Festival. It was enchanting. The typical Shakespearean comedy, rife with cross-dressing and lovesick fools. I cannot say how great it was enough times. I wish we still used Shakespearean English. It's so rhythmic and beautiful. I think we are going to go see "Greater Tuna" next week, which is about "the third smallest town in Texas." It is supposed to be quite funny, and it should be, as I know small town Texas can definately serve up a moment of hilarity or three or four. Though sometimes life in a small town is a tragi-comedy. I am a little bummed out today though because Jeff Gordon didn't place in the top ten at The Glen. He did pretty well considering he got moved to the back of the pack not once but twice. I am also taking consolation in the fact that he moved up to 13th in the Nextel Cup standings. And I guess congratulations are in order to Tony Stewart for winning at The Brickyard last week and the road race today. And how could I not mention Robby Gordon (no relation to Jeff) kicking ass and taking names in both the Busch series race yesterday and the Nextel Cup race today, placing 2nd in both. Booya!
I was posting last night and sometime between composing and publishing, blogger went down for maintenance. So here is my post from yesterday, as best I can remember...
I saw some badass short films on PBS the other night. Don't count PBS out...when you don't have cable, sometimes it has by far the best shows on. One was called "The Pool" and it made me believe in love again. I am pretty sure I'm going home to East Texas tomorrow to hang out with my mom and my cat, Dinah. It's been three weeks since I've been home and I'm excited. But their computer is sick so I'll not be posting for the next few days. Today I was listening to the radio at work, and they listen to right-wing talk radio--you know those guys...Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage--and Hannity was talking about Judicial Nominee John Roberts being probed, and it seems that the New York Times has obtained or is trying to obtain the papers concerning the adoption of his two children. Is it me, or is that a little excessive? Or obsessive? I think it's vulgar. Some things are personal, and private. He's got the same rights as all of us, and they deserve to be recognized.

