June 10, 2005
I have the day off, I’m just sitting around waiting for my bank to call and let me know if I can have my money back. I think banks intentionally make every aspect of their establishment ambiguous and confusing so that when they make a mistake you won’t notice until it’s too late. Then they treat you like a moron for not understanding the most confusing and nonsensical policies and procedures ever conceived. I can’t understand why I should pay someone else to hold on to my money.
Oh well, I would watch some Buffy but I finished the second season this morning. It was really sad, and not just because I have no more Buffy to watch but everything went to hell, I feel so bad for those poor fictional characters. Happiness is so fleeting in Sunnydale.
I do have plenty of stuff to keep me occupied though. I rented a Takashi Miike movie I haven’t seen yet called MPD Psycho. I’m sure it will be thoroughly disturbing, that’s sort of his trademark. His other movies include Audition, and Ichi the Killer, both are quite unsettling. If you enjoy less than coherent foreign films that make you shudder I highly recommend delving into this guy’s world. Another gem from the less than coherent foreign film category is Last Life in the Universe. I believe it is a Thai film, most of the movie is in Thai, but it also switches to English and Japanese occasionally, which doesn’t necessarily help the coherence factor. The lead actor was also in Ichi the Killer, a nifty little coincidence. It was a high quality film in my view. Of course so was Spice World, in my view.
Hooray! Yipee! The bank just called and they’re giving me all my money back. Happy day! I’m so freaking thrilled. It’s nice to triumph over the bank for once. At first they told me it couldn’t be done, but I wouldn’t take no for an answer. Perseverance, it is grand.
So now the question is what do I do with my day now that I don’t have to wait around for the bank any longer. First I’m gonna go meet my friend Chris for cheap Corona’s and free tacos. From there the possibilities are endless. So yeah, I’m gonna go eat tacos now.
Bye bye for now.
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Ok so I’m back from free taco land, it was fabulous. Now it’s 8:40 on Friday night and I aint doin’ a damn thing, I’m sitting in my kitchen trying to think of stuff to do, so far this was all I could come up with for fun. I was supposed to go to Philly for the weekend but thanks to my bank my plans were dashed.
I’m reading this book right now written by Jennifer Toth called The Mole People. The book is all about the homeless living in the subway tunnels underneath New York. I’ve gotten to a part in the book where she’s been brought down to a couple of different underground communities and I ‘m truly amazed by the stability of these particular communities. The people down there have very strong emotional bonds, and an enormous sense of commitment to their fellow tunnel dwellers. It seems to me that a lot of these people are living pretty decent lives that would be impossible above ground. They display the exact type of morals and values that appear to be missing more and more from the citizens of our country. I don’t think that people above ground have the capacity for that level of commitment to others. I can’t think of any communities on the surface that represent the strong human values that these homeless people embody.
The one thing that separates us from them is money, and I think money is precisely the thing that is keeping us detached from the rest of humanity. It’s virtually impossible for anyone to commit themselves to the betterment of their community because we are too busy securing our assets. If we let up at all in our struggle to stay ahead the economic consequences could be dire. Is it our fault? I don’t think so, we have no real choice in the matter. You can’t renounce money.
It does feel like a religion though doesn’t it. Hmmm…
I guess I could go on, I could follow this line of thinking to all kinds of deep philosophical conclusions, but I won’t. Frank Herbert did a pretty good job of portraying commerce as religion in Dune. If you’ve never read those books, I highly recommend them. The Dune series contains some of the most profound and stirring political and socioeconomic commentary I’ve ever read. Plus they’re wicked cool.
Well I think I’m gonna wrap this up, ya’ll enjoy your weekend and be good to each other.
Peace
Rold
Posted by harold at June 10, 2005 06:50 PM