March 8, 2009

• 16 Random Things

  (Below is a list of 16 random things, facts, habits, or goals about me that you may or may not know yet. Of course, the only true reason for this post is because I cannot honestly think of a topic worthwhile to post on this blog. Lets just see where thing goes…)

  16. I have this dysfunction with playing with my hair. I mean… I know I have long hair (red), and yes,… it is kinda Heath Ledger looking! It makes me look like a hot, sexeh manly man! Yet the amount that I actually play with my hair is damaging it somewhat. Its one of those habits that seem hard to get rid of. (On a side note, I used to have dreadlocks!)

  15. If you didn’t know, I love music. I’m going to college for Music Business. … As a matter of fact (and this is true), Minneapolis is the second biggest city in the nation when it comes to music/music scenes (second to Manhattan, with Nashville following closely)

  14. I’m somewhat of a Comedy Central addict. … especially Daily Show/Colbert Report. … I have a secret love for good satire, especially when its about politics.

  13. I’m apparently ignoring homework to do this. *does some quick*

  12. I’m apart of the Augsburg College choir, and in a week, I’ll be on a trip across the midwest, from Minnesota to Texas/Louisiana, ending in Chicago somewhere. It’ll be fun times! … Some drinking. Plenty of randomness. A LOT of singing. … Time for me to get my ‘bass/baritone’ on!

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  10. I actually went to a concert last night. It was at a place called the Dinkytowner, which is a well-known spot for local concerts, especially hip-hop (located in Dinkytown, the entertainment district near the University of Minnesota). A local rapper named Capaciti does a show the first Friday of every month, called ‘Bring the Noize’, which debuts a barrage of local artists each month. He puts on alot of bangin concerts! … I went alone, sitting and watching many of the people there. I got to do some people watching, and even engaged light conversation with a few of them. … I find that going to concerts (and music business in general) to be very engaging.

  9. I have an infatuation with the supernatural/metaphysical. … I meditate sometimes, and I always like to engage in deep, stimulating conversation about spirituality and new age topics.

  8. On similar subject, I was born into Christianity. I went to church almost every Sunday,… but mostly because my mother was the organist at our church. Though teenage years, I considered myself a ‘christian-goth’, but I felt a strange attraction to ‘other’ streams of thought. I was a rocker, a goth, a DnD fanatic, a juggalo, a hardcore fan, a romantic, a reject/misfit of sorts, a ‘vampirefreak’, and a random, brooding, semi-insane, medicated, yet disturbed young man. … Eventually, I started straying. It wasn’t out of neglect, but out of searching. I felt that there were too many walls in my current ideology; to many ‘moral obligations’, which I felt were smothering me. … Its sad that when one would ask a fellow Christian, they would see it as a ‘sinful stray’, as if everything exploratory outside the binds of religion is ultimately sinful, and like a politician, would deny it with clever words and passive agression. I have no hate, or any unjust pretense against those of my birth religion. I just wish people would stop showing only one dimension,… stop limiting themselves to one dimension,… and just be honest with who they are as individuals.

  7. I’m currently single. … I guess you could say that I’m KINDA looking, but not really. My relationships have been short and unsuccessful, so my current assumption is that I’m simply not ‘good’ at the relationship thing. I’m not ‘weak’ or ‘incapable’. Rather, I have a decent amount of girl friends (opposed to girlfriends), so I’m not fully alien to the female perspective,… but… its just the fear of being held down by something like a relationship, when I could achieve a multitude of things unbound. … If I can feel comfortable enough with someone, then maybe.

  6. I’m starting to realize now that my entires are longer than I thought they would be. Was aiming for one liners,… but hey! Thats me. … Can never type JUST ONE LINE! Lolz!

  5. Back in my uber-Christian days, before I turned metaphysics/new age, I used to idolize King Solomon. I thought his story was amazing to be honest. … The fact that this prince, soon turned King, is given the opportunity by God to be given one gift, whether it be fortune, fame, or respect. Instead of any of those, Solomon contemplates, and decides that instead, he wanted to inherit ‘wisdom’ … In return, God smiles upon him, and gifts him with wisdom, and as a bonus for asking for the ‘wisest’ gift possible, gives him all of the three that he had suggested: fortune, fame, respect. … I actually began to pray, in a similar way, for wisdom.

  4. … also, as a person who used to write stories, and has a great concept on how good stories/characters are put together,… I have always had somewhat of a pet peeve. … “Chosen Ones”. … Any character that represented ‘the one’, in an ultimately pretentious, and arrogant assumption that one must be ‘chosen’ by forces greater than themselves in order to change the world, or be the greatest at what they do. In every story that I had ever developed, except say for one, I made the main character a person who did not represent this… ‘chosen one’, but rather represented more of a random, ‘agent of chaos’ type entity with major issues, major dissonance to any notion of ‘chosen ones’, yet an honest acceptance of their mortality. … to emit my belief that ‘random outsiders’ and ‘chosen ones’ can be on the same level as one another. It depends solely on choices, and efforts on the individual, less any “God-given” advantages.

  Thusly, when taken in the real world, whether it be secular, or metaphysical, a ‘Chosen Ones’ abilities are not superior to my own struggles, if I do not voluntarilly recognize them as such. Exceptions are: if their abilities are equalized with profound struggle, their abilities are merely temporary, OR if the same rules of karma apply for them as they would for me (thus, all I ask is that I witness BOTH the ‘arrogant/tresspassing’ and the ‘humbled/regretting/disiring forgiveness’ sides of such people.)

  3. Its still somewhat chilly outside. I think Old-Man-Winter likes shitting on us,… but thats Minnesota fer ya!

  2. I’m watching the Sixth Sense. I haven’t seen this movie in forever,… not since my childhood. I never realized how,… subtly creepy it was until now.

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  … what do I do with # 1? Hmm…

  O.o!!

  I know!! …
  Fellow Xangans! I would like you hear your 16!
  (or 10, or 5, or 3,… whatever you feel comfortable with)

  I am interested!

  *listens*

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