favorite u2 songs of all time (at least as of april 4th, 2003 11:50 pm)

Beautiful Day
Mysterious Ways
North and South of the River
Desire
Please
Walk On
Where the Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Stay
Until the End of the World

Here's one of my favorite all time .sigs on the net, stolen from Ed Rock:

"When someone asks me if I surf the net, I reply,
'Hell, I'm one of the waves.'"--net.goddess Amanda Wolf a.k.a Batwoman

please tell me i'm not the only one who enjoyed watching michael moore get booed at the oscars. i'll admit... part of me actually liked "roger & me" but i don't think i could stomach "bowling for columbine". and i'm glad i'm not the only one who thinks he's an ignorant blowhard.

he's no peter o'toole.

and here's my list of people i never want to see in a cutaway shot at the oscars ever again:
- cameron diaz makes the list for playing with her hair
- ed harris, who looks like he's aged 10 years in 12 months
- nicholas cage, because, well, he's nicholas cage
- i'm gonna put jack nicholson on the list. i get sick of seeing the smirking jack with his sunglasses on
- i'm tempted to say no more cutaways of sean astin. please, could someone else from lord of the rings come to these award shows? somebody? anybody?

all in all, the awards went about as i thought. i figured chicago would take most of the big awards, and art awards, and lord of the rings would get the technical stuff. i guess i've come to the realization lotr will never win for best picture. i hope return of the king does. that would be fitting. it's an epic the likes of which i don't think we've ever seen.

oh yeah, forgot to mention... after two months of snowless winter, now we're transitioning into the rainless spring that is nebraska, circa 2003.

dang, we could use some moisture. apparently this drought is as bad, or worse than the drought of the '30s, but technology, better farming, and the general lack of connection to agrarian society has kinda kept it out of mind.

i know... i've been abset from here in a while. sorry. i promise i'll post more, although no one really reads. but that's ok. because 1) i probably just lied when i said i'd post more and 2) i don't care if anybody reads.

there's some strange stuff going down in this crazy world of ours. war, sure, but even close to home. the other day i covered a story on the news that was pretty strange. this average white couple, with a young child and another on the way woke up in the middle of the night, their house in flames. they looked outside, and someone spray painted swastikas and profanities on their house. and apparently they don't have any enemies, that they will admit to. that can't be the whole story, but that's the story the cops are going with too. strange, huh? who would torch some normal couple's home, and spray obscenities on it?

i've been reading stanley j grenz's _primer on postmodernism_

listening to:
evanescence _fallen_
celldweller
u2 _best of 1990-2000_
some various remixes i burned from bt, moby, dj tiesto, delerium, etc

funny how some scriptures are so widely abused. here is one guys far from complete list.

others i like:
"your body is a temple of the holy spirit" used to condemn smoking, drinking et cetera
then there's the whole "whatever is pure, noble..." from philippians.
and i could go on and on.

and don't get me started on the prayer of jabez. i recently a parody called "the mantra of jabez" pretty funny and sound too

quick like ninja!

i always liked how that sounds.

we finally got snow this week. 6 inches on wednesday, although it felt like 2. it was the light fluffy stuff that drifts, and blows, but if you pick up a handful, it turns to powder in your hands.

a few favorite links right now, none especially new:

googlism
microsoft's terraserver (you'd be amazed at the ariel photos that exist... it wasn't hard to find my neighborhood on this site, an old favorite i haven't played with
landover baptist it's not a real church, but satires american church culture. be warned, it can be a little crude, and worse. but it's dang funny too

quick like ninja!

as you'll see in my last post, made a month ago, i added a bunch of new contacts to trillian (i use it to chat on aim, msn, yahoo, icq all at the same time. it's pretty nifty). anyway, i'm up to nearly 200 contacts, so it's a danger to get online now, because i get swamped.

other than that, the big news is my friends are recording a demo cd, and i even got to play on one of the tracks. just a small part, but still pretty cool. we'll get some mp3s up at some point.

i just added 86 contacts to my msn instant messenger list. what was i thinking?

i'm really not much of a chat type guy, so we'll see how long it takes to drive me crazy

stuff i've been thinking about:

- post modernism. this is one of those things i've been gnawing on for a long while now
- community, and what it means
- prayer. why do we make it so complicated, and such a production? i guess i'm as guilat as anyone of those
- the gospel. why do we tie so much baggage to it? the gospel has nothing to do with abortion, drinking, homosexuality, or voting republican. but why do we tie those things to it?
- football. hey, i gotta have some fun
- relationships. a friend brought up an interesting point. how much should you deal with your own problems, insecurities, and weaknesses before engaging in a new relationship?
- money. it sucks.
- girls. i probably think about this too much. but what guy doesn't?
- irony. what's the deal with kids who wear t-shirts from the 1982 YMCA volleyball league or whatnot? is it to be ironic? that seems to be a part of post-modernism, in that all these diverging influences all come together. the more distant two things seem to be, the more likely someone is to bring them together. like a punk band with a video starring alan thicke. i'm justing waiting for somebody to mix bluegrass and rap. or big band and synth pop. or whatever