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contribution global warming debate

Global warming addapted water, rain and flood-Santa. (or something like that...)

about peace or war

I came over this statement, we end war, or war ends us:

Congressman Kucinich's Response to President Obama's "Just War" Doctrine
Friday, 11 December 2009
(December 10, 2009) Congressman Kucinich will introduce legislation to address bonus payments to employees of banks that received taxpayers' monies for financial bailouts. The Congressman released the following statement:

"Yesterday, our president mused about the inevitability of war, war's instrumentality in the pursuit of peace and just wars. It is important for us to reflect on his words, because once we believe in the inevitability of war, war becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Once we are committed to war's instrumentality in pursuit of peace, we begin the Orwellian journey to the semantic netherworld where War IS Peace, where the momentum of war overwhelms hopes for peace. And once we wrap doctrines perpetuating war in the arms of justice, we can easily legitimate the wholesale slaughter of innocents. The war against Iraq was based on lies. Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan are based on flawed doctrines of counter-insurgency. War is often not just; sometimes it is just war. And our ability to rethink the terms of our existence, to explore the possibility of peace without war, may well determine whether we end war, or war ends us."

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ginger and candles

Just a couple of pictures to share, hope my readers will notice we´re waiting for Christmas to come.

probably

If I had my home somewhere near San Diego, I´d probably visit this exhibition. http://uag.ucsd.edu/exhibitions/2009/09_offthebeatenpath.shtml


Had the idea from Yoko Ono´s Twitter.

Now I don´t live anywhere near there, not even in California nor in the US, it might just arrive into Europe one day...or I have to be pleased to know I saw one of Yoko´s the other year, in Stockholm ... and that beats about everything.

a follow up

Bad II

Articles about the musicians´ protests concering use of their music at Guantanamo.

http://newsecurityaction.org/blog/entry/who-has-the-moral-authority/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://newsecurityaction.org/pages/music-used-to-torture

Colour makes autumn a little bit more ...

Would this be alright on World Vegan Day, the 1st of November, this was before ...




...and this was after.

I really like colourful dining, :-)) it may just make you feel a little bit more enthusiastic about life, during these dark months ahead.

bad

This is not very nice to read, though I´ve heard about it earlier, from Trent Reznors tweets I think it was or it may have been on the NIN page. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/22/politics/main5409256.shtml

This very day it was on the Swedish news, saying there are artists like Britney Spears, Eminem and David Gray also had their music used at Gitmo. Swedish artists want to take action, at least indicate it´s wrong by charging STIM-money, (SwedishComposersInternationalMusicagency), meaning they want to get payed when their music is of official use, thus attract attention to the question an show that they are aware.

... just was in Rob Sheridan mode.

...and in the end, the love you take ...

My friend asked me the other day, "Do you truly believe Trent Reznor will ever receive the Pulitzer Prize?" and I think I answered him something like ... "... of course, some time in future, if he keeps on like he did up till now and does things his own way, yes, I think he will."

From The NIN Hotline: (on the 11th of September)

"Last night, in front of a few thousand diehard fans at the Wiltern Theatre in LA, Nine Inch Nails wrapped up their final live show in grand fashion by playing through a blistering 37 song setlist that lasted over three hours. Guests at the show included Mike Garson on the piano, Gary Numan, Atticus Ross, Dave Navarro and The Dillinger Escape Plan. On Twitter, #NIN became the number one trending topic during the evening as thousands, if not almost millions of fans across the world shared their favorite NIN moments over the last 20 years. It was truly a great night to be a NIN fan.

If you were at the show, ETS's tour journal entry is still wide open and could use all of the memories from those in attendance. Head here and remember, you don't have to be a member of the board to post in the journal. If you weren't at the show, SPIN.com has an article/review of the show along with a few pictures.

Now, the future. There have been various articles around the internet (and hopefully they've all been entered into our archives) where Trent has stated that although he is done touring, this does not mean that he is done making music. If there's a moment in history that this mirrors, it would be The Beatles making the decision to stop playing live. Although the Fab Four finished touring after Revolver was released, they still went on to record classic albums like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles and Abbey Road among others along with each member expanding and furthering their solo careers.

What am I getting at here? There's still a lot of story to be told in the great big, epic book of Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails. We'll keep everyone updated on what's going to happen next as soon as the news breaks. It's still a great time to be a NIN fan!"

bob hund - den lilla planeten ( arvika festival 2009)

NIN in NYC

Well, quite an interesting review from the NIN show at Bowery Ballroom the other night. This critic seems to be a fan of The Down Ward Spiral as he repeatedly comes back to the uncomfortable feelings of desperation, flawed emotional life and despair, that was Trent Reznors expressions in those days, and which got him into the big crowd arena.

I´m a big fan of Trent Reznor and his music and I´m pretty certain there´s a lot more to it than that, as I´ve listened fiercefully to every song and every piece of music in his repertoire. Here´s the review:

http://www.spin.com/articles/nine-inch-nails-what-does-goodbye-mean

Reznor izz a Twitter Quitter!

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Hey ya! I just had to write that caption, had to catch the advantage of the occasion when it occured. I read an article, "Trent Reznor is a twitter quitter" and I just distorted the words a little bit and suddenly it became funny to read, and it looks funny too (... as the artist I sometimes claim myself to be would notice). Though the contents of the article isn´t that agreeable to read it still is the painful truth, he did quit twitter, and the reason why he did it .... well, it´s not up to us to have an opinion, we´re not in his position, but it does seem to me like he is a little bit of a softy not being able to handle the situation.

As a celebrity you have to expect there are people doing bad things, saying bad things, they will threat you, whatever. The world is full of crazy people, evil minds, jealous souls, that´s frightful enough to me but it´s a fact, and when you become known as an official person you automatically become a target, in various contexts. I have friends in politics being targeted as well, and that´s not nice at all, that´s even in a smaller community and my friends are actually in within physical reach for the threat.

Now Trent Reznor may be a sensitive personality to some extent, he says he wants to interact with his fans, wants to be fair and decent, but the results to that and the reactions he had, it looks as he wasn´t at all prepared for that. I personally feel it was a lot better before, yes before he became this person mixing his everyday thoughts and feelings into it all. To me he was a musician with integrity, everything that came to our knowledge was carefully worked out and thought through, as it seemed. I interpreted his work as serious and proffesional, not just any crap made to earn money, but work that really ment something to him, an artists work, not something manufactured for a glamorous rockstar. And, I wasn´t really interested in his personal life, I just wanted his music. He is a great businessman, he´s good at that too, everyone was gaining from it, until now.

I would have, and I think most of his fans would, been pleased enough to be informed of his musical thoughts and plans, of course we would want the man to feel happy and have a reasonable good life, but we don´t care so much about girlfriends, and kids, his falling outs, scandals and trials and stuff ... that´s his life and I don´t even fucking know the guy!! I just couldnt care less. Now there are mad and evil women sending verbal attacks onto his girlfriend, and himself, making him leaving Twitter, so he says. That is the price you have to pay, I guess, as a celebrity if you´re much too openhearted and frank about your lovelife on the microbloggs. That´s a pity of course, it sucks if you ask me, but I´m in my strongest belief it just couldn´t have come as a surprise to this guy, he´s not like a twenty-year-old teenage star, he´s an experienced musician in his early forties. Maybe, I just say maybe, he didn´t think it through before he started it, maybe, just maybe, he should have stuck to the former plan, thinking things through before making a statement, thus keeping his integrity.