Are You A Dreamer?

Person 1: Hey, are you a dreamer?

Person 2: Yeah.

Person 1: I haven’t seen too many around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore.
It’s not dead, it’s just that it’s been forgotton.
Removed from our language.
Nobody teaches it so no one knows it exists. The dreamer’s banished to obscurity.

Well I’m trying to change all that and I hope you are too.
By dreaming.
Everyday.
Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds. Our planet is facing the greatest problems it’s ever faced.
Ever.
So whatever you do, don’t be bored. This is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive.

And things are just starting.

Person 2: Hey thanks.

Person 1: Not a problem.

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I heard this here (mp3 file).
I really liked it, so I did a bit of googling and found out it orignally came from the film Waking Life.

The Kleptones

The Kleptones, a mashup group has a new "album" entitled "24". It's a free download either as individual mp3 files or they have a torrent file for the whole thing, although yesterday, the torrent wasn't working for me (and it downloaded w/the wrong file name).

I downloaded the mp3s and burned a couple of CDs this morning (it's two disks worth of songs). Listened on the way to work, so I've only made it thru about a half dozen songs or so, but I'm pretty impressed so far! Track 3, "Down on Bennies" has Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets" for the vocal track, and it was several lines in before I figured out where it came from! Good mixing!

Their website has some other things they've done, so when I finish this one, I'll have to check out some more of their work.

On a completely different note, I've been neglecting this blog for the past month or so. I'm trying to come up with a bit more to post here. Most of my blogging lately has been a bit political, and I've been mostly moving that over to my GNN blog. I've also fallen down on keeping up with some of the blogs I read fairly regularly such as Mr. Titan's and Molly's. I'm going to get back on schedule for those also.

Making Us Safe

If the result of the 2004 U.S. presidential election was really legit, then George W. Bush pretty much won it by running on the platform that he would better protect the U.S. from future terrorist attacks than his opponent John Kerry. George Will, conservative op/ed columnist and TV pundit, who should be a natural ally/constituent of Bush and his merry band of "conservatives" doesn't seem conviced that George is getting the job done. In 2002, Bush referred to the "axis of evil" (nothing like a good buzz-phrase to fire up the citizens), naming Iraq, Iran and North Korea as the members of said axis. Will currently concludes that all three members of the "axis of evil" - Iran, North Korea and, despite major U.S. intervention, Iraq - "are more dangerous than when that term was coined in 2002".

That would seem to indicate Mr. Bush is accomplishing the exact opposite of what he has pledged to accomplish. I stand by my prediction. George W. Bush will ultimately be judged as one of the worst presidents in U.S. history.