green things

So I was looking up bio pages on Ayn Rand for a mini-report I'm doing on famous women. I've read parts of Atlas Shrugged, but to my shame I ahven't finished yet. It's slow, difficult reading, and I keep getting distracted for long periods of time. I like it, but haven't finished it.

While looking up articles, I ended up reading this one, which mentions Rand, but is actually by someone else, and goes into the Big Evil Lie that apparently is environmentalism.

Dude, maybe because I've grown up in a very Democratic state in an area chock full of liberals that have fouled my young mind with early environmentalist propaganda, but the article just made me laugh. I love whales, I love trees, and I having been several times as a youth to some of the only places on Earth you can still find giant Redwood trees, I simply can't take seriously anyone who says environmentalism is a joke.

We had a guy come visit us for Thanksgiving the year before last who was from Kentucky. He came up with my brother from the Naval base in San Diego. And you know what he wanted to do, when we asked him? He wanted to see Redwood trees, because he never had before. He wanted to go to a Northern California beach, absorb all the scenery he could.

When I was visited DC and Virginia last September, I spent forever it seemed just staring out at the psychotically green hills.

There's two young people, raised in entire different areas of the continent and country, and we both wanted the same thing when we visited other places. Absorb nature. That means something.

That tourists flock to Yosemite National Park every year (and god it's so funny listening to them talk about their expectations of California) to see the landscape and environment, means something.

That I've been down to LA at least 8 times and at each visit swore I'd never live in that city because of smog, means something.

Now, Ayn Rand was doing her philosophy half a century ago, before environmentalism had become the reality that it is today. I wish I knew when this article was written, so I could frame it with my response. But I don't.

But it still makes me think about oil drilling in Alaska, and extinct animal species, and a host of other things.

Makes me stare at George Bush's lips moving pointlessly on the tv screen and wanna say aloud, "Dang dude, what's wrong with you? Who doesn't like trees anyway?"

a. m. v.

In my frenzied decision of latching onto everything Cowboy Bebop lately to stem my loss of Buffy, I've been watching several music videos. Not enough, of course, because there's nowhere near as many CB vids on the web as there are Buffy, but one makes do.

I swear, if I have to watch you-know-who get shot and die beautifically with a flock of birds one more time, I'll break my monitor.

I mean, hell, there were a whole TWENTY FOUR episodes before The Real Folk Blues, why don't people draw on those for clip source material?

Case in point: I spent a long time last night downloading a CB vid to the Rolling Stones song I love, "Paint It Black". An excellent choice for a Spike Spiegel song, very dark and bitter and action-y.

And what do they do? They fuck it up. It had a promising start with some fast editing that made good use of eyes and faces, but then swan dived quickly into coring convention. The clips are so I might as well have just watched episodes 5, 25, and 26, with this song on as reapeat in the background.

This is so disappointing. sisabet was right. I should do it myself.

So here's a resolution:

By June next year (hopefully at least some of ya will still be around and talking to me by that point), I'll be working on a music video of my own.

I will upgrade my computer, get space, get software, find clips, put it all together, and even submit the freaking thing to a big-name website.

Hah. As for what fandom-- I'll work that out at the time.


EDIT: I watched Nightmare Drusilla's Spuffy vid to "Every Me Every You"-- yay! I've been wanting to see a vid to that ever since the middle of last year. She did pretty decently too... I didn't understand the significance or intentions behind some of the clips she used, but overall it was cool. And there was one really sexy clip transition she did from the medallion begining to work in the FE's cave in Chosen to Spike punching Fire!Hands in Lurky's cave in Grave, to the line "Something blue." Niiiiiice.

fanfiction

This CB fic I'm writing is now taking on actual plot-i-ness in my head. All these ideas are bombarding me. It's scary, but I hope it will make it easeir for me to keep at it.

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I just snorted coke.

The soda and up my nose, unfortunately.