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Today is the first real day of rain up here in the Pacific Northwest. It started early and was quite loud. We get a lot of rain up here and I don’t mind it since that sort of weather has some character. It’s weather that is bland and dull grey-white with a humidity that I mind. That weather has terrible character. I got some homework done yesterday which is new for me since I usually slack on Saturday. Now I can enjoy the stormy weather warm inside and watch a movie or something.

It’s Saturday Friday was a busy one (well not really) but I didn’t post anything. I was thinking about how technology will be a survival issue. Not just the dependence on it but also the willingness to understand it. I find myself in an odd place. I don’t like cellular phones or PDAs or anything like that but I realize that if I am going to be alive for another 60 years or so chances are these pieces of technology will be the standard. Everyone will need to use and understand how to operate these things in order to function in our Post-Modern Post Industrial service sector world. I wonder how in terms of evolution and such this technological revolution will weed out those foolish illiterates who are too stubborn and too bother to learn this stuff and “get with the program”? Will those of us who are young and out of the loop simply be incapable of functioning under this new world order?

For an acting class I’m taking at the local college I have to go see their performance of Romeo and Juliet. Granted this will be the first time I will see this play in a live theatre format but I’ve read it twice already for school in both 8th grade and as a High school freshman and I’m tired of the story. It has its moments with the swords and daggers and stuff but damn. Here I am at a place of higher learning and I’m going to see a play that I already had to deal with when 10 years ago. I know there are better plays out there this is just the luck of the draw but damn if I don’t seriously dislike being stuck in a theatre for 2 hours to see something I just don’t want to see. More often then not I’m finding that even while studying some field that I would like to like I just don’t.

Film and cinema and acting and all that showbiz crap is still school work if you study it in school.

As I force myself to sit down and write this I wonder why it is that at some point life seems to become a series of things we need to do want to do and ultimately will not do so much more often than not. I suppose the evolutionary answer to this question might postulate on our hunter gatherer pre-agrarian ancestral roots to justify this natural inclination for laziness. But now it is a dilemma. People work because they need to survive and it is said that we work that much harder now but I figure it is more that our career has become so connected to our sense of identity. Who knows this might not be a bad thing. There are still creative people that do fun things and people that live their lives but it seems that the average person is perfectly happy doing nothing. So we come from nothing and spend our existence pretty much inclined to do nothing all waiting to go back to nothing. All Existential woe aside. I’m not claiming that if I built a shed I would be doing something of great value for the human race or anything like that. It is more an issue of personal value and it seems odd to me that intentions and ideology often amount to nil due to this inexplicable lethargy.

Though my matter of fact style might appear that I’m being sarcastic I do wish my brother and his band good luck and have spoken to some people at the college radio station about getting them to play a live session when they feel ready. Sarcasm died with the 90’s in my opinion, though a wry wit for irony is still nice.

I was just invited to leave from my brother’s rock band. I think it’s a good thing since I don’t really like “rock” music and was only capable of playing rudimentary chords on a keyboard. I wish the new trio (they got ride of the bass player too) good luck with their process and hope that their second honeymoon period is something that will help them to get out of the creative rut.