In the beginning....July 2002
back to archive listJuly 25, 2002
Hello everyone, welcome to my first Blog page.The name Ex Animo means from the heart and I hope to always write that way. I have been thinking a lot about writing lately. I used to write a lot more than I do now. I loved putting words together in the same way that I love mixing oil paints together. I am so out of practice now that I feel like I am chewing dry oatmeal. My plan with this blog and my other recent endeavors, is to unjam the river of my creativity. It feels strange writing a journal that i know friends and family will read. It is hard to tell the truth when you don't know who's listening. Nor how they will perceive your version of it. That's why I called it Ex Animo. To remind myself. So here is my warning to anyone out there who wishes to read more; you might not like what you find out about me in here, I may say things that offend you, I may have differing opinions, I may write things that I sorely regret, I may say something stupid or foolish, so please read with an open mind, be willing to forget what you read, and if you can't, please click on the following link now.
escape
Wow how was that for a run on sentence?
Now as for the rest of you....
uh....duh...my boogers are green...
There, that covers sounding stupid and foolish, saying things I regret and saying something that may offend you so if you still have an open mind, you may continue on...
July 25, 2002...evening
Good night everyone who visited today.I have now added, pictures, not a lot, just a few. My camera is broken so at the time being I can't add anymore. Now it's sleepytime and I am off to bed. Big day riding tomorrow. Seymore!!!
July 27, 2002
Riding again today. Weather's great for it, it is a bit cloudy so it isn't too hot for an uphill climb. But then, do we really care about the uphill climb? When we can shuttle and do downhill all day? Last night we watched Total Recall again. I haven't seen that movie in about 10 years. It made me think about a few interesting things about our society. First of all, when this movie first came out, big 80's hair on Sharon Stone was cool and angular boxy cars were the way of the future. Ergonomics? what is that? Karim Rashid wasn't even in design school yet....etc etc. You get the point. The special effects at the time were amazing and the action was fast and suspenseful. Watching it now, the effects seem cheezy, the tech is dated, and everyone seems to be reacting in slow motion. Makes you realize that we will be laughing at the "futuristic" cars in Minority report 15 years from now. Matrix effects will seem cheezy. But I think the pre-cogs will still be cool. It is interesting how action films move a lot faster now. But the most significant difference that stood out to me was the lack in surveilance technology. Movies in the 80's about the future lack the big brother element. Most movies now have some sort of surveilance tech. The first that spring to mind of course are, Matrix, Gattica and Minority Report. I think we have all become a bit desensitized to the myriad forms of surveilance. Cameras with face recognition software, Infrared cameras that allow cops to basically search your house without a warrant....or watch you having sex, software that monitors your activity, tracking devices in cel phones and in KFC chicken that remain in your body forever and you can never escape, well not really but almost. It's interesting (and disturbing) how 1984 is not required reading in schools anymore. It's also interesting (and disturbing) to note the indifference in too many Americans toward the violations to their rights and freedoms. It is also interesting (and disturbing) to note that Japanese Pizza parlours feature pizza with black squid ink instead of tomato sauce and nothing....not a god damn thing, is done about it. Now that's just wrong.Gotta go, my bike's calling me. Later.