I received music from someone, unsolicited but really welcomed. I didn’t realize just how much we shared the same tastes until I heard Deftone’s “Digital Bath” gearing up on my speakers. The first track was a killer, the second made me sit up, a few tracks later A Perfect Circle makes an appearance, down the road, Richard Ashcroft croons something meaningful. I sit back and think to myself, “I’ve got 20 tracks of great music!” and my fingers are itching to give back in kind.
She surprises me, and I don’t quite know how to think about that. Perhaps not thinking about it too much is better, hmmm?
She handed the CD she’d burned for me while I was shuffling bits and pieces of articles I’d printed for my own research. Now I feel like I’ve been blown away by one of those Al-Qaida suicide machines as I give up the ghost and immerse myself in the music again; I smile, kinda, thinking about the morbidity of that expression and then thinking about her: how strangely appropriate…
My family downstairs watches Akademi Fantasia 3 (or 4? I couldn’t be arsed, really), while I blare music in my room. Our very own DPM has characterized AF3 as some kind of degenerate occidental mistake of nature, lacking ‘Malaysian values’, a sentiment akin to Singaporean MPs deploring the loss of ‘Asian values’. I wonder how he feels about our transplanted parliamentary and legal systems. Maybe we should “get Muh-dee-val” on somebody’s asses.
I’ve been tracking down some articles on terrorism in the wake of Blair’s announcement of measures recently. Mostly because I was sitting down in the shitter and thinking about how some of his legislations have shifted the focus of the conflict from an abstract “west-vs-islam” to a more concrete “britishnationalism-vs-insurgents” phenomenon. Then I thought, “bah, the Americans did something like that post 9/11, right? What’s the bloddy difference?”
I don’t fully trust civil liberties groups because their demands seem exceedingly myopic, sometimes. I might sound pretty right-wing here, but inclusivism can be seen as a weakness when fighting faceless terrorists. Then again, there’s the sentiment that increasingly isolationist and exclusivist policies are driving countries right into terrorist hands.
But what are the alternatives? I suppose there are no easy answers, which is probably why I was driven to get some research done. What I’ve read so far, however, is increasingly pessimistic and, to be honest, lost.
I put thoughts of that aside, and sit down to check out PPS for blogathon posts…it’ll be a long night, tonight.
I sit back to listen to the music again, idly surfing through the web, wondering why I feel great.
