Experience Love

"You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect - you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there." 
— Bob Marley

I Wish The World Was at Peace

Art By Banksy

I wish America correct the reasons other countries hate us.  Tonight I posed an open ended question on my facebook "How do we fix relations between the US and the Middle East?" and got pretty much a statistically predicted response based on an internet article I was reading about hot to form a non biased opinion of the Middle East.

Here is that excerpt

Americans Do Not Know the Reasons

Reading the summary of the reasons in the third part of this essay will shed light on the mindset and feelings of those who do not like America. Americans themselves do not know or understand the reasons. In the poll I refer to below where Americans were asked to pick the main reason "why those who attacked us and their supporters hate the United States?", the 26% of Americans who answered in the top category surely do not have a grip on reality!

They hate us because of:

1. our democracy and freedom" (26%)
2. "our support for Israel" (22%)
3. "our values and way of life" (20%), and
4. "our influence on the economy and lives of Middle Eastern countries" (17%).
5. our economic and military power (11%).

Harris Interactive poll (2001)₈

Points 1 and 3 together make about half the population who apparently suffer from severe solipsistic confusion about the world. The media critic Nick Davies blames much of this ignorance on the media, whose selective reporting leads to an imbalanced view of the world:

As seen by this article about 50% of people do not even realize that we instigated tensions with the Middle East not visa versa.  Yes, they live very differently than us but that is no reason to go to war and oppose the people.  I know it is not polite to talk about politics but I wanted to prove a point, half of peoples responses were out of ignorance and half were out of a basic understanding.  I will not post any of these out of respect for their writes all being friends of mine.  In conclusion I will state I whole heartedly support our troops, they don't decide wars they handle them.  Seek the truth on issues and do not believe everything you are told. I wish there were more people like Ghandi in the world. 

"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it." Mohandas Ghandi

Educate Yourself

Think About It...

Sublime Music For a Sublime Life

If I could party with anyone it would definitely be Brad Nowell.  Not because I wanna be a celebrity or any fake shit like that.  I can tell by his music that he was a dude with some personality.  Good vibes, good music, good beaches, and bad bitches; he lived the life.  Its funny to think that the same place I live is where his band made their rise to fame.  Guess I was born a little too late.

24 Hours Till I'm Back In Cali

Got a lot of friends and family to see.  Got a lot of things to do, In N Out, Hollywood, Thanksgiving Dinner, Skim Sesh.  It's strange most people I talk to are going home to relax. I'm hitting the ground running, livin every opportunity like it's my last chance.  Enjoy the things you have and the people in your life and especially enjoy the time you share with other people, its fit to run out.


“Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count.”


Think About It

New Kanye Album

From the cover itself its very clear Kanye West started with the theme of "art".  The Beginning of the album starts with the song Dark Fantasy which samples a poem spoken by Niki Minaj then comes in with a singing sample and drops right into Kanye killing a beat with the choral samples coming in and out of music.  The album features not only a multitude of modern day famous musician but includes musical interludes and even a spoken part by Chris Rock which is supposed to imitate the boyfriend of Kanye's ex girlfriend and his thankfulness that Kanye taught her how to treat a real man.  The album is in my opinion unmatched by anything that has ever come out in the rap genre there is even a point when Rick Ross comes in after a minute long guitar solo.  I theorize that the music world is slowly diverging back to including real talented music and will bring the rap genre with it, but no matter what Kanye West just changed the rap game and I believe it is a very good direction.

Wake Up Early and Workout

Never had a better day and there was nothing significant about it.  Life just feels right.

Back To Basics

Got up with my friend Nathan Rockwell this morning at 7am to workout.  Got back to my room at 8:50 and showered.  Don't have class till 12 so it looks like I'll be able to get some serious studying in before class.  Then I'm going to bible study tonight.  Finally getting my life back to where it should be.  Man it feels good.  Think about it...