just heard that green day will be on the grammys. i hope that means performing. any 1 know for sure?
in other good news, i read a 2 great interviews with christian parenti (thank you sherry for the 1 from digger, thank you common ills for the mother jones one).
dahr jamail or christian? christian or dahr?
it's such a hard decision to make.
those of you who cited the other christian, the 1 from cnn, have it so much easier.
today, i was thinking dahr might not be a good shot. he'd be wanting to rush off and save the world but not from the bedroom and he'd be off in some dangerous place. he's like chris hedges only more so. (chris hedges has to be the hottest man at the new york times and he may be the only 1. change that to only 1 under 40. i think they have some policy that says they'll only hire you if your overweight or ugly when you're under 40. adam nagourney looks like a cod liver pill come to life for instance.)
and reading the common ills post about the late john hess really made me think:
http://thecommonills.blogspot.com/2005/01/articles-by-john-l-hess-that-you.html
here's what had me thinking:
Tori : Howard Zinn is still an important voice but he and Chomsky are not getting any younger. Gloria Steinem looks wonderful but she's getting older as well. The voices I looked to ten years ago as a teenager have largely remained strong but I'm not finding a lot of new voices to replace to them. And when we do have a new voice, it's someone like Dahr [Jamail] who's reporting from Iraq and we could lose at any minute. You asked for us to provide voices who speak to us. My voices have been covered on the blog and I've learned of Amy Goodman, Nancy Chang and Naomi Klein. But I'm hungry for additional new voices that matter so please share if you find someone who speaks to you. We'll all end up better because you do.
tori is so right. christian risks his life but comes back to this country all the time. dahr's over there hunting down the truth.
i read that last night and had the weirdest dream.
christian and dahr were 'cock knocking' around iraq. i have no idea what that term is supposed to mean but it still gives me tingles.
they were hunting down stories and trying to figure out what to do about me. 'rebecca is waiting.' and then dahr says 'i know but this is where the story is. this is where the action is.'
and christian's nodding. then dahr starts talking about my body and christian's sticks his hand in his pocket and while they're walking and talking about me, racks up a damn impressive score in pocket pool.
christian's only half listening to dahr extoll my virtues (body, mind & soul). his eyes are fluttering and his face is sweating and he's picturing me waiting back here.
dahr's saying 'it's good we're both committed to getting out this story' and christian snaps out of it and starts making up this excuse about not feeling well.
dahr looks over at him and notices he's covered in sweat. 'dude, you don't look. the sun set forever ago and you're sweating like a pig.'
christian says 'yeah, i should head back.'
and before dahr can respond, christian's out of sight and on his way to me.
tossing principals out the window, he storms into my home and announces that dahr's fallen in love with some woman in jordan and will be marrying shortly.
angry and upset, i make wild passionate love to christian.
i woke up feeling so guilty.
but then, almost a like a sign, on democracy now today, there's christian.
CHRISTIAN PARENTI: Well, I mean, yeah. Who knows what's going to happen? I can't predict. It seems that the strategy at this point is to make the Shia political leadership feel threatened by the Sunni insurgency. There's been this spate of assassination and assassination attempts and probably to essentially blackmail the Shia into continuing to accept US occupation as the price of their survival. But the fact of the matter is that the Shia leadership and the Shia rank and file, all Iraqis, want the US out and that problem is not going to go away for the US. So, how far it plays out, I don't know. But I don't think it's going to be -- I don't think this is an easy victory for the Bush Administration.
to watch the hot hot hot christian go to: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/31/1517212
so see, we got a little music, a little politics and a little sex. if you've ever heard the term "cock knocking" e-mail me because i still can't figure that 1 out.
