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Jan. 10th, 2007 06:25 amI picked up that video two nights ago while Mom dropped Marie off at work. I told Mom that we'd watch it as a family on a night when everyone was home.
Yesterday, Mom drove Marie to some shopping mall while we went to a meeting with Dr. Perret. While I was there, I told him about why I would like to drop out of ACLD, and he said that I am free to do that as long as I gave it a try. The only other topic I brought up was about pop songs. I do like the way they sound, but the topic of love is really annoying since it's pretty much all a lot of singers ever talk about (as if there's nothing else in this world to talk about). One of the most obnoxious lines I ever heard (which was on the way to the ACLD Christmas banquet) was "and everytime we kiss, I feel I can fly." I told him about my writing teacher's sarcastic lecture about love, and that YouTube video he showed us, which featured three guys going to a club, asking a girl to dance with them, and then moshing her. (They didn't touch her anywhere with their hands, but the teacher did say that it was rather aggressive). In response to "We all know that when people say they're looking for love, they're really looking for sex," Dr. Perret said that it's only a half-truth, and that a lot of people do look for affection.
Mom then dropped me off at Borders while she went to pick Marie up. I looked at some player's guides, volume 12 of Sgt. Frog (briefly), an issue of Sonic the Hedgehog (not Sonic X), and even an issue of some magazine called AdBusters. In the last item mentioned, I found this double page featuring two points of view from an American soldier and an Iraqi soldier, both titled Why I Fight. ( Read more... )
When Mom came to get me, she had to run back to the mall to exchange the perfume she bought for some other brand. On the way home, she and Marie smelled the perfume quite vividly, and thought it smelled bloody, but I didn't smell anything. She asked me if, whenever she cooked, I could smell dinner, and I told her that I probably have a somewhat passive sense of smell than other people do.
I then told her about what I read in that Adbusters magazine, and what her opinion of the current war was. She believes that it's not our place to step into Iraq and show them the "correct" way to be governed. I agree with her; our original goal was to hunt down Osama bin Laden, not to bring down some corrupt government. Some stuff was also brought up about the Vietnam War: Dad and Uncle Ray's contrasting opinions of that war, the botched war speech from Forrest Gump, etc. Dad didn't serve in the Vietnam War, but says that the it was a stupid war to start. Uncle Ray, however, did serve in the war, and had a positive opinion of it. (By the way, I did tell Uncle Ray what Dad thought of the war when we visited Grandma just weeks ago, and Mom told me in the car that I shouldn't tell him what to think of the war.) As for Forrest Gump, I brought up the inference that he didn't know what he was reading and most likely thought he was being forced to read a positive speech to the masses. Since he couldn't remember much of the speech, his only line was something along the lines of "Do what's right for your country." When someone asked him for his opinion, he blurted out "IT'S A LOAD OF S**T!!!!!"
Yesterday, Mom drove Marie to some shopping mall while we went to a meeting with Dr. Perret. While I was there, I told him about why I would like to drop out of ACLD, and he said that I am free to do that as long as I gave it a try. The only other topic I brought up was about pop songs. I do like the way they sound, but the topic of love is really annoying since it's pretty much all a lot of singers ever talk about (as if there's nothing else in this world to talk about). One of the most obnoxious lines I ever heard (which was on the way to the ACLD Christmas banquet) was "and everytime we kiss, I feel I can fly." I told him about my writing teacher's sarcastic lecture about love, and that YouTube video he showed us, which featured three guys going to a club, asking a girl to dance with them, and then moshing her. (They didn't touch her anywhere with their hands, but the teacher did say that it was rather aggressive). In response to "We all know that when people say they're looking for love, they're really looking for sex," Dr. Perret said that it's only a half-truth, and that a lot of people do look for affection.
Mom then dropped me off at Borders while she went to pick Marie up. I looked at some player's guides, volume 12 of Sgt. Frog (briefly), an issue of Sonic the Hedgehog (not Sonic X), and even an issue of some magazine called AdBusters. In the last item mentioned, I found this double page featuring two points of view from an American soldier and an Iraqi soldier, both titled Why I Fight. ( Read more... )
When Mom came to get me, she had to run back to the mall to exchange the perfume she bought for some other brand. On the way home, she and Marie smelled the perfume quite vividly, and thought it smelled bloody, but I didn't smell anything. She asked me if, whenever she cooked, I could smell dinner, and I told her that I probably have a somewhat passive sense of smell than other people do.
I then told her about what I read in that Adbusters magazine, and what her opinion of the current war was. She believes that it's not our place to step into Iraq and show them the "correct" way to be governed. I agree with her; our original goal was to hunt down Osama bin Laden, not to bring down some corrupt government. Some stuff was also brought up about the Vietnam War: Dad and Uncle Ray's contrasting opinions of that war, the botched war speech from Forrest Gump, etc. Dad didn't serve in the Vietnam War, but says that the it was a stupid war to start. Uncle Ray, however, did serve in the war, and had a positive opinion of it. (By the way, I did tell Uncle Ray what Dad thought of the war when we visited Grandma just weeks ago, and Mom told me in the car that I shouldn't tell him what to think of the war.) As for Forrest Gump, I brought up the inference that he didn't know what he was reading and most likely thought he was being forced to read a positive speech to the masses. Since he couldn't remember much of the speech, his only line was something along the lines of "Do what's right for your country." When someone asked him for his opinion, he blurted out "IT'S A LOAD OF S**T!!!!!"