| practical mentr0nix |
[Dec. 4th, 2009|02:55 am] |
there is a better way, all it takes is belief and true commitment!! refusal to settle is essential, the universe rewards authenticity, even if it at times it must come with sacrifice and hard times....... change is evolutional!
[/cheer-leady philosophizing] ^+^+^+^ |
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| so... some updates |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|10:06 pm] |
a few things :::
1. i'm on the new Foot Village record, cassette version :::
http://deathbombarc.bigcartel.com/product/foot-village-anti-magic-cd-lp
2. i started a new blog, originally for my more politically oriented postings, but will probably expand to encompass my ish that is more "sophisticated", i.e. actual article or essay style things that aren't super brief random postings or "updates". assuming i don't abandon it, that is. i probably won't be updating it all that often. but it looks really cool :::
http://citizentleilax.wordpress.com
3. myspace seems really dead these days, it's just the trend to be active on facebook now. so i'm using it regularly. hit me up there if you like :::
http://www.facebook.com/dbenetleilax
4. i played a really awesome show the other night, and i'm posting the flyer here even though it's over. baseck made it and i think it's really cute.
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| factual affirmation |
[Oct. 7th, 2009|03:43 am] |
my artistic expression is unique
my flavors are potent
there is no way
posterity won't appreciate
the things i have made
if there shall exist
any true scholars
of the subtle variances
available within human perspective |
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| 1925 pounds of meat |
[Oct. 5th, 2009|05:21 pm] |
that i didn't eat!
October is my anniversary for being vegetarian & vegan....... 7 years veggie, 1 year vegan. I started wholly for ethical reasons, though i've also now seen a vast amount of super well-documented research on why a diet w/out meat & dairy is much healthier in general. if you're interested in that aspect, one tiny starting place is www.cancerproject.org... among other things, they have a free downloadable PDF book that is almost 300 pages long about foods that prevent and fight cancer.
In addition to being more healthy, it's also an economic protest against what i view as a totally corrupt, cruel, and disgusting industry. anyone who understands the law of supply and demand knows that abstaining from meat significantly affects the industry. according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the average American eats roughly 275 pounds of meat per year. say there were only 1000 vegetarians in America... that would mean there needs to be at least 275,000 more pounds of meat on the market!! that in itself, is a lot! well there are WAY more than 1000 vegetarians, and they are making a HUGE impact on the size of the meat industry.
and it helps the environment as well, since the meat industry wastes TONS of water, TONS of food, and pollutes the groundwater and the air in MAJOR amounts! there's tons and tons of documentation about this... for example, a meat-eating diet requires 4,000 gallons of water a day, whereas a vegetarian diet requires only 300 gallons a day. vegan even less. according to the california department of water resources, one single hamburger patty takes 616 gallons of water to produce. that's a lot of water, especially in areas (like california) having serious droughts which don't have much hope of improving until all forms of human production & consumption habits change.
so basically not eating meat is a winning lifestyle choice in pretty much every possible way - health, ethics, environment-- and money too, since meat is more expensive. and don't even bring up the disease-causing blobs they call meat in fast food!! if that's all you eat, i urge you to consider where you'll be in 20 or 30 years... a myriad of studies point to the hospital.
oh yeah, veggies & vegans who pay even the smallest amount of attention to their diet have absolutely NO problem with protein... that's the biggest stereotype there is about this, as if protein is for some reason the most important element in a person's diet, which it totally isn't. people who have no real understanding of nutrition are always quick to ask if veggies are getting enough protein. newsflash! plants have protein!! what they should be asking is, what happens if people get WAY TOO MUCH protein from all the meat they're eating?? cuz that's a far more common problem!!!! |
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| typing speed... |
[Sep. 30th, 2009|03:58 pm] |
according to www.typeracer.com i have an average typing speed of ~90 WPM... haven't measured for years and it's faster than i thought! |
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| still boycotting nestle... |
[Sep. 25th, 2009|05:27 pm] |
the nestle boycott from ages ago should have never ended--they may have stopped one particular instance of hideous irresponsibility, but they've continued full force with many others.... (water terrorism & major ecological disruption)
back in the day (before my time) there was a worldwide boycott against nestle for having their employees go into super poor south american country villages masquerading as real doctors to convince the poverty-stricken women that they need to buy nestle's baby formula instead of breast-feeding their babies. in addition to that never being more beneficial anyway, nestle's formula was also contaminated and led to tons of baby deaths. despicable!!! |
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| midnight advice |
[Sep. 22nd, 2009|12:34 am] |
if there's ever a legitimately good choice, i highly suggest choosing that one even if it doesn't seem "realistic" compared to the other options (i.e. "throwing your vote away"). the pragmatism of "lesser evils" is self-defeating: the universe rewards authenticity. ^+^ |
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