first things first, i just got through reading an awesome book.
other than that, it's good friday which means that jesus will be dead from about 3:30 pm today 'til about 9 am sunday which means we can do whatever we want without getting in trouble in the meantime.
this sort of reminds me of the time a friend of mine who was a biological engineering major showed me a letter he'd gotten from his mother who was an evangelical christian (yes, he was rebelling). nonchalantly in her letter she made a reference to being "washed in the blood of jesus christ from head to toe". now i'm agnostic and all; but that was pretty freaky, like something you'd read in an eighteenth century book about someone who'd read one of the apocrypha and gone insane. damn, it gave me some ideas though... are there any girls out there who'd like to bathe in lambs blood?
John said at 2:32 AM 03-30-2002: I am also agnostic. But my relatives are a bunch of god fearing catholics. Every Easter they invite me to attend church with them and my parents still ask me at Easter dinner if I have been to Easter mass yet and when do I plan on going, etc. I usually lie and tell them that I have to work or something. If I told them that I no longer believed in that crap, that Catholic school had failed to brainwash me, then I would surely be written out of the will.
kiche [email] said at 11:54 AM 03-30-2002: i don't mind going to mass for easter (although i won't tomorrow, most likely) or christmas (especially midnight mass, that's actually cool). it's that whenever i go to my parents house on a sunday i have to go with them to keep up appearances.
i can't believe they expect you to go to mass every sunday.
Courtney [ url ] said at 11:44 PM 03-30-2002: My family is full of Catholics (guess it comes with the territory of being Filipino). I was rasied Catholic, endured the plaid skirts and polyester blouses for 8 years. I now think religion is just a bunch of trouble. It's what's caused a lot of major wars recently.
Boy, did my parents waste a lot of money on my schooling, or what?
kiche [email] said at 1:58 AM 03-31-2002: it really could have been worse. they could have been southern baptist, jehovah's witnesses, or gone to a tent outside of town where you danced with rattle snakes and cotton mouths.
kiche [email] said at 12:11 PM 03-31-2002: i grew up catholic. everyone talks about how catholicism fucks you up, but i don't think it fucks you up as bad as fundamentallists, evangellicals, and apocalyptic type religions.
Rob [ url ] said at 3:31 PM 03-30-2002: Steven Soderburgh is making a movie of Solaris with George Clooney. http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/filmlistingsFramed.html
zack [email] said at 4:27 PM 03-30-2002: There's also a russian version that I haven't seen (by that director who's name I can't remember.. oh yeah, Tarkovsky! Thank you google). It's supposed to be awesome, and I doubt the hollywood remake will be as weird as either version. I'd like to read that book.
nathan [email] said at 3:18 AM 08-13-2002: It's at Major Video on Perkins. I just watched. It's pretty flawless, exciting, and interesting. The scenes of pastoral Russia are some of the most beautiful and strange scenes I've seen in movies. I really doubt Soderbergh will do this justice, especially bringing Clooney along. In my opinion, Soderbergh hasn't developed beyond mediocre. I think the script and actors of S,L&V were its best elements.
kiche [email] said at 11:37 AM 04-01-2002: the above pictures where taken at a bar called swim on the lower east side. craig's picture was taken on ground level at the table we were sitting at. kara's picture was taken downstairs in an unlit room that was where the bathroom was.
sorry, i would reply to your response, but the reply to pop up windows don't come up at this computer.
kiche [email] said at 11:47 AM 04-01-2002: hey, does anyone out there know of any good books i should be reading? i spend a lot of time on the train so i probably will read them if you suggest them to me.
as with all my posts you don't have to be a member of killoggs or even know me to give me a suggestion. just click the link that says: [Reply to this] ; below these words and fill out the reply to pop up window. or, if that doesn't work, scroll down to the bottom of the page and fill out "Respond" section down there.
xmx said at 12:19 PM 04-01-2002: because i responded to kiche's reply a minute after he posted it. and on second thought, looking at the book you just finished reading, maybe the muse asylum isn't the best recommendation.
i can't believe you're really reading that book, milky.
Nathan d. k. said at 1:43 AM 04-05-2002: Of the sci-fi genre I recommend, "The Man in the High Tower," by Phillip K. Dick, or, "The Transmigration of Timothy Archer," which has alot of really odd ideas about the beginnings of Christianity.
nathan [email] said at 3:14 AM 08-13-2002: Watch out if you're going to read books by this guy, he lost his mind and 3/4 of his books are nutcase stories.
zack [email] said at 2:20 PM 04-02-2002: Yeah, Lem is one of those writers I have always meant to read something by. Unfortunately, my reading habits have gotten really bad in the last several years. I used to read several books a month, and now all I read is comics and the internet, with the occasional book thrown in. LAME. Of course, free time is definitely a factor. I used to be an unemployed non-student, and now I'm a double job full time student. Not to say that that's the real reason I read less.
nathan [email] said at 3:12 AM 08-13-2002: Again, about this subject, Will is right. There is no more time in life to put off reading Lem. "The Cyberiad", which I just finished is better than Calvino, Borges, Carroll, Voltaire.
kiche [email] said at 11:21 AM 04-04-2002: hmmm... killoggers need to read more. a lot of you don't even have favorite books listed on your profiles.
i will get around to reading the suggested books after i finish reading the autobiograph of malcolm x (yes, i feel like such a white poser reading it).
if anyone out there should happen across this page and have any suggested books for me to read, please put them on here. i will be checking back here periodically to see what books i need to be reading.
anotherben said at 11:36 AM 04-04-2002: heres the list i am working thru...
(1) Glass Bead Game--Herman Hesse
(2) Steppenwolf--Herman Hesse
(3) Magic Mountain-- Thomas Mann
(4) Lolita-- Vladimer Nobakov
(5) Wait Until Spring, Bandini-- John Fante
(6) Catch 22-- Joseph Heller
(7) The Sun Also Rises-- Hemingway
(8) Tropic of Cancer-- Henry Miller
(9) Beowolf--Author Unknown
(10) The Awakening and Other Stories--Kate Chopin
(11) The Importance of Being Earnest-- Oscar Wilde
(12) The Sound and the Fury-- William Faulkner
(13) Lord Jim-- Joseph Conrad
(14) Heart of Darkness-- Joseph Conrad
(15) The Bostonians-- Henry James
(16) The American-- Henry James
(17) The Lord of the Rings
(18) U.S.A. (A Trilogy)-- Dos Passos
(19) Finnegan’s Wake--James Joyce
(20) One Hundred Years of Solitude--Marquez
(21) Animal Farm--George Orwell
(22) The Catcher in the Rye-- J.D. Salinger
(23) Nine Short Stories-- J.D. Salinger
(24) Slaughter House Five-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(25) Breakfast of Champions-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
(26) Crime and Punishment-- Dostoyevsky
(28) The Book of Thel -- William Blake
(29) Watership Down-- Richard Adams
(30) Lady Chaterly’s Lover-- D.H. Lawrence
(31) Sons and Lovers-- D.H. Lawrence
(32) Women in Love-- D.H. Lawrence
(33) Sophies Choice-- William Styron
(34) Anthem-- Ayn Rand
(35) The Fountainhead-- Ayn Rand
(36) Confederacy of Dunces-- O’Toole
(37) An American Tragedy-- Dreiser
(38) Kim-- Rudyard Kipling
(39) The Color Purple-- Alice Walker
(40) The Invisible Man-- Ralph Elison
(41) Native Son-- Richard Wright
(42) The Rabbit Series -- John Updike
(43) Deliverance-- James Dickey
(44) Mysteries-- Knut Hamsun
(45) Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Universe-- Douglas Adams
(46) Lord of the Flies-- William Golding
(47) This Side of Paradise-- Fitzgerald
(48) The Gulag Archipelago-- Alexander Solientzen
(49) Winesburg, Ohio-- Sherwood Anderson
(50) Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas-- Hunter S. Thompson
(51) Of Human Bondage-- Maugham
(52) Of Mice and Men-- Steinbeck
(53) Brave New World-- Huxley
(54) Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass-- Lewis Carroll
(55) Juliette-- Marquis de Sade
milky [email] said at 12:45 PM 04-04-2002: (1)Bomb The Suburbs-- Wimsatt
(2)No More Prisons-- Wimsatt
(3)Johnny Got His Gun-- Trumbo
(4)The Ghosts of Medgar Evers-- Morris
(5)Permanent Midnight-- Stahl
(6)Feeling Good-- Burns
(7)My Dog Skip-- Morris
(8)The Cannery Row-- Steinbeck
(9)Spin Cycle-- Kurtz
(10)Into the Wild-- Krakauer
(11)What Do I Say When...-- Solomon
(12)Last Man Standing-- Olsen
(13)Stupid White Men-- Moore
Some books I haven't read entirely. And you know that I read whatever is around, even if it is garbage. This is a list I'd recommend, though.
P.S.--Haven't read the last book on the list. Something tells me you already are.
dave said at 4:38 PM 04-05-2002: Well, here a list of books I wish I had more time to get to:
(1) The Demon-Haunted World & Intelligent Life in the Universe-2 titles by Carl Sagan
(2) Aldous Huxley-The Human Situation
(3) Darkness At Noon-Arthur Koestler
(4) Why I Am Not a Christian, and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects-Bertrand Russell
(5) Measuring Eternity-Martin Gorst
(6) Our Cosmic Habitat-Martin Rees
(7) anything by David Hume
(8) Stupid White Men-Michael Moore
The Moore title is obviously the anomaly in this list, but I have such respect for Mr. Moore and his cause(s) that anything by him, while it may not be "world-class literature", is worth reading. Having read the jacket to the Huxley book, it seems a bit out of my realm, but like Moore, any idea of his is worth investigating.
