Frank's Blog

Much for a rant?

fr — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:58:32 +0000

Aside from the slander and hate speeches against Wal-mart and McDonalds, and in general all other corporate targets that have been accused of corrupting and destroying our planet and its fragile micro/macro economies, there are ways that we can all help to set things right. I feel quite ashamed of how consumerism alone has shaped the growth of corporate market shares to the point that the “at all costs” approach has become accepted. You can watch all the documentaries out, I have seen my share, but still I find that there isn’t much I can do but support the right causes and buy only from what I support (but habits are hard to break). But there are countless web sites aiming to coordinate support for the just as numerous causes. To name a few I support:

http://www.eff.org/ – “EFF is the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world.”

http://www.credoaction.com/ – Part of an organized network supporting just causes through its own mobile, credit card, and long distance company. Just sign up for email updates on pressing issues and as simple as one click you can send a pre-written email to the right people to make change happen.

http://www.takepart.com/ – Is a public fora to making public world affairs and topical climates with the ability to bring change through social action and publication.

It’s impossible to say that you don’t care about your own future, and you may not be willing to take time to support various causes, but it is important that you know what is going on in this world so that you do find something worth standing up for.

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Curing Boredom w/ Gimp

fr — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:56:24 +0000

Been reading Goethe, stories and poems on the human condition. It’s kind of weird how long it took me before I realized that I was ‘human;’ I always saw myself immune to pain and sickness until I was about 17 I think. I just know I treated my body like dog treats its chew toy. Through the daily pains and emotional battering I’ve taken, I still find some comfort reading about misfortune and moral stories of comic and romantic tragedies. Only if I could soon find my calling and place in life, something to cement my past where it should stay. I don’t have aspirations to be an artist, I do want to try my hand at writing a novel, but mostly I want to become good at everything I care to try and do it without gaining attention. In the story of Faust, a German intellectual, Faust picks his head up from a book to find himself as always in his dark study locked away from the world and with nothing to show for his accumulated wealth of knowledge. After venturing outside one day, he is followed home by a spirit that transforms into a human figure. This human figure offers him the world at his fingertips, but Faust being old and having missed out on so much life has to offer asks for youth and pleasure. The devil tells him he cannot be made young again but offers him all the pleasures and confidences of youth, at a price of coarse. And you can imagine where it goes, I feel like I might be in regret for my ‘wasted’ time spent reading and watching movies in the comfort of my home; I’ve lost a lot of friends this past year and haven’t cared to fill the void just yet. But… It’s a new year.

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Must see in 2010

fr — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:07:58 +0000

In no particular order, here are the movies of 2010 that I cannot wait to see. I will of coarse be updating this post as I find more or see more trailers of upcoming movies.

Alice in Wonderland – Release Date: Friday, March 5th, 2010

Prince of Persia – Friday, May 28th, 2010

Twilight Eclipse – Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 – Friday, November 19th, 2010

Tron Legacy – Friday, Dec 17th, 2010

Day Breakers – Friday, Jan 8th, 2010

Legion – Friday,Jan 22nd, 2010

Percy Jackson & the Olympians – Feb 12th, 2010

Clash of the Titans – Friday, Mar 26th, 2010

And just to mention a few others…

Robin Hood – Friday, May 14th, 2010
Iron Man 2 – Friday, May 7th, 2010

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What’s New

fr — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:43:46 +0000

So I’ve had some inspiration this last week to work on my table. I don’t think of myself as an artist at all, just like to try things out when I get bored. At the present I’m doing a Mexican inspired Day of the dead mural on one side of the table. When I get done drawing it out I might color it in before clear coating it. Here are the pics.

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Now listening too…

fr — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:27:22 +0000

From one of my favorite bands, some of the best lyrics I’ve heard ever.

From First to Last – Featuring some of your favorite words

words don’t seem to come so easy
when I need them oh so badly
here’s to playing tug of war with my vocal chords
maybe I can give this another
shot or sing about a broken
heart, or immitate the way it feels
if this was happening for real

this distance seems closer
when you shove it in my face
this moment has left me with nothing else to say
I’m losing my interest with these empty pages
they’re torn they have frayed edges

this dusty book
is botheres by my rusty eye and I can’t see
no, I can’t breathe
put me on the next page outta here
to live forever on this paper
capture this void and fill it with the frenzy in my voice

killing time by drawing face that stare back at me from the margins
in a sea of 8 and a half by elevens
I’m drowing in…
treading through run on sentences
and sinking into empty text
ill swallow the salt
and spit a few dry words out

this distance seems closer
when you shove it in my face
this moment has left me with nothing else to say
I’m losing my interest with these empty pages
they’re torn they have frayed edges

this dusty book
is bothered by my rusty eye and I can’t see
no, I can’t breathe
put me on the next page outta here
to live forever on this paper
capture this void and fill it with the frenzy in my voice

no matter what I say, no matter what I write here I’m sick of always lookin at this page with a blank stare
you never seem to know, and they never seem to tell you
words don’t always come as easily as you might want them to

throw this paper into fire and take me with it
just take me with it
throw this paper into fire, into fire, yeah
throw this paper into fire, into this fire
throw this paper into fire and throw me with it
just throw me with it

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Updates

fr — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:45:53 +0000

Added a page for you to view/comment/request/vote on my header images. I would like to know which one best suits my blog or which one you like the best. I will be adding them as I make more and am willing to make some for anyone not proficient enough to create their own. Let me know what you think.

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Hopenhagen

fr — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:46:03 +0000

only 53 days left now for the online petition, please take a look at it and sign it if you agree what it stands for.

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Works in progress!

fr — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:08:33 +0000

Its been about a month now since I had a very vivid dream, with a powerful movie intro to start my mind off into this dream and procession of ideas that followed I believe that I could put together quite a good book, short story, or screenplay. Being my first large-scale writing I have been writing down a lot of ideas and plot twists that I think should be included. All of which I have yet to have decided on where the story is to go, what it should represent as far as thematic elements, but I do have a great idea of how I wish the main character is to be carried through the plot. I’m leaning toward it being a representation of humans’ fear of the unknown and our fixation on the thought of immortality or such a life after death. More directly stated I wish to have a murderous figure cast in darkness and unseen by mortal eyes to bring out a change in the daily life of the society it burdens, one which reflects greater philosophical writings on the human condition and or responses to it.

In reading this, if anyone, I hope that some comment or suggestions will come my way for the development of my story and I might even make this a joint online effort, possibly to start an open-source development on a publishable work with an open commons license or such…

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