On the hubris of reason. -- That the rationalist can explain away the world in no uncertain terms says infinitely more about the rationalist than it does about the world.

All is not lost. -- The vanquished also gain--a newfound freedom from the sterile cage of expectation.

for mst...

What is the seal of love attained? -- To stand unadorned before another--but for a smile.

Morality's prey. -- Deeds lack the character necessary for moral valuation. A broken promise, you say? Nay--a broken promisor.

Immutability of vice. -- That a false friend makes an art form out of betrayal does not thereby make his art a virtue, but only a more refined vice.

A most painful stimulus. -- In jealousy we see the chaos of the passions as they attempt—in a furious hunger—to scratch the surface of that which they cannot reach. The passions are thereby challenged to crucify themselves, in order to be resurrected with longer arms and larger appetites. But not even the passions can take comfort in the ideal of their own self-destruction.

Waking dreams. -- The power of memory is first and foremost revelatory, for remembrance holds the key to one's ideals. Freud said that dreams were instances of wish-fulfillment, of idealism. In a sense he was correct. What he failed to realize, however, was that dreams are all too often had in the light of day.

The lover's passion. -- The lover is a martyr in disguise, for he is prepared not only to live, but to die for his love.

rain falls on everyone...

Stanford sucks.

help me hang these bones out to dry...

Stanford 71, UTSA 45.

Go Cardinal. =)

buttercups and fishing flies...

I haven't been blogging much these days. I've become rather bored with this blog. I'm thinking of eliminating the blog portion of this site, and just keeping the film review section. At any rate, something needs to change, that's for sure.

so that's how it is...

Very few things make me laugh aloud. Here's one:

Susan Perlman is associate executive director of Jews for Jesus, whose mission is "to make the messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue" for the Jewish people.

Perlman said she's confident that Jews are seeing [The Passion of the Christ] for themselves rather than letting a few Jewish critics make up their minds for them.

She added that blaming Jews, or anyone else, for killing Jesus is a non-issue because "He didn't stay dead." Perlman asked, "How can you be blamed for killing someone who is alive?"

Q.E.D.!!!

so if you're lonely...

This is my new favorite band. I just can't get enough. They're like a dance version of Joy Division. But unlike New Order, they're less pop, and more rock. Check out their first single, "Take Me Out." It's to die for...

prick your finger, it is done...

Added my review of Bertolucci's ever-impotent film, The Dreamers.

there's not much left to love...

I just read this extensive piece from The Atlantic on Bobby Fischer. It's long, but utterly fascinating. Check it out. (Link courtesy of The Volokh Conspiracy.)

i went to god just to see...and i was looking at me...

Against tradition:

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations behold God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? [...] [W]hy should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.

Truly America's only poetic and philosophical genius--Ralph Waldo Emerson. No one writes like this anymore. No one dares to write like this anymore. The present age has no inspiration. Alas.

you and me and the sea...

Added my review of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Finally.

you'll never gain weight from a donut hole...

The Onion parodies a "new Nietzschean diet." Favorite quote: "God is a hog," printed on the cover of the book. Funny stuff...

did you miss me? did you miss me?

This is divine news:

Rejoice, Griffin fans, production is about to restart on The Family Guy. Seth MacFarlane, the brains behind the show, tells IGN he's been given the go-ahead and the only question mark left is whether the new material will air initially on Fox or on Cartoon Network.

Thanks to Mr. Poon for the link.

the whores hustle and the hustlers whore...

I know I know...I'm still working on the review for The Passion of the Christ. I haven't been able to finish it because I've had an extraordinary amount of reading to do lately. Ugh. I know, that's no excuse. But whatever--there you have it. I'll finish it soon enough.

Also, I added a link to The Fladen Experience, headed by my former SLS classmate, Elliot Fladen. He's a quirky, opinionated libertarian from Northwestern. I remember he almost got us killed by accidentally driving against the traffic on a one-way street in Palo Alto. Fun times.