Ranting Eva is a twenty-something whose ever observant eye hopes to share the daily trials and tribulations of the 21st century, through some downright opinionated rambling on different facets of pop culture.
November 27, 2007
Diplomatic Highlight of the Year!!!
Thank you King Juan Carlos of Spain for doing what many of us wish we could do in the era of political correctness!
This morning as I surfed the web I stumbled upon this on the Washington Post page. A humorous take on the glut of movies unleashed upon us every summer. Enjoy!
I've come out of hibernation, as I've been away for a while. This cold snap has inspired the need for some serious musical intervention, to warm the soul and prepare me of the spring to come. It's an ecletic bunch, a hodge podge of styles and languages. Some have lyrics which feed the mind for quiet times, while others simply own a groove that causes involuntary booty-shaking. Then there some classics to buoy my spirits. I started out with an initial list of 128, and whittled it down to the list of 35 below:
This Friday, I will be setting off on a long anticipated vacation with a group of friends. I will be living the life on Royal Carribean's Explorer of the Seas, hitting the rosy pink beaches of Aruba and taking in the traditional Dutch architecture and floating markets of Curacao. As you can imagine I've been running around, making sure all loose ends are tied at the office and packing enough sunblock to protect my fair bikini clad body from the unforgiving equatorial sun. But there is one errand that trumped all other errands: getting an absentee ballot for the much contested November 7th election.
This is a crucial vote, and I want to make sure my voice is heard. As citizens of this country, we have a duty to make our opinions known and take advantage of this great gift that often times is taken for granted. As I walked in to work today, one of the local papers headline was that voter registrations are at an all time high. Hopefully these high numbers will also convert to high numbers at polling stations across the state and across the nation. Regardless of what our political opinions are, we must become more involved with what is going on in our country.
So while I enjoy the warm sunshine and sand of the Carribean, I will also rest assured that my minute voice has been heard.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old
ones." —John Cage, Dadaist
"The language act is also an act of survival. Word order = world order." —Steve McCaffrey and bpNichol, Rational Geomancy "Soy un artista que al crear conoce lo inconsciente." —Luis Oyarzún, Chilean writer
Favorite Books (Desert Island Short List):
1- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2- The Alienist by Caleb Carr
3- Lettres de la religieuse portugaise
4- The Satyricon by Petronius
5- The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook
Last read:
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova, Death's Acre : Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales by Dr. Bill Bass & Jon Jefferson
Current reads:
1491 : New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C. Mann.
Top 5 songs of the moment:
1- Postal Service – Nothing Better
2- Tony Bennett – I Wanna Be Around
3- Leonard Cohen – I'm Your Man
4- Belanova – Escena Final
5- John Mayer – Slow Dancing in a Burning Room
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Ranting Eva is a twenty-something whose ever observant eye hopes to share the daily trials and tribulations of the 21st century, through some downright opinionated rambling on different facets of pop culture.
