Those crazy Catholic kiddies.

Published on May 26, 2008 By SanChonino In Religion

It's been a long time since I've shat out an article of randumb thoughts. Maybe it's about time. (Maybe I'm just delaying typing the next journal entry, because I'm lazy. But then, I'm typing this, so I don't know how accurate that portrayal would be.)

Emmy Rossum, please make a new movie. You're amazingly delicious to look upon, and it's been too long since Phantom of the Opera. I know you were in that Poseidon movie, but it looked dumb, so I haven't seen it.

But I'd love to see you, babeh.

Finally saw V for Vendetta. It was pretty okay, but not nearly as good as the source material. They tried far too hard to make V some big hero, rather than a morally ambiguous anarchist, like he was supposed to be.

Hugo Weaving was good, though, even though you never saw his ugly mug.

Today is my last day of classes. (It was supposed to be Friday, but my Monday-Tuesday teacher felt that we needed 'one more day' to talk about stuff. Maybe if we actually had the classes we were supposed to have on Wednesdays the entire semester, we wouldn't need 'make-up' day.)

Then I get to write big papers (one of which is especially nasty - I have to take this two-page excerpt from a Latin American author and pick it apart for Americanisms. You see, there is quite a difference between Continental Spanish and Peninsular Spanish. The tough part is . . . guess where I learned my Spanish?

Yeah . . . not gonna be easy.

Combing my beard is fun.

During a discussion with BlueDev yesterday, we decided that there is something clinically wrong with my head. I asked him what he was reading for fun, and he rattled off some interesting sounding pleasure reading.

I explained that I just can't get back into sci-fi or fantasy literature. He asked me what I read for fun.

I answered, 'Um, Del sentimiento trágico de la vida (The Tragic Sense of Life) . . . and Martes de carnaval (Tuesday of Carnival).'

I'm broken, I guess when it comes to pleasure reading. Who else reads a play and a book of philosophy (that was, incidentally, banned by the Catholic Church for years and years) in their spare time?

Silly Catholics, making banned reading lists. Even more retarded than me reading stuff like that for fun. I wonder what else I've read that the Catholics (bum-bum-BUMMMMM) don't want me to read.

Henri Bergson! He's on the list of banned books by the Catholic Church! Read him.

Gustave Flaubert! I've read Madame Bovary, and that's on the list!

Victor Hugo! Both Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris are on the list. Read them both! (Les Miserables is on the list? What were these guys smoking? Pole?)

John Locke's 'Reasonableness of Christianity'?

John Milton's Paradise Lost?

Oooh, More Unamuno - San Manuel Bueno, mártir and La agonía del cristianismo are also on the list! (And on the 'San Chonino has read it' list!)

Bored now. You get the idea. Those crazy kids, trying to ban everything. Makes me want to read more of what they banned - you know, get some actual intellectual thought going as opposed to mindless parroting in the name of . . . I don't know . . . certainly not the Big Guy Upstairs since he prefers that we reason for ourselves.

Leaving the realm of religion, and back to 'lasciviousness'!

You know who's gorgeous? Alexis Bledel. I miss you, Rory. Be in something new. Can't be in Sin City 2 because your character is dead. Sorry.

The rain won't stop! It was drizzling all day yesterday. Not that I had anything to do, but still . . .

Off to class. Boo. But I'll be back, hot Emmy Rossum desktop background. Keep looking beautiful.

Comments

SanChonino

on May 26, 2008

SanChonino

on May 26, 2008

Dave Mustaine kicks butt.

If you're not a United Nations fan, enjoy.

SanChonino

on May 26, 2008

So my roommate is actively listening to the "Cotton-Eye Joe" song for the third time in a row.

Surely that's a sign of impaired intellect.

And I think it would convince the jury that I've been driven insane.

Artysim

on May 26, 2008

certainly not the Big Guy Upstairs since he prefers that we reason for ourselves.

I laughed so hard at this I actually started to snort. According to the church our minds are simply too small and simple to know how to think for ourselves, so it's much better if we focus on being obedient and disciplined instead of using our brains (careful, you'll probably muck it up like everything else in your miserable life!) so they say.

Put an armed policeman on the street of a town and he can control his little patch of ground as far as he can see and shoot. Put a single priest in that town and he can put a policeman in the heads of every single one of his congregation.

Let's all raise our glasses in a toast to the wonderful job the church has done of turning most of us into prisoners, locked up in our own minds!

uDigItTheMost

on May 26, 2008

Isn't it funny how usually banned reading lists are the best books?

Surely that's a sign of impaired intellect.

One of many he's already shown you.

BlueDev

on May 26, 2008

Dave Mustaine kicks butt.

Yes, yes he does. In fact, just Saturday, while mowing the lawn, I enjoyed that album. Killer music, biting political and social commentary, and great production. It has it all. Metallica can only wish they were making albums as musically and lyrically relevant these days.

dynamaso

on May 26, 2008

I agree with you about 'V For Vendetta', so much so that the writer, Alan Moore, distanced himself from the movie. Having said this, I liked it though. Hugo was great, as was Natalie Portman. But why is it great graphic novels have been turned into very ordinary movies (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen anyone?)

I've never liked the way the Catholic church dictates to its congregation. To be quite honest, how the hell would a man who has dedicated himself to a celibate lifestyle be able to tell anyone about contraception or child rearing, for instance. It just smacks of medieval arrogance. As for them telling me what I can and can't read, well wouldn't it be better to trust your congregation to make learned choices about what they should and shouldn't believe?

See, this is why I'm no longer a Catholic.

Cedarbird

on May 26, 2008

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen anyone?

hahahaha, I actually liked that movie. There's something about being able to turn your brain off and watch some good ol' fashioned violence that attracts me to movies like that.

Emmy Rossum, please make a new movie.

Her features are too big for her size. Big eyes, big mouth, big smile...out of proportion.

Combing my beard is fun.

I wouldn't know. My beard won't grow in enough to comb it.

I'm broken, I guess when it comes to pleasure reading. Who else reads a play and a book of philosophy (that was, incidentally, banned by the Catholic Church for years and years) in their spare time?

I could've told you that without you having to go to Spain. Or even...read those books. Wait, scratch that. Without reading any books.

certainly not the Big Guy Upstairs since he prefers that we reason for ourselves.

What blasphemy is this? Making your own decisions? Scandalous!

Victor Hugo!...Les Miserables

Loved that book. All 1400 pages.

And I think it would convince the jury that I've been driven insane.

I could be a character witness for that argument.

See, this is why I'm no longer a Catholic.

Yay! Be a mormon instead.

dynamaso

on May 27, 2008

Cedar,

I actually liked that movie.

Oh, I'm not saying the movie wasn't enjoyable, in a turn-off-the-brain-and-coast way, but if you know anything about Alan Moore's graphic series, the movie is such a lame, one-dimensional piece of crap, it should have been named something completely different.

Alan Moore's 'From Hell', a superb graphic novel and winner of many awards, was almost completely ignored as source material for the movie of the same name. Again, I enjoyed the movie, but again contend it should have been called something completely different so as to not confuse those who have read the novel.

I'm really concerned as to what might happen with the movie adaptation of 'The Watchmen', another Moore classic. Guess i'm going to have to wait and see.

Yay! Be a mormon instead

Thanks for the offer. While I do appreciate it and have the greatest respect and admiration for your brothers, they will attest I am not inclined towards any further formal religious institutions. My spiritual interests are more in tune with agnosticism and Eastern philosophies.

SanChonino

on May 27, 2008

Thanks for the replies, all.

Her features are too big for her size.

NOT TRUE. Quiet, you!

That's pretty much the funniest quote I've heard all day.

Isn't it funny how usually banned reading lists are the best books?

I think it's awesome. Makes you almost want to purposely pick your reading based on what these 'Mommy and Daddy' groups are banning. Thank you, censorship!

SanChonino

on May 27, 2008

Metallica can only wish they were making albums as musically and lyrically relevant these days.

I heard a preview of their new 'album' the other day. (Yeah, it's so mediocre it doesn't even get considered a real album - it's in comillas.)

CACA PUPU.

To be quite honest, how the hell would a man who has dedicated himself to a celibate lifestyle be able to tell anyone about contraception or child rearing, for instance. It just smacks of medieval arrogance.

So glad my church isn't a 'celibacy' church.

hahahaha, I actually liked that movie.

When I get home, I'm sitting you down and forcing you to read the graphic novels. They're GREAT, just like Maso said - and I really think you'd dig 'em.

Cedarbird

on May 27, 2008

Well, I didn't think it'd hurt to offer.

Nah, I'm just playing with you, man. No proselyting here.

When I get home, I'm sitting you down and forcing you to read the graphic novels. They're GREAT, just like Maso said - and I really think you'd dig 'em.

Okee-dokee.

dynamaso

on May 27, 2008

I'm just playing with you, man. No proselyting here.

Really? I would never have guessed

uDigItTheMost

on May 28, 2008

Combing my beard is fun.

I wouldn't know. My beard won't grow in enough to comb it.

Have you tried a really tiny comb?

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