don't need too many more like 33

I was going to recap the crap that I was dealt this past year. But no one needs to be reminded, especially when the news is filled with the worst stuff imaginable day after day (I believe that when Bush became born-again, he accidentally went to a Satanist to baptize him. He really has no idea what's good to him is bad for everyone else)

So, personal heartbreak, death, destruction and all that I had to endure the last 12 months, having to start again, then start again again, then start again again again....I'm really hoping the cycle is over, at least for a good long while. I know I've sought out chaos and mischief in the past, I guess it had to find me as a pay back. I've learned some lessons.

So, 2007/my 34th year. I'm very optimisitc. And I look straight in the eye of the evil forces that handed me such darkness in '06 when I say so. Because, look:
I'm living in the best apartment I've lived in. I've got the amazing Marisa and the cuter than anything Juniper and Niko to come home to every day. Early in '07, my second album will be finished and I'm just so, so damn excited for people to hear it. Plus, other awesome albums I played on will be released soon: Figments, Lo Fine, Mike Flood...
And just this past week I a) watched most of An Inconvenient Truth and b) listened to a good chunk of Barak Obama's new book on cd.
These two things, I truly feel, will be very instrumental in taking the American masses out of these dark ages where "faith based" somehow means "absolute and right", and back into the new Age of Reason.
After listening to the Obama book, I'm so in his corner. His major themes are empathy, common sense and truth. I kept reminding myself, "oh yeah, this is a guy who could one day be president" as opposed to...well I don't know. Most politicians make me squirm when I hear them talk. And I feel the way he could do it is in his "regular guy" way. And unlike Bush's cowboy act, or Kerry's (and Gore of 2000) tinman disposition, Obama really does come off as not a guy with entitlement disorder. ...well, two examples. He does a funny Bush impression when describing his first meeting with him (and seems a little weirded out how Bush has an assistent who's job is to squirt hand sanitizer in his hand after every handshake), and he also offhandedly mentions things like falling asleep with a beer in his hand watching basketball and waking with a crik in his neck. Dude, me too!! Or inhaling, many times, in his college days. Dude!!
Sure it's all a big publicity team who's shaped this image, but I'm buying into it.
So, yeah. I dig him. And Gore.