black diamonds.

Heaven above hell; so much shit happening in this world today. But it's going to be a good year from here on in.

then suddenly out of the blue

live - the river
mary j blige - new album
olp - dvd 2006

i promise you i'll be there.

We've seen your anger crashing down.
We've seen your love in waves.

liquid traverses the veins.
molten through the mind.
grasping at intelligence.

get right.

january storm.

syriana. "Corruption. Corruption is our protection, corruption keeps us safe and warm, corruption is why we win."

making poverty history. it's not throwing money to those countries and it's certainly not building a dependency on which their future generations will rely on. what we are talking about here is the extremes of socialism and the blinding humility upon which 1st world countries rely on 3rd world countries for the bottom of the ladder. there will truly be no utopia. for instance, look at the dissolution cure to solve an aids epidemic, the lack of courage to stop ethnicity wars, or the billions of dollars invested into pharmaceutical/oil industries, instead of the primary focus of what humans should and should be aware of. it is in this instance of 2006 that perhaps a better world will be built. a world without poverty, a world without starvation, a world of capitalism, a society of love, a society of humility, and a society of helping.

this is war i'm gonna wipe that fucking little smile off your face. it's not about what one does, or what one becomes, or what one is. it is about how one displays class and conduct in front of others. it's not about being stuck in a hole, and it's certainly not about asking about one's failures or analyzing their successes. if you ask you will learn. but will it make you feel better? will it make you stronger? it'll probably make you look at me and back at you. it is not about falling. it is about learning to get back up. and you're still lying on the ground - watching the stars, watching the clouds, watching the planes fly by, watching life pass you by.