Monday, March 26, 2007

Bono's NAACP speech


I have looking and looking and looking for Bono's acceptance speech as mentioned in the below post...and i finally found what i was looking for (hehehe.....i couldn't help myself ;p)
A flipping amazing speech that gives a swift kick up the arse...
"......You see, I grew up in Ireland, when Ireland was divided along religious lines, sectarian lines. Young people like me were parched for the vision that poured out of the pulpits of black America, and the vision of a black Reverend from Atlanta…. A man who refused to hate because he knew love would do a better job.
These ideas travel, you know. And they reached me clear as any tune, lodged in my brain like a song. I couldn’t shake that. This was Ireland in the 70s growing up…. And people like me looked across the ocean to the NAACP. And I’m here tonight and that feels good. It feels very, very good.
Well today the world looks again to the NAACP. We need the community that taught the world about civil rights to teach it something about human rights. I’m talking about the right to live like a human.
The right to live, period. Those are the stakes in Africa right now.
Five and a half thousand Africans dying every day of AIDS – a preventable, treatable disease.
Nearly a million Africans, most of them children, dying every year from malaria – death by mosquito bite.
This is not about charity, as you know here in this room. This is about justice. It’s about justice and equality.
Now I know that America hasn’t solved all of its problems. I know AIDS is still killing people right here in America. And I know the hardest hit are African Americans, many of them young women. Today at a churchin Oakland I went to see such extraordinary people. This lioness here, Barbara Lee, took me around with her pastor, J. Alfred Smith. And may I say that it was the poetry and the righteous anger of the black church that was such an inspiration to me, a very white – almost pink – Irish man, growing up in Dublin.
This is true religion. True religion will not let us fall asleep in the comfort of our freedom. Love thy neighbor is not a piece of advice. It’s a command. And that means a lot. That means a lot. That means that in the global village we’re gonna have to start loving a whole lot more people – that’s what that means. His truth is marching on.
Two million Americans have signed up to the ONE campaign to make poverty history. Tonight the NAACP is signing up to work with us. And so can you. His truth is marching on.
Because where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die.
And to those in the church who still sit in judgment on the AIDS emergency, let me climb into the pulpit for just one moment. Because whatever thoughts we have about God, who he is or even if God exists, most will agree that God has a special place for the poor.
The poor are where God lives.
God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house.
God is where the opportunity is lost and lives are shattered.
God is with the mother who has infected her child with the virus that will take both their lives.
God is under the rubble and the cries we hear during war time.God, my friends, is with the poor.
And God is with us, if we are with them.
This is not a burden. This is an adventure. Don’t let anyone tell you it cannot be done. We can be the generation that ends extreme poverty.
Thank you."
-BONO–2 March 2007
*found at poplemon.com

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Wow....

Thoes who know me well (anybody who had ever met me really) knows how much i love U2. Their lyrics have such power to them, and so do the words of Larry Mullen Jr, Adam Clayton, The Edge and, of course, Bono.
So there is a button up the top of this blog......the 'next blog' tab...you get some shockers, but then every once in a while you will come across a gem.
I was doing the said action, when i came across a blog that had a youtube video of Bono's acceptance speech from the NAACP Image Awards, for which he was the Chairman Award's Winner.
In a lot of my classes with Yits, the idea of 'loving you neigbour as you love yourself' has been on high rotation. It is one of the most paramount teachings of the Bible...in my eyes thats the majority of what this whole thing is about.

Watching this clip...it really hit home about how much it really means. And as much as we can say it..doing it is what really counts.

Bono's acceptance speech


BYW...if someone (*cough bec) could tell me how to get a clip, such as the above, into my blog...that would be swell :)

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Pinkie and the brain....






I finally dropped some of my stuff of the the house i shall soon be living in...and took some snaps:



My bedroom is VERY pink....



The kitchen has a rad as lounge in it...




The bath has claws on it....




Rad times ahead peeps :)












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Twirl for me...twirl like a little girl




Last saturday was Mel's 19th birthday party, Which found a few of us yitsers on our merry way to Bimbo's in the city. An eventful night proceeded.....


Firstly Ali and I met up at eastland, where i proceeded to get a sweet as dress (from a shop that shall rename nameless hehehe) and some sushi.


Mj met us back at my house, and gave me a haircut (quite a bit shorter...still getting used to lol)


Matt and Moo rocked up later...adn off we went.


First of all, Ali needed to drop in at her friends housewarming party in Kew. Whitehorse rd has tram-tracks...all well and good. Untill Ali points out that there is something on the road. I thought it was a dead posum..


Well..it was dead..but it was a dog, which proceeded to make a huge pooping sound as i ran over it. Lots of shreaks resulted from the girls in the back of the car :s


We arrived at the housewarming, feeling slightly out of place....the majority of people were wearing underware on the outside. Met some rad peeps..and we were on our way again.



Found a park real quick, added bonus was that it was free :)


Lined up for about 15 minutes to get in, and then had a rad night :)


Bimbo;s is more famous for their pizza then anything else...and freaking swell pizza it is too. Margareta was fresh as...but the pesto and goats cheese was freakin rad as.


If anyone is interested...during the week, all pizzas are only 4 bucks!!!! Wooooo YEah! They also have sweet pizzas..the chocolate one is ment to be flipping amazing.



(Top photo L>R: Ali, Me, Matt, Moo and Mj)


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Sunday, March 18, 2007

sing (part 2)

woops
the second person you really need to listen to is Ali Smith..

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Saturday, March 17, 2007

Sing (cos its obvious)

I have been loving one particular aspect of yits, that has nothing really to do with what we are learning in class. I think it has to be one of the biggest aspects of the year..without it this year, to me, would almost be pointless.
Getting to know 34ish other people, who you will be spending a huge amount of time with, on a number of different levels (emotionaly etc) has been amazing.
I have said before in a previous post, and how quickly we have all come together. Rowan has said that even they (the faciliters) were suprised to see how quickly friendships have formed, and how they haven't been exculsive at all.
One of the sweet things that has come out of all this, is all the new music I have been introduced too. Sounds lame...but its far from it. In particular, we have soooo many talented musicians in the course. So I am going to do some bragging :p

You really should check out these two amazinly gifted peeps:

Josh

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Thursday, March 15, 2007

And the walls came tumbling down...


Yits today saw us going to see Babel for 'word,' in which we have just finished looking at the creation story, moving onto the fall.


Four stories that are all interlinked because of a specific action undertaken. It was quite interesting the discussions that took place afterwards....specifically who was to blame for starting the chain of events. There were a number of theories going around. It was interesting to see on whom the finger of blame was laid on.


The film covered such a plethora of issuse...from illeagal immigration, sucide to political crap over an ambulance between 2 opposing countries. From communication issues between a husband and wife/father and daughter/different cultures....


It was quite an emotionally seeking movie. And the more I think about it..the more my mind spins at the complexities.


Words wont do any justice for the images that were seen

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Monday, March 12, 2007

scrabble art

































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Sunday, March 11, 2007

Colorblind


wow...been on repeat for many hours today.



I am color...blind

Coffee black and egg white

Pull me out from inside

I am ready

I am ready

I am ready

I am


taffy stuck, tongue tied

Stuttered shook and uptight

Pull me out from inside

I am ready

I am ready

I am ready

I am...fine


I am covered in skin

No one gets to come in

Pull me out from inside

I am folded,

and unfolded,

and unfolding

I am colorblind

Coffee black and egg white

Pull me out from inside

I am ready

I am ready

I am ready

I am...fine

I am.... fine

I am fine


counting crows : colorblind

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Friday, March 09, 2007

Leaving home (smell the morning air)


yes
i am finally leaving home again.
Sweet sweet new house with rad peeps sas and corrie.
Am hanging for my own space, independance and freedom...sweet sweet freedom. No more cranky parental-unit when i leave the milo out..when i leave the hallway light on for more then 10 seconds..when i breath lol.

Rad times ahead!
looking forward to you all coming and crashing and beers and bbqs (go the vegie burgers)

I just need to get my a into g and start packing.

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Sunday, March 04, 2007

BBQ's wasps and paint




Yesterdy morning i woke to the sound of thunder booming around, shaking the whole house. I love the sounds that come with a big storm.


Along with the storm, we lost power to the house from just after 3pm and it came back on around 10.45. Candles provided an amazing atmosphere.



So it was decided that a bbq should be had, and so it did. Cheers to tim for the gas btw :p


While others did their thing, I did mine and ended up with another painting.


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On Call : Kings of Leon


Every once in a while, I hear a song that stays with me. Something in it will hit me, and a lot of the time, I am not sure what about it (the song) is that gets to me. Listening to the J's a month or so ago, Kings of Leon had a song played from their forthcoming album. I can't get enough of it. It sends chills down my spine and its like I am mesmerised.
She said call me now and id come a running
If you'd call me now
baby id come a running.
Im on call to be there,
one and all to be there.
When I fall, to pieces,
lord you know ill be there waiting
(I'll be there, ill be there.)
Im on call to be there,
one and all to be there.
when i fall. to pieces,
lord you know, ill be there waiting
Im gon go,
so be there, one for all,
wont be there, when you fall to pieces,
lord you know I'll be there laughing
(i come a running)
(to be there)
I'm on call, to be there
Kings of Leon : On Call : Because Of The Times (forthcoming album, 3rd April 07)

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