Monakhos

I’ve been gone a long time. It’s happened before, but usually just for a month. There’s been plenty going on (for example RockOm launched finally) I just haven’t had much to say that belongs on this blog.

I’ve been feeling bitter recently. Especially towards Christianity/the church in general. I just can’t stand the thought of it. I guess it’s pent up frustration, etc. and I guess I blame it some for parts of my life. I don’t know. It just makes me mad.

Most recently, I’ve been getting upset that Christians seem to be stealing/repurposing the word spirituality. It’s like they so screwed up the image associated with Christian/Christianity that they had to find a new word that didn’t have the negative connotations to use. What they don’t seem to get is that no matter what word you use or how you express your faith, it’s the same religion. You can be part of a charismatic movement, or part of a church like Mosaic, but you are still all the same and I don’t want any part of it. So stop stealing my words and ruining them. If you want a word, keep Christian and fix the image. Not that you can, but there’s no need in ruining another perfectly good word.

I meant for this to be more of a happy post, but I guess it didn’t turn out that. I’ve just been a little wierd lately. Maybe I’ll come out of it.

Here’s a trailer of the short my friends and I sent to Cannes. We’ll probably be posting the full version up after the festival. ‘Il Bambino’ Trailer Cannes Film Festival from waistworks@gmail.com on Vimeo.

The church I used to attend has a sign out in front that reads “Easter, it’s not just about the eggs.” This is true, but its funny that right beside it, there is another poster advertising the church’s “Easter Eggstravaganza.” It seems a little bit hypocritical if you ask me.

Religious holidays (specifically in this post Christmas and Easter) always annoy me, mostly because Christian family always try to get me to go to the church services for them. I don’t know about churches elsewhere, but it seems to be that the lamest services of the year are around Christmas and Easter. They’re always the same, lack any innovation, and all about capitalizing on the larger than usual crowds that attend around the holidays. Why would I, of all Sundays, want to go to a worse than usual service just because it was around Easter?! At least they could try to be original. At my old church, the children’s pastor did the same incredibly lame “Christmas story as told by candy bars” gimmick a few years in a row. Even though the sermons have different words (usually) every year, they are all the same thing too:

1. Easter isn’t what most people think
2. Easter is about Jesus
3. You should worship Jesus
4. Get saved (and give us money!)

Of course the points above are occasionally spoken creatively, but they are always the same at the core.

So to anyone who may ask, no I am not going to church this Sunday. And while you’re at it, stop telling me I need to find a church I like. They don’t exist. Especially on Christmas and Easter.

I’ll start posting again later. I have nothing of note to report.

I finally gave in and started reading the Harry Potter. It’s relieving that they are children’s books as the 300 pages read pretty quickly. I read the first one in about the time it took me to read 50 pages of The Power of Babel.

My doctor (actually someone else’s doctor - this guy was just the doctor who wasn’t booked this morning when my doctor was full) was very comforting today telling me that I most likely didn’t have tuberculosis, chasing that with a request to get a chest x-ray done.

I want to buy the empty theater near my house, but unfortunately I don’t have the spare change.  Maybe next week.