Greta Thunberg vs. Donald Trump, Jr.

 

Eating a bacon cheeseburger in support of Tony Weed: wow, that'll show 'em, Junior!

You Are the Reason

You are the reason you lost all your friends

You are the reason your romances end

You are the reason you’re all alone

You are the reason and you can’t atone

 

You are the reason we hate religion

You are the reason we hate politicians

You are the reason we have division

I’m starting to think this was your mission

 

You are the reason the world’s on fire

You are the reason we hang by a wire

You are the reason we’re too damn tired

To raise any children in a world of killin’

 

You are the reason we cannot forgive you

You are the reason you need all the tissues

You are the reason for your own damn tears

You didn’t lead with hope, you led with fear

 

Now who could I be talking to when I say “you”?

A former friend? Some relatives? Some troll with loose screws?

The answer is yes, you and all the rest, and I said it best

Here comes Armageddon, we won’t let you forget it

 

I am the reason you’re gone forever

I am the reason we never speak ever

I am the reason for all the boundaries

I set them up and I say it proudly

 

I am the reason my life is much better

I am the reason, I am the trendsetter

I am the reason why I still have hope

Let you back in? That’s a big nope!

Gone

“Don’t fall in love with strangers on the internet

Even though their beauty is impossible to forget

There are real life girls who’d love to take you to bed”

It’s the world’s shortest line, because they’re all gone

 

“Don’t spend all your time watching You Tube clips

While you’re munching down on a bag of cheesy chips

There’s so much cinema, characters you want to ship”

There’s just one problem, the best of them are gone

 

“Stop laying in bed when there’s so much to create

Never mind that the discourse is covered in hate

You can counter it with love, why would you want to wait?”

I’ll tell you why: because the good ones are gone

 

“Mother Nature is the very best antidepressant

The cost is cheap for every working-class peasant

You can feed the squirrels, sing with the pheasants”

It’s too hot outside, because the ozone is gone

 

“Get yourself a car, show off your convertible

Get yourself a job, get paid to be serviceable

Buy all the shit you want, stack it high and vertical”

Where are all the good bosses? Oh wait, they’re gone

 

Just gone! Gone! Gone without a trace!

A shitshow of a world is what came in its place

I’ve never seen a broken spirit with a happy face

It’s camouflage for authenticity they want to erase

 

“Can’t we all just get along?” Fuck no, we can’t!

Not as long as we’re repeating the same racist chant

Not as long as the elite cuts us off at the knees

And brainwashes everyone with the greatest of ease

 

Gone! Gone! Gone without a trace!

Irresponsible Christian Parody

VERSE 1

What would Jesus do? Pretty much anyone

Who walks on water with God’s favorite son

He gives me strength for an eternal length

He makes me sing for the blessings he brings

My heart flutters every time I hear his name

Suddenly masturbation doesn’t feel like a shame

He brings me the hope and peace I’ve looked for

Ever since I walked into that Christian bookstore

CHORUS

Walk on water with the one I love

Enter paradise in the heavens above

Listen to the music of golden harps

And the beating of my bleeding heart

VERSE 2

Nonbelievers say that we’ll never last

They’ve got too many stones to cast

The only stones I’ve got belong to you

My boss is a carpenter and a practicing Jew

Let’s build Noah’s Ark with our bare hands

Collect every animal across these lands

Show them the love we have between us

Teach them to value the life of a fetus

CHORUS

Walk on water with the one I love

Enter paradise in the heavens above

Listen to the music of golden harps

And the beating of my bleeding heart

VERSE 3

The planet is melting, the oceans are boiling

But only because hell on earth is uncoiling

Let’s show them what we’ve got with prayers

Why should we blame it all on the industrial air?

Your love will set the human race totally free

If that makes us fruitcakes, be our honeybee

Only one way to heaven and it’s not a stairway

It’s to kneel for Jesus while bashing the gays

CHORUS

Walk on water with the one I love

Enter paradise in the heavens above

Listen to the music of golden harps

And the beating of my bleeding heart

FINAL LINE

April Fools, bitches! Hail Satan!

Climate Change

Rain is sadness and thunder is anger

The sunshine is all yours to savor

Snow is magic and ice is dreadful

Tornadoes are the be-all and end-all

Earthquakes are Lovecraftian horror

Tsunamis bring chaos and disorder

Wildfires turn forests into ashes

Turn living treasures into trashes

Apocalyptic rage on the front page

Zombies walk the earth, newfound birth

You’ve heard it all before on your TV

You’ve got the classics on a DVD

It looks silly sitting on your shelf

Until the ice caps begin to melt

Water gets warm, rises over land

Washes away more than just sand

Knocks over buildings, wrecks homes

Destroys every single car you own

Murders families from all walks of life

Every last kid, your husband or wife

Politicians keep sitting on their asses

Ignoring cries for help from the masses

The top one percent has nothing to lose

Think they have the right to choose

Who lives, who dies, who benefits

We don’t get to hear the end of it

Wish the tide would eat these rich jerks

And every golf course, go fucking berserk

A redwood tree falling on a limousine

Wouldn’t be enough or so it seems

But a lightning bolt to the mansion

Would put their asses into action

A hurricane throwing fat cats around

Up into the skies, crash to the ground

Only an emergency when privilege is threatened

Now do I have your motherfucking attention?

Blue Sky Blues

VERSE 1

You think the skies are your personal toilet?

You think you can heat the ocean and boil it?

You think your actions have no consequences?

You think we can solve this problem with fences?

Breathing the cleanest air is a god-given right

It never should have come to a verbal fight

It never should have resulted in casualties

That you bury in the ground so casually

CHORUS

More smoke in the air than a hookah bar

More poison in the water with oily tar

More politicians who don’t give a shit

These are blue sky blues, not a comedy bit

VERSE 2

Gas masks are not a fashion trend setter

Bigger trucks will not make things better

Lead doesn’t belong anywhere near water

You’ve led us all to the fucking slaughter

You answer to the world, owe them everything

You talk a lot, but haven’t said anything

As long as your bank account continues to grow

You’ll never be wrong, what the fuck do we know?

EXTENDED CHORUS 1

More smoke in the air than a hookah bar

More poison in the water with oily tar

More politicians who don’t give a shit

These are blue sky blues, not a comedy bit

Coal country blues, not a sitcom scene

Steel country blues, so fucking obscene

Pipeline blues, covering rivers in black

Blue sky blues, earth is under attack

BRIDGE

Climate change is as real as it gets

The safest bet, get paid until death

It’s not too late to clean this mess

This will be your ultimate test

EXTENDED CHORUS 2

More smoke in the air than a hookah bar

More poison in the water with oily tar

More politicians who don’t give a shit

These are blue sky blues, not a comedy bit

Drill baby drill, more people to kill

This ain’t no hoax, this is real, folks

The planet will drag you to hell with it

Find a cure for this pollution sickness

Obselidia

MOVIE TITLE: Obselidia
DIRECTOR: Diane Bell
YEAR: 2010
GENRE: Drama
RATING: PG-13 for language
GRADE: Pass

George is a librarian who moonlights as a cataloguist for obsolete and nostalgic items, all of which he hopes to document for a book he’s putting together. He even goes so far as to believe love is obsolete and therefore leads the lonely life of being single. When he meets a beautiful projectionist named Sophie, she tries to get him to come out of his shell as the two of them venture to Death Valley to interview a climate change scientist for George’s book. The ideas of love and the apocalypse collide in a debate about how we should spend our last minutes on earth if they truly are that. Will George live the rest of his life in isolation or will he believe in the power of love humans can give each other? Does he have anything in his heart for Sophie?

The three major themes of this movie (living life to the fullest, romance, and nostalgia) intertwine perfectly with each other as they try to bring George and Sophie together as a romantic couple. With nostalgia, they bond over how the past used to be a happy and simpler time, when technology wasn’t going berserk and people paid attention to each other. With living life to the fullest, they get hard hitting cynicism from the climate change scientist who believes all happy experiences will be erased because of humankind’s sins against the earth. With romance, it’s the classic tale of a socially awkward guy like George shying away from a flirtatious girl like Sophie. With the scientist feeding him all of this negativity, George has to struggle to believe in the power of love when Sophie tries to get in his social bubble.

Near the end of the movie, we ask ourselves if George’s struggle to suppress his inner negativity is worth it. While he does realize how the power of love can make someone happy, he also realizes how it can break his heart. While I won’t give away any spoilers, I will say that Sophie does break George’s heart in the end and he’s sobbing to himself in the comfort of his own home looking at pictures of their vacation together in Death Valley. That is such a powerful image that the audience watching has no choice but to question their own capacity for romantic love. This may not have been the message the movie was trying to send, but to my way of thinking, in this 50-50 bet between happiness and heartache, I was leaning towards heartache. I was so heartbroken and touched by the movie’s end that I spent the rest of the night listening to Seether’s cover of Wham’s “Careless Whisper”.

The best part about this movie is that it encourages the audience to ask questions instead of mindlessly conforming to a singular principal. If the world ends tomorrow, how will we spend our last hours on earth? Is romantic love worth all the struggles or does it lead to easy cynicism? Should we all love each other before it truly is indeed too late? Should we have as many experiences as we can despite the huge risk attached to them? Finding the answers to these questions takes a lot of courage and living with the answers is even scarier than that. Some people become so saddened by the answers that they resort to isolation or even worse, suicide. In the end, positivity will save us. It will get us through the hardships whether they’re in a personal relationship or part of a global crisis. If you’re going to attempt to answer these questions, make sure you do it without regret. Otherwise, temporary heartache will feel like permanent torture.

　

***LYRICS OF THE DAY***

“I love the way that your heart breaks with every injustice and deadly fate.”

-Flyleaf singing “Again”-