Starting Your Own Religion

In light of the Pikey's recent request for more friends...

Every religion needs specific things to advance itself.

1. A central figure.
2. A sacred text.
3. A martyr.
4. A history of persecution (well, it's not required but it certainly helps).
5. An identifying symbol.
6. Mystics (i.e.: saints/bodhisattvas/famous rabbis).
7. Someone to persecute.
8. Fanatical followers who twist your teachings to suit their own agendas.

The Grand Poobah Order of the Psychotic Baastards

I submit for the approval of the group:

1. Me (No choice, I simply had to)
2. The Calvin and Hobbes: Complete Edition
3. The Warrior Bard
4. We're all artists. You don't get much more persecuted.
5. a little help?
6. I say we make The Pikey our first mystic since he has such keen observations about humanity.
7. Conservative and Liberal Zealots who can't seem to find a balance.
8. NOW TAKING APPLICATIONS!!!

Doctor What?

No, Dr. Who!!!

I don't know if any of you catch the new incarnation of Dr. Who on Sci-Fi, but it's terrific! Of course, none of the original series ever entered into my sphere as a youth except for a few stray episodes here and there on PBS so I have nothing with which to compare it. All I know is that I do like this show. It's fun, smart and every once in a while the show's makers sneak in a few ideas about humanity, morality and how we might fit into the cosmos.

Also I think Christopher Eccleston is fantastic as the Doctor. He plays it the way I think someone should play the Time Lord: wide-eyed and enjoying every moment of it. Though, once again, I really have nothing to compare it to.

In short, it's great. Watch it!!!

I'm Such a Dork

At one point yesterday there were three sirens going off within the vicinity of the old domicile (for those that don't know, yesterday was one of those "Midwestern weather" days). We had the patio door open to hear the sirens (and the storm) and there my dorky ass was listening to the sirens phase in and out of each other and the pitch interactions between passings.

I suppose the best part is that I can tell you that none of them were moving at the same speed, either, so the phasing changed with each pass. It was awesome! The storms were great, too, for those of us that (luckily) only had to watch.

It's Official!

The aforementioned short film I scored last year will be shown at the Louis B. Mayer Theatre in Woodland Hills, CA on Saturday April 1 at the first Shorts session.

Awesome!