I need a Hero!: Intro and Welcome

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Intro and Welcome

All dressed up and now nothing to say. It was sometime in 2007 that my friend Jenny at work first suggested I blog about my movie reviews and all the other thoughts and opinions I am always pouring forth. Numerous times since then I have composed in my head important and ground-breaking revelations that needed to be shared with the world. Now that I am all set up, I don't remember a one.

But soon, very soon, I will be back here reviewing award-nominated movies, going off about the religious right, raving about the newly expanded Seward Coop, promoting the proper use of hyphens, sharing the joy of InterPlay, decrying the decline of journalism, hyping the next comic book movie, complaining about MN weather, giving a shout out to my Bruther Girlfriends in the Rad Faes, or rambling about the newest little thing to stumble across my stream of consciousness.

Welcome! Let me know you're here and what you'd like to hear.

- MarT redWing

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UnknownJanuary 12, 2009 at 5:56 AM
You go grrrrlfriend.

Luv, White Ash
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JennyJanuary 14, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Hey Marty!!!!! Glad to hear your ramblings, what a great outlet! I need to start a new one!
Love JG
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Depression Lyrics

A section for songs that express some part of my experience with depression. I'll try to figure how to post a link to the songs/videos.

RUNAWAY TRAIN -Soul Asylum

Call you up in the middle of the night

Like a firefly without a light

You were there like a blowtorch burning

I was a key that could use a little turning  So tired that I couldn't even sleep

So many secrets I couldn't keep

I promised myself I wouldn't weep

One more promise I couldn't keep

It seems no one can help me now,

I'm in too deep; there's no way out

This time I have really led myself astray

Runaway train, never going back

Wrong way on a one-way track

Seems like I should be getting somewhere

Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Can you help me remember how to smile?

Make it somehow all seem worthwhile

How on earth did I get so jaded?

Life's mystery seems so faded

I can go where no one else can go

I know what no one else knows

Here I am just a-drownin' in the rain

With a ticket for a runaway train

And everything seems cut and dried,

Day and night, earth and sky,

Somehow I just don't believe it

Runaway train, never going back

Wrong way on a one-way track

Seems like I should be getting somewhere

Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Bought a ticket for a runaway train

Like a madman laughing at the rain

A little out of touch, a little insane

It's just easier than dealing with the pain

Runaway train, never going back

Wrong way on a one-way track

Seems like I should be getting somewhere

Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Runaway train, never coming back

Runaway train, tearing up the track

Runaway train, burning in my veins

I run away but it always seems the same

Bent- Matchbox Twenty

If I fall along the way

Pick me up and dust me off

And if I get too tired to make it

Be my breath so I can walk

If I need some other love

Give me more than I can stand

And when my smile gets old and faded

Wait around I'll smile again

Shouldn't be so complicated

Just hold me and then

Just hold me again

Can you help me I'm bent

I'm so scared that I'll never

Get put back together

Keep breaking me in

And this is how we will end

With you and me bent

If I couldn't sleep could you sleep

Could you paint me better off

Could you sympathize with my needs

I know you think I need a lot

I started out clean but I'm jaded

Just phoning it in

Just breaking the skin

Can you help me I'm bent

I'm so scared that I'll never

Get put back together

Keep breaking me in

And this is how we will end

With you and me bent

Start bending me

It's never enough

I feel all your pieces

Start bending me

Keep bending me until I'm completely broken in

Shouldn't be so complicated

Just touch me and then

Just touch me again

Can you help me I'm bent

I'm so scared that I'll never

Get put back together

Keep breaking me in

And this is how we will end

With you and me bent

Can you help me I'm bent

I'm so scared that I'll never

Get put back together

You're breaking me in

And this is how we will end

My Favorite Monologue

I confess that as I young girl I loved a man who would not marry me for want of a dowry.

I confess that I had a mother who taught me another way of life,

one I resisted at first, but learned to embrace.

I confess I became a courtesan, traded yearning for power,

welcomed many rather than be owned by one.

I confess I embraced a whore's freedom over a wife's obedience.

I confess I find more ecstasy in passion than in prayer,

such passion is prayer.

I confess...I confess I pray still to feel the touch of my lover's lips,

his hands upon me, his arms enfolding me.

Such surrender has been mine.

I confess I hunger still to be filled and enflamed,

to melt into the dream of us, beyond this troubled place,

to where we are not even ourselves.

To know that always, always this is mine.

If this had not been mine, If I had lived another way,

a child to a husband's whim, my soul hardened from lack of touch and lack of love,

I confess such endless days and nights would be punishment far greater than any you could mete out.

You, all of you,

You who hunger so for what I give,

but cannot bare to see such power in a woman,

You call God's greatest gift: our selves, our yearning, our need to love.

You call it filth, and sin, and heresy.

I repent there was no other way open to me.

I do not repent my life.

-Veronica Franco, Dangerous Beauty

I need a Hero!

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Intro and Welcome

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