Albin Brunovsky

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The Bars

So. Shock horror, people remain people, even when they are criminals, even when they are imprisoned. The dude who wrote the above calls himself 'X-Ray Robinson' and is in prison in America. He's alive, and thinking, and growing, as are all prisoners. It's so easy to assume that they're just gone...dealt with, done and dusted. I'm not yet sure how I feel about criminals as a general class, but I'm not willing to assume that they're all empty, and I'm not willing to accept that prison is the only, or even best solution to crime.

Between the Bars are aiming to help prisoners create non-criminal identities, to improve prisoner's lives and reduce recidivism. Sounds like a pretty good cause if you ask me.

so TRENDY!

zanita wearing my coat. awwwww yeaaaahhhh.

Having bought it in spring, being able to wear it this horrendous tornado-y winter is delightful. i need some blue pants.

an eye for an eye for an eye for an eye for an eye.

I dunno eh. It doesn't seem time for a party. If anything, surely it's an opportunity to remember, and mourn, and hope that in future, Obama won't get 'justice' all mixed up with 'revenge.'

you amazing man.

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Badassery in the last three months. oop.

Hokay, so.

I've been to Mos Def, MF Doom, Liam Finn, Laneway, Big Day Out.

I've bought some flippin awesome shoes that are comfortable at the same time at being beautiful.

I've whipped several essays out from who knows where.

I've been in a play about the most badass dude like, in the whole of Shakespearean England.

I've got a role in another play.

I went on a 45 min run right outta the blue.

mm. improvements. so feeble.

On List:

Go rockclimbing. (Thats for you Miley)

Make some sweet clothes.

Keep running, potentially like have a goal on that front.

oui! x

adding some choons.

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there is no other word but 'disaster'

The most lucid shots of the 22/02/2011 Christchurch, NZ 6.3 earthquake: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/02/earthquake-in-new-zealand/100013/

Just horrific.

Toll at 75 and counting.

All my love, support and hopes. x

A Year of Badassery

'The New Year' has thrown open its golden gates, the only ticket necessary for entry being a resolution to make yourself a more wholesome, healthy person, setting you once again on the ever elusive course to perfection. Ahem.

Part in rebellion, and part in recognition of my need to aim for this perfectly happy ideal life thing, my resolution is:

"Be more badass."

Or more specifically, to do one thing everyday that makes me feel badass.

I'd just like to discuss the definition of 'badass.' Tattoos and guns and car chases and leather jackets all spring to mind I'm sure, and if you have any idea who I am, you would lol your way right off into the sunset and never return in order to save yourself the agony of witnessing my dismal failure. HOWEVER, I believe the actual essence of badassery is doing stuff that makes you feel cool or awesome simply beacuse YOU want to. Doing something someone else thinks is badass ain't gonna make me feel badass unless I also think that its badass. Kapeesh?

For instance. On 2nd January 2011, my badass act was baking a loaf of bread. REASONS: (a) I've never done it before so I was embarking into the unknown, a common trait of badass acts (Jason Bourne doesn't even know WHO HE IS! That's pretty unknown, and oh so synonymous with having no idea how to bake bread), and (b) it fed my family, and we all know that the most badass dudes only perform their badassery in order to protect their clan (the Mafia anyone?!!). Not overly convincing perhaps, but one must ease oneself into these things.

On 3rd January, my badass act was having friends over for a marathon game of Pictionary which lasted until 3am, and on January 4th, my badass act was going mountain biking for the birthday of one of my closest friends. SO BADASS.

...ok it may seem like I'm shooting myself in the foot by even listing my seemingly pitiful attempts at badassery, but however apparently mediocre my success in the School of Badassery, if I feel badass in the process, then I've achieved my goal. Bitchez.

being young and careless, as in, who gives a flying f**k.

"Don't be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying yes begins things. Saying yes is how things grow. Saying yes leads to knowledge. 'Yes' is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes."

-Stephen Colbert