The Audio Stylings of Chris Levens
"I'm a Gangster"

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Is there order or is there chaos? As far as I'm concerned, you would be a fool to deny either. The sun rises everyday, seasons change with predictability, eyes see, hearts beat, bullets kill --all eveidence that there is order. But who can deny the chaos: Babies are born with eyes that don't see, grandpa's heart stops beating, bullets sometimes don't kill; you plan and unexpected events frustrate, you act wisely and the worst happens, you act foolishly and things go better than expected, the just are criminalized, the evil are celebrated, moth and rust destroy what you love.

Order is fickle.
The unpredictability of Order's alliegence to order instills doubt in Order. Once the doubt takes root, Order becomes unappologetically orderly and uproots the doubt. This is done only to start the cycle over once again when you bank on Order's orderliness. Order has an order to unorderliness --a complex type of order than the casual observe will call disorder.
Order is the master of mind games and in the end, Order wins.
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I would like to employ an ad hominem against those who use ad hominems. Here it is: those who use ad hominems are cut-throats who care more about winning than being accurate. Those who believe ad hominems are willing victims of deception.

Now the challange to you, dear reader: do you believe what I say and subject yourself to the label of those who believe ad hominems? Or do you doubt what I say which would result in your approval of the use of ad hominems. This, in turn, would lead you to an approval of my argument since I used an ad hominem. Once you approved of my argument you would then be forced to think poorly of me and yourself since you believed an ad hominem and I used one. It is a vicious circle I have thrown you in, but I do not appologize for it.
 9:35 AM   •  7 satisfied customers!!  

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And yet another proof that those who say "Whatever doesn't kill you only makes you stronger" are dumb: twisted ankles. My ankles twist so easy it is sad. I don't even know if I have any mussles there anymore. It happened most when I liked to SK8. Now when I play basketball it happens all the time --even with neo-preem ankle braces. Those ankle twistings that happened while I skated didn't make me stronger, they made me weaker. This is also true for people with lower back injuuries and knee problems. They don't get stronger, they get weaker.

So next time some big dork tells you "Blah, blah,... makes you stronger" you just look him in the eye and say "Beef Balogna!" Then tell him to come talk to me, Johnny T.
 4:34 PM   •  4 satisfied customers!!  

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Greed and fear --the basic emotions that govern the economy. They are also the basic emotions that govern most of life. I think this is why the teachings of Jesus are so revolutionary. By offering heaven for free he quenches our thirst for greed. Heaven is the place where the streets are made of gold, pearls are gates, there is abundate food and wine, we have huge homes, etc. He also subdues our fears by defeating our biggest enemy, the thing we most fear: death. Then comes the most amazing part of Jesus' teaching: give up your life here-- let your enemies kill you, give your goods to the poor. On the one hand he offers us great riches and eternal life and on the other hand he askes us to give up our riches here and make ourselves susseptible to death.

I don't know about you, but I love it.
 12:58 PM   •  3 satisfied customers!!  

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Wine class, no more. Oh how I will miss the 5 week introduction to wine appreciation. *sob*

Being an appreciator is a great skill. I think of myself as an appreciator of a great many things. In fact, one of my favorite past times is to ask, Better than? Less than? or Equal to? I can ask this of a great many things. I like to spend time debating my arbitrary oppinions with others. The best way to argue about matters of taste and oppinon is to act as if your oppinion and taste is the standard upon which all other oppinons and tastes are measured. The fun in this is intensified when the arguee takes you serious and takes themselves real serious and gets their panties in a big knot. Yes, I live for moments like that.
 4:20 PM   •  4 satisfied customers!!  

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So, most people don't like politics. I can understand. But let me ask a question to those that don't dig the political thing: do you vote?

I'm just wondering. Voting is portrayed as a big deal, but let's face it, you really don't make a difference. But I'm curious as to why anyone would vote if they don't like politics. How would you know who to vote for? Or about the issues and laws being addressed? Do you learn who to vote for by watching MTV, movies and listening to music? Or do you learn that at public schools? HA! That's rich! But my suspissions is that a vast majority of people who don't even know what the differences between Capitalism and Socialism are vote based on MTV's "Rock the Vote" crap, along with various other gimicks. Is this true?

I would like you non-political people to let me know if you vote or not.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think everyone should be into politics. I don't even think everyone should vote. I think if you don't care, don't do it. In fact, I would discourage people who don't know simple economics and history, or don't care about these things to stay away from the booths. It is better that people who give a crap have the say, dontcha think?
 5:59 PM   •  10 satisfied customers!!  

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I've noticed that people don't like political blog entries. Why is that? I can guess, and I'm probably right, but I would sort of like to know from those that don't like them. Here are my guesses:
1) They disagree and don't want to argue about it.
2) They don't know what I'm talking about.
3) They try and stay out of politics.
4) They agree and have nothing to add.

On the birghter side of life, it is gloomy today. Overcast is cool. I like the way things look when it is overcast.

On the not so bright side of life, lyrics are secondary in music. The sound of music is what really matters. This is proved by the fact that most song lyrics are recycled and rarely contribute to the existing themes. Here are the main themes in pop music lyrics that get repeated over and over: Love (break-ups, new love, lasting love, amazing love, hating love, bored with love), Rebellion (against parents, government, tradition, trends, any authority, etc), Party songs (celebration, hedonism, victory), Activism (animal rights, politics, war, freedom, gay rights, drug legalization), Emotions (confusion, depression, joy, anger, coming-of-age, frustration, disapointment), Nonsense (sweaters, Istanbul, parody, rice). Now how often is something new ever said in a song? Not often. This isn't a bad thing -I really don't mind recyled lyrics. It just goes to show that music is primarily instrumental, secondarily lyrical. I like music this way. This is why Jazz and Classical music are focused on the music and not the lyrics. People who really have something interesting to say that is ground breaking, new, or facinating rarley put it into a pop song and sell it to a label. Songs sometimes get made out of other people's great ideas but rarley generate from the pop song maker. I say rarely just to hedge my bets --I can't acctually think of any examples of someone who debunks Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem and wrights a pop-punk song to publisize it, for example.
 11:55 AM   •  5 satisfied customers!!  

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Give me a good reason for this: we praise the French Resistance in WW2 against the Nazi occupation, right. Yet we blame the Palistinian Resistance against the Israeli occupation and call is terrorism. Why did'nt we call the French Resistance terrorism?

Here is a break down of my explanation.
1) We only call terrorism the acts of nations we don't like.
2) The Germans in France didn't have families there so the French attacks were only dirrected at military persons and so we don't look down on the acts as much. Now, if the Germans had really taken root in France and had won the war, you better believe that they would have settled in France and started families. Now, do you think the French Resistance would stop resisting because non-miltary people occupied their land? I don't. And I bet we would have supported their deeds of resistance. And you know what, I bet the Germans would call the French deeds of resistance terrorism and would have started a premptive war to stop it. Terrorism all depends on what side you are on.
3)We call Palistinian acts of resistance terrorism because we (the USA) are one of the main causes of the Isreali occupation of Palistine.
4)I bet if only military persons were occuping Palistine right now we would still call the Palistinian acts of resistance terrorism.

Now, all this being said, I would like to express a bit of approval of Bush's recent moves in this conflict. I am really glad to see that he is not taking sides on the issue. He seems to be considerate of both Israel and Palistine which was a bit unexpected. I expected him to do the traditional Republican thing and stand behind Israel. He needs a little congratulations for being more even handed than we all expected.

See, I can say good things about Bush. Even though he does some dumb things like extending unemployment benefits again and again and also that whole elderly health care bill. No one can say that Bush is a proponent of small governemt. He has probably spent more money and created a larger government than even Gore would have done. Ironic, isn't it.
 10:14 AM   •  3 satisfied customers!!  

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Having coolness secrets is the secret for coolness. This is coolness secret number 1.

In telling you this coolness secret I have just transformed it from a secret to a rule. Having coolness rules deplete coolness. This is coolness secret number 2. Coolness secret number 2 is now a rule thanks again to my big mouth (i.e., typing fingers).

Now that my two main coolness secrets are revealed and consequently transformed in to coolness rules, I am much less cool. And now that you know these rule you can't use them to increase your coolness, since coolness rules don't help your coolness.

The effect of this blog is completely negative. I have eliminated the soul of my coolness and I have given all of you a coolness handicap. I can save us all a lot of trouble if I don't post this blog-- my coolness will stay in tact and you will still be able to develop these coolnees secrets on your own and thus increase your coolness. So, as a favor to you and myself I am not going to post this blog.
 11:22 AM   •  6 satisfied customers!!  

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Two of my teeth are crowned now. I feel good. Fake teeth rule. I wish all my teeth were fake--no cavities, no root canals, no pain.
But what am I exchaning here? What about the real life contact that is only possible with real teeth? What about that human element --do I want to exchange that for innatimate objects? Do I want to jettison my living, real teeth for some technologicanlly cold and distant substitutions? Can technology and science ever really replace real life? NE V V V ERRRR!
From here on out I pledge a bond of loyalty to the real, living teeth that grew in my mouth. Blast those crafty dentists who would exchange plastic and porciline for enamal and nerves and play it off as a boon! Blast them!
 10:33 AM   •  6 satisfied customers!!  

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It is cool when your brain incorporates T.V., movies and other people's experiences into your own memory. Sometimes I will be telling a story and someone will be like, "Hey Boy-O, that was from Gilligan's Island." And I'll be like, "Yo, your right. Wicked!" Then we give each other a high five and make our way to the arcade. Why we talk like that in those circumstances is still a mystery. But hey, it seems to add to the sureality of the situation so no one complains.


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Ambidexterity is a great efficency booster. I'm working on becoming ambidextrous. Would you like to know my secret? Hard work. That's right, there are no easy Get-Ambidextrous-Quick methods. All those T.V. and Radio adds you see and hear that claim you can "Get ambidextrous in 15 minuets a day for 6 six weeks" --beef balogna! There is only one time proven way to become ambidextrous (or ambi-D for those in the know) --practice. For example, right now, while I blog with my right hand I am making some doodles with my left. I have to divide my brain so that it can concentrate on both. The one problem with being ambi-D is an increase in schizophrenia. But this is a price I am willing to pay. If competition is the essence of a healthy market economy then it follows that competition is the essence of mental health. Up until now my main personality has had a monopoly on me. Now I will have a little competition, i.e. myself. This is sure to make me a better person, or persons, which ever way you want to look at it. Personally, we prefer to think of us in the singlar.
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And it is the 4th of July! Yip-hip Horr-upie! This is the day that we celebrate our liberties as free people. This is the day that we celebrate a strong government that takes away our freedom to light off fireworks in celebration of those lost freedoms. I think I see something: One's freedom to light fireworks is in proportion with their freedom in general. Well that would mean the Chineese are the most free? Is that so? They do have the best fireworks, don't they. Then they must be the most free. I never thought this was the case. But I guess my infallibale syligism proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
What ever the case about the the Chineese being more free than us, I want all you peoples out there who live in a place where you still have the freedom to set off fireworks to light off a bottle rocket for me, Johnny T. Here in Southern California we don't have that freedom to celebrate freedom the way we want. I think one reason for this is because Budwiser and the Hot Dog industry paid the California legislature to illegalize fireworks so people can only celebrate with beer and hot dogs. Now this isn't a bad restriction. I do with Ancor Steam or Sam Adams would have done it instead of Bud, but that is besides the point. The point is I can't blow things up in celebration of the freedom to pursue happiness. Why do the Chineese get this freedom and we don't? Are they happier than we are? I don't know . . . anyways, have a happy 4th. And don't forget the bottle rocket.
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Three more months before I become a Papa. Gwendalyn looks like the name. I'm letting my wife pick the name since it is a girl. My hope is that she will give in to me when we have a boy. I really want to give him a name that is both cool and funny at the same time. Max is one of my favorites. I also like Lester, Rex and Jupiter. Don't you think Jupiter is a really cool name? I think it is way cool. My wife thinks I'm kidding when I say this. I'm not. It is cool because it is like a Sci-Fi/ Hippie/ Classical name. What a combo!
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