.:| they've gotta little captain in them... |:.

"Lokapala, Tomb Guardian". China, Tang Dynasty.

I find it kind of humorous and ironic that a nation that was so strong and so mighty, had a "Captain Morgan" statue guarding the tombs of their ancestors. Maybe he did have a little Captain in him! haha...maybe not. OK! Well, as most of you can guess, Captain Morgan spiced rum actually came around AFTER the Tang dynasty in China. The Tang dynasty was established in the year 618, while the Captain Morgan dynasty didn't establish until 1944.

Regardless! This just tells me that even in the 1900's artists were having a hard time finding originality...though inspiration was obviously not lacking. SO from this inspiration births another! The inspiration to do something not done before! I don't know what that is yet exactly...but I'm definitely inspired by it!! lol

.:| October 20 |:.

1740 ~ France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

1803 ~ The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.

1941 ~ World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are killed in the Kragujevac massacre.

1971 ~ Snoop Dogg, American rapper, was born.

1977 ~ A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot.

1988 ~ Amy Catherine King, IUPUI student, was born.

1991 ~ The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage.


As you can see--lots of things happened on October 20. The good, the bad and the UGLY. Whether by coincidence or chance, or for some unknown purpose, I share my date of birth with all of these events, and more!

^_^ happy birthday to me.

.:| What the ßLeeP Dø w∑ (K)πow!¿ |:.

I like this movie for a dozen different reasons. The main one being that I enjoy all the little jelly hormones running around. ^_^ I like that you can see and easily define what people are actually thinking and feeling. It makes me wish things were so easy in the real world. lol. I do think that it would have enhanced the movie had they muted everything when looking through the photographers first person point of view. It would have made those parts of the movie and the parts where she signs easier to understand. I do like how they cut from the story to various interviews talking about religion and their opinions on life, death and everything in between. I've always been fascinated by peoples opinions on god and how the hereafter works. I liked what one of the interviewees said about "we are our own god. everyone is god."

Anyway. Those are my thoughts.

.:| sense of smell and taste |:.

well. i had baked brownies for the class this past week, but we were watching that movie so i didn't get to do my experiment. i don't have the money or time to make more so i'm going to have to describe it to you.

smell the rich chocolate of the brownies; the warm, thick smell of fudge flowing into your nostrils...you can taste chocolate on the air. you can feel your teeth sinking deep into the warm chocolate...until you get an awful burning feeling on your tongue as the salt from the brownies hits your mouth. that cut on the inside of your lips flares as the brownie hits it on it's way back out of your mouth.

this is the exact reason why we have 7 senses. because sometimes when you use one, two, even three or more senses, you can't tell something is bad for you...or is just bad. lol. the brownies smelled good. looked good. felt good. but tasted awful because of the salt. the only way you could've known they were bad was to taste them.

.:| sense of sound |:.

.:| sense of sight |:.

Well. Nobody said it had to be human sight. So, I went to the dog park to see through their eyes.

.:| sense of tranquility |:.

.:| sense of time |:.

It's about nine o'clock...ish. In my house all the clocks are set to something different so you HAVE to have a sense of time here. What makes me laugh is that blogger is gonna say it's about three hours earlier then the time it actually is...