Bahh neighbors
May. 8th, 2005 01:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jebbypalSo yeah, the neighbors are at it again. Though I have figured out that some of their noise seems to be the fact that their TV is positioned next to my wall or something...and I guess they have a lot of foreign cable channels. But since they don't understand the universal language of wall banging, I've been ignoring them for the most part and just trying to go to sleep etc instead.
Except tonite, I got caught in Sometime In April on PBS (Rwanda Genocide film) and stayed awake through their "quietish" tv time into their "weekend chats home" in which they are yelling at the phone very loudly...as in if I could understand the language I could hear the coversation verbatim....all the way in my kitchen on the opposite side of the apartment. So since my headache only just now started responding to the excedrin I finally took, I've decided to fight back w/ Guster....I figure that high pitched voices of 3 white guys might key them into the fact that they are being a bit inconsiderate (especially since my radio is positioned against their wall --- but the only other time I ever play it loud is in the mornings when I'm in the shower).
So far no decrease in the volume of the conversation. Maybe I should buy one of those antique hearing aid horns for them to send to whomever they call? That or start bringing ear plugs home from the lab. *sigh*
Sometime in April It was pretty well done. I haven't seen Hotel Rwanda, but based on other docu-dramas that I've seen that have been based on the Holocaust or Bosnia/Yugoslavia, it was okay. It reminded me how fed up/angry I was at the government back in 1994, but I realize that these things are always about politics. Sadly, even when a country does have oil or some other important item, it does not always guarantee inteverntion as shown by the Kurds back during the first Gulf War. It's heartwrenching to see the same thing repeated time and again, yet those in power have never gotten the clue or balls to get involved in any meaningful way until the clean up phase.
Of course that doesn't excuse what happens either. I don't know....I grew up in Oklahoma in a family and area where racism was pretty rampant but somehow never absorbed any of it. God, I still remember being embarrassed as hell every time I had a friend over and someone in my family cracked a racist joke (usually my grandparents, my parents are generally wise enough to hold it in and also not quite as bad as the older generation). Even after taking a seminar course dealing with genocide in college, I'm still agog at the whole "us vs them" mentality. I know, sheltered life and all that.
Still, it would be nice to hear an administration say "Never Again" and mean it. And do something about it. Darfur has managed to fall out of the public eye and the journalists don't seem to be too interested in getting it back there either. I guess conflicts lose their "sexiness" after they go on longer than a month. Siigh, it's so tiring of having journalists say little of interest or even real news. What's happened to investigative journalism?
Sorry, my mind gets on these ruts sometimes. Hopefully I didn't bring too many of the rest of you down with me
Except tonite, I got caught in Sometime In April on PBS (Rwanda Genocide film) and stayed awake through their "quietish" tv time into their "weekend chats home" in which they are yelling at the phone very loudly...as in if I could understand the language I could hear the coversation verbatim....all the way in my kitchen on the opposite side of the apartment. So since my headache only just now started responding to the excedrin I finally took, I've decided to fight back w/ Guster....I figure that high pitched voices of 3 white guys might key them into the fact that they are being a bit inconsiderate (especially since my radio is positioned against their wall --- but the only other time I ever play it loud is in the mornings when I'm in the shower).
So far no decrease in the volume of the conversation. Maybe I should buy one of those antique hearing aid horns for them to send to whomever they call? That or start bringing ear plugs home from the lab. *sigh*
Sometime in April It was pretty well done. I haven't seen Hotel Rwanda, but based on other docu-dramas that I've seen that have been based on the Holocaust or Bosnia/Yugoslavia, it was okay. It reminded me how fed up/angry I was at the government back in 1994, but I realize that these things are always about politics. Sadly, even when a country does have oil or some other important item, it does not always guarantee inteverntion as shown by the Kurds back during the first Gulf War. It's heartwrenching to see the same thing repeated time and again, yet those in power have never gotten the clue or balls to get involved in any meaningful way until the clean up phase.
Of course that doesn't excuse what happens either. I don't know....I grew up in Oklahoma in a family and area where racism was pretty rampant but somehow never absorbed any of it. God, I still remember being embarrassed as hell every time I had a friend over and someone in my family cracked a racist joke (usually my grandparents, my parents are generally wise enough to hold it in and also not quite as bad as the older generation). Even after taking a seminar course dealing with genocide in college, I'm still agog at the whole "us vs them" mentality. I know, sheltered life and all that.
Still, it would be nice to hear an administration say "Never Again" and mean it. And do something about it. Darfur has managed to fall out of the public eye and the journalists don't seem to be too interested in getting it back there either. I guess conflicts lose their "sexiness" after they go on longer than a month. Siigh, it's so tiring of having journalists say little of interest or even real news. What's happened to investigative journalism?
Sorry, my mind gets on these ruts sometimes. Hopefully I didn't bring too many of the rest of you down with me
