Blog.

Tumblr is waaaay better.
http://ali-in-slc.tumblr.com/

Fred

i want to introduce you to Fred. Fred is a duck. He is my best friend. But he is invisible. And has super amazing ninja awesomeness powers. But sometimes I worry about Fred, because he is a little bit depressed. I don't know why because who would be depressed when you can fly and make things spontaneously combust with your mind?!?!?!

Anyway, Fred has a story he would like to tell you:

One day, he came to school with me to meet all of my friends. But this one girl was really mean and even though I told her not to sit there because Fred was sitting there, she sat there anyway. And she sent Fred to the hospital. With two broken legs.

ISN'T THAT MEAN?!?!?!?!?!?!

yeah, i thought so too. 

anyway, Fred has to go now so i'm going to talk about something else. how about doors? ok. doors. well, there are a lot of doors in the world. and some of the doors are purple and some are orange and some of them are just wooden and not painted. Some of them are metal like the doors in the prisons. you better hope you never have a door like that on your room.... doors are fun to open. and close. and swing on. like a spider. you can climb walls and swing from ropes and walk on the ceiling. 

OH HEY LOOK

Fred forgot his backpack. so he came back =D and now he's decided to stay a while even though his mother TOLD him to be home by 8:30..... BAD FRED!!!!

He wants to tell you another story. about the time he met another bipolar invisible duck. and that duck's name was Taylor. Taylor and Fred started to talk to each other because they liked each other a lot. it was infatuation at first sight. And then they decided to go on a date. They sat and drank cocktails and listened to amazing forties music. And then Taylor and Fred got married. and lived happily ever after. Until they divorced. because Fred wouldn't get down from the fucking tree. he just climbed up there and refused to get down. and Taylor was pissed. So they divorced. Fred was sad. But seriously Fred? Seriously? You couldn't have just taken Taylor into the tree with you???

ummmm well i think i'm done now. 

this lovely post was brought to you by a superhero called SOY NUT!!!!!!!!!

What a douche.

Earth day art.

It
became
apparent to
me that I haven't
written in a very long
time. I have been very busy
and incredibly tired.
But now term
is over and
I can
sleep.
It's
getting
warmer now.
Soon I can plant
my garden. And I
already started to ride
my bike around.
Today I rode
for a good
hour
and a half
with my brother.
Well at this point in
time I don't have much
of real interest to
speak about.
So now I
bid you
adou.
:/

Another quote...

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle.Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stoleone and prayed for forgiveness.

- Emo Philips

I'm going to try and post more creative writing. Although I haven't actually tried to write anything creatively for a REALLY, REALLY long time... so I'm going to post somthing I wrote a REALLY, REALLY long time ago... when I was emo... shut up.


Time
Do you wish you could slow everything down? Watch hundreds of seconds pass without letting a minute go. Wish you could spend time thinking, about love, about hate, about life, about death, thinking about whatever you wish to think about, without quick time pushing you forward.

You may not wish these things; you may be content with your hurried existence. If you're happy and do not wish these things, rejoice for the sole reason that you are happy, because like many things happiness is hard to get and easy to lose. I envy those whoever obtain it.

If you are not happy with this rushed lifestyle, you are like me. For I wish I could stop time to examine the beauty and the innocence in this world. I wish to acquire the never ending minute in which to think and to sleep and to dream forever, with no interruptions, no responsibilities, no time no date. To float away into a place with no worries, no problems, no nothing.

This place does not exist on our human planet. If you would attempt these things you would die, because we would keep getting attacked by each second to each minute to each hour. We can never win a fight with time because it is an immortal enemy with a world of followers.

So what do we do? We go on fighting; giving every last breath we have until time defeats us. We look for as much happiness as we can possibly get. We look for love, and family, we look for beauty in our small world and attempt to rid of the ugly. Life is worth fighting for, fight for beauty, fight for innocence, fight for happiness, fight for love and attempt peace.

"..."

I have officially discovered my favorite quote and I am eager to share it with the world. This quote is in the book I am reading "The Tea Rose" by Jennifer Donnelly

""What I believe, Father," she said, handing him back his rosary," is that three pounds of meat makes a very good stew.""

And just now am I realising that too many of my posts are related to religion... I should stop this... meh.

Religion.

I personally do not believe in any kind of God or "higher power" however I would just like to post some of my commentary on religion as a whole.

I just watched Stephen Colbert speaking of scientology which one of the large theories revolving around Scientology (also not very well known) is that 75 million years ago a space leader named Xenu killed billions of his alien people by placing them around volcanoes and murdering them with a giant hydrogen bomb (if you would like more information go here). He stated that if the scientologists would like to make this more believable they could add a talking snake and a virgin who has babies. This caused me to think about the philosophy behind The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the fact that religion is so unbelievable. People invest there lives into this book that speaks of so many things that they have no idea if they are true or not. You can completely relate "God" to "Xenu" to the "Flying Spaghetti Monster", each one is just as believable as the next.

I think that religion is a beautiful idea, a truly beautiful idea. But just using the logic which evolution has thrust upon me I choose not to donate my life to these theories which have very, very little evidence behind them. I do seriously wish that there was evidence behind religion because the idea of religion is the most poetic and artistic thought that I believe has ever occurred. The main ideas behind christiantity are in a few words: peace, love, and an understanding for what life means. But that is only the idea of religion the reality of religion is much more bleak. In my opinion most religions are just a very large company scamming good people who are looking for more in there lives. Many religious folks are incrdibly judgemental of other people who are not religious. There has never been an atheist president, I'm pretty sure that every single president of the United States has been religious. Our own x-president Bush (oh how good it feels to say/type that!) truly and whole heartedly believed that God told him to be the president. I have a feeling that, that fact probably turned a lot of votes.

Even a liberal democratic president (Obama) had an incredibly long prayer at his innagur

ation, not to mention the fact that he reffered to the atheist population as "non-believers" which I was slightly offended by because I feel it implies that the atheist population of America don't

believe in anything. I don't know about the rest of the atheists of the US but I sure as

hell believe in many things and just because I don't believe in a big white man in the sky doesn't mean I should be put into a category of a "non-believer".

So in conclusion in a world completely run by the idea of a "higher power" where is the place for

us atheists?

PS if you're looking for a good atheist web site this one caught my eye. Although beware it's pretty anti-religion/God and stuff.

Emoness in a can.

This is a recent facebook conversation I had with Maura, enjoy.

Ali Xan Wilson
The girl I told you who was an emo is Chelsea Bastian and I just thought you might want to know that her status update right now is "Chelsea Mahala BastianSomeday you're going to realize.One day you will see it through my eyes.You will see the pain that you have caused me but I will be gone happy somewhere somehow."EmO.


Maura Coursey
haha.people like that make me laugh=D


Ali Xan Wilson
Yeah she's pretty entertaining.


Maura Coursey

i'm smiling on the outside ali, but on the inside i'm crying. it's raining behind my eyes. and it seems like i will never get out of this rain...i'm spiraling downward into a deep abyss of darkness, and i'm trapped='(


Ali Xan Wilson
Everyone looks on the outside thaey can't see the inside. The inside that's the real me, the inside that can't seem to stop screaming, fighting it's way out while I try to hold it inside.


Maura Coursey
i'm screaming but no one can hear me. no one can possibly understand the things that i'm going through. sometimes i just want to die, to escape from this pain


Ali Xan Wilson
Sometimes I feel like I'm stuck in a dream world. Nothing feels real I feel nothing. I only bleed to know that I'm still alive. The pain doesn't hurt if it's the only thing you've felt.


Maura Coursey

i'm lost and i'm confused, and every time i trust someone they always hurt me. i'm so alone in the world. no one really knows me, all they know is what i show them on the outside.


Ali Xan Wilson
I stare at him sitting in the front. His sleeve slips down and I see the red lines on his arm, I get chills. I wish I could have him but I know deep inside me that the only one who could ever understand me is my razor. If only it was easier. But it's not so I bleed.

(I'm proud of this one :P)


Maura Coursey
February 26 at 8:51pm
damn. thats impressive.i'm not sure i could top that even if i tried...

Sun.

I had a really bad morning today. I woke up as my carpool arrived and then had to walk out to the car in my pajamas to tell them to leave and not drive me. I went in and told my mom that I missed carpool and she said to get dressed. I did and when I came upstairs she told me to get my brother up etc. etc. etc. Twenty minutes later my mom got up to tell me she was sick and that me and my brother had to walk to school. It was almost 8 by the time I left.



I began to walk to trax/bus upset because I waited for twenty minutes for my mom her to give me a ride which she never gave. But as I got on the bus going down 1300 east I realized that it was sunny and warm. The sun light was reflecting off of everything and making everything look brighter in more than one sense. I got off the bus and began walking to trax, and gazing at the busy street bathed in sunlight I couldn't help but smile.



Once on trax I felt the good vibrations coming from the warm people. I wathched as people walked up the stairs and carefully chose a seat and as they briskly jumped off of the train. I looked at all the people realizing that each of them were thinking. Each of the people on that train were thinking individual thoughts that I wasn't thinking. Each of theese warm, sunny people were not only expelling good vibrations but they were also thinking. Thinking all these things caused me to smile and forget about everything else.

Karma in pin form.

The godess of Karma is a bitch, that we all know. You can almost count on ALMOST everything bad that happens to you is because of that bitch. I have found a great way to decipher whether or not the bad thing that happens to you is Karma or not. This system is called Pin Karma. I once had a pin collection on my bag with up to 50 pins on it. Than they began falling off one by one clattering down onto the ground. I then began thinking, and figured that I could match every "bad" thing I had done (since I gained my pin collection) to a fallen pin. I then matched the worst things I had done with my favorite pins. For instance when my "jesus pin" falls off I better get ready for Hell. If that one Morgan gave me that I don't understand fell off my response would likely be "meh." I currently have roughly 10 pins. I encourage you other Karma believer ins to start your own pin collection so you to can know when Karma is being a bitch.

A Pastifarian outrage!!!

I am completely outraged! I was so angry when I read this article (http://www.newsique.com/us/student_punished_for_spaghetti_b/) I nearly steamed. A fellow human being is being discriminated on purely because of his religion. Do these people not understand that if he does not wear his religious uniform our world will be deteriorated by global warming! What they are doing is slapping the spaghetti monster square in his noodly appendage, can they not understand the devotion this man must have to his spaghetti monster? I can confidently tell you that the people who did this will most definitley shrink at least 2 inches.

Heart is not a word.

This was on the bottom of the stall door in the school bathroom.

Mom

I have a strange feeling that my mother is trying to spy on me through my blog, which I hadn't told her about. So if she is I would like her to stop spying on me. Thank-you.

Mormons the recession and a succesful prop. 8.

All people are suffering from the recession, with 162,000 job layoffs in January alone. All people that is except for the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. Somehow the Mormon church has been able to spend Millions of dollars on prop. 8, not to mention the gargantuan temple they just built. How can an organization that is based in Utah pay 17.67 million dollars for a proposition that only effects California, not to mention while the entire nation is in a economic crisis. Not only are they able to donate 77% of donations to pass a proposition, they were able to build a temple that is so large and ornate it is almost ungodly. The site is 12 acres, and the building itself is 58,300 square feet. In the online magazine "the mormon times" the church empathizes with its followers, writing about how it is so incredibly hard to handle the recession, especially not being able to buy the children backpacks or new clothes. This church feels that it is not unethical to make their followers feel like they are having problems too, while they are doing fantastic. Although you do have to look at the fact that the temple was probably built nearly free for them. Here is a description of the first room of the temple done by an NPR correspondant "The lobby is ornate, like the rest of the building, which has exterior walls made with white Chinese granite, floors paved with limestone mined in France, windows filled with pastel stained glass, ceilings hung with crystal chandeliers, and doors, paneling, cabinets and trim carved from Makore wood from the west coast of central Africa." It seems that everyone is suffering from this recession except Jesus's fan club.

Histories and Futures

Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, George Harisson, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, Harry S Truman, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Gore Vidal, and Marilyn Monroe. Any of those names sound familiar? They all have somthing in common too: they didn't go to college. I'm not saying that if you do go to college you won't be successful I just think that people should stop directly relating college and happiness/money/successfulness. I'm tired of hearing that if I don't go to college I will make 50% less or whatever. I would also love it if people would stop thinking that just because I don't care about my letter grades that I don't care about learning or an education: stop assuming I am refusing to go to college just because I don't think it is absolutely necessary. Grades are important if you aspire to be somthing that requires a college degree, like being a medical examiner or a teacher. However, if you aspire to be somthing like a florist, or an artist, or a musician, or a photographer, or a novelist you do not need good grades or a college degree. I would be interested in going to an art college, or go study philosophy but it's not the highest priority on my list right now.

gObama!

Obama has been president for about two days. Obama has already signed orders to shut down Gitmo within a year! He not only ordered the shut down of Gitmo he also ordered to shut down any secred CIA prisons over seas and he has banned harsh interigation. Obama said "First, I can say without exception or equivocation that the United States will not torture. Second, we will close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and determine how to deal with those who have been held there." Obama has only been president for two days and he is already cleaning up the ungodly, unamerican, unethical mess that X-president bush left behind for us, I think I believe in America again.

Bush is....

In case you were wondering the first ten things that pop up when you type in "bush is" in the google search box are:
1. Bush is an idiot.
2. Bush is a good president (Don't know what they were smoking).
3. Bush is the antichrist.
4. Bush is a moron.
5. Bushisms
6. Bush is the worst president ever.
7. Bush is a terrorist.
8. Bush is antichrist.
9. Bush is a criminal.
10. Bush is a nazi.
I think that pretty much sums up his eight years as president (except for number two).

P.S. credit to Allie Ogilvie.

Jim Sturgess

Jim Sturgess (AKA sexy man beast who lives behind Stephanies couch) is maybe, probably going to be in another movie. Yay! The movie is called "The Way Back" and it's about Soviet Russia, not my fave but Jim Sturgess plays a sexy polish inmate. Who I am sure will do sexy things in a sexy way well acting sexy. Jim Sturgess has not been in a movie since 21 and that was a long time, and a girl can only watch a movie repeatedly so many times...

American Idol

American Idol is redundant, idiotic, and flatout old.
I'm pretty sure that 8 years of the same shit is enough of the same shit. Every year they do the same thing with every single episode, during the auditions they show a few contestants (mostly just the ridiculous ones who they then humiliate infront of the entire audience), they show a few people bitching and moaning A.K.A. flipping the camera off, calling Simon an ass-hole, they do two life stories and then it's over... just kidding add in about 15 minutes of comercials to that. Now it's over. They do this every year, every episode. But at least those ones are better than the hour long ones which go somthing like this: 3 minute song-4 minute commercial-3minute song-4 minute commercial- etc. etc. And then there's the worst dun dun dun the results show. Do those people seriously need to take half an hour to tell us who did the best and who sucked??? There's no substance all it is, is dramatic music, crying, and (you guessed it) commercials. Therefore--
American Idol is redundant, idiotic, and flatout old.

Comercialization of Classics

Today I was listening to the radio on my way home from a friend's house and what do I hear but Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire being totally obliterated. A company would have to sink pretty low to play a classic song on an insurance commercial. Johnny Cash sings with soul and passion, and this one commercial turned that soul and passion into a way to boost sales. They literally changed the lyrics to be singing about insurance. Good-bye respect for the classics-Hello cheap affordable insurance.

The White Stripes

I was so disapointed, I was looking at things online about the White Stripes and I saw that they were coming to the E-center in September. I was really excited because that's way close to my b-day and I could get tickets. But being stupid me I didn't realize that, that was in 2007... So I got all excited over nothing. :(

Inauguration

In two days history will be made.
Barrack Obama will be the first African-American president in the United States.
I think people need to be making more of a big deal about this. This day is going to go down in textbooks all over the world. It is a huge day. People should skip work, skip school, skip any prior engagements they have to watch the inauguration. What do you want to say in twenty years when people ask "Do you remember Obama's inauguration?"? Do you really want to say "No, I was at home sleeping." or "I was in English class learning how to use commas correctly."

Get out there and experience monumental history in the making!

Blog.

Yay. I created a blog. Now the question is what will I do with it?