Friday Night. Me and Matt are gunna shoot some guns… scratch that, were. then it got -7 and windy as sin. Now we are going to drive to Langley to pick up some people and watch the hot rock show in Langley tonight: Texas swing, Against Grey and the February’s playing at vineyard church.
This is as good as it gets folks: All of Langley is out for the show. Well… anyone in langley between the ages of 17-22 who is heavily affiliated with a Christian institution… So TWU students and kids that attend a youth group. Overall the highlight of the show was the people; you’ve never met angstier teens more anxious to start a slam pit. The music was ok. I’m not a fan of hard screamo so it wasn’t totally my thing. Neither was it really everyone else’s; its more of a way for people to not be lonely on a friday night. Bless those considerate christians and their non-offensive rock shows… Besides Drew Mckay’s guitar.
From there: drive 6 people to their respective homes in Langley and Whiterock… and then pick up someone in Surrey and driving even more people back to Abbey. Decided to sleep in Abbey. Decided to read before crashing on the couch of Dallas. Decided to steal a book from his room. The above book looked interesting.
Review:
Randall Price loves Jews. He just loves Jews. I have never read a book that says so many good things about Jews and how they can and have kicked Arab culture all across the middle east. It makes me want to be a Jew. Prior to this book i knew very little about the historic (1900-present) history of the Israel-Palestine confict. Since i have no other literature to contrast this book with I can only assume it is highly biased. I feel it is anyways. More research is required. Similarities implied between Yasser Arafat/Hitler and Palestine/Nazi’s are FAR too common for me to take this seriously. You can only throw around the ace-card hitler so many times before it gets played out. A highly informal book however; if you have no idea at all why everything is so effed in that region of the world this book is a great set-up. Granted; you may come out of this literary excursion with a newfound love of the bad-assness of the Jewish military and their generals. This book is highly guilty of compressing 100 years of history into a formula of:
“Jews are innocent, peace-loving farmers who get persecuted by their Arab neighbours again and again until they can’t take it and stand up for themselves; when this happens they take on multiple countries at once in war and humiliate anyone who praises allah, once this is accomplished they go back to eating kosher. rinse and repeat.”
Overall: good read, informative. NEED to get a second opinion. use your brain.
Listening to Coheed, Beirut and Empire of the sun
