Before @ MindSay

So, my first blog entry. One of what will hopefully be many! I'm going to be using this blog to share my random ramblings, musings, rants and so forth. I may also post my lyrics or short stories here too.

I've been looking for a good blog host for about a week now. I had initially signed up for Livejournal, but I realized that it had far more settings than I needed. So, I abandoned my Livejournal account and set off in search of a more simple blog. I decided to try Blogger, but I didn't like any of the templates, and when I tried to modify it, it continually played up. So I found My.Opera. Which looked great. Until I tried to put my own header in. The CSS just wouldn't work for me - I swear, that language is evil. It's conspiring against me. It's going to strike when I least expect it. Anyway, after signing up for goodness knows how many other blog hosts, each one of which failed to meet my standards (which, to be perfectly fair, weren't exactly sky-high), I finally found Mindsay. I scouted around the site a bit and it seems to meet every single one of my needs and wants! So, that's how I got here...I told you this was going to be random :).

My username, My Own Eternity, comes from the song "Before The Chance To Leave" by Motion In Colour. The four lines in my header are the lyrics from that song that always seem to grab me. My blog name, Out Of The Blue, wasn't really inspired by anything in particular, it just seemed to fit with both the design of the header and the sheer randomosity of this blog.

I don't have much to say now...just a few dates I don't want to forget:
31st January - Elliot Minor at Wrexham. Gutted we missed the signing, but the gig was awesome! Bought myself a signed poster and hoodie (the hoodie wasn't signed though)!
6th April - Showtime! at Wolverhampton. First time seeing Daniel Boys live; he was amazing, of course! And so was Kerry Ellis, but I wouldn't have expected any less from her! I found out about some really good West End performers, namely Ramin Kairimloo, Chris Key and Rebecca Lock. The students weren't good at all - I know they're only young, but if they want to go into the West End, they're going to have to be a million times better than they were. And the sound guy should have been shot. It's one thing to get the kids' mics wrong, but the pros as well? Off with his head!
12th April - Elliot Minor's album arrived in the post, and it was one of the first 500 to be shipped, which means it's signed! So now I have their autographs twice :), but I haven't met them once :(.

'Til next time, then,
Take care!

The Eyes of a Storm

After a storm,
It is calm
Before a storm,
It is calm
In the eye of a storm
it is calm.

through the storms
I've never found an eye

I like to think there's reason
for this recent hurricane season

and I feel they've passed,
but have I been through the past?
After a storm, it is calm
and before a storm, it is calm.

In the eye of a storm,
there's still more to come

In the eye of a storm
you have the eyes

In the eye of a storm
it is calm.

The American justice system often prides itself on keeping the innocent free and the guilty behind bars. You know the saying, "You're innocent until proven guilty." However, that is never true when it comes to certain groups of people. What types of people? Minorities and people that don't fit the "mold of the mainstream."

 

Often times, juries have their minds made up at the beginning of a trial. This was so for 3 teenaged boys in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Fourteen years ago on June 3, Damien Echols (18 at the time), Jason Baldwin (16 at the time), and Jessie Misskelly Jr. (17 at them) were arrested and charged with 3 counts of first degree murder. Their supposed victims? Three eight-year-olds; Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch, and Michael Moore, slain on May 5 of that year.

 

Damien, Jason, and Jessie had their fates sealed just for being different. They wore all black, their haircuts that of the punk era, and they were in the peak of teenaged rebellion. Three children were brutally mudered in small town america; someplace where being different is not accepted... ever! This was long before the "Trench Coat Mafia," Goth-life, or even the "emo" way of life.

 

Without any physical evidence, or any other way to tie Damien, Jason, and Jessie to the unspeakable crime, the three were convicted. All three have maintained their innocence. Never waivering from stories of not being at the crime scene that night. Their sentences would and will not allow them to be released on parole ever. A painful injustice that has spanned more than a decade. But how can we sit by an just let them languish in prison for so long for something they did not do?

 

I'll tell you how. Society shuns and punishes whatever is different. If you don't follow the path of everyone else, you are called eccentric, strange, weird, or just plain mad. Why can't you just be called you? I can't compare my experience of being the brunt of societal scoffing with that of Damien, Jason, or Jessie, but I can see why sad things like this happen. It is just that, sad.

 

To learn more about the West Memphis Three, check out http://www.wm3.org See what you can do to help free them. If nothing else, learn of just one injustice that has tarnished the American justice system.

well i finally hate  some of my teachers  giving  test out on  the week coming up to  finals and then on top of that giving me a final on finals week. and here is my reason. all this week i have been studing for my finace  final that i NEED to pass to pass the class. so i was studing for that and i  did not study for the stupid test that i thought was on friday but sent me an email that i found this morning 10min before the class started stating that the test would be today and would go over the test on friday i hate him so much and then on top of that all i could remember of his lectures was blah blah blah in a monotone voice i can't  pay attention even when i am in the front of the class

Hey Everyone,

Here I will journal about my wonderful (and maybe not so wonderful) experiences in Australia.  You can read about my adventures and keep up with me from this journal, see my pictures, and even make comments!!  I leave in exactly 2 weeks from today and I can't wait.  There will be a lot missed while I am away, but so much more to experience while I'm gone. 

 

I love you all!!

 

Sarah