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...musically, they are a talented bunch. But what makes OAR such a phenomenon, what drives teenagers in droves to their shows and inspires college students to blast their MP3s as they drink themselves into oblivion, is precisely that hint—as their name suggests—of a revolution. But OAR is not a revolution against anything concrete. It is not against governments or against people. They do not rage against the machine. Instead, they sing of a struggle that rages within ourselves. OAR is born of a revolution against everything that is superfluous to who we are?...
...Afghanistan off the hook, we let other nations harboring terrorists think they can get away with it too. If we bomb Afghanistan to oblivion, we will make other small, impoverished countries fear and hate us even more strongly. We already know that the retributive policy pursued in Israel has only increased the terrorists’ resolve and undermined the power of the only people who can curb terrorism—the governments of the countries who harbor them...
...drink. I breathe. I even manage a few laughs here and there, a few moments of happy oblivion. Routine is what we use to keep our minds from overtaking us. Forget talk—it trivializes. Forget silence—it magnifies. Only routine—the calmness of physical denial, the okay-ness of everyday motions—reclaims for me the repetition that is normality...
Living in Oblivion...
...Hindi movies are the very embodiment of cheese, with rambling storylines, one-dimensional characters, and melodramatic monologues that stretch into oblivion. Each new Hindi movie is simply a variation of a previous Hindi movie, with a few modifications. (For example, villain with mustache becomes villain without mustache.) The repetition is so blatant that there is a popular email circulating at work concerning the “rules” that all Hindi movies must abide by. Some of the more entertaining ones...