i am sliding - lose my brakes - the lights are blinding - the earth quakes

[intertribal]

It's winter and I nearly died at the hands of a semi but didn't thanks to anti-lock brakes.  In driving class many years ago they told us just to press down real hard when the anti-lock brakes kick in, even though you're rumbling forward, and effectively have faith that they will work.  Seventy-one accidents were reported within city limits today.

Sarah McLachlan really isn't my thing but I feel this line from "Building A Mystery" really describes how I feel about spirituality:

you live in a church where you sleep with voodoo dolls and you won't give up the search for the ghosts in the halls

I watched Sunshine again tonight, with my mother.  It confirmed its place in my best all-time.  Obviously it isn't for everyone.  It's bleak and grim and at the same time strangely uplifting for people who believe in something greater than themselves, no matter what that something is - it doesn't even have to be God.

So, another X-Files montage, again thanks to these guys, with scenes from Bad Blood, Signs and Wonders, Die Hand Die Verletzt, Kaddish, Beyond the Sea, Grotesque, Ascension, One Breath, Milagro, Red Museum, Miracle Man, and Revelations.  Warning: desecration, slight gore.