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| Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 | | 10:19 am |
i just got the new passion pit and metric albums on sale at best buy on the "Manners" drop date! woot. both albums are really good, and i'd have gladly paid more than $8 for them. check out Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. they're much fun, and they're music's pretty awesomezors. Current Music: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs | | Friday, May 8th, 2009 | | 1:49 pm |
Little Secrets
i never thought i could listen to the same song on repeat for an hour, but Passion Pit's "Little Secrets" remix contest has made me utterly useless to the world for an hour. the original song is gorgeous, and almost all of these remixes are neat, fun, or just as beautiful. i want to play them all, but the FCC would shit themselves. album drops relatively soon. i guess i can wait a bit and feature the album on a show. Current Music: Passion Pit | | Sunday, February 15th, 2009 | | 2:46 am |
Epistemology!!!!
fuck anything i ever said or wrote. if i ever die, make the world know that Earth is only the first frontier. let the terrorists and patriots know that there is much beyond our stupid planet. no religion refutes the frontier. expand their concept of the world. let them know that there is more much beyond this world. we're all in the same boat. earth is too small now. water shortages, food shortages, all can be solved with expansion. the american pironeers knew this when they settled the eastern seaboard and eventually the rest of america. please, if i ever make an impact on this world, let it be the realization that there is always more than the futile struggles we imagine every day. Current Music: whateva. Ou est le Swimming Pool actually | | Saturday, February 14th, 2009 | | 2:22 am |
the one girl i finally developed a crush on has a boyfriend. bummer. at least this girl ashley is texting me every two minutes. actually theres' another girl, but i get the vibe that she's a prude. GO RIDDLE GIRLS! i was called the sweetest guy at riddle and an asshole by different girls in the same night. figures the girl that thinks i'm sweet is leaving.
wait bithcing about three girls means i'm back in the game. thank god (the universe? RESEARCH PANTHEISM!), this means i'm back in the game, right? Current Music: Hip Hop playlist specifically T.I. "Stand up Guy" what i try to be right? | | Thursday, February 5th, 2009 | | 8:52 am |
wow, coachella's getting stupid expensive. $269 for 3 days + $55 per person for camping + travel from florida = way too much fucking money + MSTRKRFT. goodness i love mstrkrft. Current Music: Serge Santiago "Atto D'Amore" | | Sunday, February 1st, 2009 | | 2:50 am |
Heartbroken Current Music: "Heartbeats" The Knife | | Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 | | 10:32 pm |
feel my heart beat feel...truly to the beat feel my heart feel my heart beat beat truuuly to the beat truuuly truuuly truuuly truuuly truuuly truuuly truuuly - Annie | | Saturday, June 7th, 2008 | | 12:43 am |
I've made an interesting and sexist observation while working at this gift shop: most men that take clothes off of racks neatly put them back where they found them, whereas most women just jam the clothes back onto the rack often in an area far from where they got them. i noticed this the first day but gave it a few weeks to average out and see what happened with different people that come in over different vacation periods. southern women are by far the guiltiest demographic. of course there are exceptions. one woman refolded every shirt she picked up like she worked there, and some jackass redneck guy came through and completely fucked the store. he flipped shirts, crimped the hose on a beer bong, and moved shit all over my store. so, fuck people. Current Music: The Annuals | | Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 | | 1:45 pm |
i have to give a 5-minute informative speech on mississippi. any suggestions for subtopics? | | Saturday, January 12th, 2008 | | 12:22 pm |
Lymric Memory Drinking Game
By Sandy's request, here's the drinking game we played last night: One red hen A couple of duck Three brown bear Four running hair Five fat fickle female sitting on fence Six simple Simon sittin' sippin' scotch Seven Sinbad sailor sailing the seven sea Eight egotistical ectics arguing over egotistical ectasies Nine nude newbalees nibbling on nads, nuts, and nicotine Ten tremendously terrible Texas twisters terrorizing ten Texas twin-cities. Each person in the circle has to repeat the first line. If they fail, they can quit, take one drink to try again or two drinks to hear the lymric repeated. After everyone can handle the first line, they have to repeat the first two lines and so on. Note the lack of s's on many of the words. This is very important as is pronunciation. For example 'ectasies' is pronounced strictly ect-asies, not ecstasies. Enjoy! P.S. I learned that beer is a very effective aid to memorization. The morning after that game, I could spit that whole thing out. It also helps if you rap it. Waving arms, thug face, and all. Current Music: Three 6 Mafia | | Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 | | 8:29 am |
in response to anna's cute band thing: My band: Maurice Blondel Our EP: Darkmere 1. Pudendal Anesthesia 2. Luchando por el Metal 3. Tongkonan 4. Delilah (Maurice Blondel RMX) i think it'd be a hit in germany with a remix of a tom jones song. | | Friday, November 23rd, 2007 | | 11:47 pm |
le courage
bleh, girl. too complex for livejournal. still need to vent though. p.s. girls suck. Current Music: kings of leon | | Friday, October 12th, 2007 | | 3:18 pm |
my house is going crazy! i think it's in the twilight zone. that would explain why the owners moved out. it's crazy. the tv's turning itself on and off. the dvd player won't turn off, but the tv hooked to it won't turn on. a weird sound like someone whistling the twilight zone theme occasionally manifests itself. our oven is going nuts, but the hot water heater's working perfectly. tivo's pissed off. ops there went my fan again. my flourescent light doesn't turn completely on; it just barely glows. somehow during my shower this morning, the bathroom door unlocked and opened itself (all the roommates were in class). three people got sick after swimming in our very clean pool (it had been clear of all algae for at least a week, and swimming with a little algae prior to the incident hadn't made them sick). a water main broke yesterday in daytona affecting the whole daytona area. i haven't had any water in two days, and i'm out of gatorade! i can't run all dehydrated and stuff. daytona's going insane...i wonder what's going on. ZOMBIES!!! | | Monday, August 27th, 2007 | | 8:53 am |
first day of school! classes today from 1300 to 1630. | | Monday, August 13th, 2007 | | 1:06 pm |
108 degrees outside. not "it feels like", but actually 108 F on an accurate +/- 2 degree thermometer outside. fuck you too, mississippi | | Saturday, August 11th, 2007 | | 1:09 pm |
| | Sunday, May 6th, 2007 | | 11:21 pm |
fucking Voxtrot is going to be in baton rouge on my birthday. fucking Paul is going to be in quantico, va for my birthday. | | Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 | | 8:38 pm |
HA! al-Qaeda can't get support in Mogadishu, Somalia to fight off the U.N. backed government!!! From the New York Times: "But it is difficult to tell how many people here actually support the growing insurgency against Somalia’s transitional government and the Ethiopian troops backing it. On Wednesday, a group of masked men stood on the steps of a Mogadishu mosque and proclaimed themselves to be Somalia’s new freedom fighters. They were met by jeers. “Why can’t you hit anything, then?” shouted one woman, referring to a botched grenade attack that missed the Ethiopians and demolished a house. “Were you scared? Were your fingers trembling?” Regardless of the insurgents’ (admittedly Al-Qaeda backed) popularity, or lack thereof, violence is increasing." | | 4:48 pm |
Excerpts from the chapter "@afghangov.org" in the book The Places in Between by Rory Stewart: "Most of the (foreign) policy makers knew next to nothing about the villages where 90 percent of the Afghan population lived. They came from postmodern, secular, globalized states with liberal traditions in law and government. It was natural for them...to speak of a people 'who desire peace at any cost and understand the need for a centralized multi-ethnic government.' But what did they understand of the thought processes of Seyyed Kerbalahi's wife, who had not moved five kilometers from her home in forty years? Or Dr. Habibullah, the vet, who carried an automatic weapon in the way they carried briefcase? Hazara such as Ali hated the idea of centralized government because they associated it with the subjugation by other ethnic groups and suffering under the Taliban. Village democracy, gender issues, and centralization would be hard-to-sell concepts in some areas. ...The head of a major food agency added privately, "Villagers are not interested in human rights. They are like poor people all over the world. All they think about is where their next meal is coming from." The differences between the policy makers and a Hazara such as Ali went much deeper than his lack of food. Ali rarely worried about his next meal...If he defined himself it was chiefly as a Muslim and a Hazara, not as a hungry Afghan." Now, that's the problem in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, and similar nations around the world. (My dad may say, that's because Muslims are in all those nations, but he and many other judgmental people fail to recognize that every culture has had these troubles. Some have already sorted this out, and others are still have them.) Here's the reason for that problem from the same section of the same book written by the same fellow: "Critics have accused this new breed of administrators of neocolonialism. But in fact their approach is not that of a nineteenth-century colonial officer. Colonial administrations may have been racist and exploitative, but they did at least work seriously at the business of understanding the people they were governing. They recruited people prepared to spend their entire careers in dangerous provinces of a single alien nation. They invested in teaching administrators and military officers the local language. They established effective departments of state, trained a local elite, and continued the countless academic studies of their subjects through institutes and museums, royal geographical societies, and royal botanical gardens. They balanced the local budget and generated a fiscal revenue because if they didn't, their home government would rarely bail them out. If they failed to govern fairly, the population would mutiny. Postconflict experts have got the prestige without the effort or stigma of imperialism. Their implicit denial of the difference between cultures is the new mass brand of international intervention. Their policy fails but no one notices. There are no credible monitoring bodies and there is no one to take formal responsibility. Individual officers are never in any one place and rarely in any one organization long enough to be adequately assessed. The colonial enterprise could be judged by the security or revenue it delivered, but neocolonialists have no such performance criteria. In fact their very uselessness benefits them. By avoiding any serious action or judgment they, unlike their colonial predecessors, are able to escape accusations of racism, exploitation, and oppression. Perhaps it is because no one requires more than a charming illusion of action in the developing world. If the policy makers know little about the Afghans, the public knows even less, and few care about policy failure when the effects are felt only in Afghanistan." You read all that in a lj post? You're brave, but you're probably in want of a proposed solution. Well, I don't dare toss out a solution for post-invasion areas such as Afganistan and Iraq after ranting about know-it-alls because I haven't really followed post-invasion strategies, but I've paid a lot of attention to and studied how our government's dealt with foreign threats. Based on what I've learned, in the future, when threatened by a group such as Al-Qaeda, we ought to thoroughly eliminate them ("forgiving" them would just anger many Americans and allow the said group to continue growing) with localized, high-efficiency strikes (sounds like politik talk don't?) and get the hell out of there. Let the people war amongst themselves! Let them mass-murder each other! Conditions won't change until the people care to change them. There's no way we can "reform" an entire country without large amounts of resources and, as Mr. Stewart pointed out, a lifetime of work. Iraq and Afghanistan are going to need them both, but we handled Somalia well. We had nothing directly to do with the United Islamic Courts' elimination, but we took advantage of the chaos to eliminate some terrorist suspects on the run with minimal impact. Current Music: Blues/Folk playlist | | Monday, December 25th, 2006 | | 11:33 pm |
today we say goodbye too one of earth's greatest living beings: James Brown. he died early this morning. |
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