What, if any, would be the musical style most representative of the life and work of Vladimir Lenin?

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My high school sketchbooks may have said something about my subconscious - I was going through old folders of sketches and realized that more than half of them are of nude women in suspension bondage, before I even knew that was a thing.

So I've spent the past two weeks getting settled into classes, moving slowly into my new apartment, and being a hermit aside from chatting with Cyrus and dartmouth05  on a semi-daily basis. So, being an extrovert, I was getting depressingly lonely. So, this past weekend, I set out to fix that, and succeeded beautifully. Oddly, ended up basically spending the ( Read more... )

I appear to have made a liar out of myself. ("I do not do Y, do not ever see myself doing Y, am not predisposed to doing Y, and in fact find the concept of Y somewhat confusing and distasteful. Do Y all you want, but it's not my thing." (Two years pass...) "Oh dear, I appear to have done Y; that makes me a liar, does it not ( Read more... )

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-nh-gaymarriage-newha,0,2751582.story

What the fuck. Seriously, what the fuck.

The rules: Put your MP3 player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title.

Saloman Hung Down Her Head

Mean Mr. Mustard sleeps in the park
When the moon is in the seventh house
Everything I said was a lie
It's early morning; the sun comes up

Once, I was a ( Read more... )

I love morons. I love them. Not when they moron at me, but later on, in retrospect. For example, I was thinking back on the show I managed this spring, and found this quote from an email I sent Cyrus ( Read more... )

I just had my first truly enjoyable Amtrak experience. Let us hope it is not the last.

Rhetorical question: Don't you hate it when everyone else gets what you want, even though they hardly care if they get it or not?