Last year from today, I was in Russia staring at the same stars I saw tonight. It's hard to imagine that I was on the other side of the world last year. Completely immersed in my own culture but feeling like an outsider is a feeling a lot of people may never have. I felt like a tourist and a westerner to the same grandparents that saw me grow up. I ( Read more... )

Okay...let's outline the basics of what's going on and maybe turn things around a bit for the better of it ( Read more... )

We'll we're back to where we started. I'm still alone, moderately miserable and still don't know what the hell this whole "being mature" thing means. If every person in this world was mature, responsible and generally had a good head on their shoulder, we wouldn't have great Woody Allen films. (Pre-Asian phase Woody Allen, I mean ( Read more... )

Its 5.

With vibrating synth pop coupled with intriguing club tunes, the four members of Ladytron create music that is both intoxicatingly catchy and eclectic. Over the course of their extensive global touring, Ladytron’s music has developed into a more sophisticated sound through the vocals of Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo. The other half of Ladytron, ( Read more... )

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Hughes, Clair. "Consuming Clothes: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth." Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture 9.4 (Dec. 2005): 383-406. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Auraria Library, Denver, CO. 6 May 2008 GERARD, BONNIE LYNN. "From Tea to Chloral: Raising the Dead Lily Bart." Twentieth Century Literature 44.4 (Winter ( Read more... )

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Why do I constantly pick topics that are the most complicated to write about? Maybe I'll just be a politcian and write something ambiguous ( Read more... )

The weather is fucking pissing me off ( Read more... )

Going to an affluent high school when your parent cannot even pay for medical insurance can be a bit disconcerting. In this particular suburban neighborhood, a sixteen year old receives a brand new car on their sixteenth birthday and lives a life of privilege and comfort. It was my senior year of high school and almost everyone decided which ( Read more... )