I advocate for a return to the magic of the '80s, where you can be as unrealistic and cheesy as possible.

ahhh. neil young. and I'm reading a book called From Yale to Jail. it's the autobiography of david dellinger, who was/is a nonviolent political activist starting before WWII. Great book, not too dense, which is good given my attention span/tired right now. THis would be a perfect day if it weren't for the damn homework. I'll have to go bike down to ( Read more... )

I'm really tired. but my brain is returning. not in the " I can think" sense, but the, I come up with things that don't make sense, or are just odd. this is good. it was gone. now it's back. now all the inanimate objects in my house look like they're going to bite me. damn I have a lot of work to do, and i"m really tired.

so I'm tired, and sickish. sore throat exacerbated by yelling at the protest. we have such a large activist community, but it's so disorganized and there wasn't a huge turnout at the protest yesterday. a few hundred. pictures are here: http://photobucket.com/ ( Read more... )

four hours of election coverage. at least. no breaks. much more interesting than that apush book on my lap. more relevant at least. sleep seems to come ahead of apush too. I discovered something. It's very difficult to read about elections in history when you're listening to election coverage on the tv. according to my brain, somre really weird ( Read more... )

my creativity ran away. it's been walled off, and can't come back. all my thoughts, all my abstract ones. all my description, philosphizing, poetry, fiction, ideas for anything and everything, erased, washed away, walled up behind this ummm. yeah. not sure how to say. but ti's a problem.

and I forgot to say this yesterday, John Peel died. I just felt that needed to be said. now I leave again.

My math hurts from my head test. err. yeah. head. math test. long.

I'm listening to Waltz #2 by elliott smith and eulogy by tool at the same time. due to limitations on what programs i can use on my computer, I can't really balance the volumes, and I'm too lazy to play with timings, but it's kinda interesting. mostly it doesn't work, but sometimes there will be an interesting harmony between elliott smith and ( Read more... )

Music is probably the ultimate form of expression. It can use words, just as any other written or spoken expression can, but it can give mood to those that is either contrasting, synergetic, or maybe it has some other relationship. In some cases, it doesn't even need lyrics to convey whole stories or emotions as fully as is possible. Music has so ( Read more... )