I propose that the world convene and add an extra twelve days to the calendar . All we have to do is just lop off a day from each of the existing months and put this new increment right after December, before the new year officially begins ( Read more... )

It sounds more or less like what you'd expect: an old classic-rocker trying to make an artistically "meaningful" album with a lot of rhythm and instrument changes. It sounds like he's trying to make an indie-rock record, with an emphasis on the ROCK ( Read more... )

This is an except from an article in an "academic" textbook called Popular Culture, Production, and Consumption . My girlfriend was required to buy this textbook for a class on gender and pop culture. I repeat, this is supposedly ACADEMIC.

"The gushing of official voices like Time make necessary a clarification that would ordinarily go without ( Read more... )

I went to a bar for the first time ever tonight. It was pretty cool; not terribly exciting, but nice enough. Bought I and my buddy Ian a pitcher of Amber Bock and played...I think five games of pool. There was barely anyone there until the last game we played, which was interesting. I'm actually far more excited to see The Hold Steady tomorrow ( Read more... )

Hoo-rah! It's my birthday!

My birthday gift from the Monroe County Democrats?

Not submitting my voter registration form that I filled out over four months ago.

Which means: I can't vote tomorrow.

Possibly the biggest event to hit my generation (yes, this is in fact bigger than Furby), and I will be unable to participate in it.

Mother. Fuck.

The Simpsons are so bereft of good ideas they even managed to crash and burn with this year's Treehouse of Horror. That used to be the ONLY episode guaranteed to be decent every year.

Makes me saaaaad.

PS: Holy shit I'm going to be 21 in three and a half hours.

In the world of Deerhunter:
Weird Era Cont. > Microcastle

That is all.

I know my basics on combustion reactions, molarity, derivation of empirical formulae, acid-base/precipitation/gas reactions, my functional molecular groups and polyatomic ions...now only time will tell.

Unfortunately, it's another THREE FUCKING HOURS til the exam. Goddamn time is gonna move slow.

So this year, I want to do a really nice year-end music wrap-up. To make life a lot easier when that time comes, I'm just going to make a list of all the bands that have caught my ear in the past ten months. This post has absolutely no importance to any of you, unless, for whatever reason, you're just REALLY interested in what I've been listening ( Read more... )

a) Tell you why I friended you ( Read more... )