Here is the video, which I honestly think isn’t half bad as well, I would like to argue that it’s awesome. Shows the intuitive, creative nature of independent music.

Johnny Foreigner- Salt, peppa and spinderella from Best Before Records on Vimeo.

**UPDATE**  I added an About Me page finally.  Take a look on the right column!

Democratic Candidate: Barack Hussein Obama (VP: Joseph Biden)

Republican Candidate: John Sidney McCain (VP: Sarah Palin)

I don’t know about you guys, but when I am in that voting booth tomorrow and I have that middle-name starring right back at me, I can’t help but reconsider my vote.  Seriously, who would name their kid boy “Sidney”?   Unbelievable.  That is just silly, no wonder he picked a female vice-presidential candidate.  I suppose middle-names are just reserved for rejected names.  For example, McCain’s parents thought he was going to be born a girl much like Obama’s parents thought Barack would be born an genocidal dictator (Hey! They might not be far off).

I haven’t made up who I am voting for, although I’d like to just so I can influence your decision tomorrow in the polls and for the candidates to proudly display my blog’s web address in one of their advertisements, “Wamzlee.com has endorsed us!”

I should direct my focus to the local elections.  I’ve opted to vote in Minnesota this year since I’ve lived her for the past 5 years, and politics back home rarely apply to me.  Unfortunately, I am an uninformed voter and have no clue what platform most of these candidates are on.  I know the candidate running against Jerry Mayor wants to do away with alternate side parking, but is that really an issue I want to base my vote on?  I have to admit that when the bridge closed, I was happy with the speed and quickness to handle the situation.  Although it didn’t work the best for us who work across the bridge, it was still a situation where something was better than nothing, especially when it was out of their control.

The County Commissioner post seems interesting.  I’ve been leaning towards voting for Greg Olson, although I don’t know much about him.  Joe at work says he is going to vote for him because he inspected his houses and the guy came off as a good guy.  Although I am aware of Joe’s pary-political leanings, I don’t think they play much of a part in local politics.  Also, if what is said is true about Stoltman, I definitely can’t support a candidate who takes trips to Hawaii for Commissioner meetings.  I want to live like a King too, but doesn’t mean I should.

Still up in the air with Walz/Davis, although I was thoroughly unimpressed with Davis when he showed up at the Winona County Delegate Convention.  Tim Walz has shown a willingness to vote against his party, especially on the bail-out bill that I opposed.  I don’t know why I said I am up in the air with him, Walz is a pretty damn good candidate.  Even the Republican party knows it.

Finally, the Senate seat.  The DFL picked Al Franken for their candidate.  I went to the DFL’s debate earlier this year, and I was expecting to be blown away, but was thoroughly disappointed.  The two other DFL candidates were much more impressive, although one came off too much like a politician and the other was too third-party like.  Franken?  Didn’t have anything worthwhile to say, besides telling a funny joke or two.  Not to say that Franken would make a bad candidate.  He wants to continue Wellstone’s policies, which Coleman seems to be handling in a way.  Coleman isn’t too far off from the Demoractic Farmer Labor path, as he once was affiliated with the party.  As for Dean Barkley?  Hmmm… I will take a look.

Now, for the Presidential candidates?  I can’t vote for Barack Obama.  As much as I would like to see him over McCain, I don’t think I can trust him.  He voted for the FISA bill, and he voted for the Bail Out.  What pocket is he in?  Is he in the pocket for change (see what I did there) or is he in the pocket of the big corporations?  I am quite confident it’s the latter.   As for McCain?  I don’t know….he is two-face as well.  His means will not justify the ends if he becomes President.  Take it as you will.  Some Republicans have told me that they are dead afraid of an Obama-presidency, and it seems to be the only reason to vote McCain.  I’m quite convinced that the Republican party is a bunch of scaredy cats.  One reason I like McCain being their candidate because  it gives the chance to show the extremist of the Republicans who they really are.  Hopefully a Republican loss in the Presidential race will eject these little fuckers from the party so Republicans can finally get back to what real conservatives did best: living in a pre-9/11 world.  That’s right, fuck you PFTNAC

Well, it’s less than 10 hours until voting time.  I think I better get my pen warmed up to get to the polls.

Haha..... Yes.

Can Ctrl+Alt+Del get any worse? It pains me that people find the comic so great.  It’s not.  It’s terrible, so damn terrible.  I will admit that I haven’t read it in a while, but I can tell you that every comic sticks to the same formula.  Creator Tim Buckley rarely deviates from the “four panels”, which creates an issue for his writing.  As a result, a basic punchline ends up being preceded by a wall of irrelevant text.  Granted, he does have a story arch, but what Buckley fails at as a writer is that when it comes to comics, much of the story can be implied without being explained.  In such a case, it is up to the reader to imagine what is being implied, and that creates a joy in reading a comic, or even a story.  There is a trick that is employed when reading CAD, and its very interesting.  “Remove one of the frames in a CAD comic, and then ask yourself, ‘Does the jokes/story still work?’”  You will be surprised by the result.  I wish Buckley would learn “Less is More”, but who am I to pass judgment?  He clearly has a dedicated following who is willing to fork over cash to any project he endeavorers.

I wish to not have turned this post into a rant, but I heard someone else ranting about CAD and couldn’t help but to weigh in.

You may be wondering why this post is called “Cyndi Lauper”, well, I originally started writing about Time, and is conjured up lyrics from one of her songs.

Is Fall the season of nostalgia or reminiscence?  It was great to hear from them all, but its odd that it would occur together like that.  Maybe its a profile picture I put up that caught their attention?  At least this way, Facebook is serving its actual purpose of socially connecting old friends.  I was surprised that my 2nd cousin got a hold of me, I haven’t talked to her since I was a sophomore in high school I believe.  Her smile reminds me of her grandma’s (that be my aunt) from her picture.  She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and she said she was watching television one day and noticed that a guy on there looked surprisingly like me and thought it was my brother.  I was quite surprised she’d be able to tell, because she said never met Lance before, but I guess everyone thinks I look more like Lance than I do Adam, but I’ve always heard otherwise.  I wish to get down to Cedar Rapids sometime to visit Lance and maybe even see her, assuming that it’s no longer a flooded wasteland. hahaha…oh…too soon?

One question that pops up from my old acquaintances is, “Don’t you miss high school/home?”  Short answer, I can say No.  Considering I’ve only been home only four or five times this year, as opposed to my 20+ times every year prior, I feel I am becoming comfortable with living on my own.  I love going back to see the family, and I love when they come visit.  Home has changed.  Mainly for the good though!  But when something such as “home” changes without you, can you still call it home?

I just realized its Noon.  I must mosey off to State/Local Government.

It seems these past few weeks, I’ve had the unfortunate luxury of running into people that I don’t want to be on good terms with. They don’t know where the line is, and they cross it without hesitation. What’s worse is when these people who I haven’t hung out with in forever, suddenly want to hang out with you, but you clearly know their intentions. It’s sort of funny because they don’t know that you do know, so they persist to act the way they do.

In my Politics and Violence class, I heard a person mention that his friend was on Student Senate. He said that his friend doesn’t care about politics, and so it surprised him he would have even wanted to run for senate. I know a few people on the Senate, and only a select few I know definitely excel at being representatives. However, the others, I just laugh at. I’ll avoid the major details, but they are the type of people whose primary concern is repealing the “dry campus” policy and would believe that they saved a dying species in doing so. I contemplated running for Student Senate, but not if that is the way the integrity of the organization is.

Relaxation. I haven’t been overworking myself, but I just feel I need to get out of Winona. I was about to go to Rochester last night, but had plans. Downtown Rochester is fun, and I wish to get there before the snow falls. I miss the bar with the rooftop beer garden on its 3-story-building. It almost felt like I was in a big city again, but away from the small-town college crowds. I wonder if Jake still wants to open up that politics bar we were considering.

Right now, I am day-dreaming about being in the British Virgin Islands, docked near an isolated coast and the sun setting in the West. I just want that feeling of lying in my schooner, feeling the waves push and pull me against gravity.

These past few days, I’ve been sleeping a considerable amount, even through things.  I swear I will sleep through a gun fight….maybe I will even sleep through an Obama victory.  Or a McCain? Haha.  I caught a little bit of the debate tonight, Senator McCain seemed to be on fire.  I even got to thinking tonight as well, about how if Obama becomes president he will be the first of many things.

He will be the first president:

1.  To be of black ethnicity.

2. The first Senator since JFK to be elected.

3.  The first president to use the internet (much like FDR was the radio - read this one on digg)

4.  The first President to not have served any military service.  (from what I could find out)

Numero cuatro seems very interesting as I don’t recall a President who hasn’t served in the military since Franklin Roosevelt? I would fact check, but I am currently in a weird position in my bed that doesn’t allow me to do such things.  Forgot what they call it…oh yeah! being lazy.