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“Electric Feel” by MGMT

I am writing a paper for my Political Theory class and I am having trouble with it.  I really need to get writing the rest of it, but I feel so distracted.  It’s one reason I wish I didn’t come home this weekend but I haven’t been home in so long.  This is probably my fourth trip home.

For the paper, I need to make take a stance on Creon’s decision in Antigone and argue for it with different theories we’ve read.  A very interesting topic, but I just don’t see how I can squeak out five to seven pages of it.  Was Creon rightful in not giving traitors a proper burial, even if it it was his own nephew?  A part of me feels like he is because law needs to be followed, regardless of association, but another part of me says that people need to be given a fair chance.  Whatever I come up with, I’m sure it will be a shaky defense.

I need to work on an About Me page.  I believe it’s a big no-no in the blogging world not to have one, and I better practice what I preach.  Maybe I will fill out one of those surveys, where they ask you from your name to what’s your favorite Pakistani musical artist, to use as filler.  But first, I need to continue this paper.

Did you know that Beer Pong is also called: Beirut?

Did you know that some people call flippy-cup, tippy-cup and…for some god-awful reason, sail-boating?

From my deep historical analysis, I have found no contextual understanding on where theres names came from.  So, in order to engage in the name of crazy-names-for-otherwise-simple-and-clear-drinking-game-names, we have come up with a new name for Beer Pong.  It shall be called: Trifecta Beer

Why Trifecta Beer?  No reason, but in the spirit of crazy names, it just sounds perfectly understandable to name it as such.

I had promised to never really divulge much personal feelings into my site here, because out of some sense of civility, this site is meant to give ideas and opinions of and by myself.  Is this blog educational?  I don’t think so, but maybe someone can take something away about me.

I just wish I had a personal journal somewhere, with a fake name, and I can just dump everything that’s on my mind.  Perhaps I can do things the traditional pen-and-paper-way but there is some sort of gratification in the fact that someone is reading what you’re feeling.  And a part of me wants some sort of commentary on my life…under a pen name.

We did a test of human facial expressions in my Politics and Violence class, where we had to match up a feeling (anger, apprehension, happy, sad, etc.) with a picture showing that feeling.  The pictures were all of the same person, so expressions weren’t overly exaggerated to make it easy.  I scored remarkably well compared to the other students.  No one got more than 6 right out of a possibly 15.  It just goes to show that people can’t read others very well, and I always know that I was terrible at it, although the test showed otherwise.  Long story short, I think people want their feelings to be expressed for the world to see.

I have been carrying a lot on my chest lately, and I know I am going to have to answer to people sometime soon.  I know a few people, especially family members, are upset with me, and even some friends because I haven’t made any time for them.  But I feel that they need not worry, and wish for them to know that.

Not quite sure what to make out of the new The Killers single, Human.  The more I hear it, the more I like it.  Brandon Flowers said it should appear to the Mr. Brightside fans, but I think the song is on an entirely different level.

I did my best to notice
when the call came down the line
up to the platform of surrender
I was brought but I was kind
and sometimes I get nervous
when I see an open door

close your eyes, clear your heart

cut the cord
are we human or are we denser
my sign is vital, my hands are cold
and I’m on my knees looking for the answer
are we human or are we denser

pay my respects to grace and virtue
send my condolences to good
give my regards to soul and romance
they always did the best they could
and so long to devotion,
you taught me everything I know
[ Find more Lyrics at www.mp3lyrics.org/OOUW ]
wave good bye, wish me well

you gotta let me go
are we human or are we denser
my sign is vital, my hands are cold
and I’m on my knees looking for the answer
are we human or are we denser

will your system be all right
when you dream of home tonight
there is no message we’re receiving
let me know is your heart still beating

are we human or are we denser
my sign is vital, my hands are cold
and I’m on my knees looking for the answer

you’ve gotta let me know
are we human or are we denser
my sign is vital, my hands are cold
and I’m on my knees looking for the answer
are we human
or are we denser

are we human or are we denser

are we human or are we denser

Well, whether you like it or not, any Killers song is welcome in my home as far as I am concerned.  I didn’t like Sam’s Town album for the longest time, but it really grew on my.

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It didn’t occur to me until I heard it, but Lost in the Post by the Wombats is most likely a parody of Stevie Wonder’s Sign, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours.

The connection? Unlike Wonder’s version, the letter gets lost in the post in The Wombats version. Take a listen.

Last night a classmate of mine wanted me to help him with our book we have to read and review for a class. We both didn’t read it yet, so we took it chapter by chapter. We sat in the bean-bag farm in the library, and I just passed out. I was so comfortable and the book was so boring (although it was chuck-full of sexual characteristics) that I decided to take a 15 minute nap. Well, that nap turned into an hour-long. I decided that I wasn’t being any use and just went home and gone to bed. I hate not being helpful, but I was beat from the long day.

I saw Barack Obama in La Crosse yesterday morning. I met up with my friends Greg and Jake and his girlfriend. I had hoped to hang out with them later, but I had to run back to Winona for class then work. Seeing Barack still didn’t help me make up my decision on who to vote for, but I love attending rallies such as these. You can see some pictures on my facebook album.

I really can’t adjust to cold as well as I use to. Right now I just want to bundle myself up like a little kid who can’t even move his arms (because he has so many thick clothes on!) and just lie in wake in the middle of a leaf pile.  I should get use to the cold, because I think I am falling in love with the ice.

Where do Republicans get off on trying to bail-out big businesses? What’s worse is that many Democrats are already for it to begin with. Luckily, the House didn’t buy into the bail-out, voting against the act. Bush and the other politicians were too short-sighted years ago to predict this would ever happen, but others did and they turned out to be right (you know who I am talking about). Again, their short-sightedness is allowing them to believe that a temporary fix, or band-aid, is more helpful than a long-term solution.

Most faults lie with the big banks and businesses and their excessive borrowing, but some lie with the government itself. But people have to be crazy to let the government with the same reckless tendencies to “rescue” these organizations that it helped create.

It angers me that years ago Republicans made the election issues about “security” from “those people over there”. I can’t say if Kerry or Gore would have made things better or prevented these things, but perhaps their priority in dealing with domestic issues would have allowed them to find and diagnosis the problem long before critical meltdown. But what did we end up doing? Just ignore it.

We are in this crisis because of an excess of artificially created credit at the hands of the Federal Reserve System. The solution being proposed? More artificial credit by the Federal Reserve. No liquidation of bad debt and malinvestment is to be allowed. By doing more of the same, we will only continue and intensify the distortions in our economy - all the capital misallocation, all the malinvestment - and prevent the market’s attempt to re-establish rational pricing of houses and other assets.

Shit, the Brewers are in the playoffs?  Is it too late to jump on the bandwagon?  Damn.

I was going to write about something direly important interesting but I totally forgot.  Oh well.  It’s been a good week!  I need to catch up on some sleep, or people are going to think I really look like a zombie.

Amid all the crisis, tragedy, and bad news, its always nice to hear about a feel-good story such as this one.  I see this construction worker (Tim “Ox” Yeadon) every-day I go to work and he does put a smile on my face every time.  There was one time he never saluted, but I will let it slide.  He was actually reaching for a cigarette.  I am surprised he never takes a break and salutes every car non-stop.  That’s pretty amazing endurance, especially how hot it gets some days.

Did my first photography assignment for Visual Communication (retaking the class just so I can actually LEARN something with a better professor) and I will admit that its not that great.  I rushed myself and so everything looks all scratched and blurry.  I was also short on ideas.  It was pretty bad, maybe its my Senioritis kicking in.  But is it normal for it to exist 5 years?   Hopefully the next go around I can have some good pictures so I can post them up here.