Notepad Madness

I found this in my notes the other day. I think it's just unfinished, but it probably works better this way than any other direction I would have gone.

This is not a Music Blog

For example, I also feature world-class reporting about breasts:

Wait a minute... I was tricked! But was I the only one?



No. No I was not.

Jumpin' East of Java

Coffee for me is a WMD of beverages. I never really drink caffeine during the school year unless it's absolutely necessary, because I get super jittery and tend to feel awful for days afterwards. It's probably a combination of caffeine high and sleep deprivation, and it sucks like you don't even know. I had to subject myself to its horrors today on account of many projects, midterms, and problem sets converging in a two-day span.

The horror.

Quickly, Robin!

I haven't had an album cover up here for a while, but I couldn't resist this one from The Lovely Feathers:

And really, could anyone?

Goodness, it seems I've been advertising heavily for MySpace the past few days.

Robotique Majestique

So the singer in Ghostland Observatory sounds exactly like Freddie Mercury. Go listen to Dancing on My Grave. It's eerie.

Added bonus:

Sounds Like - A RoBot making Love To a Tree!!

That sexy, charismatic, intelligent bastard

Barack Obama is a pimp, so I guess I can forgive him. Hopefully you can forgive me for using basically the same gag twice in a row.

Perspective!

I am trying out this new thing, I call it: "Perspective."

What I do is I eat lunch in a place I have never been to before at least 3 times a week. Not new restaurants or anything, and not necessarily in a completely part of town; it could just be a table I've never sat at or an area of a courtyard I've never been. It's been pretty cool so far! The weather has been nice, so I've gotten some sun on benches which are all new to me. It might sound strange, but it feels really different to just sit some 20 feet from where you've eaten every day for the past month. Completely different view, completely different outlook. On Wednesday, I say down next to a pillar in the University Library plaza in the sun and ate a banana.

Perspective! Right. So after a while, these two guys come up and ask if they can survey me about religion. I figure, hey, why not, I have nowhere to be. So we talk about my views of Christianity for a while. Granted, that makes it sound really unpleasant, but it actually wasn't. While I certainly think about it often enough, I rarely air my views about religion publicly. Truth is, in the course of the interview, I made some realizations.

• When I think "Christianity" I am almost always thinking about "the politics of the Christian right." I think it is The Media which causes this. I could be wrong.
  

• I believe human beings are incapable of fully understanding the concept of "God", at least in the sense of a truly omnipotent being. It's like an ant trying to understand the concept of the earth; you can say it, but it's just not going to happen.

• I am just not a religious person. I guess I already knew that, but it bears repeating.

Well looking back, none of that is particularly earth-shattering, or even particularly coherent. The important thing is, I talked to some people about religion who I had never met or even seen before and it wasn't horrible. Perspective!

On an unrelated note, yes I am aware that a significant portion of my traffic comes from european versions of Google Images. So I have to show some love to my peeps across the 'lantic:

Apparently he is a politician of some sort? Craziness.