The Secret Machines

Way, way back in a year 2004, a band known as The Secret Machines released an album called "Now Here is Nowhere". Although when I first heard this album I thought it was crap, I have come to realize that they were one of the most underrated and neglected "upcoming" bands of the 2000's. With my favorite song, "Nowhere Again", the song tells the story of the post-9/11 twentysomethings and how the love and peace their parents were taught were completely lost when singer Brandon Curtis opens with the lines "Cellophane flowers never happened for me/I've been sleeping the day off". The entire song keeps you interested and ends in such a grandiose manner with the drums,keyboards, and guitar. Even the video is great eye candy, the lyrics are flashed in braille in the background.

Synchronize

Everything is so much better when it is synchronized with nature.

Humans need to synchronize with nature.

Eagle vs. Shark

As I surfed around the blogosphere this morning, I came across the trailer to a movie coming out called "Eagle vs. Shark". And first and foremost, I would like to say this is basically just a carbon copy of Napoleon Dynamite in every way possible; however, there are two reasons why I really actually want to see this movie:
1. The soundtrack: The music is composed by a band called The Pheonix Foundation. While I listened to the preview, the first thing that struck into my mind was how great the voice was and how it brought back the sounds of Jesus and Mary Chains' and the Stone Roses' unique
shoegazing sound that is so epic and relaxing at the same time.
2. The poster: I can't help but love the poster. The quirkiness of the costumes and the color just makes me want to see this! I mean, it's so cute! (yes, I just said it was cute).

Pool Party

I'm going to a pool party for three year olds today.

That means I am going to a party that is directed toward swimming, to a demographic of people that hate the water with a passion.

I don't get it.

Maycomb

So as I was pondering about my decision if I was right dropping out of IB, I began to think what was more important: being a very social person or a very academic person.

As having both is the obvious necessity, I would honestly say as high school students, we should focus more on the latter.

For as a teenager, it is quite easy to build relationships with your peers and even if you are going to leave them after senior year, you will have the confidence to meet new people and take on being a little fish in a big bowl.
You could always pick up these skills as you grow up. However, if you were to try and learn how to be a more social person later in life, it will be much more difficult. This is the opposite for academics because you learn more and more throughout your life.

Also, after you get through that portal of hell known as school, without having social skills, the academic advantage would be totally useless.

And take it from my 8th grade English teacher, who would always tell me "The world is run by C students."

Do-Op

Mucho libros tengo que leer.

AHCK I must keep in tact my Spanish! I'm already forgetting some grammar concepts!

I love Almost Famous
"Never take it seriously, you never get hurt. Never get hurt, you can always have fun. And if you ever get lonely, you just go to the record store and visit all your friends. "

&&& I love I Heart Huckabees
"How come we only ask ourselves the really big questions when something bad happens?"

I WANT TO WATCH THE "I LOVE THE..." SERIES!!! NOW!!!

Buyer Beware!

For some reason the phrase "caveat emptor" is stuck in my head. I keep repeating it over and over.



Damn vocab!

He Revenged

arcadepostcards (8:58:12 PM): mrs diragle*

PP3A (8:58:31 PM): HAHAH

PP3A (8:58:35 PM): oh did i tell u what i did

PP3A (8:58:37 PM): ok so

PP3A (8:58:38 PM): once

PP3A (8:58:41 PM): i was bored

PP3A (8:58:46 PM): and i really wanted to try

PP3A (8:58:51 PM): this thing rosie does

PP3A (8:58:57 PM): where instead of gluing her collages

PP3A (8:58:59 PM): she sews it

PP3A (8:59:08 PM): so i got all the referrals mrs diragle gave mne

PP3A (8:59:10 PM): well not all

PP3A (8:59:12 PM): just like 5

PP3A (8:59:15 PM): and then sewed it

PP3A (8:59:19 PM): so then i was liek hmm

PP3A (8:59:21 PM): missing something

PP3A (8:59:28 PM): then i got my 6th grade picture

PP3A (8:59:30 PM): sewed that

PP3A (8:59:32 PM): and i was like

PP3A (8:59:36 PM): IT IS MISSING SOMETHIGN!

PP3A (8:59:42 PM): so then i got black crayon

PP3A (8:59:47 PM): and in capital letters over it all

PP3A (8:59:49 PM): i put

PP3A (8:59:52 PM): HAVE A GREAT SUMMER

PP3A (8:59:58 PM): and yesterday i slipped it under her door

VIVA LA MEXICO!!!

how do Spanish teachers sleep at night?

This American Life

I don't get it.
Why would anyone want to live an American life. It's just a land where everything is so fucking generic. The anti-conformists all conform to to look anti-conforming. Heck, me just saying that last sentence was hella cliche. It seems like nothing is new. No one wants to go beyond a box, or they believe they are when they aren't. And I hate how college is used as such fucking propaganda. Isn't is basically just a brainwashing machine? I mean, you need to go to Good College and you need to have Good Grades, and do all of these lame propagandist clubs to get in.
So fucking robotic.
The life of the American is this:
1. grow up in townsville, usa
2. go to a college, get piss drunk
3. live in the city for a bit
4. move to a nazi suburb where tweakers hold signs advertising homes divided by walls higher than the Great Wall of China.
5. lose all sense of culture you once had.
6. learn to love your corrupt government.
7. x_x

That is basically every American in the world. You go from being YOU, person of anything: a malleable soul. you could become anything: an artist, teacher, fireman, stripper, a drag queen, whatever it may be. But you are deficient in motivation: you settle for applying a white collar and being America.

What are you: YOU or America?