Next year I really, really want to go to Bonnaroo, though. My friend John saved up for it. He told me about it last semester in class, but now I'm jealous.

Iron & Wine
Explosions in the Sky
Mumford and Suns
Florence & The Machine
Bassnectar
Civil Twilight
Beirut
Eminem
etc, etc

EARGASM

Also, why the hell is everyone my age getting married/having kids/getting engaged?

I have the urge to take a Women's Study class and read a Charles Bukowski book in the middle of it.

God I love Above and Beyond.



Wish they would come to Electric Daisy Dallas, but oh well.

Memorial Day

Thank you to all who serve for the right reasons. To the rest, fuck off.

I'm annoyed by pretentious music fans who only enjoy either "high-brow" or "party" music. Each has its place. I don't want to dance to Pink Floyd. That's Lady Gaga's job. Yet I don't find myself feeling emotionally moved by Ke$ha. Godspeed You! Black Emperor fulfills that requirement.

Contemplating whether I should go to the Darkside field "rave" later. Emphasis on "rave" since technically any party that is registered with the city and subject to charter laws is not a "rave," but why be analytical?



I think it's amusing how my slow decline into misanthropy is always attributed to one person or another, heh. Bunch of egotists.

By the way:
http://literallyunbelievable.tumblr.com/
http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20110527-35305.html

lawls to both

Lost Thoughts

"This age thinks better of a gilded fool than a threadbare saint in wisdom's school." - Thomas Dekker

* I'm sick with the cold or something.*

Loyalties and thought are lost causes. I reread Fahrenheit 451 today as inspiration for the story I'm still trying to complete, and for the first time I came to appreciate just what message Bradbury was trying to communicate. Like many others I initially finished F451 and concluded that the author was taking a well-placed stab at abuse of state power, but that's not even the half of it. The actions of the state were secondary to the thoughts of the people.

Bradbury was warning us that our desire for cheap thrills and no challenges will consume us. And it's happened. We're stuck to our televisions, our drugs, our pop novels. In an age where everyone can read and understand Milton, Thoreau, Lao Tse, and Plato, we refuse. We don't want to think. We don't want to commit ourselves to challenges. Montag, the main character, is left by his wife simply because he likes to discuss politics, philosophy, and other "crazy ideas" instead of ramble on about the latest television show or faun over how fast his car can drive. That is much like our society. We don't give a shit about science or philosophy. At best we just want someone else to do it for us. We don't give a shit about commitment. Oh yes we talk about it, but what we really mean is "someone committing to me."

Why take a hard major when alternatives exist that bestow A's more frequently and don't get you to apply yourself? Why stick it through a relationship when sex and companionship are just around the corner? Why attempt to read "hard literature" when others only know about Twilight, Harry Potter, the Giver, etc.? [I'm not knocking any of the books - although I hate Twilight personally - just they're really easy reads]

I feel like I'm surrounded in a decadent culture.

Jesus wept.

Started and finished the Hunger Games today. Decent teen fiction, but it's clearly a ripoff of Battle Royale.

Pounce

Bla bla bla. "Hello, my name is X, I wronged you in the worst imaginable way cause I'm a fucking lunatic religious fanatic who thinks sexism is just dandy when it hurts men, but don't made it public or I'll blackmail you. Kthanx."

Go to hell.