I think I remember a sweet drum solo somewhere on led zep II

So last night was pretty fun, after coffee news I went home and charged my phone, called Dylan back and he said a small group was getting together to hang out and possibly play poker. So I play some GTA4 (oh yeah, I got a xbox for this christmas + last christmas (i didn't get anything last year) i don't think i have told anyone but colin or meghan yet, so yeah) and then Dylan said to head on over to the DPHQ, which is jack, francis, and alec's apartment that is literally next to the triple rock social club, the site of many great shows. So I head over and we hang out play poker for a while listening to jazz. It was fun. Then about an hour and a half later every one kinda looses interest in the game over food that jack got at work, pancakes, pizza, chicken alfredo, and more. So dylan and I end up finishing the game and I won. I felt bad for taking the pooled money because it seems like that group is scrounging for cash more than I am. Then they went on an adventure and i drove home and played more gta until like two.
Now, this is where I get hazy, because I put Led Zepplin on my iPod and started Led Zeppelin II when I went to bed. I don't remember how long I stayed awake, but it was for freaking ever, and it was the half awake sleep. It made the music intense and hard to listen to. So, I think I heard like a ten minute drum solo complete rock out, but I don't even know. I'm listening to it again to see if I can find it.
But then I dreamt, which I really don't do often. And it was a mix of thinking I haven't gone to bed and sleep and it was pretty bad. It wasn't nightmareish, but it wasn't pleasnt. There was one part that I remember being nice, but it's all very clouded. I guess I like it when I just don't dream at all over that kind.
Then I woke up, and I guess I didn't want to go back to bed because it was 9 something and I was wide awake. So I laid in bed for an hour and had a horrible taste in my mouth and so I vigorusly brushed my teeth and since we're out of milk and orange juice and anything with flavor that won't rot yor teeth in a second, I had a sprite, Then I wrote this after watching youtube videos of sharks, cats, and two kids stacking cups like pros.
Three tacks into the album and no drum solo yet, hmm. But I'm digging the album so far. I don't think it will top IV, but it's amazing still.

Stories from a coffee house pt. 2

So it's not much of a story, but I thought it was pretty funny at the time (like two minutes ago). I'm sitting in coffee news, have been since 1:00, and across from me sit paul rothman (highland park tennis pro) and three girls. One goes to the bathroom and comes back and sits down. She waits for a quiet moment and says "I just want to let you know, the bathroom here is bad, there's no toliet paper, just paper towels. And all the paper towels are soaked with water. And the soap dispenser is broken and it was just a rough time." Now, this may be funnier to me because I'm here and I've used said bathroom and I know exactly what she's talking about.
But yeah, there's this woman sitting to my left who has had like 3 beers and is just hanging and reading the newspaper. She's awesome.
Well, that was a lame post, let's spice it up more with my time today at coffee news.
i got here after deciding to go somewhere and do some blog reworking and some graphic design. I was originally going to brewberrys, but coffee here is unlimited refills for 1.73 and I wsa going to be where ever I went for a while. So, I got here and it was packed and I had to sit kinda by the counter, which was different for me. Then I needed an outlet so I jumped tables to right next to the door. It turned out that all the outlets were being used for christmas lights and that it is very cold out for a t-shirt. So I needed to move and I had seen Abby Phillips at a good table earlier and so when she left I jumped tables again and ended up with a good spot.
I saw this other lady move tables when I did the first time and she was also looking for an outlet so when she came to the back section I pointed her to a good table with a somewhat hard to see plug. Then greta showed up and I got to see her awesome acer aspire one, it is freaking small and sweet. I think she wants to get ubuntu on that baby, and that will make it 10x cooler. yay for linux. then she left and I finished my blog header picture and a general color scheme and put it on the blog (you might have noticed). then I did a rhino stencil. now I'm writing this.
So far, in my 6+ hours of being here, I have listened to the complete albums of:
iron & wine - the sea and the rhythm
okkervil river - the stage names
oasis - whats the story, morning glory?
beirut - gulag orkestar
built to spill - ultimate alternative wavers
and I am half way through pantera - vulgar display of power

An unstoppable force

Here's a stencil of a rhino, may end up being another shirt, we'll see.

Redesign

The redesign is in progress, ignore any ugly color schemes, strange setups, and temporary layouts. I'll edit this when it's all over. I've had a bunch of coffee and 4 more hours of coffee news being open, so let's hope this gets done soon.
Thanks,
The Management.

*edit*
Can't tell if I can do a complete overhaul right now. I got the color scheme changed and the header pic, but it's hard to mod such a minimalistic template. I guess that's why it's called minima. But I like having it minimal, I am all about making it easy for yall's to read this, but I want it to look nice and stylish too. Eh, I'm still working on it.

*edit*
i'm done for now, did some stencil work, check it out.

Greek Riot Pics

I wanted to share these pics.

I make make myself laugh

So I was reading old posts on this blog because I forgot I have used it for so long. Like, my first post was in January, so my one year is almost here. Although I didn't really start blogging till august, w/e.
But I read this one phrase I wrote and it just cracked me up: "time to spew my brainstew." I don't know why I think that is so clever, but I do, and I love it. I also realized how strange my post titles are. They take the actual subject and add some reference to something else. It's like my own inside jokes with myself and some other people. But I guess I do it more because I don't like straightforward titles. If you're going to read my blog, it's not because the titles are to the point or completely random, it's the content.

I made a mix, it's not the best, but I like it. It's more of a sampler than a mix.

I'm really happy the semester is basically over. I have one more assignment and two tests and one very messy english class to work out. But in two days I'll be home visiting my brother. Man, I still can't believe that he is going to sea for 6-8 months. I had forgot that until yesterday. It makes me even more excited to see him again.

iShould bWorking

So I reformatted my iPod. Don't worry, it wasn't on accident as most of my reformats are, this one was controlled. I had it almost full, all 60 GBs, and I was really getting lost in it trying to find music. Having throughout the years, like 4 years of constant adding music and never deleting any, it was very full of unnecessary things. I do not need all of Iron Maiden or A Perfect Circle. In fact, I probably listened to one song of each, maybe four times. And recently the iPod has been showing doubles of songs making playing an album super difficult. I would have to add every other song to an on the go playlist and use that and it was a huuuge hassle. So, in the name of clean slates and fresh snow for this winter break, I wiped it clean. I even gave it the latest firmware update, which sadly removed my custom 'tux' loading screen and battery percent icons (it showed you what numerical percent was left, not some tiny bar that was hard to read). But maybe I'll put those back.
The next step was to put all the music I actually like and things I might want to listen to back on. So I went through my list of perfect albums and made sure I had the whole lot. Then I went through and added stuff I might want some of and what not, you know radiohead and pink floyd discographies. So now I have 2847 songs on it taking up about 15 GBs (is it GBs or Gbs, cause it's a big difference). But I can add new stuff on as I get it and have it all nice and neat.

It's nice to know

So, I was doing a late comp sci assignment that I had forgotten about until now and had to research a topic in computer science. So, after my long cloud computing post, I figured I could just do that. And I have been reading computer science articles for the past hour and a half. It's wonderful liking a topic so much that I don't feel bored reading about it. I learned a lot about the cloud idea and it's a lot more vague than I thought. There are 3 clear definitions of what it is. So, it's pretty clear that this is what I want to do with the rest of my life, in addition to some other things, but career wise it's an easy choice. I took one of the offers from Thompson-Reuters and it is quite ridiculous how much they are paying me for the summer internship. But it bodes well for my future I guess. I still think it is kinda sick how I don't really have to worry to hard about finding a decent job in this field. With everything changing so fast, I'll be able to find something pretty permanent in the end and it will probably pay well.
But I like it because I will be able to fuel other hobbies and things that I know I also want to do in the future. Like, playing music would be something that I could pump money into, but anyone can do that. One goal I really have is to open a music venue somewhere/sometime in the future. Right now I want to open a coffee house/music venue/record store in Morris because I think we could use it. But in reality, I totally could put an investment into a project like that in a larger city and really have fun with it. Someone had to start first ave and the triple rock at some point. Why not a guy like me?

This blizzard is not filled with cookie dough not delicious

So, it is cold. Very very cold in Morris, MN. Like, -40 windchill with -10 actual temperature. I left my phone charger in my friend's on campus apartment and my phone died last night. So, I had to get it back, cause I was expecting a worried call from my mom about the blizzard going on. So I bike to campus and i learn how actually windy and cold it is. Thank heavens that 7th street was plowed at least a little bit. So yeah, now I'm sitting in my house with my friends and we're all just chilling. Lame post, I'll go into detail laters.

Thoughts on 2009

So, I shared an interesting read in this post and said I'd give some of my thoughts on it. So I guess this is that post.
Intel's new processor, i7, has 8 cores, I just think the 7 is misleading. But 8 cores is a little overwhelming, like, I'm running two and two years ago that was top line stuff. Now it's tri (they use leftover quad cores that have one core turned off. So it's a clever way to recycle that I like. It's kinda cheating, but better than throwing them away since silicone price is apparently rising.) and quad cores, and next year it's oct? I like the number 8, so there's nothing wrong with it, but that's just so many. The computing power in the past few years has grown so much so fast. I know this follows Moore's law and predictions, but think a few years in the future. I feel like there is a limit to how much processing power the average user needs, and I feel that we are already past that. My Mom doesn't care how fast her computer is (except when she doesn't want to feel technologically left behind) and all she runs is Internet and word apps. Can there really be so much going on that she will need 3GHz of power? I don't think there will be. Even with web 3.0 apps and more data on the Internet. The business users will never really have applications that demand that much power.
But on the flip side, as the power gets larger, the interesting thing is that the chips are getting smaller because of advances in other areas like nanotechnology. This means that the chips use less materials and therefor (I use therefor a lot, sorry) cost less to manufacture, decreasing prices. So, even though a chip might be 10x as fast as a chip ten years ago, it costs less. So even though most user's will never need the power, it will be cheaper and so why not get it?
There are also a lot of other emerging markets that can use the technology and advances in processor power and size. With handheld devices becoming more advance, they will eventually match the power of today's laptops and eventually the high end desktops. Although there are physical limits to size which stop music players from having terabytes of memory, at least with current tech, there will always be ways to improve them.
There is also the idea of 'the cloud', which is an older concept that might be making it's way back, especially with help from powers like google and microsoft. The idea is that you don't have your data in your possession as a hard copy. My computer has my english paper, it is nowhere else in the world. The cloud changes this to the physical copy being in a server somewhere in a farm of information. A good example is google apps. I create a spreadsheet on google docs and they store it, for my access anywhere from any computer with Internet. All I need is my account to get it. If my computer is lost, my data isn't. My dad was explaining how airlines use this practice because flight information has to be centralized. The computers at check in don't store all the flight info on their hard drives, they are only a terminal for accessing the data from the central servers. If it didn't work this way, there would be so much conflicting data that it would ruin the system completely.
Taking this idea to the general populous hasn't been really feasible because of bandwidth and accessibility limits. Not everyone has the airlines direct connection with the data center through the largest bandwidth pipes. But with widespread wireless connectivity, it is becoming an option, and one that google is opening up, subtly. Now that wireless speeds are growing and some cities are almost completely connected, why not implement this concept? For a price you can be completely wireless at the top speeds. You don't have to worry about losing what you're working on, practically all the time. Even when I write this, blogger saves a current draft every time I stop typing for a couple seconds. It's really useful.
An implementation of this that I don't fully agree with is one that I can't say I know the most about, so sorry if I have it all wrong. My friend Danny has a sidekick with T-Mobile and he has to connect to t-mobile's server to get his address book. From what I gathered, his contacts are stored online where he can access them from any computer, and are downloaded to his phone when he starts it up. This is smart, because he can add numbers online and probably link it all to a address book application on his computer. But the idea that they aren't stored locally seems faulty. What if you have no signal and need a number? What I would expect is that it would only sync with the central information every time, adding or removing information that has been added or removed. Like syncing your iPod, it checks for differences and modifies your device. If this is how it works, than it makes a lot more sense and is a really clever idea.
As these ideas and technologies improve, they will eventually reach a limit. In the beginning, people only used personal computers for work and were basically a terminal for accessing centralized data. Then they got powerful enough to be portable and hold a user's data and process everything without the help of a server. But as that reaches a limit, portability will make a comeback and we will move back into the cloud.

That was a lot of writing, so I am going to end it here (at least for now) and go back to reading my book for school. But the overall idea is that as these technologies improve they will reach a limit of practical use and then there will be another area to improve on. And, watch out for the cloud.

Love is a tired symphony

So, I'm here in Alexandria, yet again, but at the Dunn Brothers this time. (Jake, they actually are only a block apart, I guess there are either two or google maps just thinks Alex is huge or something. So you weren't told 'wrong'.) And I was talking with Meghan and she said something along the lines of: "I wish there was a way to see what everyone is listening to right now." The idea seemed really cool. Like a status update, but for what you're listening to, and in some sort of real time. I thought about how this could be done and it doesn't seem like it is impossible. With most all MP3 players going wireless like the iPod Touch, they could keep sending short updates to the web. This could also be done from user's computers by linking an application like iTunes to the Internet. I don't know if iTunes allows plug ins like that, but I'm guessing a script could get the now playing data and send it to the web. By linking this collection of what you play to something like a facebook app, you could easily see what your friends are playing.
It would have some difficulties, as it would be updated with each song and therefor pretty frequently. This could easily cause an overwhelming amount of data to be stored and interpreted by people. Maybe an update every time an album changes. There's always user set preferences for that stuff though.
I like this idea mainly because I like knowing what people are listening to and like to share what I'm listening to, but I can't update my twitter/facebook status every hour when I choose another album/band. So every once in a while I'll put what I'm into as my status, mainly as lyrics. One of those, I want this to only mean something to people who know this song and therefor are cool and should let me know that they know this song/artist and therefor are in a select group of people that can be my true friends by having heard this song that I probably got or gave to them, so therefor it is a lame excuse for verification of a friendship, statuses. You know like "Martin is an AC adapter with a DC switch" which I only know one person who could get it. it's like an exclusive club, but I could have easily said "Martin is listening to P.O.S." Anyways, you can ignore all that.
Having messed around with Conky and using meta data stuff from RSS feeds and twitter, I feel like I might be able to implement this into an actual thing. I wonder if this could be my ticket to the generation of "I'm going to make something clever and viral and then sell it for a million bucks." That'd be cool.

*Edit* I actually didn't realize that I did the "lyrics cool club" thing with the title of this blog post until now. It's from Iron and Wine - lion's mane.

P to the O S

So, P.O.S. just announced the release date of his next album, Never Better, as Febuary 3rd, 2009. This is awesome. If you goto Morris, or drive up occasionally, you might have caught P.O.S. when he played for the HomeKUMMing concert earlier this semester. You can download the track Goodbye off the album by going to RhymeSayers Entertainment site here and getting it. There are also tour dates and everything.
I'm pretty pumped for his third album, which is what he calls a winter album. This will be a great start to next semester's music awesomeness.

Interesting read on future of computing

Mainly for the CSci folk, but anyone can read it.
Here's the story.

I'll probably make another post about my thoughts, but I wanted to share this for now.

I was producktive

So, after I checked out the KUMM merch on sale today and bought some 10cent CDs I went to Alexandria to goto the Caribou. It was really quite productive for me. I got both my homework that is due today done AND the homework that was due two weeks ago and today is the last day to turn in mostly done. Like, I was productive for at least 5 hours today. I sent my calc prof an e-mail. And I listened to Crusades, which after this post I really wanted to listen to. I also got gas for $1.52. And I am now up till six watching garden state. Juno and Garden State have really good soundtracks in addition to being great indie movies. Music is great.

Music schnabbs

I think snobs drink schnapps because it's basically the same word. It sno and schna sound the same. And b is an upside p. Just a theory.
Anyways, I just watched Juno and kinda got bothered by Juno and Mark, the older dude who is kinda creepy with Juno. They talk about music in the most snobbish way possible. They only want to be the music superior-being compared to others. And, although I love music and have certain tastes, I try to never make anyone feel bad about either liking a band, not knowing a band, or not liking my favorite bands. I know I must do it subconsciously, but I never try to 'win' at music taste.
I have met some people that are like that and I usually just stop talking to them. Sometimes I forget and start digging a hole of a conversation only to remember that some people have unchanging minds. But as much as I want to scream at them to lighten up and listen, I know it wouldn't do anything and would basically make me the one trying to force my opinion on them. It's lame.
But yeah, it's late. I should probably goto bed. But actually, I'm going to make another post about what I did today. So, you probably already read that one since I'm posting this first and you'll read it second. What ever.

System.out.println("I Love programming!");

Because there are sometimes when I just rock an assignment. I was in class monday and everyone seemed to be having trouble with one lab project and I was basically done. It was great. The kid next to me said something like: "Man, I don't know even where to start with this lab, how about you?" and I nicely replied "Actually, I'm almost done." Problem was, he then tried to mooch my code off of me for the rest of the class. But it was alright because there is a reason it took me an hour+ to get comparable to work with my zombies. (if you aren't a csci major, you probably didn't understand that sentence. (okay, so it seems even compsci majors don't know what that means, your not alone) But then again, I don't expect anyone to fully understand what i say in my blog. Just be thankful text can't convey my mumbling. Anyways, so he kinda just gave me a blank look and stopped asking after a few minutes. So, it was really quite nice to have a confidence boost after not going to class for a week. But I actually should be doing a problem set for that class, so I'm going to go. (I just realized I am still in that parenthesized aside comment, oops.))

Funnel Bee

So, I went to the consular today to talk about possibly dropping my English class, and it turns out that they really don't deal with that stuff. But it was cool anyways I guess. I kinda found out by myself that my 'depression' is kinda dependent on what I am doing. Like, this weekend was very different for me because I hung out with different people. I went over to hang out with Emily and it turned out that Tessa, Remy, and Colin had all gone to the Doomtree show and so she and one of there other house members, David, had it mostly to themselves for the weekend. That meant that they got to be louder later into the night than usual. So it was a great weekend to go over I guess. I guess I had a misconception about how partyish the house was.
Anyways, it was out of the norm, which I liked. I saw people I rarely see. Then on Saturday I went back over for a 5 hour dinner. Well, Emily and friends started cooking at 6 and we ate at 11. There was an improv show in there somewhere, but still, it was good I ate something beforehand. That night was a lot more chill than Friday, but it was still really nice. They all convinced me that a trip to Viroqua, WI should be a part of my winter break. We'll see.
So anyways, the point was/is that I was feeling crappy until I went out of the norm for a weekend. And although this happens every once in a while, this time was different because I plan on hanging out with Emily and others more than once a month. It's for my health. : )

Damn right!

So, there's this amazing band, The Plastic Constellations, and after doing my weekly website check, I went a little deeper and found one of the signer/guitarist's blog. He doesn't update it or anything, but there is this one post that I just had to share. Here. This is the guy who has been my guitar/musical idol. It was sad to see them take an indefinite hiatus, but I think Tessa said she's working on getting them to do a reunion or something. So who knows.
But it was nice to read something that has been my mentality for the past year. He writes a lot better and gets the point across. But it's what I've been feeling, the unstoppable urge to do something, not for money/popularity, but because if I don't do it right now I might never be able to do it again.

Caribooooooou, cari-bou-ou

So Morris has two "coffee shops". One, The Turtle Mountain Cafe (why is cafe not in Firefox's dictionary?) (TMC) is run by Satan Sodexho and the other is a non-profit place called Common Cup. I actually have a lot more respect for the place when I found out it was non-profit. All proceeds go to one of the local churches. So it makes more sense why it was "built on God's love." But they both are pretty pricey. At the common cup, a bottomless cup of coffee is 3+ bucks. This compared to coffee news in the cities where it's 1.50. Kinda sucks. Anyways, the closest city is Alexandria, a pretty cool place actually, spent a day there shopping. They have a Caribou that my friend Meghan and I went to last week. It's a 45 minute drive each way, but it was totally worth it. Got there and had to have a caramel cooler because I haven't had one in forever. So there goes $5. But then I wanted to know how much a refill of coffee was and the guy looks at me funny and says: "Free?" Awesome. So, Caribou has 1.50 for unlimited coffee.
And not only that, but they have variety. They had two interesting blends the day I went and they change it day to day. The common cup just has two blends, and they are always there. It was also a pretty good place to do homework. I got a lot of programming done that day and I really enjoyed it. I guess Alexandria only has a few hours after work when people go get coffee. So I think I'll probably go there a few more times to get some work done in the next week before finals.
I also have big plans to someday open a coffee house/record store/music venue. It'd be awesome.

Social fun-gineering

So, last night I watched Fletch, an amazingly funny movie from the 80's that is one of my all-time favorites. It stars Chevy Chase and is an over the top comedy. But one thing I was thinking about during the movie was about how he acts with people and how they respond. The plot is that Fletch is a investigative reporter that is on the case of a drug dealing scheme. So he uses some ridiculous disguises to go undercover and get answers from people. This is what I think makes the movie hilarious and so classic. Chevy Chase has the ridiculous factor nailed.
What he does is use confusion to get answers and information from people. At one point he gets asked who he is and here is what he says (taken from imdb.com):

Madeline: I'm sorry, who are you again?
Fletch: I'm Frieda's boss.
Madeline: Who's Frieda?
Fletch: My secretary.

Then he abruptly leaves while she is taken back at this circular answer that contains no real information. He does this throughout the movie and uses confusion in what is called social engineering. Social engineering is using people to get information. Usually this means posing as someone your not. A lot of old hackers used this almost more than actually hacking systems. Kevin Mitnick is famous for using social engineering to get user passwords and computer information.
Remembering this, Fletch started to make me think about if this would actually work in real life. I always wished I was better at being absolutely ridiculous, but I guess with a script it would be a lot easier.
But anyways, I just thought it was an interesting concept. Humor and social engineering. It actually makes me want to read a book on it, the Art of Deception. But we'll see. Here's another example of fletch talking his way around a subject:

Dr. Joseph Dolan: You know, it's a shame about Ed.
Fletch: Oh, it was. Yeah, it was really a shame. To go so suddenly like that.
Dr. Joseph Dolan: He was dying for years.
Fletch: Sure, but... the end was very... very sudden.
Dr. Joseph Dolan: He was in intensive care for eight weeks.
Fletch: Yeah, but I mean the very end, when he actually died. That was extremely sudden.

Let's just never speak of this again

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo it turns out my phone was not lost, it was in my room, behind my window shade, on silent, for the past two days. Fan-freaking-tastic martin, way to go. But I have it back now and after reading all 20+ txts and voicemails, I'm back on track. But I just really want to put this behind me and get over the whole "wow martin, list your phone literally two feet from you, how'd you do it?" and the "sooo, your an idiot" and if anyone wanting to make these statements, you'll get about 24 hours of free shots before I officially move the issue to the part of my mind that is like a black hole and whatnot.
The only words that come to mind are simply: I can't believe I just did that.

Purrfect

So, here's a list of perfect albums. A perfect album, for me, is one that I can listen to all the way through and not get bored or annoyed with. These don't represent my entire music taste, just the albums that have been tried and true throughout the years. I got this by going through my iPod, so it might be missing a few albums. But yeah. Sorry about the format and that it will take up most of the front page.
Beastie Boys - License to Ill
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Belles Of Skin City - Ha Ha Boardroom Think tank Tantrums
Belles Of Skin City - You Do the Company Proud
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Building Better Bombs - Freak Out Squares
Built To Spill - Ultimate Alternative Wavers
Clash - London Calling
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Doors - Doors
Flobots - Fight With Tools
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Fugazi - End Hits
Fugazi - The Argument
Hockey Night - Keep Guessin'
Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Mae Shi - Heartbeeps
Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Nirvana - Nevermind
Paper Tiger - False Hopes
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pixies - Doolittle
Pixies - Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim
Plastic Constellations - Crusades
P. O. S. - Ipecac Neat
Queens of the Stoneage - Songs for the Deaf
Radiohead - OK Computer
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Stnnng - Fake Fake
Subtle - For Hero: For Fool
Tim Fite - Fair Ain't Fair
Tim Fite - Over the Counter Culture
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground And Nico
Weezer - Weezer (blue)
Weezer - Pinkerton
Zombies - Odessey And Oracle

Break: all in all

Break was good. But it wasn't complete. I know why, it because I never finished my paper. I really need to do that. Expecially because I have another one due next friday. But I need to choose if I want to write a 4 page creative story with 3 pages of analysis or an english paper. Since I basically failed at the last paper, I feel the creative route might be better for me. But I need to decide by tomorrow.
Anyways, break was good. It was something I needed, to see friends and play music and hang out and be in a city. But now I'm in morris for what, 2 and a half weeks. It's annoying having be be back for a short time. Even more because I want to go home one weekend to see my brother before I winter break starts. But we'll see what happens.

The Liar

I am a liar, through and through.
I am a liar, just like you and you
I am a liar and I know this fact
But the honest person in me, doesn't know how to react.

I lie and lie, about important things and not
I lie so often, that why I started I have forgot
I lie to help myself out of some confusing mess
I lie to you to help alleviate some stress.

I lie a lot, and this I know
Many of them are forgotten, fast they come fast the go
But the lie I remember most of all, past and new
Is when I lied down, in front of you.

Wrote this in the shower, where I often write short poems.
eh.