I feel as though that gif perfectly represents this blog atm, with Rachel's post being the guy on the left and the rest of us on the right. A++. Keep the stories and music coming.
This number here is a long-time favorite of mine. Broken Bells is a superb band that includes Danger Mouse (who produced the Demon Days album for the Gorillaz) and the singer from The Shins. Ugh. I love everything about both this song and the video. I've probably shoved it at a few of you before. GIVE IT ANOTHER LISTEN.
What can I say? I haven't been up to too much. Turns out my History of Rock and Roll class is also kind of like a seminar, so it's got a hefty bit of reading to go along with it. I'm just glad I'm in there with like five friends.
Also did I tell you about my awful business law professor? Mega-douche. We have quizzes on every chapter that are fill-in-the-blank (heaven forbid!) on words that are like... in the captions of pictures. And he said 'oh dudes don't worry the cases will only be on tests.' Guess what was on the first quiz? If you guessed cases you'd be correct. Ughhhh so mad.
IN OTHER (better?) NEWS:
CMP Tactical Laser Tag (http://www.cmpmilwaukee.com/). Went there with some friends. Got assigned to a six year old's birthday party team. Played against high-school bros-in-training. Was slaughtered. Was amazing. Anyone in the Chicago-land area should consider coming up here for a weekend visit and bring some monies for this shit right here. The guns are like, custom made. With scopes and shit. You have to shoulder them. It is ridiculous.
Also had a friend question aspects of my lifestyle. Was able to reason with myself and others adequately. Am happier than ever with life decisions.
Though still worried about the non-college future.
Popping in to say, Hello My Lovelies and I'm Still Alive I Swear. I'll write something with proper paragraphs and stories (or weird tidbits pretending to be stories) and such sometime later this week. But for now, as per Missy's suggestion take these musical things.
I haven't listened to any of her other stuff despite finding her a while a go... but I like this song. And her eye make up. Warning, she's very British voice-wise.
Also, take this. I love it so much I can 't even express it, except to show you my ipod which will complain to anyone who will listen that I've had it on repeat all week. It's totally worth the electronics abuse imo. Now I'm gonna go and try to sleep. I love you all.
So it seems people aren't all that interested in sharing stories, so perhaps we can share music instead for a while? We all have lulls, but music is a constant! I am dying for new things to hear, and most of you have different enough tastes in music from me that you're bound to have something I might find intriguing.
NOTE: I just realized Mouse posted. For some reason my email failed to tell me this. But still. MUSIC PLZ.
My song for you today is one I've been listening to like crazy the past few weeks. It's not new, but I've been in an oddly western/sci fi mood lately and for some reason this song fits that mood.
Note: Coheed and Cambria is not for everyone. Regardless, I like this and the Year of the Black Rainbow albums a lot, and I've been looking around on good deals for the other ones, too, because each installment is part of a bigger story. Quite a few of the songs can stand alone regardless, but if it's not making sense, it's because it's just a fraction of something bigger.
These last few weeks have been strange for me. I caught quite a bit of the sadness, the despair, the feelings. I've been feeling incredibly lost and dissatisfied with myself as a person. I'm trying to change, to be more reliable. It's difficult. Being unreliable is easy.
I had a bit of an epiphany though. I'm finally going to get off my bum and strive to achieve idle goals that I had set almost two years ago. I'm going to get a job in the massage field, save up enough money to take continuing education courses in spa techniques, and see if I can't get a job on a cruise ship for a year. This is a projected goal, but I hope I can be fully trained before year's end. Then I'll be working my ass off in the Caribbean or somewhere similarly hot. Wish me luck! Miss you all.
Oh and for my song, I have this little number that continues to make me weep like a little bitch for reasons that I don't fully understand. Don't judge.
Do you remember when we were super excited to start this blog and share our lives with each other? Yeah, me neither. So I am trying to give this blog a sharp kick in the teeth, much like what this semester is doing to me.
My New Semester Resolution was to branch out and try new things and I find myself spread a bit thin. Like three days a week, Other Rachel and I go to the University Center (UC) and take some fitness classes. I am not cut out for Yoga. Sweet Jesus, I cannot get my leg behind my head and pretend that the jagged gasps of air are really deep cleansing breaths.
I went to the opera yesterday. "The opera" is a loose term. In reality I went to the Purnell (the building where all the theater/drama people hang out) and saw an opera that they put on. A friend of mine is double majoring in Computer Science and Lightning (I never see him), but he got a few free tickets so I went.
The basic plot of this opera is that a boy throws a tantrum after his mother scolds him, so he destroys all the furniture. But HOLY SHIT THE FURNITURE COMES ALIVE AND OH MAN ARE THEY PISSED! So yeah, the furniture attacks the boy and things get crazy and there's a lot of singing. Overall it was really enjoyable...and French.
Despite all of this nonsense going on, I don't really have any anecdotes comparable to Missy's emergency pants story. Nor do I have anything remotely interesting to say. I just miss you guys and I want to hear about your lives and such. So yeah.
I never keep my pants in my dresser and/or wardrobe at school. Instead, I keep them in an easy-access spot right next to said furniture, in a little basket that is not quite a basket, and therefore is not an object that I loathe with every fiber of my being.
I do this because my experience in college dorms has taught me one very important thing: at any point in the night, or at any point after all your classes have been attended and social shin-digs are over with, when you're sitting cozy in your dorm room with your PJs on (and, if you're like me, you wear shorts. or capris), those ordinary jeans sitting in that unassuming little basket could at any moment turn into Emergency Pants.
Emergency Pants are really only used for one thing: fire alarms, set off at ungodly hours or inconsiderately during one of your favorite TV shows. And last night set a new record for me: it was our first night back in the dorms, and that damn alarm went off at 1:30 in the morning. And since it was winter outside, I was very much pleased that I maintained my Emergency Pants philosophy, because holy crap on a cracker it was cold out there.
Hopefully the rest of you got off to a better-rested start for this exciting new semester. I've had one class thus far and I already love it. What interesting classes are you guys taking this semester? And if you're already done with school, do you have any current projects or other exciting things looming on the horizon?
My classes this semester:
Multimedia and Web Design
Advanced Seminar for publication design
Modern Lit
Spanish
American Lit
I've never actually seen the video for this, so it'll be an experience for all of us.
