A Grand Don't Come For Free

Listened to The Streets' album A Grand Don't Come For Free for the first time all the way through...good shit that. Simple story but still interesting and enough to make the songs (which are not as catchy as Everything is Borrowed songs) really engaging. Also Fit But Don't You Know It rocks hardcore right in the middle and keeps things together for me.
In unrelated business, my things seem to have been breaking randomly lately...my laptop motherboard crapped out and my bike's back tire is kinda fucked...whatever the giant desktop from days of yore and the bus are taking up the slack for now.

Best show ever?

Okay Day 1 Treasure Island did its thing...Mstrkraft was better than expected and probably had the best show...especially considering the Queen ending...super epic sing along. MGMT was alright but playing their album front to back was an unwise call and showed they had a lot of room to grow in their stage presence/ performance.
Day 2 came out and kicked some serious amounts of ass. Grizzly Bear was relatively boring despite excellent sound quality (just not that exciting). Beirut was charming and played some fun and interesting music. The Walkmen rocked out in normal very loud style and played the Rat so they were pretty good. The Decemberists played a set that was easily a headliner, they had a full animated story going on behind the show and were dead on the whole time. I could have easily been happy with their performance as a headliner as they abandoned their usual folksy, soft sound for a little more energy. I didn't head over to Yo la Tengo but apparently they played Stockholm Syndrome so plus there. But The Flaming Lips were uncomparable...they sucked the whole audience in for the whole show, played pretty much only songs the whole crowd knew and shot off more confetti per capita than any other band. From the moment they were birthed from a psycodelic vagina to the last refrain of Do You Realize I didn't feel my exhausted feet and was happy to be in the crowd generally half dancing (not enough room...sardine like packing). Wayne is my hero...Yoshimi battled robots... and there were tangerines for all. So awesome...so awesome

Should learn piano...become Ben Folds

Listening to Ben Folds Five is awesome and what instrument do they not have...guitar...so its time to learn piano or awesome fuzz style bass. Rock n' Roll foos. Also I had forgotten how cool Built to Spill's song Conventional Wisdom is...pretty damn awesome. That is all

The Yips?

I think I have paper writing style case of the yips. I can't freaking write anymore for some reason...everything comes out mushy and unoriginal. Do I need to say a prayer to the English gods, or was I never in possession of a decent voice/writing style and I'm just noticing it now...

NAWW that can't be right I fucking brilliant...right...yeah right

In the wise words of Barney Stinson: Bump the barnacle

Why the Hell

Okay so I let this sit for a while and reading it again its kinda self-aggrandizing crap...that said I haven't posted crap in a while so yeah take that internet

I don't get it at all. Why does human nature dictate that within twenty seconds of walking I can hear four different conversations of people just ripping on a non-present party? I'm all for the friendly interchange of insults...I find it humorous and anyone who has had above a twenty minute conversation with me knows its one of my favorite ways of deflecting my own social awkwardness (a now overused term but I'll get to that later). It sucks that I attend what is supposed to be an institution of higher learning, a place where people are supposed to give a shit about the topics they choose, yet all I hear is the same thing day in and day out. How can people fall asleep in history classes that actually have reasonable meaning yet be so avid about the social habits of the people around them?

It dawned on me today and I had a twenty minute internal rant about the benefits of discussing important topics. This ran into a dead end of if people don't actually like their chosen college course (doing it for the money) then they won't really be enthusiastic. But my internal discourse eventually settled to why people rely on talking about one another is it to fill space or out of paranoia for their own social alliances. Here is where the awkwardness sets in...people have become too concerned with the uncomfortable nature of a great deal of human interaction. Although some people are more or less affected by this...it seems to be a constant theme; talking to others can and will be awkward on occasion and this does not provide an excuse to turn discourse to beating on other people's flaws. The other reasoning I can figure out is that people want friends and in order to secure and protect these friendships they feel the need to run down "competitors" to maintain their position atop the flagpole. I like the first explanation better because it seems more positive a reflection of people as a whole which I prefer.

On this note I make the random jump to the self reflective period of this long rant....be warned. My nature is to accept and take people at the versions of themselves they portray to the world, I buy into most people being at heart moral and honest actors. This makes critical analysis of their behavior difficult. Essentially, I make the mistake of traditional economics in assuming that people act rationally and to a degree of morality and that they have little motivation for showing a personality they do not have. Because of this I am surprised on the rare occasion that I receive a trail of gossip and find that people are in fact not all sunshine and roses. This all probably stems from the fact that I have an incredibly minuscule level of confidence in my own social competency and "goodness" so I must over admire the more substantial abilities of others and apply this to a limited world view. But why can't people let me be happy in ignorance...why must we all know that someone made a mistake with a past or present relationship (romantic... personal whatever) which has nothing to do with our own interactions with that person? Wouldn't we all like each other better and be more able to interact if we only knew someone based on our set of interactions with them, instead of the aggregate of many, many people's relationships which tend to accumulate mistakes and flaws that once pointed out are hundreds in number and unavoidably annoying.

It may seem irrelevant but I'm tired of knowing that no matter what happens more people will care about Steve's latest drunken escapade than about a state budget or biology. Damnit STEVE.
Don't actually watch that by the way...

*Note: Dude I totally sound like this comic...awesome I am a non-original sheeple...I also added all those hyperlinks to make this seem to have slightly higher production value...your welcome

Cool scultpture

Okay this thing is really awesome looking, and it cries constantly...what else do you want. Apparently it isn't news when Russia gives the U.S. a bronze and titanium piece of awesome. And we put this thing in New Jersey...come on now.

Well if you got big tits...Reflections on drunk ramblings

I don't like these people...they talk loud enough that I can't concentrate worth a damn, but at least they are kinda funny...
Conversation topics for the night:
1. Why guys only like girls who are blonde and stupid...unless they have large breasts or as I quote "Well if you got big tits... then even a but-her-face can get some"
2. There are no attractive smart guys in Berkeley
3. "I'm sooooooo horny" (I'm pretty sure at least 4 guys and girls said this)
4. How all people are all really superficial and you never "See a fatty and a hot person together", people "get what they can"
5. How they should not get crazy drunk tonight so they can "save up" for tomorrow
6. How they are stoned in every class they go to and want to announce "Hey class I'm STONED" everyday, imagine the stoned being with that stereotypical drunken loud slur thing...hopefully you know what I'm talking about.
7. And the classic conversation of "Am I more drunk or stoned right now" which branches nicely in "Are you more drunk or stoned right now."
8. My personal favorite how girls are "actually just as horny as guys" but that drinking really "seals the deal" as one bro put it "Before the drink they are all meh...meh...maybe. After they are all hell yeah, lets do this thing."

I get angry at how reductive and superficial these people are but then become giddy and glad that I'm not one of these people (I hope, someone hit me in the dome with a wrench if I am...like inflict brain damage).

Sorry to Tristan for elongating so but it was how I think they would have spelled it so I kept to my source material.