Beba Adventurosa Du Marier

If you look at the famous study of intellectual self-esteem over a fifteen-year continuum of young women and young men who had been at the top of their high school class, you see that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down with every year of higher education, whereas men's stays the same or goes slightly up. Because what women are often learning is that everybody who accomplished something in the world didn't look like them.

Now that is greatly remedied by taking Women's Studies, of course, but not everybody takes Women's Studies. It's part of the reason we need to make courses in both race and sex stereotyping entry-level courses that everybody takes, so that men are also released to do what they want to do that maybe doesn't fit the masculine stereotype, and that we understand the racial politics as well. And in a way the Women's Studies, African-American Studies, Native American Studies, Appalachian Studies are all remedial studies. They should be part of everybody's history.

"Someone Great" by LCD Soundsystem (off their new album Sound of Silver) is a beautiful song with a gorgeous video to match, really simple technical concept that makes it, in my opinion, even more relatable than it already is, to me.
If you watch it, you'll understand, hopefully.

Consequentially, embedding is forbidden from youtube, but that's just as well because it needs to be appreciated on a full screen.

Meanwhile,

"Eternal Youth" by Ben Gleib

Global Warming has ruined my favorite Christmas song.
I guess we could always change it to, "Baby, It's Unusually Warm for December Outside."
UGH

Jennifer Jason Leigh's mother wrote the script for Pollock
and her father was killed because of a stunt gone awry on The Twilight Zone.

I love her even more now.

If you've never seen any of her movies... get on it.
I suggest Dorothy Parker and the Vicious Circle
Georgia
Dolores Claiborne
Bastard Out of Carolina
and
Fast Times at Ridgemont High!

Ha, I went to put Hayao Miyazaki on my interests and he was already there.
:)

We're gonna make it through these two weeks.

when I was little I had a really white plastic horse
upon receiving it I of course wanted to name it
and I wanted to name it 'Virgin' because of the color.
My mom said,
"Oh don't name it that, Mom will have nightmares."
So I named it something stupid I can't even remember.

On a more constructive note,
buy a pair of these

(or whatever other color/pattern)
so a kid in an underdeveloped country can have a pair too!
I'm not kidding.
http://www.tomsshoes.com/

DO IT!!
or
I'll EAT YOUR FACE OFF WITH A SPOON!!!

Oh, Jeremy Irons--how many people can say they are typecasted as the older sophisticated male who just can't control his lust for younger seductresses?
Hello, Dominique Swain, Juliette Binoche.
Two actresses who play some fairly quirky roles as well.

Absolutely nothing else.

Holy crap there are so many Saggitarians on my friends page!

Another cool thing:
The history of Los Dias de los Muertos which you can read about here
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/history/

I come up the stairs to my room,
next-door neighbor boys,
"I JUST ATE REESES PUFFS DRY!! I AM A CRAZY MUTHAFUCKA!"
If only this was a scheduled occurrence and they did not have just glamorous antics at 1 am on weekdays as well,
I'm old.

Also, fuck this weather.

Beyond Illusion and Doubt
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

"Yes, love in the material world is impossible because in the material world everyone is interested only in his own sense gratification. The love experienced between a man and a woman is not actually love but lust, because both parties are interested only in their sense gratification. Love means that one does not think of his own sense gratification but of the sense gratification of his beloved. That is pure love. But that pure love is not possible in the material world. When we speak of love in the material world, we are actually misusing the word. Lustful desires take the place of real love."
--Srila Prabhupada on asked about love and spiritual love in Christianity

Watch this by Calvin Harris
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nh2oseTibx4&mode=related&search=

then this
http://youtube.com/watch?v=p1S3JCknQJ4&mode=related&search=

covered by Dragonette
http://youtube.com/watch?v=K4LLN2aPmjY&mode=related&search=

who is also made this
http://youtube.com/watch?search=&mode=related&v=e2pRMT8fd2g

Truly all amazing,
and sexual,
and electronic.

Grace through patience and truth,
that is all I have.

Also the ears and love of people who care about me, thank you.

I will continue to be strong, as strong as I can be as a human can be anyway.

Haha!

"I don't use an iPod. I have resisted technology in my life out of fear and ignorance." --Lyle Lovett

Also apparently there is going to be an Aretha Franklin Bio-movie? I MUST SEE IT!

Now Courtney Love is skinny as hell and wears less rock n' rollish gear? That makes for a sad me when I reflect on how amazingly rebellious she used to be--even if I always denied that she was wasted...

I updated my profile with some quotes.

With all these people getting crushes on me, it would be nice to like one of them back; it would be nice to think one of them was worth it.

I still like being the only one in the room sometimes.

September is coming, the petals are already leaving their stems.

So yesterday I was under a lot of stress, but I was happy I had the ability to realize that at least now they are big-girl problems.
I said it.

Anyway, it rained kinda hard for a few hours, as Boone is known to do from time to time and there were some people standing outside Old Belk with Jarret and I.
A man who is jogging runs by, on his head there was a black trash bag and an eye slit cut out.
We all exclaimed and whooped and expressed our approval, but you know those joggers, and the fact that he couldn't see us... well no, I really just think he was in the zone and that's why he didn't respond.
ANYWAY
A single moment elapses and black guy walks by with a piece of newspaper unfolded under his baseball cap and other sheets of newspaper plastered to his clothing.
His vision is also obstructed.
No one but me gets excited about this and I yell, "That's awesome!!!"
He responds, "YEAH BAY-BEE!" And just keeps walking--like a robotic response or something.
It was a pretty rewarding moment.

Hey remember that rumour about Sufjan Stevens being homosexual?
Here's some interesting stuff about...

why that's good...
http://www.last.fm/user/bigsexyshaq/journal/2006/05/24/141513/

and why that matters:
http://radiodiatribe.com/category/people/sufjan-stevens/

I am a rock.
I am an island.

DDDDDDDDDURRRRRR
KIDNEYTHIEVES IS PUTTING OUT A NEW ALBUM?!
If it's even half as good as Zerospace it will be awesome.

Also, Interpol will put out an album this year?!??

This is too much excitement.