Has anyone else noticed that there are a lot of bands out there that make their living completely off of suckering specifically college age kids into liking their music? I mean, no surprise bands and labels target people (Blink-182 post Dude-Ranch, I'm looking at you. same Sum 41), but these college ones are the worst. At least with the high school ones everyone on all sides agrees that it's all mindless crap. I can dig that. I hate it, though, when someone creates a convoluted song with lots of "imagery" and then tries to pass it off as this deep music. Live, I'm looking straight at you. "When Dolphins Cry"??? Who are you, Natalie Merchant (Thats another subject. What you do isn't called dancing. It's called epilepsy)? And Lightning Crashes, don't even get me started with lightening crashes. ugh.
Tori Amos is just as bad. What do these songs mean?
As for Dolan's abortion thing, and I don't even know if he has ever seen this blog, but I feel compelled to respond. The reason I am one of those personal/public people is this: I don't have the right to make the final decision for others. I think that in the dubious moral situation in which we find abortion right now (and god knows I don't care a whole lot about this topic, and don't know about the science in it, ), and looking at the harms that would result in society from outlawing abortion, I think its got to be there. On the other hand, I'm a person who has a hard time avoiding not hurting inanimate objects, so if someone was like "should I have an abortion?" it would be hard for me to say yes. There are circumstances when I could see myself saying it, but I think the majority of the time I would say no considering options such as private adoption and such. That's the difference tho ,separating what you have the right to do from what you would advise the person with rights to do.
PASSIVE/AGGRESSIVENESS------ (be gentle, it's my first time)
so I am all stuck in this driftless morass of anxiety over my future. Big shock, huh? Yeah, I'm pretty sure everyone does this as they are graduating. It's been hitting me all semester, that my life is changing, and I don't think right now that I am in control of that change. That's the worst feeling, that feeling that you don't know what is going on. Strike that. The worst feeling is when you realize that you're honestly not interested in what you are taking classes in, and that you really aren't interested in much else, either. I was thinking about it over the weekend, and I wondered what my emotional state would be right now if I pursued my goal in high school and went to a media school and tried to become an actor. My life may have been a low paying existence, but emotionally I think I would be a lot happier. Would allow me to achieve a catharsis that I just don't allow myself right now. I just don't care about the world right now, and I used to; that feeling that I could change things and that I had the drive and the motivation is what kept me going, and it's gone. A year off is probably a good idea, one that can give me time to think...
blur is still cool. surf music is too. But right now I'm listening to (London) Suede: Lazy "cause you and me all we wanna be is lazy"
