TaoMan1121
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2005 13 December :: 10.08pm
Oh come on, with all that’s going on in the world these days, who hasn’t wanted to take an axe to a priest?
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2005 13 December :: 6.22pm
:: Mood: amused
:: Music: Superdrag - Sucked Out
who sucked out the feeeeeeeeeeeeeling??!!
You know, as much as I've had some transitional problems with this school and personality clashes with some of the faculty, I've got to give props to a program where I receive an e-mail like this... keep in mind, this is the head of the program talking here:
"It's not clear how much beer we will have tomorrow, so at this late
date, let's treat it as a BYO party.
See you there,
Bruce"
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2005 12 December :: 12.39am
:: Music: A Perfect Circle - Brena
Look Ma, I made a collage!
::following Michelle's lead::
OK, I think this is all of the icons I've used over the past (almost) three years. I'm pretty sure I've used all of them at least for a short period of time, but correct me if I'm wrong. I was going through my folder and I realized I still have three icons that I made, but have yet to use. Just too many good ideas.
Dana, my money's on M&S (how can I say no??), with you and the duckie pulling a close second. Joe, enjoy the current (although I'd probably like anything after the ostentatious O.C. one). Stef, like the change of pace, but the cherubs will always be you. I told Leeder I was going to give him an icon for Christmas, and he told me if I did, he'd return the favor by giving me a golden shower... like I said before: how I can say no??
(edit 12:54pm) After tonight, the Lions are officially dead to me. Long live the Giants.
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TaoMan1121
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2005 8 December :: 12.41am
:: Mood: worse
:: Music: Postal Service - This Place is a Prison
Top 50 Albums
1) Pink Floyd - The Wall
2) David Gray - White Ladder
3) Green Day - American Idiot
4) Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
5) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
6) Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
7) Radiohead - OK Computer
8) Moby - Play
9) Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
10) R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
11) Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
12) Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
13) Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
14) Elvis Costello & the Attractions - This Year's Model
15) Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
16) Pearl Jam - Ten
17) Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
18) Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
19) Garbage - Version 2.0
20) Dave Matthews Band - Crash
21) Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
22) Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
23) A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
24) Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
25) Barenaked Ladies - Maroon
26) Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
27) Beck - Sea Change
28) Eve 6 - Horrorscope
29) Badly Drawn Boy - About A Boy Soundtrack
30) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
31) U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
32) Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
33) Filter - Title of Record
34) Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
35) Jeff Buckley - Grace
36) Cake - Fashion Nugget
37) The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
38) Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
39) Eels - Beautiful Freak
40) TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
41) Poe - Haunted
42) Ben Folds - Live
43) The Postal Service - Give Up
44) The Killers - Hot Fuss
45) Franz Ferdinand
46) Everclear - So Much for the Afterglow
47) Incubus - Make Yourself
48) Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
49) Dido - Life for Rent
50) Snow Patrol - Final Straw
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TaoMan1121
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2005 7 December :: 11.12pm
:: Mood: better
:: Music: Bob Dylan - Bye & Bye
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2005 3 December :: 8.53pm
:: Mood: undeclared
:: Music: David Gray - This Year's Love
is here to last...
Shitty things about today:
- It's cold
- I needed my parents to (temporarily) bail me out of my financial situation
- I found out that my step-uncle had a brain aneurysm on his way back from Florida last week. The goods news is he picked the best place in the country for it to happen; Indianapolis has the best facilities in the country for that type of thing. The bad news is they couldn't get at the problem with the first surgery, so they have to go back in on Monday with a new procedure. He could recover, he could die... won't know much until Tuesday. Seems like everytime I talk to my Dad lately, it's bad news.
- Part of my permanent retainer broke off and I can't do anything about it until I come home. Now I have the pleasure of running my tongue over dried cement for the next couple of weeks.
In spite of all that, my spirits are decent. Parents will do that to you. I find myself reacting to some things people say in ways that I never have before. Desperation will do that to you. "It's only after we've lost everything that we are free to do anything."
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2005 2 December :: 11.49pm
:: Music: Johnny Cash - 25 Minutes To Go
I just want to bottle this feeling and return to it when I need it. I just want it to last a little while longer. I want this to be it. Not need anymore.
All I've ever wanted is to be happy and content. Simplicity is my drug of choice.
Wish you were here.
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2005 2 December :: 2.12pm
:: Mood: worried
:: Music: Eels - Flower
For the first time in my life, I am officially a poor college student.
This sucks.
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2005 1 December :: 9.20pm
:: Music: Aimee Mann - Ghost World
so i'm bailing this town--or/tearing it down--or/probably more like hanging around...
That Aimee Mann song hit me today on the way to my lab meeting, along with the beginning of the last verse:
"And all that I need now
is someone with the brains and the know-how
to tell me what I want"
Today was a good day, but after its effects have worn out, I feel as if I'm close to another uphill battle. Life feels like a chore as of late; funny considering how little I have to do. There's many reasons why I might not be deriving any joy from life as of late, but if can be simplied by merely stating that I'm not allowing myself to.
Not giving up quite yet:
"There is truth, old friend, if that's all you seek. But there's no justice or judgment, without which truth is a vast dead hollow... Awaken the sleep of reason and fight the monsters within and without."
- Deep Throat, "The Blessing Way"
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2005 1 December :: 9.02pm
:: Music: Shania Twain- No One Needs to Know
don't tease me
Am I dreamin' or stupid?
I think I've been hit by Cupid
But no one needs to know right now
I met a tall, dark and handsome man
And I've been busy makin' big plans
But no one needs to know right now
I got my heart set, my feet wet
And he don't even know it yet
But no one needs to know right now
I'll tell him someday some way somehow
But I'm gonna keep it a secret for now
I want bells to ring, a choir to sing
The white dress the guests the cake the car the whold darn thing
But no one needs to know right now
I'll tell him someday some way somehow
But I'm gonna keep it a secret for now
We'll have a little girl a little boy
A little Benji we call Leroy
But no one needs to know right now
And I'm not lonely anymore at night
And he don't know only only he can make it right
And I'm not lonely anymore at night
And he don't know only only he can make it right
I'm not dreamin' or stupid
But boy have I been hit by Cupid
But no one needs to know right now
No one needs to know right now...
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2005 23 November :: 11.12pm
:: Mood: amused
:: Music: Fiona Apple - Please Please Please
I can knock him 'cause he's dead.
A few things before I unleash these results:
1) Frued was a numnut that offered virtually nothing to the field of psychology. His psychosexual stages are nothing more than an amusing postulation and fodder for Trivial Pursuit questions and Introductory Psych courses around the country.
2) Psychoanalysis is a scam and IMHO can actually be determential to a client. How can you state that you helped someone with no way of proving it. I. need. data.
3) They say "bad press" is still press.
4) This test was still amusing...
| Freudian Inventory Results | Oral (33%) you appear to be stubbornly and irrationally against receiving help even when it might be the more intelligent option.
Anal (76%) you appear to be overly self controlled, organized, and possibly subservient to authority, this effectively narrows your exposure to a wider set of options and ideas lowering the odds that you will make the best decisions in life.
Phallic (63%) you appear to have issues with controlling your sexual desires and possibly fidelity.
Latency (43%) you appear to have a good balance of abstract knowledge seeking and practicality, dealing with real world responsibilities while still cultivating your abstract and creative faculties and interests.
Genital (56%) you appear to be somewhere between a progressive/openminded and regressive/closeminded outlook on life.
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Alanis Morissette - Excuses
Why no one will help me
I am too dumb I am too smart
They'll not understand me
I am lonely
They'll hate me
And there is not enough time
It's too hard to help me
And god wants me to work
No resting no lazy
These excuses how they served me so well
They've kept me safe
They've kept me stoic
They've kept me locked in my own cell
I'm too far from home
It takes far too much energy
And I cannot afford to
No one will ever see me
These excuses how they served me so well
They've kept me safe
They've kept me stoic
They've kept me locked inside my cell
These excuses how they're so familiar
They've kept me small
They've kept me blocked
They've kept me safe inside my shell
Bringing this into the light
Shakes their foundation
And it clears my side
Now my imagination
Is the only thing that limits
The bar that is raised to the heights
No one can have it all see
I have to they want me to
And I can't let them down
I'll never be happy
These excuses how they served me so well
They've kept me safe
They've kept me small
They've kept me locked inside my cell
These excuses how they're so familiar
They've kept me small
They've kept me stoic
They've kept me locked inside my cell
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TaoMan1121
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2005 20 November :: 4.23pm
:: Mood: ephemeral
:: Music: DCFC - Tiny Vesels
This is me, coming clean with myself... I'm lonely. Not a desperate type of loneliness, but instead a sort of inert and serene loneliness. I feel like a sponge that's temporarily dried out, sitting in the bottom of the sink, patiently waiting to be used again. It's strange how this loneliness affects my reactions to situations that are most definitely not lonely. Visits and days out feel strangely comforting and yet ultimately fleeting, not compeletely hollow yet somehow not all-encompassing. Sometimes it feels like I haven't been living my life, as if I've found myself in someone else's shoes. But then again, the differences between here and there are night and day.
When I break the monotony of my rountine, each day here seems like such an adventurous undertaking. There's so much to explore and discover, and it engages me so completely that it almost acts like a drug, whether the high is good or bad.
I discovered a new movie theater fairly close to my campus that has absolutely unbeatable prices for this city. $5.75 for a matinee and $9 for an evening. On the bus ride there, I found the first Kohl's and Arby's I've seen since I've been down there. I took the time to indulge both and it was all a sublime diversion of a day, satisfying a taste of back home until I make it back there next month.
It was a beautiful day out today.
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2005 19 November :: 10.23pm
You fit in with:
Humanism
Your ideals mostly resemble that of a Humanist. Although you do not have a lot of faith, you are devoted to making this world better, in the short time that you have to live. Humanists do not generally believe in an afterlife, and therefore, are committed to making the world a better place for themselves and future generations.
20% spiritual.
80% reason-oriented.
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2005 19 November :: 8.55pm
:: Mood: optimistic
:: Music: Welcome to the Killers Hour.
Steve. kills. me.
There were times today, hanging out with Steve, that I actually had to stop dead in my tracks and kneel down to compose myself and stop my head from going splat. Some quotes from the day:
(after a random commercial for JCPenny or something) Steve: "I don’t want to be racist, but why are black people building a snowman in front of a white girl’s house?"
(sad and dejected while playing Tecmo Super Bowl. Best. game. ever.) Me: "Sometimes I wish I had more than 4 plays to choose from..."
(completely out of the blue on the way to the subway, in regards to The Godfather) Steve: "You know Sonny wouldn't have died if he had had EZPass."
(considering our options after arriving late to a sold-out Walk The Line) Steve: "Let's score some weed."
Finally, let's play Name That Quote. Five, count 'em five, arbitrary points to who tells me who said this first: "We can’t bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One of them is to tell ‘em stories that don’t go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville? I needed a new heel for m’shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what we called Shelbyville at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel. And in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. ‘Gimee five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah. The important thing is that I had an onion tied to my belt—which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. All you could get was those big yellow ones…”
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2005 17 November :: 9.26pm
:: Mood: indignant
:: Music: a whole lot of Snow Patrol
I'M JENNIFER GARNER!!!
OK, network television, let's see how your attempts to convince me to cancel my cable subscription are going:
The Simpsons - Continuing to bore me, for the most part, and becoming less and less relevant as the seasons pass. Let's put a kibosh on this and get to the movie already.
Family Guy - One of the few rays of light in all this mess, being brought back and all, but then again, it's never been a show I couldn't live without if I needed to.
American Dad - I was starting to get into it, but the two parter over sweeps has turned me off again. I've decided tonight it's to be a casuality of my current rage at the network system.
Arrested Development - Denial abound here for me. I refuse to accept until I read "the article" that seals the deal. Until then, the fate of the (my) universe hangs in the balance. And am I the only person who read that they had to halt production because Jason Bateman was having vocal troubles? That's got to be the explanation, right? RIGHT?!
Kitchen Confidential - Waiting for the ax to fall here as well. Seriously, all I want is the Michael Vartan episode. Please, for all that is decent in the world, give me that.
Prison Break - Entertaining and all, but the conspiracy plotline makes me want jam a spork in the writer's forehead. Seriously, this is one time I fully authorize ripping off the X-Files. Anyway, the "fall season" (whatever the fuck that means) is over in two weeks, paving the way for 24 (which better be the best season yet to make up for all this other BS that I'm having to put up with).
My Name Is Earl - Dropped from my list. How could anything with Jason Lee in it be so completely unfunny. Big disappointment.
The Office - Yeah, it's getting real good (aside from Tuesday's episode), but how long is it going to last? The moment I truly commit to it, the moment they take it away.
House - Gguh. Is it possible that you can make Season 2 available for DVD right now? Plus, it's achieved a balance of anonymity and commercial success that I wish upon every show I watch.
Boston Legal - After a rocky start, it's starting to get back on track, but it's still relative fluff. Alas, I can never say no to Shatner and Spader again... and how the hell did I miss the flamingos?! And who knew Candice Bergen could be entertaining, suave, and even a little sexy? (Yeah, go ahead, have a field day with that one.)
Lost - How could a show with so much potential spin its wheels so much? Oh, and by the way, I don't give a flippin' fuck what happened to the other set of survivors. You barely get to see a character once every month without adding another 6 of 'em! Can we start voting people off now? It's just so inconsistent: it's either exciting as hell or I'm staring at the clock at 9:58 wondering what the hell I watched for an hour? Solution: reformat it into a island talk show and rename it The Terry O'Quinn Show. I'd watch that shit.
Alias - Arrested Development aside, the most consistently entertaining program so far this season. Rachel Nichols and Balthazar Getty: talk about breathing in some fresh air. And Sark?! Next week?! The only way that would be cooler is if I hadn't already read about it. (Grumble grumble... stupid articles.) One complaint: STOP. MOVING. IT. Last year: Wednesday @ 8pm. This year: Thursday @ 8pm. Next week (and until they feel like fucking with me again): Wednesday @ 10pm. Oh, and Jennifer Garner, release the offspring already, you are much better to look at without it.
Night Stalker - ::heavy sigh:: No more. I'm ambivalent: it was entertaining (and with Alias preceding it, it was the night of TV I most looked forward), but the myriad of X-Files rip-offs, even if they came straight from the source, was really starting to trouble me. I suggest a DVD double feature: The Inside and Kolchak. They could call it: Derivative X-Files Deliciousness (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Enjoy Being Fucked In the Ass by Network Television).
Yeah, I can't top that and I'm out of shows, so I'll stop there. Started out at the beginning of the season with 13 shows, as of this writing, I'm down to 8 (if you consider 24 subbing in for Prison Break, which I do, so you should to). ::sigh:: Back to season 2 of X-Files to remind me of the good ol' days.
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