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[Jun. 9th, 2006|11:07 am] |
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I have learned that my musical tastes and my parents' musical tastes just don't overlap very much. Even if we happen like the same bands, we have very different ideas of what is their best work. I think I have the right to be the family authority on what is good music because I know more than everyone else, and I can prove it. About a week ago, I was trying to find some music that we all could agree on and this conversation took place:
Me: Do you like Pink Floyd? Because a lot of people don't like their stuff because it's pretentious...
Dad: Amber, I don't even know who Pink Floyd is.
Me: ...?!
Dad: Just play whatever, as long as it's not that rap.
Me: ...you don't know who Pink Floyd is?
Dad: distracted No.
Me: Another Brick in the Wall?
Dad: I don't know!
Me: Dad. That was your music. [okay, so he would have been 40 when it came out, but from what I've been told, that song was a Huge Fucking Deal when it came out, so... huh?]
Amber starts playing The Wall
Me: Okay, listen to this song that's coming up.
Another Brick in the Wall plays
Me: Okay, so this is Pink Floyd, yeah?
Dad: I think I've heard this before...
Help me.
Edit: Amber was so stunned that her father didn't know who Pink Floyd was that she told herself that her father was 10 years older than he really is. Amber is a dumb child and her dad was only 30 when Another Brick in the Wall became a single. |
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| The hell? |
[May. 11th, 2006|11:25 pm] |
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| |  moody | ] |
Wow, I really didn't think I would be getting that upset over him- we were just having fun, enjoying the small amount of time we would have together. But now the fun is over and we're going our separate ways and it's making me sad.
I can't believe I cried. And he probably doesn't feel anything more than "Aw, that sucks." |
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| Quote of the week. |
[Apr. 26th, 2006|04:24 pm] |
Jenni: So when I was in high school, my mom let me paint my own room.
Me: Ha ha...
Jen: And I painted it all this toxic bright neon orange.
Me: Awesome.
Jen: Except for this one wall 'cause I got sick of the color so I painted this girl that looked all posessed and shit. And my room had this giant window facing that wall? So at night my window had this bright orange glow coming out of it and you could see the demon girl. It was awesome.
Me: I'm jealous.
Jen: But then somebody complained to the neighborhood association and I had to paint it over.
Me: You really do live in the seventh circle of suburbia, don't you? |
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[Apr. 7th, 2006|07:04 pm] |
Oh, it's such a beautiful day.
I may even sunbathe. It's dark enough to not be suicidal now. |
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| Stolen from Keegan: |
[Apr. 7th, 2006|01:41 pm] |
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| | Ramones- Danny Says | ] |
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three cool facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year:
Cool:
1923 - Insulin first became generally available for use by diabetics.
1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
1947 - Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, breaking that sport's color line.
Births:
1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist
1894 - Bessie Smith, American blues singer
1990 - Emma Watson, English actress
Deaths:
I'm not going for the most obvious one so-
1998 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator |
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[Apr. 6th, 2006|02:40 pm] |
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| |  awake | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Suitemate's showertime hip-hop radio | ] |
Aw, I missed 123456!
But think about it: it's only 4/5/06 in some places. If you're from Europe you have to wait for May 4th and if you're from China where they date things from largest to smallest, you have to wait until 5:06:07 March 4th 2012 and really you missed your last chance in 1234 since in every thing I've seen they prefer to write out the whole date.
I suppose I'll just have to wait for 1:23:45 6/07/08, American and European. |
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| Weird... |
[Apr. 4th, 2006|12:38 am] |
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| |  complacent | ] |
I think my eyes are turning green. This has never happened before.
It's not a bad thing, it just freaks me out a bit. It's actually kinda cool. I've always secretly wanted green eyes...
But what does it mean? |
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| I feel good about me right now. |
[Mar. 26th, 2006|11:31 pm] |
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| |  chipper | ] |
God, I needed last night so bad.
I went salsa dancing (which I've never done before) and I hung out and I did nothing productive and I had fun. How long has it been since I've just had fun? Too long.
I've been in such a good mood all day.
This is what I need, friends to remind me to go out and have a good time.
Oh yeah, Maria if you read this, I saw Neill on Friday and I told him that I switched my major to Anthropology. It made him very happy. |
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| Stinky. |
[Mar. 7th, 2006|02:33 pm] |
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| | amused | ] |
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| | Suitemate's gangsta rap | ] |
When you walk by the School of Journalism that there is the unmistakable aroma of horse poo.
Oh, but it does amuse me so. |
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| Sometimes, just sometimes... |
[Mar. 5th, 2006|04:15 pm] |
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| |  empty | ] |
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| | Dead Kennedys- Holiday in Cambodia | ] |
I kind of wish that I believed in something, that I had a god to pray to and I wasn't all jaded and cynical about the universe.
Sometimes I don't want reality, I want something that I can feel.
Or maybe I just need a hug. Or to get laid.
Oh, and how fucked-up am in the head I that I want to dance to this song? |
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| The power of a compliment |
[Feb. 24th, 2006|01:31 am] |
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| |  pretty and witty and gay | ] |
Yeah, I haven't updated in awhile, whatever...
Today a total stranger said to me "Wow, your hair is so beautiful." Of course, I didn't do anything that I don't normally do. In other words, I combed it.
Okay, so maybe that makes me totally vain, but that made me feel really good about myself. And I need to feel really good about myself right now. |
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| I'm back! |
[Dec. 14th, 2005|05:51 pm] |
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My semester? Is DONE.
Thank. Fucking. God. Ugh. I need this semester to be over so bad and, as it seems, so does everybody else in this world.
I got my B in CS so that makes me happy. The jury's still out on my Chinese grade, but I'm on the border line right now so it's very possible that I've got an A in that class. That makes me very, very happy. Chinese has been the hardest and most fun class that I've ever had.
I just spent the last several hours goofing off on the internet. Grounding myself from the internet was a good move, even though I did cheat a couple of times. I'm going to continue restricting my internet usage because it's good for my soul and it will force me to do things to keep myself occupied.
I'm going to eat dinner. Then I'm going to clean my bathroom and then I'm going to start packing. |
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| Oh, before I forget... |
[Nov. 3rd, 2005|05:15 pm] |
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I've grounded myself for the rest of the semester (or until I both pull my Chinese grade to an A and my Computer Science grade to a B) from the internet except for school-related activities. Well, and if anything reallysuperdramaticohmygodcakes I will be allowed to blog it.
I have a bad habit of sitting there reading stuff on Wikipedia or The Straight Dope and I'm really screwing myself over.
I mean, it could just as well be teevee or wandering around the house not doing anything, but I do surf the web and I do justify it with a "Well, I'm learning stuff..." and I do have these other side projects that I never get around to because I want to play on the computer so it's gotta go.
So, TTFN and I hope that I'm un-grounded before the end of the semester. |
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| Oh my god! |
[Oct. 24th, 2005|10:33 pm] |
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I just read-
Rosa Parks died a few hours ago.
92 years old.
Godspeed. |
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| I started noticing... |
[Oct. 18th, 2005|01:21 pm] |
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| | busy | ] |
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| | Yoam Wara Yoam- Samira Said and Cheb Mami | ] |
My shiny new roommate has several items of the Sanrio (Hello Kitty more specifically) variety.
Between that and the J-pop? I'm a little worried.
But I shall not fear for I will re-make her in my image.
By the end of the year, she will be a fan of Eddie Izzard and PJ Harvey. |
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| I met Philip Glass, bitches! |
[Oct. 14th, 2005|11:01 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | determined | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Fiona Apple- Extraordinary Machine | ] |
And Ashley MacIsaac, too. |
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