Like he couldn’t just mope around in A&B Sound like everyone else.
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Category Archives: music
quiz: are you a hippie?
Another smart quiz. It’s uncanny how accurate these can be! Prepare to be amazed!
You are a Hippie |
You don’t trust authority, and you do as you please. You’re willing to take a stand, even when what you believe isn’t popular.You like to experiment with ideas, lifestyles, and different subcultures. You always gravitate toward what’s radical and subversive. Normal, mainstream culture doesn’t really resonate with you. |
Happiness versus Fun: the American Nightmare
It’s called the American Dream because you have to be unconscious to believe it.
George Carlin
For most of the world, America is the great entertainment factory. The New Jerusalem envisionsed by the Puritans has turned out to be the world’s leading manufacturer of amusement and cheap thrills. The colonists and their descendants did indeed build them a shining city on a hill — but they called it Disneyland. In the Declaration of Independence they enshrined, along with life and liberty, the inalienable right to pursue happiness. But happiness is hard. Happiness takes work. Even worse, happiness is a long shot. So America settled for fun, perfected it, and sold it to an eager world. Pop music, Hollywood movies, the seductive sound of ice chattering in a silver cocktail shaker — they are the tangible, consumable expressions of the lofty principles in the Declaration of Independence,
the free culture of a free people.William Grimes, in
Straight Up or On the Rocks, The History of the American Cocktail
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every little thing she does is Peanuts
Two of my favorite things: Linus sings The Police! A natural followup to the classic Peanuts Hey Ya.
Lyrics after the jump, and yes, I’m feeling a little low lately (like, since mid-December) so it’ll be YouTubes and quizzes and quotations and such unoriginal things (I lack even the strength to bother putting in the social bookmarking links!) until I feel up to laying down my righteous “Meet the Jasons” or “Marathongate” posts. Stay tuned!
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Tech Support Rant
Foamy the Squirrel says it so much better than I could…behold the story of my life for the last 48 hours. The MP3 player’s program will load on the Pentium III/Windows 98 machine but will not run. The PIII will download, but not run, drivers for memory sticks and other USB devices, although it HAS a USB port. Perhaps it’s not so “U”. Somebody tell Nancy Mitford!
The Laptop running Windows XP Pro will install the program, but not get online. It will run the program, but not connect to the MP3 player. It will also Copy from CDs inserted in it, at playing speed only, making lovely little album folders with icons and everything, but when you open them, they are empty.
Steve Jobs, we need to talk. Hiring a blogger? I werk foar tek.
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