Kathleen Hanna is not a beach.

Goddamn. If I can be half as much of a badass as Kathleen Hanna, well, I don't know what I'd do. She's just so fucking awesome. She sings rad music, is an advocate for gender equality, does cool side projects (julie ruin?) and was part of Le Tigre and Bikini Kill. Hotdamn.








School is way too crazy. If this was not my last rigorous quarter, I'd throw in the towel and retreat to my respective corner... But, AHHHH! soon I'll be in Florida. I'll come back, refreshed, tan and full of sun to start my last quarter of college. There's something sooooo satisfying in completing part of my education. I've spent my entire life to get to this point,18+ years of hard work, good grades, late nights, countless papers, brain expansion. Oh man. But, while I'm not quite there yet, I dream of bea-aaauuu-ti-fuuul white sandy beaches and an awesome friend to spend time with. I can come back and enjoy the last few months I'll have in Bellingham with the people who make a home here. Transitory times are always unstable and unpredictable. But, that's why I love them. Predictability and redundancy? Totally. Utterly. Boring.

This is SO beautiful. Four more weeks and I'll be here:


Oh and today I decided there is no one I would want to dance with more than early 8o's Bruce Springsteen. The video for "Dancing in the Dark"--Enough said.

Good Bye Lenin!

This movie was incredible.

A-La-Musica

Today I purchased my ticket for the Ra Ra Riot/Death Cab Show here in April. The last time I saw Death Cab they opened for mothafucking Neil Young. That show was, hands down, one of the best damn shows I've ever been to. You know that feeling when the hairs on the end of your arms stand up? Yeah. It was that good. Death Cab/Ra Ra Riot is not until April, but I know that this show, while it will be more intimate,and definitely, definitely more hip, will never measure up to Neil. Because I love him.


Here he is performing "Cinnamon Girl" in Everett. One word for that show: ineffable.




Tangent: I know Neil is older (born in '45) but hot damn, I am so in love with this man. He encompasses everything I desire. He's sensitive, creative, an idealist, really altruistic, totally liberal ... if only I was born a few generations earlier.

Anyway I was listening to Ra Ra Riot "Dying is Fine"
today and I realized that some of the lines in the chorus were part of an e.e. cummings poem:

dying is fine)but Death

?o
baby
i

wouldn't like

Death if Death
were
good:for

Ra Ra Riot is seeps hipness. they're from N.Y. they opened for Bow Wow (a strict ironic parody, I can only assume) And it turns out they use proto-modernist poet cummings as a basis for their songs. If that isn't hip, well, someone with tight pants, an ironic t-shirt & a mustache better fucking tell me what is.


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also, oh.my.god. PLEASE read this (do not let the fact its from vice magazine deter you...that much)
http://www.viceland.com/music/2009/02/relaunching-morrissey/

SNL

I've never been a fan of SNL and after watching several episodes I've concluded the only reason I watched them was because of this funny guy-

He's incredibly funny, goofy and awkward.

John Updike.

The essential support and encouragement
comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your
society needs to know what only you can tell it.

John Updike died.

He embodied the post-war white American middle class and Protestant ideals which have defined part of this nation. I think to understand small fractions of the complex American perspective, you should understand this realist novelist, critic and poet.

On the Road

Those dutiful dogtrots down airport corridors

while gnawing at a Dunkin' Donuts cruller,

those hotel rooms where the TV remote

waits by the bed like a suicide pistol,

those hours in the air amid white shirts

whose wearers sleep-read through thick staid thrillers,

those breakfast buffets in prairie Marriotts—

such venues of transit grow dearer than home.

The tricycle in the hall, the wife's hasty kiss,

the dripping faucet and uncut lawn—this is life?

No, vita thrives via the road, in the laptop

whose silky screen shimmers like a dark queen's mirror,

in the polished shoe that signifies killer intent,

and in the solitary mission, a bumpy glide

down through the cloud cover to a single runway

at whose end a man just like you guards the Grail.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99910985


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Also, this is by far, one of my favorite music videos.

RSVP

So I decided that I am going to do the RSVP portion, from Bellingham to Vancouver B.C. in August.
It's about 80 miles. The incline isn't terrible. Much nicer than the Seattle --> Bham portion, and 20 miles shorter.


Problem is, my bike is hella old. But totally aesthetically pleasing. Its the kind of bike you ride around the city, not the kind of bike you ride long distance. But I LOVE riding it and I figure riding long distance might be like running, once your body pushes itself to the max, you keep going and you just go into pilot mode. I just need to figure out if my bike can actually do it, well.

Plus, it will be a physical challenge, something I haven't done for at least 4 years. And its way past overdue.

Weezy. Sucks.

note: what the fuck, its February! Thanks progression of time!






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I hate Lil' Wayne.
First of all, his lyrics don't make any sense in their content! Good music, to me, means you can't separate the form from the content, they become one itself. The lyrics fit the beat, the beat fit the content...etc.

I'm a venereal disease
Like a menstrual bleed
Threw the pencil and leaked
The sheet of the tablet in my mind
Cause I don't write shit
Cause I ain't got time


SO AWFUL.

Do I even have to explain why these metaphors don't work. This is such 'bad' music.

As billboard.com states," "Prom Queen" will debut tomorrow on the social networking site Facebook as part of a partnership between Lil Wayne and AT&T. The rapper will perform the single for the first time during a concert in San Diego, which will be streamed live on AT&T’s FREEdom of Choice and Mobile Music Facebook pages at 9:40 p.m. PST on Jan. ...27 (12:40 a.m. EST on Jan. 28)"

Take a look at this embarrassingly bad performance, which no doubt gave Weezy a fat paycheck.


He's a sexist, materialist who markets himself to American Consumers like a 1st Ave prostitute with a bad addiction to meth.