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I've been listening to Green Day's "American Idiot" off and on for two days. It's been a long time since I heard a rock album I liked this much...probably since the first time I listened to any of The Pixies' work. And I confess that I hadn't heard it sooner because...well, because I thought I'd outgrown Green Day, and because I was sort of going...
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acidevangelist:
Why have you forsaken us? robot
zenandjuice:
I always loved the line: In a land of make believe That don't believe in me..

When I first heard this song, I wondered how much it was influenced by the book (and subsequent BBC TV Show), "The Buddha of Suburbia". David Bowie did the soundtrack to the show, so maybe it was something Green Day had heard about...

chris
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About the previous blog--I just realized something ironic and a bit embarrassing that I am nonetheless unafraid to confess:

"...nothing makes me gag harder than trying to swallow some hamfisted moral message with a sappy soundtrack backing it up."

This is bullshit. I'm a sucker for plotlines and characters, and have happily choked down MANY a craphappy morality tale as the result of empathizing with...
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aki1:
hmm just read ur blog
jeez babe want a valium or a drink or something
LOL gotta admit i love ur language
allisonation:
You have no idea. Relaxing for me is like a twelve-step program. Believe it or not, though, I'm much nicer in person than I appear to be on my blogs. This is one of my ways of channeling the insanity. I'm a writer. This is where I don't have to worry much about what I'm saying, whether it's valid, or whether it even makes sense. It's like vomiting on a canvas. What can I say... confused
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Tastes change. I've noticed a change this year in the way I feel about many things...films, for instance. I'm just not as easily satisfied by your standard hokey plotline anymore. I've become a rather unforgiving critic, and "the sound must seem an echo to the sense" in film as much as any other medium; I hate seeing loose ends flailing around in the plot, and...
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zarth:

allisonation said:
Thanks for the link! I'm not sure, though, that I would feel comfortable drawing a line between racial insensitivity and racism when it comes to a political figure or forum, if only because I'm suspicious that if "racial insensitivity" is detectable in a public figure, said figure is likely to work from a racist agenda. Hm. That was badly worded, but I'll keep trying. In other words, racism can be such a political minefield (sadly, not to a strong enough extent, if you ask me) that--jeez, someone lend me a cliche here--where there's smoke, there's a burning cross.


Heh. You're talking to a man with a well-ensconced reputation for immoderate denunciations of unsavory sentiments. That being said, I do think that there's often a difference between passive insensitivity - which seems to me more about not recognizing the other's perspective as legitimate, and which cuts across political lines - and active devaluation, which is the special proclivity of reactionaries.

Anyway.

allisonation:
I'm talking to a MAN? And here I thought you were a floating brain in a jar.

Point taken. I might still insist that racism does to some extent merit at least a heated response, even where it's merely suspect; then again, I might also counter that reactionism does more to harm than to help anything it touches, even defensively.

That said: You shut up. No, YOU shut up. He started it. Nuh-uh.

(I'm tired, half-delirious, and have only written two of fifteen pages on a paper that was due last Thursday. Thank you for serving as an eloquent distraction.)
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Why is it that I continually force myself to do things that I do not enjoy, just to see if I've changed my mind about them? Is it peer pressure? Am I really that convinced that, just because someone I respect enjoys these things, I should feel the same way? Or is it just that I'm always looking for something else to enjoy? Maybe there's...
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hemightbegiant:
For me it's Candy Corn...

Every year I buy a bag of candy corn...completely forgetting that the year before I had sworn to never touch that God-forsaken crap ever again.
kid_hideous:
i second LostLucy's motion. Exquisite!
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It could be a tumor...

Okay, so it's not a tumah. But golly-fuckshit, it sure feels like one. This is the third consecutive day that's woken me up with a pounding, smashing, stabbing headache. I can't explain it, but it really sucks.

So, I hate it when people ring my doorbell. I pretty much hate it when people come to my door, and I could...
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saraphine:
Wow! It's nice to read a blog entry on this site that is actually entertaining! Who are you, allisonation? love
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Salutations, fellow suicidals. Let me tell you, this is one hell of a delicious life; having voyeuristic access to all of the exquisite ladies of this site reminds me of just what "living well" means. I'll include some deeper posts (well, there's an interesting image--potential SG photo shoot, maybe: "Deeper Posts". HaHA!) soon enough, but in the meantime, here is the thought of the day...
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magni:
Oooh. I can't wait for you! smile
magni:
Well I'm sure you don't need my luck but good luck anyway.