Friday, November 12, 2004
(6:24 AM) | Anonymous:
Livejournal Watch
Look.There's a lot of important things going on in the world. I mean, Arafat died, Jim Tressel's sweater vests could soon be gone from the sidelines of Ohio State, John Ashcroft has been replaced by a hispanic. Get this - apparently people are still dying in Darfur.
It's so easy to get caught up in the trifling subjects of this world. I think it's important that we remember one thing - these things may dominate the headlines, but the world, the actual world, is dominated by the tastes, happenings, and lives of those age 13-15, and those who want to be 13-15. We bend pop culture to this element of our populous, and all the rest of the world follows, whether it recognizes it or not. We all want to be hip, and hip is in the 13-15 age bracket. Some may think "ghetto fabulous" is hip, and thus located in the thugging older teens. In truth, ghetto fabulous wasn't hip till Ashton Kutcher and Hillary Duff started working terms like "shizzle" and "nizzle" and "cantankerous" into their vocabulary - and why did they do this? Because of the all powerful 13-15 year old's demand for it.
The same follows for every other major trend ever to happen in the history of mankind. Rome wasn't built until 13-year-old boys started begging their "tutors" to build it. Jesus wasn't cool until that little 13 year old boy depicted in Ray Boltz's "Watch the Lamb" declared him so in an attempt to distract everyone's attention from the fact that he screwed up and lost the sacrificial lamb. And so on, obviously.
With this in mind, it is important that we look to the concerns of this community to really get the pulse of mankind's direction. You can read your Badiou. You can read your Zizek. Heck, you can even read your Audre Lorde. But none of it matters so much as reading the thoughts of "the kids" that we inevitably do everything for. With this important need not being met, it is pertinent that I now bring to you the "Livejournal Watch". This will be a weekly feature, though in the future it will likely be situated on monday, looking back at the weekend that was. Truth be told, if I didn't do this tonight, there was a good chance I'd put it off for another few months, as I have already. And the world really just can’t stand for that.
Enough with the parlay, let us get to the important issues of the day.
Ambrosewulf is a puzzle to me. She has some words, and she doesn’t know what they are, and she doesn’t know where they came from. Yet, we are to “hear the notes and pick them out”. The lyrics are something about how she can’t find her shadow, but she’s surrounded in moonlight..if you’re surrounded by light, there wouldn’t be any shadow would there? The poor girl is looking in vein. And then there’s some other stuff lifted from a Linkin Park B-side, and eventually her lover dies, and she’s SO pissed at him for that.
After the lyrics, she says this, without explanation:
“Scratch that. I think this is either Eiri to Kitazawa or Eiri to Tohma.
Maybe.
Eiri lyrics.
Screwy.”
I am so lost.
Only adding to my confusion is the fact that she “did housecleaning work for Purgatory” and XXX WILL begin tomorrow, she swears. XXX is also highly up for adoption. I was going to make a joke about some porn movie involving adopted purgatoritioners, but I’m too confused to make all the connections.
Finally, we have some stuff about various family members, and young children watching 50 foot monsters rape little girls with various household objects and their tentacles, and finally closing by, um..declaring that she’s dropping a fairy named “tanza” from her list of muses, because he’s way too inconsistent, but, planning to bring another muse, JADE, back, though she’s having second thoughts as he’s already driving her insane, and she hasn’t EVEN posted him yet! She also seems worried that “leash wielding demons known as Hika.” will be none to pleased with her change of heart.
Oh, Abrosewulf, just know that we here at The Weblog share your “EEP!”
Bagzi is fed up with life. She’s done. Listen to her – for real, life sucks and she’s done with it. What’s this? Someone has recommended and MP3 to her! Really though, life’s not so bad! Here here for the redeeming power of music.
Anubis566 is amazingly pissed that the Vampire D novels have yet to be released in English. He’s not kidding around folks, he’s going to learn Japanese in order to read them. It’s okay though, because learning an entirely new language in order to read about vampire hunters racing to be the first to save some girl is not really all that difficult, just inconvenient. I really think that he could just rent that movie “Rat Race” and tape pairs of fangs to various places on the screen, and probably get the same effect. But, far be it from me to discourage linguistics.
Retrokid23 got his first win in Halo 2, and declared that there’s “no better feeling”. That’s right folks, feeding the hungry, your first sexual experience, being at a Pavement concert right when they were first playing the new stuff off Wowee Zowee..none of it compares to “getting fragged, running around and shouting at other people.” He also talks about how amazed he is at playing REAL people over the internet. I remember being amazed at that very same thing, like, 5 years ago.
Okay, that last shot was pretty cheap. I’m just bitter because he said he’s going to “The City of Angels” tomorrow, which made me think of that stupid movie, which made me think of “Iris” by The Goo Goo Dolls. Darn if I don’t tear up every time I hear that thing.
parakeety is having irritable bowls and dry heaves. And wants to make sure you know that he/she’s not too fond of it.
musaluc told me to take this test to find out what planet I was from. It’s pretty weird. Take a look.
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You Are From Planet Bill Randby! |
 You’re crazy – look in the eyes.. Seriously dude – what the heck are you staring at? And why are you so entirely made of plastic?. Omaha? Does Omaha even have weather? Or striped shirts? In sum, Robb, you’re a cocksucker and the whole world hates you |
Man, those blog tests are getting better and better at pinning me down!
fckyouhor totally went Paul Walker in 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS, cuh! He then was touched by the Incubus song on the radio on the way home, as he says “Incubus gets to me sometimes”. It was probably that one part where he says something about how we’re all boiling like frogs oblivious. I know I tear up then too. He then argued with his “gf” for “over a half hour” about what would happen if she hit him in the balls. After the fight died down, he summed his position up brilliantly, in this way: “let's just say i'd be really pissed off and she'd be going home early haha. or not i dunno. i just wont be happy about it at all. she'd better not.” You are HARDCORE committed to not getting hit in the balls, bra!
Trstedwthangels posted “The Rules” today, november 11, 2004. You know – “The Rules”. It’s the one about how women make the rules..it starts like..
1. The female always makes the rules.
2. The rules can change without notice.
3. Males can't know the rules.
Really, in all seriousness, this exact same list was posted in my high school office next to the clever secretary’s desk. I was in high school 7 years ago. To invoke John Kerry – “Internet! We Can Do Better!”
Finally, the post of the night goes to Neisius. heck, you know I can’t comment on this..I’ll simply reproduce it:
“weeee. my bro is puking in th4 bath ruuuuuom and I'm a little durnik. today was funnn”
UPDATE: Now with working links!
