New Music Moment

As always by "new" I mean new to me, but in this case fairly new - 2008 I think.

Time to Pretend - MGMT


I'm feeling rough I'm feeling raw
I'm in the prime of my life
Let's make some music, make some money
Find some models for wives
I'll move to Paris shoot some heroin
And fuck with the stars
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars

This is our decision
To live fast and die young
We've got the vision
Now lets have some fun

Yeah, it's overwhelming
But what else can we do?
Get jobs in offices
And wake up for the morning commute?
Forget about our mothers and our friends
We're fated to pretend
To pretend
We're fated to pretend
To pretend

I'll miss the playgrounds
And the animals and digging up worms
I'll miss the comfort of my mother and
The weight of the world
I'll miss my sister miss my father
Miss my dog and my home
Yeah, I'll miss the boredom and the freedom
And the time spent alone

But there is really nothing
Nothing we can do
Love must be forgotten
Life can always start off anew

The models will have children
We'll get a divorce
We'll find some more models
Everything must run its course
We'll choke on our vomit
That will be the end
We were fated to pretend
To pretend
We're fated to pretend
To pretend
I said yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah

Words I Learned Today

1) susurrate: to issue soft noises

2)benthic: of, relating to, or occurring in the bottom of the ocean (or other body of water)

New Louisiana Laws

I just have to say something about this.

Gun restrictions will loosen, allowing concealed weapons in some churches and near most schoolyards and permitting firearms at state parks and historic sites.

BUT A ban on texting while driving will get tougher.

AND Grand Isle residents will no longer have to pay a toll to cross the bridge to their home.

Starting backwards, why the hell did Grand Isle residents ever have to pay a toll to get home. That is just stupid. Glad someone figured that out.

More importantly:

Go ahead and bring your gun to church grandma, but for god's sake don't text!


I do get that texting while driving is dangerous. I am not against that law, but the irony kills me. You are apparently worried about people injuring others while texting in the car, but you loosen gun restrictions!! Near schools and churches and parks! My mind is blown. And by the way, what does "some" churches mean?

Where are people's priorities?

Oh, Rapture!

Rapture

• a state or experience of being carried away by overwhelming emotion

• the end times in Christian theology

Regarding the first, I turned in the stupid paper that I have been working on sort of constantly since I got back from the FSU. Hurray! It is officially out of my hands. I don't think there was anything else to do with. I mean the paper has 9 pages of references. I just kept reading things that I thought were relevant. But it had to stop.

The second is regarding random articles about end of empires, end of the world weather, and apocalyptic books. It is all around us... beware*
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*Mostly kidding.

Two Things

Flathead by The Fratellis


Just because she feeds me well
and she made me talk dirty in a pink hotel
doesn't mean she's got eyes for me
she might just want my bones you see

hey flathead don't you get mean
she's the second best killer that I have ever seen
they don't come much more sick than you
I could go on if you want me to

it's just so wrong so very nice I told you
once and you killed me twice

I saw you one time at the back of the
club chewing on glass and a ticket stub
I heard they kicked the boy till he bled
then stood and said oh my god till she said

bara bap bara ra ra bara bap bara ra ra ra...

everybody knows you're the one to call
when the girls get ugly at the back of the wall
Josephine says you got a bleeding nose
so taking it with her wherever she goes

hey flathead don't check me in
well hers is a tonic and mine is a gin
they don't come much more slick
than you I'd drive your car if you ask me to

said the boy's not right in the head
so he stood and got a kicking instead till she said
bara bap bara ra ra bara bap bara ra ra ra...

And she said the boy's not right in the head
And you stood and said oh my god till she said
bara bap bara ra ra bara bap bara ra ra ra..


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