SO, Hi. Big fan of the PBS show "Frontline". Last night I dutifully watched Tuesday's report, something about kids growing up online. Made me feel as though I wasn't doing enough of that. It also made me want desperately to visit New Jersey. The answer was obvious: though I could not immediately travel to New Jersey (school, no genuine desire to do so, despite prior claim), I could start an mp3 blog, and thus contribute publicly to this great cultural cross pollination the internet has fostered as of late.
I thought I'd initially just put up the two songs whose lyrics I blatantly stole from in the formation of this website, because what is the west if not the place of parroting heretics? I think you may have heard these, Target Audience:
Sonic Youth's Tuff Gnarl- I'm going to be able to put this on forty years from now and remember exactly how it felt to be twenty. I mean, I hope. Especially if I had kids or am a teacher or encounter young people regularly.
http://download.yousendit.com/800E6FED370ADDBF
The Fall's Your Heart Out- It's like meeting M.E.S. for the first time for a poetry reading, but more bouncy than New Puritan. Equally valid as a mission statement for the band as Printhead, from the same album, Dragnet!
http://download.yousendit.com/CB725EBA35EE209B
In other news, hoping South Carolina doesn't go disproportionately along racial lines, thus doing what Obama has managed so skillfully to avoid doing so far, being marginalized as the black candidate. I woke up all sweaty in thermals this morning. Some bullshit I must've been thinking last night, to set myself up for that misfortune. The resurrection involved too earnest karaoke renditions of Isolation and From Safety To Where, coffee, and leftover pizza.
You are reading about what it means to accept duty and responsibility. The tip of my wallet, where it is most worn, looks exactly like snake skin. Poisonous snakes keep our credit cards and stretch our butt pockets. We have all kinds of butt pockets in California.
-Michael Paradis,
1/24/08
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