Friday, April 28, 2006
smooth sailing
yeah. right. not only did we come close to capsizing our boat about twenty times, leading to the collection of a huge puddle of water that we had to sit in for an hour and a half, but i also got hit in the head with the motherfucking boom countless times as well. it was a ton of fun though. we laughed the entire time we were banging our knees and lacerating our hands with the ropes. i also ran into the side of another boat when it was my turn to till. (i think that means steer – i haven’t quite gotten the sailing lingo down yet. i’m working on it.) it was pretty intense. i think i may have gotten whiplash from sailing today. i've also got a ton of knarly bruises to accompany the badass one on my shin from the barricade. remember that? the boats are getting out of control…we’re now sailing with the main sails, whereas before we just worked with the jibs (the smaller ones), so now they’re moving insanely fast. so is my life nowadays. i had to race back and get to the “poetrython” in white plaza and read a bunch of stuff i had written. it was so nerve-racking!!! i was so scared, especially since i felt like such a dumbass reading a bunch of poetry i wrote three years ago. i had decided that everything that was more recent was a little too close to home, so i read all my cutesy little girl stuff. i felt like a sadistic dr. seuss, as my poems were all awkwardly depressing. i was in a huge rush to pick stuff out though, so i didn’t realize it when i grabbed all my stuff. i had to read for twenty minutes too – it was hard!!! oh, and “white trash bowling” last night…amazing. i rocked the beer, the music, and the axl look. i even had his michelle tattoo. (i’m guessing that’s who it is…?) apparently i listen to white trash music too because i knew every song that came on. we partied at sigma chi and then went over to the bowling alley with them, so now i’m “ms. hardcore” because i kicked ass in triathlon, or just played too much, and then rocked out to the music. even more awkward is that i’m probably the shyest girl in pi phi, but stick me in my element (which is apparently quite trashy) and i’m down.
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You never mentioned anything about the poetry reading but anyways the indoctrination has begun
Well it's been ten years and a thousand tears
And look at the mess I'm in
A broken nose and a broken heart,
An empty bottle of gin
Well I sit and I pray
In my broken down Chevrolet
While I'm singin' to myself
There's got to be another way
- Mike Ness c. 1990
alright. fuck you, and fuck your social distortion, boy. i will never give in to the shit you call music, and not only that, but you are a complete slut. i so called you out on the audioslave, and soon you'll be liking soundgarden too. chris cornell rocks our world. just give in. let it overtake you.
i am a music slut, you can basically piggyback almost any music into my library as long as it's rock. As for soundgarden I'd rather listen to a live blink 182 performance. And you're the consumer whore when it comes to music Miss "I only like mainstream bands that receive/d extensive radio play and that promoted by major record labels".
i'm glad you can be so presumptuous. but let's just stop for one second, and recall the fact that, wait! you don't know what kind of music i listen to other than audioslave and soundgarden, which only represent two of many "mainstream bands that receive/d extenseive radio play." what do you think blink 182 is? and the only difference is that all that pop/punk/i'm guessing emo shit you listen to is that you have to sit there and listen to some guy who sounds like he's been castrated just like all of his other contemporaries. and hell, they all sound the same because the guitar talent of those bands doesn't extend beyond the SAME THREE CHORDS. at least tom morello and kim thayil can pull guitar riffs out of their asses that signify real musical talent and that you can actually get into. and i can only ask you to trust me when i say that most of the rock music you like, as long as we're on the same page for "rock" here (i.e. not blink 182), i was already listening to a few years ago. maybe you wait until it comes on the radio, which is fine...but sorry if i simply have fucking awesome taste in music. that, or amazing foresight. but please don't tell me i'm the consumer whore when i'm listening to guns n' roses while all the other 18 year old college coeds are listening to shit like kanye, snoop dog, and, god forbid, maroon 5. i know it's a little outdated and that i may be riding the coat tails of various 40 year groupies with their long hair and axl tattoos, but if that doesn't do it for you, try velvet revolver, (gnr sans axl AND the extensive radio play), and import that into your music library.
I’d just like to inform you that Targ`et has been selling Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, The Doors and GNR shirts for the past 3 or 4 years. I believe you can now get some pink floyd pj’s there if you're in the market for a new pair. I agree college kids do often listen to really shitty music as evidenced by our tunes. But that doesn't change the fact that all my little brother's junior high friends throw around and pretend to listen to all the old "non-mainstream" bands that you love. For the record Tom Morello is god, watch the audioslave video on aol music where they play sleep now in the fire. Tom is the man in that clip and Chris Cornell butchers the song.
matt - you are so completely full of shit. that's not true. and owning shirts/p.j.'s are not the same thing as being a fan of certain types of music. and the only reason these bands made a revival 3 to 4 years ago is because people finally realized that all the cool kids like me had caught on to something fucking awesome. please recall: pink floyd, the doors, ac/dc, etc. were all popular over the past few decades. your consumer culture is merely bringing them back for a generation that finds them "trendy," which is fine. but you're STILL listening to blink 182. it's funny because i've just recently been hearing a lot of soundgarden, and even alice in chains on the radio, so please spare me your "informed" opinions on those as well, because i'm sure you've only become familiar with them in the past few months. furthermore, i'm sure your brother and all his little punk friends are listening to social distortion, just like you, so don't try to feed me this shit about them throwing around these bands. and by the way, did i once mention that these bands were "non-mainstream?" no. i fully realize that there is a whole market surrounding this music, geared towards the losers who only wish they could understand, and couldn't even begin to, the beauty that is my taste in music. but they just can't be as cool as me. 'nuff said. yo.
p.s. i'd just like to add that with the possible exception of gnr, i've been listening to pink floyd, the doors, ac/dc...since the carseat on the way to preschool. maybe even the fucking womb brother. so don't question the master.
alright. i just checked target.com, and yes, they did have the motherfucking pink floyd board shorts/beach towel set. i stand corrected. but if your knowledge of the floyd doesn't extend beyond the local target store, then you are one sad fuck, and we can no longer be friends.
p.s. mary and i are listening to steve miller band. care to join us? oh wait...no...you're probably listening to fall out boy right now. well nevermind.
Jet Airliner is one of my favorite songs of all time. It's up there with Fortunate Son, (I can't get no) Satisfaction, Over the Hills and Far Away and Mama Kin. That'd be my top 5 songs of all time, with some AC/DC, GNR, frampton and Clapton close behind. Since I've listened to these American Classics so many times. I prefer to listen to newer stuff. I have every Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, New Found Glory and post Enema of the State Blink 182 song unchecked in my itunes library because they suck. Don't diss Dude Ranch or the work of art that is Enema of the State. As for soundgarden I'd rather listen to a Blink 182 performance which is inherently shitty because they don't actually know how to play their instruments. For the record the majority of Darkside of the Moon pt 1 and 2 suck balls. I don't do nearly enough drugs to appreciate the two set collection. I'd say that my music collection is superior because my library contains all those classic songs and offers more besides slow, utterly depressing hard rock. It's more diverse than yours. Oh fuck I almost forgot, my point was that you're the "music whore" because you never attempt to discover bands that are outside the mainstream. Additionally, the same fag kids who pretend to be emo and skateboard are also the same kids that buy Pink Floyd shirts at target. The same kids who listen to Fall Out Boy are the ones who listen to the Ramones and classic rock because other people are listening to it, which makes it automatically cool. I like Social Distortion, I think that Mike Ness is a genius and although most people dislike/have not heard of them. The problem is that you often dismiss bands and entire genres of rock before you listen to their music. For example, I've listened to all the new pop emo bands and have determined that I dislike them. Have you? I'm guessing no.
I'm not sure why we're still arguing about music, 85-90% of the time we listen to the same shit. I guess we just like making fun of each other for liking a few bands that one of us considers shitty. I'd like to complement your musical taste because it's the same as mine minus some punk influences. I think it's also to say that we're both music nazis.
p.s. My birthday is coming up soon could you buy me some pink floyd pj's from target?
i hate you. i have class in a few minutes, but rest assured that i have a pointless, long-winded response for all your shenanigans.
and there's a hornet in my room, so it's kind of hard to concentrate. aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
you cannot declare shennanigans and get away so easily. I vote that instead of wasting more time on this overly pointless arguement, we should go through each other's music library.
no! because i am about to unmask to the WORLD all of the moot points and logical fallacies threading together your entire argument. i'm on the brink of victory here, but i have to go to work...but then bam! you're goin down, son. but i have a "date" tonight, so i may not have time for this today. in the meantime, i'll be calling you should i get to jack the golf cart today and we'll go to starbuck's again, ok? wow, maybe i am a consumer whore. i've jumped onto the starbuck's bandwagon and it's taking me for quite a ride - just like you being subjected to my insane golf cart driving skills. how's your arm doing by the way? still finding leaves in odd places? haha! wow. maybe we'll try to make it over to jack in the box. i'd feel a little better about myself at least.
judging by the fact that a great majority of your entire music library is composed of MY music, i could hardly begin to get the words out when i read your argument that not only are you a classical music fan, but also that your musical taste far surpasses my own, given that you downloaded probably 95% of that shit from me. you see, i seem to recall a certain incident near the beginning of the year when an annoying kid from the first floor prodded me until i leant him my entire music collection to burn onto his computer. you mixed up some of the cd's, you lost some of them in your room, and you even had the nerve to make a snide comment regarding audioslave. nevertheless, i was patient. a few months...well, no...realistically probably a few weeks passed, and it was that same kid begging me to log on to itunes and open up a connection so he could proceed to download yet more of my music. i once again dealt with the berating each time i wasn't logged on to my computer, endured the disparaging remarks (this time directed at soundgarden, for the kid had become a diehard audioslave fan), and had to put up with the annoying itunes' pop up boxes, asking me whether i was sure i wanted to log off because someone was connected to my library. (that someone being the kid, if you didn't follow.) but i felt good about myself, in a sense, for i was showing this kid the way. it would only be a matter of time until he was singing along with me to over the hills and far away, fortunate son, and many other songs he DID NOT YET KNOW. (despite his prior claims: see above.) and the funny thing is, he has "every Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, New Found Glory and post Enema of the State Blink 182 song unchecked in [his] itunes library because they suck." touche, matthew, touche. but let's just step outside the story for one moment, and question why you would claim that your musical taste is greater than mine. sure, the fact that it is probably larger brings up an interesting point to consider, but freeloading doesn't factor into your overall musical taste buddy. and the fact that you have all those shitty punk bands unchecked in your library because you think "they suck", while admirable in its own right, only leads me to wonder which other songs you have unchecked and never listen to because you don't care for any of them. are you really listening to all of that music you claim that we have in common? or did you merely decide to put up a certain front after a particularly intersting night of drunken karaoke in my room, spiraling us into this whole mess in the first place? i'm not sure at this point, because whenever i "d.j." in your room, i'm always told to move my ass out of the chair because i can't pick out good music. my tireless efforts are abandoned in favor of some pop punk band like the ataris (a c.d. which you individually returned to me after burning onto your computer). and while we're on the topic, i'd like to digress and say that i have taken the time to listen to these punk bands, and i've been most choosey in which ones i allow to grace my ears. but i don't dismiss entire genres of rock, my friend. on the contrary, i've been listening to quite a bit of indie rock lately, but i can't blame you for overlooking this, because these are, once again, bands you've probably never heard of. don't worry, i can give you a list of songs/bands to download. but then, i'm not "outside the mainstream", and according to mr. anonymous i only listen to music "promoted by major record labels." why don't i ask you if you've ever heard of dios malos, get back loretta, g love, or greg laswell. yeah, that's what i thought. and "slow, utterly depressing hard rock?" please, weren't we JUST rocking out to rage against the machine in your room (oh wait! that was me and charlie), and weren't you JUST drawing a guns n' roses tattoo on my arm while i seranaded the room with a lovely rendition of welcome to the jungle (something which really took some coaxing because you were being such a pussy about it.) so the next time you decide to accuse me of being so narrowminded in my choice of music, think again, and think about all those unchecked boxes in your music library. for the record, i've been asking around, and it seems ball and chain is quite well known and not quite as well liked. on a different note, i wasn't aware dark side of the moon had two parts. maybe you were doing enough drugs at the moment you wrote your response to confuse your pink floyd, and actually meant to comment on the quality of the two disc set echoes. that's okay, matt - just go check those boxes and listen away. i know i leant those to you. i could go on, but my mainstream, big label, slow, utterly depressing rock awaits me. and as for Dude Ranch or the work of art that is Enema of the State: diss diss diss d-diss d-diss diss. (i tried to encapsulate the rhythm of the dissing in that last sentence, but i guess i'm too musically inept to do so, a character flaw which transfers into my writing.)
rock on bro. (or should i say, "bra")
Fuck you, I'm angry now. You caught me, I pretend to listen to rock music so I can have something in common with you. I actually listen all day to 50 cent and his Gorilla Unit. Shit I'm caught and now the 40 year old people that stalk you know about me....
I thank you and love you for allowing me to go through your entire music collection, I ripped probably 700 songs from you in a single night. I had finally found someone who had everything that I could want as classic rock went. Mike and I were very impressed with your musical taste. But do not flatter yourself too much because though I did not have the extensive library to backup my love for good music, you did not introduce me to any of my "top 5" songs and/or bands. For your information I listen to Over the Hills and Far Away with my friends and my brother multiple times over the summer. Each time it was to create a lasting memory that I would later cherish. All I have to say is check my itunes too see what music I've been playing or listen to. Also, you caught me I don't like Rage Against the Machine, I've just listened to all their stuff for the past 6 or 7 years. When you DJ in my room you play your favorite songs from my favorite bands. Ex Wild Horses instead of Shattered, I Can't Get No Satisfaction and Beast of Burden. These Eyes instead of other Guess Who stuff which happens to be decent but never amazing. The reason that I think my musical tastes are better is because I've acquired a bunch of music that I loved but previously did not have from your music library. You were like a god send with your cd collection. Yeah I fucked up and realize that I was talking about the Wall. Right now I'm listening to When the Music's Over and I am musically inclined to know that sublime stole the beat for one of their songs from The Doors. But anyways, FUCK YOU you're an ASSHOLE you're reply was over the top. I'm quitting now because I can't defend my music selections but because I don't want to dignify the rest of the post. I'm ending with a Fuck You Kaitlin Alexa Wood so I dont make a comment that will hurt your feelings.
the last line should read **not because** but anyways fuck it
dag nammit, boy, i know it. but, like i said earlier, that's what you get for playing with the big kids. anyways, i'm glad you're not mad at me anymore. i truly am sorry if i offended you on a personal level, but, not gonna lie, i don't regret it. i was quite impressed that i could get you so fired up about this whole thing with a few simple blog posts. i'm not going to regurgitate the entire argument or specific points of which i am particularly proud, for i am sure it only lead to further anger. (that's what i do.)
and to make you feel a little better, if it weren't for a few influential people in my own life, i'd probably be listening to kelly clarkson myself. on second thoughts, i wouldn't go that far, but you know what i'm trying to say :-)
I believe the A in Kaitlin A. Wood stands for asshole. lol i'm not sure why you're so proud. Maybe because you're the only person that has slightly angered me this year? Don't be too proud of yourself though because you only angered me enough to where I would possibly say hurtful things, you didn't get a true rise out of me. You should be afraid, very afraid. Within the next few weeks I'm going to prank you in some way.
I'm feeling a Starbucks run tomorrowed by drinking lots of fake cerveza (Corona) in honor of cinco de mayo, which isn't actually a holiday in Mexico.
and your A, Matthew A. Berggren, stands for asinine. i don't believe any further explanation is needed for those who have perused the preceding argument. but that's neither here nor there. don't worry though, i'll get a rise out of you yet. i have faith that you aren't a slap-happy overacheiving automaton like most of our fellow cohorts. so don't humor me.
anyways, i need you to help me hose off my bike because it's getting infested with bugs. the caterpillars are bad enough but i saw a spider today!!!
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