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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Are you secretly sad?
Are you secretly Sad? an article by CNN
I just read this article because it showed up in my news feed and it absolutely blew my mind. As I read the symptoms and the stories of the different women suffering from Low Grade Depression I felt like I was reading my own auto biography. If you feel this way then please get help; I am in the process. We all deserve to live life to the fullest.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Jacob and the House of Fire
Thought I would take a moment to pimp my friends band, Jacob and the House of Fire. They are from Maine, pretty much all over the state and they play a bluesy, folk-y sort of sound that reminds me of Ray Lamontagne a bit, but with more of an edge. Here is their new song, Coyote - New Song from FRONTIER! by Jacob and the House Of Fire
Portugal's Drug Legalization Works
In 2001, Portugal legalized all criminal penalties for personal possession of drugs—including cocaine, heroin, and meth—and replaced drug sentences with offers of therapy. If that sounds a bit bleeding heart, well, it worked: In the five years following decriminalization, drug use among teenagers has dropped, as have HIV infections caused by dirty needles. More Americans have used cocaine than Portuguese have used marijuana. Portugal has the lowest rate of lifetime marijuana use in people over age 15, at 10 percent; 39.8 percent of Americans over the age of 12 have used marijuana.
The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast
Monday, September 27, 2010
Jersey Shore
Can we just talk about this show for a minute? I watched this for five hours one Sunday afternoon with a friend of mine, and I was both apalled and enthralled. Is this really what entertains my age group now? At one moment I was caught up in all of the drama, wondering why Snooki is so short, why Sammie keeps going back to that douche-bag after he continually acts like a dick. and Oh my god, why does Angelina have to be such a raging bitch? and as I was thinking all of these things, I stopped and realized that this is the most inane, unimportant media trash I have seen in a while. And yet people eat this up. People my age. Future leaders of the world.
It's so obvious though; this really is the entertainment we crave now. Facebook, Twitter and Myspace have interested us in the minute and relatively unimportant details of people's lives. Before we wouldn't give a fuck if our friends told us what they had to eat and what they watched on TV the other day, and now it's entertainment gold. Interesting.
The Cambiata "Changing Everything"
The Cambiata is from my home state: Maine. Alot of the band members have ties to the twin cities; Lewiston/Auburn. LA for short. The lyrics, "this town will kill us all..." are accurate. Lewiston and Auburn are dirty cities, the trash littering the streets is a reflection of the trash living just off the curb, in subsidized housing or just leeching off the state through welfare. Lewiston is a town of dead dreams, people are either violent or comatose, lulled into complacency by their addictions to perscription drugs.
Burning Man...2011?
Burning Man has to be one of my favorite festivals of all time. I have never been, but I know when I finally do that I am gonna love it. I have always loved festivals, but this one piques my interest the most. The concept of the festival is that there is no use for money once your inside the fest's boundaries. everything is traded for something else, and I have even heard of people trading hugs for other goods. Here is a link to a blog where the guy actually went to Burning Man and took some beautiful photography: Stuck in Customs: Burning Man 2010Here's a link to the festival I'm going to this coming weekend: Maine Harvest Ball!!!
Sublime - Badfish
I absolutely love this song. It reminds me of why I want to road trip it out to Cali for the summer. It also reminds me of the 90's, when I was growing up. those were good times :D
Horoscopes are fun!
Welcome to my blog. I thought today for the first post I would show you what my horoscope is for today. I read my horoscope every day. I know, you're probably thinking what a load of bullshit. I mean horoscopes are the most vague predictions I could ever read.
Today mine says;
"Power is in the stars, and it's a very malleable thing at the moment. (so apparently today I am more powerful today than other days?) Where you may expect roles to be set and rules to be put down in black and white, you might just find hard-to-interpret shades of grey and shaky boundaries.(so someone in my life, or some people, are going to show me that not al human beings operate on a black and white scale huh? wow, that is so interesting, I totally didn't realize that life is this funky shade of gray...) On the one hand, this kind of uncertainty and shifting is difficult to get a handle on; on the other hand, it means there are lots of opportunities to put yourself where you want to be and promote healthy change." so I will have difficulty handling the change that's going to occur and also simultaneously use it to put myself in a better place...hm words of wisdom to live by. my "singles romance" horoscope is amusing as well:
"You've got the kind of energy that gets people to open doors for you and invite you into the V.I.P. room. Everyone seems to be all crushed out on you now, so you might as well enjoy your power to the utmost!"
I don't know what it is, but Glamour really enjoys telling me that everyone is ether jealous of me or in love with me, when I have seen evidence of neither. I would laugh at anyone who was jealous of my life (I am a poor college student) and I highly doubt everyone loves me either. If they did then I probably wouldn't be single at the moment.
And yet, I keep coming back to these stupid things. Every day I look at my horoscope, my emotional weather forcast for the day, and try to match up the predictions with circumstances happening in my own life at the moment. I will admit that about 75% of the time the prediction is just off base and wrong, but it provides a satisfying/false sense of security to me knowing that in some vague way the predictions could come true. Oh and by the way I am a Leo.
Today mine says;
"Power is in the stars, and it's a very malleable thing at the moment. (so apparently today I am more powerful today than other days?) Where you may expect roles to be set and rules to be put down in black and white, you might just find hard-to-interpret shades of grey and shaky boundaries.(so someone in my life, or some people, are going to show me that not al human beings operate on a black and white scale huh? wow, that is so interesting, I totally didn't realize that life is this funky shade of gray...) On the one hand, this kind of uncertainty and shifting is difficult to get a handle on; on the other hand, it means there are lots of opportunities to put yourself where you want to be and promote healthy change." so I will have difficulty handling the change that's going to occur and also simultaneously use it to put myself in a better place...hm words of wisdom to live by. my "singles romance" horoscope is amusing as well:
"You've got the kind of energy that gets people to open doors for you and invite you into the V.I.P. room. Everyone seems to be all crushed out on you now, so you might as well enjoy your power to the utmost!"
I don't know what it is, but Glamour really enjoys telling me that everyone is ether jealous of me or in love with me, when I have seen evidence of neither. I would laugh at anyone who was jealous of my life (I am a poor college student) and I highly doubt everyone loves me either. If they did then I probably wouldn't be single at the moment.
And yet, I keep coming back to these stupid things. Every day I look at my horoscope, my emotional weather forcast for the day, and try to match up the predictions with circumstances happening in my own life at the moment. I will admit that about 75% of the time the prediction is just off base and wrong, but it provides a satisfying/false sense of security to me knowing that in some vague way the predictions could come true. Oh and by the way I am a Leo.
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