fresh

A true human being can never be labeled

A true human being can smile at life's perils

A true human being will never surrender

new music

I'm purging my iPod nano and putting some new tunes on it:

Dexter Gordon "The Apartment"
Sonny Rollins "The Bridge"
- Jim Hall on guitar
Sam Rivers "Contours"
new CSS single (Rat is Dead)
- Kinda excited, this single rocks!
Sigur Ros "()"
- Everyone needs some Sigur Ros in their life
Simian Mobile Disco "Attack Detain Sustain Release"
The Weepies "Hideaway"
Beirut "The Flying Club Cup"
- I've had it on my computer for a while now...
Dungen "Tio Bitar"
- Zach introduced me to this Swedish band, kinda Mars Volta, less randomness in sound
Elliot Smith "Elliot Smith"
- the album with "needle in the hay," mostly because that's my favorite track from The Royal
Tenenbaums
Jose Gonzalez "In Our Nature" , "Veneer"
- Cuban musician who lives in Sweden
Joshua Bell, London Symphony Orchestra "Gershwin Fantasy"


I like having a nano as compared to a regular ipod. I can concentrate on the music I want to hear/new stuff I haven't heard yet. When I had a 30gb, I would just copy and paste music and never get around to listening to it :)

summer wasting

I feel as if school ended too abruptly. I'm not one for goodbyes, mostly because goodbyes seem too permanent and hauntingly eerie to comprehend. But now, I feel as if I should have said more.

mental note: it's been 3 1/2 years since i've kissed a girl. who knew lonliness could be so distracting?

I've been sidetracked.

Anyways, my favorite season has just begun. The season of ice cream sanctioned gluttony; the season of tan-a-thons; the season of love; the season for lovers; the season for loners; the season for beaches; the season that fantasies only dare to create; the season that promises more than it fulfills (or is it the other way around); the season that launched a thousand ships into the crystalline waters of tomorrow.

Romney quits the race

I was reading a Newsweek article about Romney's withdrawal from the race. Here's an interesting and very poignant remark about his campaign:

"It's no accident that the GOP race is down to three men who are clear about who they are: McCain, Huckabee and, yes, Ron Paul."
- Howard Fineman

I never actually liked Romney to begin with. Putting aside the fact that he has flip flopped on so many issues, something about his character always screamed "I'm a phony." Maybe it was his hair, or possibly his polished, refined rhetoric. And now I know why: he campaigned as someone else, with someone else's hopes and, most importantly, with someone else's goals. Like Fineman argues in his article, I believe that Romney was pandering to people whom he didn't really feel like pandering to in the first place. And because of this, he lost his true identity. He became a phony in the voter's eyes.


the link to the original article: http://www.newsweek.com/id/108793

non-existent internets

Today marks the second day of a broken wireless connection for my laptop. The UIC wireless client can't even find the wireless network :(

I believe its been atleast two weeks since I've seen any sort of sunlight in Chicago. Can't really stand it. I've diagnosed myself with a mild case of Seasonal Affective Disorder, a.k.a. winter depression. Happens around this time of year. It seems as if all my problems seem to compound into one large, lifeless ball. I'd say it looks like an exercise ball with words and pictures, etc. pasted on it.

This ball of problems usually lies at the foot of my bed in the morning.

Fun stuff.