As soon as I get off my ass and clean up the spare bedroom, I am going to bring my record collection into that room. My Mom just gave me her old Zenith Record Player, which is in good condition. Hell; even the 8-track player works.

And yes; though I haven't been able to play them in years, I still have an 8-track collection somewhere in the basement. No idea if they'll still work though..

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"I'll rap you with my cane; you pencil necked geek!!"

-Bowler, imitating Freddy Blassie, at the very first M & G.

I love my Spanish teacher from high school.

He got a Glock 27 and proceeded to share on Facebook.

His classes were awesome. I still remember all the songs we sang, and we talked about awesome things from our childhoods (he's not that much older than my class, as young as it is possible to be and still be teaching us lol) and the Sabres so often in class that it was basically... Yeah.

Somehow learned a lot of Spanish, too.

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‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

That's where you're wrong dude. Fireflies is an awesome song.


Anyway, it's probably too late to remember this, but on Oprah today is going to be one of the secretaries from my school. Her son died a couple years ago in a car accident because he was texting and now she is always working to get legislation passed about driving while texting.

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Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars?

ATTENTION SABRES: who are you people??!?



http://sabresbecause.tumblr.com

oh that song is fucking wretched. its all a result of studio manipulation and auto-toned voices and shit. and the writing is of that of a 10 year old. party in the USA has more mind stimulating lyrics.

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Sleep....except that I am not getting any.

::yawns::

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"Sarcasm and cynicism: Just two of the many services I provide."
"Never make someone a priority when you are only an option for them."
"You can't polish a turd."

Hahahaha, I agree. All of that band's songs are like that, too. I don't know what they're called, but a lot of people at my school like them, and I'm just like... "Ummm. I hear you guys playing their music from your laptops all the time, aaaand hate to break it to you, but you could hear one of their songs and be finished with it." EVERY SINGLE SONG IS THE SAME EXACT THING. The melodies hardly vary at all. It's like what on earth, dude. I swear that the singer doesn't even sing. He just talks and then autotunes his voice.

Over break I listened to the radio for the first time since graduating high school... Pop stations, that is. Usually at work they have a classic station playing in the kitchen, music from the '70s to the '90s (minus the last couple years of the '90s which were just stupid musically speaking)... But then over break, my younger coworkers turned on the pop stations a few times, and I was like

Every single song is autotuned and produced to death, holy crap. They all use WAY too much distortion beyond that... Oh my goodness. It's just... WHAT ARE THEY DOING. Enduring music is made with melodies, honest lyrics that actually have something to do with life and mean something, actual vocals... They're stories. It's the same with film, movies. The ones with all the flashy special effects and not much else aren't going to be around even in two years. It's the ones that speak to human nature with simple storylines, the ones that are real, that will stay. Stories, stories, stories. Special effects and musical styles become outdated with time; movies and music that rely purely on them will fade into obscurity within five years.

Plus it's always more, more, more, when if you think about it, the movies and songs and performances that have lasted are stripped down to their bone, as much as they possibly could be. The best movies are about eternal truths that will never go away because human nature never goes away; the best songs are the same; the best and most memorable performances are just the performer on stage, alone, nothing else.

This song is one I had the displeasure of listening to and everything I hate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg-2CpXvvx0
You can dance to this song, but so what? That's not enough when everything on current pop stations either sounds like this or hip hop/R&B that is composed purely of cliche, shallow lyrics and autotuned robots and the same sound effects and predictable production on every single one oh my goodness.

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Miles to go before I sleep

‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

Owl City admitted they ripped off The Postal Service, and it shows. Losers.

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mechaphil

Classes start for me tomorrow. EW GROSS GAG

lol not really. I'm looking forward to all of them. Macroeconomics and psychology tomorrow, woo!

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‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

I think I'm going to refuse to talk today unless people address me as "Alex, fan of the Eastern Conference Leading Buffalo Sabres."

I'm a humble fan, but it's just a little nice to hear again.

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Correct you are. Must be why I just downloaded their 2003 CD Give Up.

I like corny music


Random thought: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer?

So my mom just got me a book called AUDieu: Buffalo says Goodbye to The Aud. i highly recommend getting it. its awesome.

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"That wasn't very nice...I do believe you killed my hat."

Driver of the FIRE LINDY RUFF Bandwagon since 2008.

I read it at a Barnes and Noble before Christmas...did you do the flip book at the top of the pages yet?

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I got kicked out of Barnes and Noble for moving all the Bibles to the fiction section.

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You're my hero, Mark. Let's go pull that shit somewhere else, too!

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mechaphil

I've been doing that at my school library and chapters for years. I like the science fiction section next to babylon 5

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When I was a boy I spoke as a boy, I understood as a boy, and I thought as a boy; when I became a man I took that boy outside and shot him.

Hmm, that's more inspired than just the fiction section. Teen lit or humor would be good choices, too.

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mechaphil

I don't like that song either, but I like how everyone else likes it. Before Christmas break, someone would randomly sing a line and then you could have three people sing the next lines.
My one guy friend would always sing the line "boys tryna touch my junk" lmao I hope no boys are actually doing that . . .
And my other friend is like "I love this song! It's so not me but I love this song!" She says that it's "not her" because she doesn't party/drink/whatever. Well I don't do that either. Also Lady Gaga wrote a song about thinking about being in bed with a girl when she is actually with a guy. I love that song, does that mean I do that? Nooooo.

Like, it's just weird how people explain themselves.

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Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars?

ATTENTION SABRES: who are you people??!?



http://sabresbecause.tumblr.com

I found my twin on a different message board.





This is why I don't wear shorts, why I went through a phase of wearing sunglasses almost constantly when I was like 11-12, and one of the reasons that my hair is so long.

Of course, this topic was made on a site relating to personality theory, soooo lots of people with my type were like, "OMG ME TOO!" So I have lots of siblings, apparently. They just don't exist irl.

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‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

It's kind of like how tragedy is, you know, sad, but it brings people together.

Just on a much smaller, more sarcastic scale.

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‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

Beer

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