September 2009
104 posts
“As everything I need is denied me, and everything I want is taken away from me....”
– Weezer, “The Good Life”
“I want a girl who will laugh for no one else. When I’m away she puts her...”
– Weezer, “No One Else”
“I guess you’re as real as me. Maybe I can live with that. Maybe I need...”
– Weezer, “Butterfly”
My life as a Twitter post (or "tweet", if you care...
Hispanic, but not really. Catholic, but not entirely. Pretty smart, except when I’m not. My writing is based on my life, because it’s the only one I know. I hope I’m okay.
“I’ve got a number of irrational fears that I’d like to share with...”
– Weezer, “Falling for You”
“Dear Daddy, I write you in spite of years of silence. You’ve cleaned up,...”
– Weezer, “Say It Ain’t So”
“Only love can ease the pain of a boy caught in the rain… Only trust can...”
– Weezer, “December”
Pat is Dead
According to sources close to the band, Pat died from an overdose of cool. Pat first started getting cool during the latter half of the Maladroit tour.
Supposedly he was introduced by Mr. Cool himself, Scott Shriner, who himself is, thanks to years of coolness, now too hardcore to die.
Insiders reveal that they fear Brian may be the next to OD, as he has admittedly become more & more cool...
Pay Day
Man is the measure? How 15th century. MONEY is the measure.
Horseradish!
Money means possibility.
TIME means possibility.
Time is money.
Transitive property, yeah. But once your needs are met, what does money MEAN? Every porcelain rabbit something else for your heirs to discard. Every story of your house another set of stairs to fall down. What does it mean that your golden swimming pool is filled with ten feet of cash?
It means I can use the diving board.
America
Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I will confess I love this cultured hell that tests my youth! Her vigor flows like tides into my blood, Giving me strength erect against her hate. Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood. Yet as a rebel fronts a king in state, I stand within her walls with not a shred Of...
“My heart’s beatin’ rhythm and my soul keeps singing the blues. Roll...”
– Chuck Berry, “Roll Over Beethoven”
Citing the Bible
The King James Bible. New York: American Bible Society, 1980. Print.
This Wikipedia category makes me sad →
Tolstoy vs. Shakespeare
“I have, as an old man of seventy-five, again read the whole of Shakespeare, including the historical plays, the ‘Henrys,’ ‘Troilus and Cressida,’ the ‘Tempest,’ ‘Cymbeline,’ and I have felt, with even greater force, the same feelings,—this time, however, not of bewilderment, but of firm, indubitable conviction that the unquestionable glory of...
On November 9, 2009, Berlin will celebrate the... →
“Teacher says I gotta learn some facts, so I can make it in the Widener stacks....”
– Weezer, “Dreamin’”
My favorite part of the Mass
is right before the Eucharist, when the whole church says, “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and I shall be healed.”
We admit that we’re inherently sinners, and therefore not good enough to reside in the place of eternal perfection that is Heaven. We never were good enough, and as long as we live on this corrupt and decaying Earth, we never will be.
...
Whimsical industry
It’s as if she’s found a treasure map of the universe, as if the incalculable secrets of life had all this time been buried and forgotten among the ruins of the Holy Roman Empire.
This crap
Planoneck: i don't know what i'm saying'
clonedmeat: then go say it somewhere else
clonedmeat: >:[
Planoneck: like
Planoneck: like on my blog
clonedmeat: yea
clonedmeat: good idea
Planoneck: lol, i actually have a blog
Planoneck: but i don't post any of this crap on it
In which I prove my lexical superiority to the...
I got a 230 on a PSAT practice test, which I assume translates to a 2300 on the actual SAT.
Everyone and their dog is now signed up for weekly SAT prep classes, while the last time I took the SAT was for this talent search in 7th grade. I consider this a victory.
But there’s one question on the test that still irks me. It’s in the writing section, where you have to look at a bunch of...
Asian-American Freshman Admissions at UC Berkeley
1996: 34.1% 1997: 35.5% 1998: 38.3% 1999: 40.0% 2000: 39.6% 2001: 39.1% 2002: 39.9% 2003: 40.0% 2004: 40.8% 2005: 41.2% 2006: 42.9% 2007: 41.7% 2008: 40.7% 2009: 41.7%
What is love? I don't know, ask a scientist.... →
“I talked for hours to your wallet photograph, and you just listened. You left...”
– Weezer, “The World Has Turned and Left Me Here”
WatchThis would’ve helped me with that elements quiz.
endonend:
They Might Be Giants: “Meet the Elements” music video (BB Video) - Boing Boing
The greatest lyric in rock and roll history
“She told me to come but I was already there”
I’m pretty sure the superiority of this lyric is an undisputed fact. Undisputed in my mind, at least. I have multiple personalities and they all agree it’s the best.
“I got an electric guitar. I write these stupid songs. I write these stupid...”
– Weezer, “In the Garage”
Separation
In silence I arrived, and in silence I will leave. But in between, there is music- the sounds of modern innocence and teenage victory. It isn’t very loud, but it’s loud enough for me. I gently shut the pale-faced door that separates me from the songs of church and state and metroplex
Raditude
1. (If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To 2. I’m Your Daddy 3. The Girl Got Hot 4. Can’t Stop Partying 5. Put Me Back Together 6. Trippin’ Down The Freeway 7. Love Is the Answer 8. Let It All Hang Out 9. In The Mall 10. I Don’t Want To Let You Go
11. The Story Of My Life (iTunes bonus) 12. Kids/Poker Face (iTunes pre-order bonus) Deluxe also includes:...
So it turns out I really am sick
Which means you can forget all that responsibility and foresight BS I wrote below.
The impulsive throat
So I woke this morning at 4:30 to reread some short stories for an English quiz, and I had this terrible scratchy throat, as well as a fairly runny nose. My immediate thought was that I was sick from the rain and I should stay home from school.
I was ready to walk over to my dad’s room when I stop to ask myself: am I really that sick? Or is it just an excuse to avoid doing something that I...
“Greatness is not something to be found on the sidewalk, or stolen from the...”
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