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FoulShotz
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Country: United States
State: New York
Birthday: 12/26/1982
Gender: Male
Interests: Sports, Movies, Music, Occasional Elitist Activity, Reading, Whining, Repeating Jokes After Everyone Has Tired of Them, Poor Use of Sarcasm, Hanging out, etc, etc
Expertise: Funny, I can't think of any - attempting to fine tune elitist film and music tastes.
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
4/11/2002
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| putting in an entry to keep my xanga account. why this is necessary for them or me, unsure
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| I don't post very often, and the few times I do, I don't usually get emotional, but I need to for just a little bit.
Over the course of this past week, I found out my mom is dying. She's in the hospital right now, her breast cancer has spread into her liver, and she's not expected to recover.
I didn't tell this really to any one because it's awkward for me and you, there's really no right way to respond, and frankly, I really didn't want to think about it because people can only bear to think of sad things for so long without going crazy.
That said, it's devastating to me, and all of my family, and it really came very suddenly, and I'm not really ready to handle this. I feel younger than I ever have, and this week has probably been, and the next few days or weeks will continue to be the most trying of my life. Anyway, I didn't really feel like springing this on any particular person, but I just needed to get it out, and all I could ask of anyone over the next amount of time is to hang out and help keep me busy because if I spend too long just thinking, it's just not going to be pretty. I don't usually get sappy, but hope is a valuable thing to have, and it's going to take a little bit of time before I can get it back.
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| Hmm...how useful is an external hard drive that just deletes your stuff
when it feels like it...actually, it doesn't even give you the courtesy
of deleting it - it makes it impossible to get it, but it still takes
up the space and doesn't even let you delete the files you can't get
to. I fucking hate computers so much.
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| Fuck, I haven't posted in a while. Well, now's a good time as any
now that I'm in a bad mood. And before you stop reading, it's not
a whole emo/depression thing, though of course there's nothing
wrong with that either. But, mainly, my backpack with my
.mp3 player along with some other things was stolen today so I'm pretty
pissed.
Call me a materialist, but I love my possessions, and I tend to develop
sentimental attachments to many of my things for whatever reason.
The backpack is pretty much my closest possession; I bring (or brought
now) it everywhere I go. As much as love my .mp3 player, I will
get a new one and just reinstall all the files. It's much harder
to do that with my backpack, just memories and nostalgia and what
not. Suffice to say, I really like the backpack. It was
stolen from the trunk of my friend's car while we were at the movies;
the car was parked right in front of the movie theater. On one
hand, I feel like I should have brought it with me, but I feel
ultimately like it was a reasonable decision to leave it in the trunk,
and I can live with that.
It's just sad to lose the backpack that I've had for so many years.
I haven't had something like this happen since Fall of senior year of
high school when my wallet was stolen. That time it was at least
more my fault, as I left it in a poor place after a Cross-Country
race. Anyway, I'm about to fall asleep.
Hopefully, this will inspire me to post more positive entries in the future.
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| Two entries in one day, this is up with the best (though it really
doesn't count since they're being made within about two minutes of each
other.
I'm being forced by the recent productivity of http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Wackyfoot and http://www.livejournal.com/users/guyincognito/ to try to keep up! It's going to be difficult.
What I'm here to complain about today though is the utter arrogance of
Paul McCartney, particularly in the song "Live and Let Die."
Now, this is an all right song, certainly not McCartney's best, but not
his worst either. However, the problem with it lies in the lyrics.
It's one thing for McCartney to be bigger than Jesus. I have
absolutely no problem with that. McCartney, though, thinks he's
bigger than the english language. And in that, sir, lies his
fatal flaw. In the song, after he repeats "You know you did" a
couple of times, he remarks "But if this ever changing world IN which
we live IN."
You can't use two INs! That doesn't make any sense!
Optimally, it should be "in which we live", as to not end the sentence
with a proposition. However, I'm not so much of a stickler that I
couldn't have tolerated the "which we live in" for the benefit of the
song. But two ins! That's just arrogant. Somewhere
inside of me, even though I've certainly made my gramatical mistakes
here and there, it infuriates me every time I hear it. So, in the
words of Homer Simpson (slightly edited), "Paul McCartney, I will say
good day to you, sir!"
PS. Still trying to figure out how this Listening thing works, so we'll see how it goes.
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