oh. shit...there's me posting

8/14/2006 10:53:52 PM

I wonder how many people realize I'm an alias?

8/14/2006 10:56:18 PM

feeling worse

8/14/2006 11:33:40 PM

oh no, i just missed you

8/15/2006 12:09:29 AM

Naked DSL....sounds sexy.

8/15/2006 12:11:58 AM

just found an old high school crush on myspace


i'm just happy she's alive after all the shit I'd heard about her post-high school life.


now if i could only find the other...

[Edited on August 15, 2006 at 12:21 AM. Reason : sounded even creepier than it already is]

8/15/2006 12:21:20 AM

sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex

8/15/2006 12:29:03 AM

^

MAn tongiht did not happen,. so crazy and so Drunk

8/15/2006 4:17:20 AM

I want to rant, but I won't.

8/15/2006 7:57:36 AM

go ahead, i'll read it

8/15/2006 8:02:29 AM

http://www.cnn.com

Quote :

"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Heavy metal singer Chris Barnes didn't know what people would think of "Amerika the Brutal," an anti-war song he wrote after his cousin deployed to Iraq in 2003. He heard a number of complaints -- but also received supportive e-mails from American troops in the war zone. "It kind of sent a shiver up my spine because those are the guys I didn't want to offend by sounding anti-war," said Barnes, vocalist for the death metal band Six Feet Under. Other metal bands are finding similar inspiration. Lamb of God's albums criticize American foreign policy. Cattle Decapitation are ardent vegetarians who use explicit album covers and songs like "Veal and the Cult of Torture" to condemn the meat industry. Serj Tankian of System of a Down is co-founder of a nonprofit organization that works on social issues. More than three decades after Black Sabbath conjured images of the dark arts, heavy metal is growing up. The genre is increasingly incorporating social and political messages into its dense power chords. Cattle Decapitation vocalist Travis Ryan said his San Diego band's mix of charging guitars and an animal rights message is drawing a diverse crowd that includes activists as well as traditional metal fans. "We've always had a lot of crazy crossover going on," he said before a recent show. "It's a pretty diverse crowd we have. I've never known what to make of it." Twenty artists recently displayed art inspired by the band's last album "Humanure," in an online exhibit. Proceeds from sales of the art will be donated to animal rights causes. Metal bands are also branching out into literature and mythology. Mastodon, which is headlining a summer tour with metal stalwart Slayer, patterned the concept album "Leviathan" around the story of Moby Dick. Death metal band Nile bases its songs and image around Egyptian mythology and iconography. "Metal is expanding and evolving and becoming more diverse," said Canadian anthropologist and filmmaker Sam Dunn, who directed "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey," released on DVD this summer. "It's at a much more vibrant state than it was even five or 10 years ago." Dunn is working on a sequel to the film with the working title "Global Metal" which will trace the popularity of metal overseas, especially in developing countries like Brazil, Columbia and Indonesia. "It's becoming global and it's becoming a tool for social and political commentary," Dunn said. "It takes on a greater meaning in countries where people have had to struggle to survive. It takes on a much stronger political tone." Metal artists "have responded to the culture and politics of the day," said Donna Gaines, a sociologist and author of "Teenage Wasteland," a study of working class New Jersey metalheads. Metal music in the 1980s was often homophobic and "very white," she said, but current bands tend to be socially conscious and suspicious of political power. There's also more women in the audience -- and fronting the bands. "This is another generation rising," Gaines said. Heavy metal has always touched on social and political issues. Metal grandfathers Black Sabbath criticized the Vietnam War in songs like "War Pigs" and "Children of the Grave." Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills" was an angry denunciation of the displacement of Native Americans. But much of the criticism was blunted by dark imagery that panicked parents and led to the now ubiquitous "Parental Advisory" labels. Metal's punk brethren were seen as having a more learned world view. That began to change when hardcore punk and metal fused in the late 1980s with bands like Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Nuclear Assault. But metal was still primarily known for the excessive lifestyles and racy videos of glam bands. The popular view of metalheads as mentally deficient goons was memorialized with the MTV cartoon "Beavis and Butthead," about two teen metalheads who terrorize their pudgy neighbor Stewart, who wears a T-shirt of the glam rock band "Winger." More meaningful music was coming from the underground as popular culture embraced grunge and metal lost favor. Napalm Death was a product of Britain's "Crass" movement, which fused anarchism and punk in the late 1980s. Vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway, a vegetarian and peace advocate, is often pulled aside by fans who want to know more about his progressive views. One recent song, "The Code is Red, Long Live the Code," takes aim at the spate of terror alerts in America with lyrics like: "Switched on to subdue when the masses switch off." "It's really, really difficult sometimes to break through the cloud of apathy, so it's great when someone comes and asks why you are coming from your perspective," Greenway said during a recent tour stop in California. "When you come into a country like America, when you challenge thinking, it's a great affront to some people," he said. The lyrics on Lamb of God's two most recent albums have been expressly political, and the politics lean heavily to the left. Napalm Death's Greenway is considering work as a political activist when his metal days are over, but he doesn't think metal will ever completely stray from hedonistic and supernatural themes. "I appreciate that not everything has to be awareness raising or political," he said. "Music is also a form of entertainment and it should remain that way. Variety is the spice of life. Escapism is a good thing if it doesn't cloud your vision.""

8/15/2006 8:13:47 AM

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"Class: SR "

EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! AT LONG LAST



[Edited on August 15, 2006 at 8:31 AM. Reason : .]

8/15/2006 8:19:26 AM

how am i tired already???

hmpf

8/15/2006 8:23:13 AM

someone bring me some fruit or something.

8/15/2006 9:23:51 AM

I have to go

8/15/2006 9:24:57 AM

gotta get ready and go fix some stuff in my classroom

8/15/2006 9:25:43 AM

How much does it cost to get a new drivers license?? My wallet broke mine in two and I need to get a new one today

8/15/2006 9:30:53 AM

^You can do this online - https://edmv.dot.state.nc.us/DuplicateDriverLicense/Home

$10.00

8/15/2006 9:33:00 AM

Thanks

8/15/2006 9:35:16 AM

i'm nervous about getting my hair cut

why in hell am i nervous?

8/15/2006 9:36:06 AM

eeek i just scored an interview in NYC

8/15/2006 9:37:15 AM

i need a haircut

8/15/2006 9:37:20 AM

my head

8/15/2006 9:37:36 AM

my tummy hurts.

8/15/2006 9:42:14 AM

ooh i hate when they are mowing the lawn in the morning and it wakes me up

8/15/2006 9:53:52 AM

Quote :

"eeek i just scored an interview in NYC "

congrats..

8/15/2006 9:55:17 AM

legs still stiff....

stupid notebooks...

eureka is on tonight....

8/15/2006 9:56:28 AM

a pod of whales!!

8/15/2006 10:07:38 AM

Back to bed?

8/15/2006 10:09:34 AM

i need to run before it gets too hot

8/15/2006 10:10:12 AM

i think i might actually make overtime this week...but ill be happy to get 40 hours.

8/15/2006 10:48:39 AM

not feeling so great today - can't decide whether to autox this weekend or not

8/15/2006 10:55:32 AM

Still sick


hah, and my legs are soooooore from exercising yesterday.. i've been way too lazy this year.

8/15/2006 10:57:41 AM

i'm moving in 2 days and i haven't packed a damn thing

better get started

8/15/2006 10:58:51 AM

i love having a day off work

8/15/2006 10:59:49 AM

this is my last official day in Raleigh Should I do Karoke tonight

8/15/2006 11:02:40 AM

nah go streaking down h-burro

ahh the joys of waiting on security functions and beurocratic processes...

8/15/2006 11:04:29 AM

looks like i'll be leaving the shortboard at home

8/15/2006 11:37:33 AM

god damn.
first time ive seen my boss in about 6 weeks or so. hes lost over 100 lbs. shits crazy.

8/15/2006 11:37:37 AM

he lost 100lbs in 6 weeks? that must have been some major liposuction work.

8/15/2006 11:38:30 AM

nah he lost a little before he went. hes been at a fat camp in Brasil where theyve basically starved and tortured him. soon he'll be getting gastric bypass.

8/15/2006 11:39:46 AM

i'm pretty sure i want to be a full time student for the rest of my life.

8/15/2006 11:40:29 AM

^ you going to Karoke tonight?

8/15/2006 11:40:39 AM

Quote :

"hes been at a fat camp in Brasil where theyve basically starved and tortured him."

sounds militant. I bet they made him chew on coca leaves constantly and run away from FARC gunmen that tried to kidnap him.

8/15/2006 11:43:22 AM

sounds like all he really had to eat was fruit and broth

8/15/2006 11:48:43 AM

holy crap, link plz?

to the fat camp

[Edited on August 15, 2006 at 11:56 AM. Reason : how much was he before he left?]

8/15/2006 11:55:28 AM

MMMMM...COCA LEAVES....

8/15/2006 11:56:12 AM

there are my computers in this room than there are people in the house...

8/15/2006 11:56:26 AM

if i had the capital, i'd open up a fat camp for rich people at high altitude... maybe in the himalayas or the andes

every american i met in tibet had lost a ton of weight... and i don't think it was just because the food was shitty

8/15/2006 11:57:38 AM

pushy people should be drawn and quartered

8/15/2006 11:59:15 AM