I now live with three entirely different gentlemen than I ever have in the past. The first, and I'd say most recognizable of the group is an Investment Banking Prodigy, with a prep school past, and a slight predisposition to making offerings to the God of Silver Bullets (dardies). The second is a hopeful journalist, with a focus on the Middle East. Beirut in Beirut, nothing better. The third is the wild card of the group, even though he is the most "middle road," a St. Louis boy, just back from Spain, and prepared for his second semester junior year... And then there is me. I am an enigma. I'll say it again, an E-nigma. PERIOD.
How do you explain me? I'm a senior...I graduate in January '09. I'm an East Asian Studies Major...but neither asian nor particularly interested in the continent (my hero: Churchill) The saying goes "Good from afar, far from good." I've spent the last three years looking for a girlfriend. What do I get from my best sources, "There aren't any worth it... right now."
How do We go through life this way? My classes (08, 08.5, 09) worry about the minor details way too much. We as a class (I hope my fellow '08 and '08.5ers read this) are too great to worry about the little things. Social standing, the "Who's who?" doesn't matter. What matters is that I could find anyone within a group of ten that I care about.
I read a bunch of blogs. Most self-centered but some stray from the personal stories. Some fall into the realm of the political, some are from soldiers in Iraq, I read Ron Liebowitz's, other student's, etc. I don't claim to be omniscient, nor should anyone for that matter. I simply wish people would lose the ego and/or the shell. People are worth the time to know. Reputations precede too many of us. Just go ahead and take the chance of meeting someone "weird."
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Thursday, January 31, 2008
I'm always coming back home to you
So its been a long time, I shouldn't of left you.
Those two lines are my two favorite rap lines of all time, the first coming from Atmosphere's "Seven's Travels," and the second is Slick Rick in "Children's Story." I think those two rappers fulfill what I contend to be the qualities necessary to be considered "good," whatever that means.
Rap & Hip Hop today are too often centered on Sex, Drugs, "Poppin' Bitches," and Slinging Crack. To understand you only need to google "Puff Daddy" and "Name Changes," or youtube "Akon" and "Teen Girl." Materialism at its tamest times and dangerous thuggery at its worst. Slick Rick and Atmosphere tell stories and change up their message from song to song. Is it so much to ask for that to be more widespread?
Side note: Slick Rick is serving a 15-20 term in a federal penitentiary for drug charges, so while I don't condone his practices, love what he preaches!
If you're unaware, this is my second blog, my first being from my time in China last semester, which was met with decent success, but I want this one to be more stream of consciousness and less about keeping my parents and friends up to date with what I'm up to.
On that I'll leave you with one last thought for this, my first post of the new year. Even though I really want to vote for Obama, if John McCain is the Republican nominee, I'm going to have a very hard time voting against him. Is it just me or is Obama trying a little too hard to capitalize simply on his public speaking ability, whereas I can actually name the policies I agree with McCain on, I don't know what Obama stands for. We should really clear that up.
I'm going to link my facebook page, if you're buying any consumer goods do it through my Lemonade Stand please (you get a discount and I get paid), I'll link my last blog, and I want readers, I want to be a Web Star.
Those two lines are my two favorite rap lines of all time, the first coming from Atmosphere's "Seven's Travels," and the second is Slick Rick in "Children's Story." I think those two rappers fulfill what I contend to be the qualities necessary to be considered "good," whatever that means.
Rap & Hip Hop today are too often centered on Sex, Drugs, "Poppin' Bitches," and Slinging Crack. To understand you only need to google "Puff Daddy" and "Name Changes," or youtube "Akon" and "Teen Girl." Materialism at its tamest times and dangerous thuggery at its worst. Slick Rick and Atmosphere tell stories and change up their message from song to song. Is it so much to ask for that to be more widespread?
Side note: Slick Rick is serving a 15-20 term in a federal penitentiary for drug charges, so while I don't condone his practices, love what he preaches!
If you're unaware, this is my second blog, my first being from my time in China last semester, which was met with decent success, but I want this one to be more stream of consciousness and less about keeping my parents and friends up to date with what I'm up to.
On that I'll leave you with one last thought for this, my first post of the new year. Even though I really want to vote for Obama, if John McCain is the Republican nominee, I'm going to have a very hard time voting against him. Is it just me or is Obama trying a little too hard to capitalize simply on his public speaking ability, whereas I can actually name the policies I agree with McCain on, I don't know what Obama stands for. We should really clear that up.
I'm going to link my facebook page, if you're buying any consumer goods do it through my Lemonade Stand please (you get a discount and I get paid), I'll link my last blog, and I want readers, I want to be a Web Star.
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