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Do not worry…

“Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
-Ernest Hemingway on Writers Block

Limbo

Its funny, we all want to create something. Either we are artists looking for an outlet, or lonely couples wanting a baby, we all want to make something out of nothing. Even if it’s ourselves. And if you don’t then you’re a dysfunction, not living to create but just to survive. You become addicted to whatever makes time go faster. You could be a pencil pusher, waiting for the clock to hit five, or a roadside junkie looking for his next score. If you don’t want something better, or are searching for happiness or beauty then you have a problem my friend.I know because I’m living it, laying in bed until noon, not doing anything productive, floating in my post grad limbo. I’m slowly making progress but I don’t know where to turn. I keep thinking will just choose a path, take the opportunities it provides me and follow it until I need to change course. And maybe that’s why we can’t get jobs out of college or why we settle for a lifestyle we never wanted because we are depressed. We see the world and realize its scary, and that we might fail. So we become paralyzed and work shitty jobs and sleep till noon rather than getting up and taking this one opportunity in our life were we have this time to pursue our dreams. But unlike school, you might put all this work in and it might never matter. And so we sit and watch TV shows like Girls because it lets us feel like its okay to float. But it shouldn’t be okay…. pick something, work hard at it and see where it takes you. If its shit, and no one likes it and it was the biggest mistake you’ve ever made, it will be thousand times better than not doing anything at all. So just get out there and do one thing today that’s worth your time. Then do it again tomorrow. 

Sorry about that

Sorry about that last post, I think I have been reading too much White Girl Problems. Plus I was increasingly annoyed by all the literature I am reading and wanted to read something that wasn’t so damn dry…

    But while I was reading my book on the”politics of modernism” I began to realize that no one really reads anymore. Maybe it’s because many of us are in college or just got out and are completely burned out or so intellectually stimulated to care about anything else…Sadly probably not the whole story. Rather we are constantly satisfied with instant pleasure through the internet that we have grown impatient. Hell I often skip over whole paragraphs even when I found it entertaining and I consider myself an avid reader. I mean if anyone is reading this blog they probably are already looking for the picture or are only reading things in italics. I do this too though  and so in order to keep myself engaged as well as everyone else  I should write everything like this then make everything else completely nonsense…then this blog would be like a puzzle or wheres waldo to find the post. OR IN ALL CAPS or like this…. But then my blog might come off like I am screaming at you or just being really annoying. So rather I am going to give you what you want, anything that is pretty to look at….

As of right now…

As of right now I am supposed to be doing my last research paper as an undergrad…but I have decided starting a blog was a better idea.

tip #1: for anyone still in school, you don’t out grow your procrastination…you just get better at it

              Alright then, this blog is going to be about whatever the fuck I want to right about today. Deal with it. However I will attempt to be witty and entertaining…of which is of course subjective.

               So music, right? That is what our generation is about? It’s either the most obscure “hipster music” of all time that often sounds like depressed whales mating/epic space music or the popiest shit that was basically made by a computer (and then there is music that is just a rip off of the dial-up tone cough-skrilllex-cough ). Nonetheless we love it…. guilty, minus the dial-tone….and I can’t deny some of it can be pretty great, depending on your mood. For example, when I feel reflective I love to listen to the epic space music, like Arcade Fire and Beach house. I find it can really heighten whatever your experiencing. For example if your in the right mindset, aka not suicidal or attempting to repressed some fucked up shit, then a drive listen to Arcade Fire’s Wake Up can be like your flying to the fucking moon on ecstasy. If you haven’t had this experience, you need to drive more or be less depressed. However if you do the same thing while feeling like shit, it just makes you feel increasingly worse about your life because    your thoughts already suck and what you really need is some music that produces NO thought what so ever…

                okay that brings me to the pop charts… so I am not going to act like i am so cool and that this stuff is awful garbage that has no purpose on planet earth. On the contrary I think this stuff is great because it has a necessary function…it doesn’t make you think, at. all. Instead it drowns out all your epic thoughts about LIFE or something… and instead fills you’re head with repetitive beats and sounds that we are almost hardwired to enjoy. It’s basically a primitive experience, and if you don’t believe me go to a club, observe, and compare to animal planet…they are basically the SAME THING.  Which I think is fine, in fact great because we all need to let go sometime. Maybe this why hipsters are so sad because they are too intellectual to allow themselves to enjoy this side of their life… I don’t know, in fact i think criticizing hipsters is probably the most hipster thing you can do, so I am gonna shut up now about them…Okay so pop/dial tone music is great for this reason and we need it.

Here are some suggestions:

Beach House: Teen Dream

Now this is what you listen to if you wanna feel like your in a dream flying through nighttime clouds while Stevie Nicks serenades you.

Listen while: driving at night in the rain in Spring.  trust me.

Song of choice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njbmwfndFH4

Rihanna: Talk that Talk

This is great album to get in touch with your primitive side. I personally listen to it while running or biking because it makes me feel like an Amazon that could tear your head off, which I find to be the perfect feeling when trying to crank out a couple miles. Rihanna’s overtly sexual lyrics and the cocky beats along with the fact that is uber-sexy and neither woman nor man can deny her make this album sooo good to get forget to.

Listen while: running, having sex, drinking and for feeling like one hot mother f*cker.

Song of choice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbJRVufEX00&ob=av2n