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today in my American radicalism history class we watched a movie about the Berkeley student riots and such during the 1960s. Watching it, I couldn't help but compare them to hippies today. I know that may sound republican saying this, but hippies today suck. Back then it was just a group of kids at college who decided "hey, the vietnam war sucks, lets fucking riot" and "we don't like the administration, lets strike" They shut down columbia university. Not some little joke of a walkout like kids try to organize now, they just decided to go sit in the administration building and not leave until they got what they wanted. The kids didnt know what they were doing, but they didnt care because they believed so deeply in what they were fighting for. thats the problem with todays hippies. They want to believe as deeply as the original hippies did, but they can't. they want so badly what the original hippies have, which is exactly why they will never ahve it. Imagine that its 1971 and your friend comes into your room and is like "hey they shot a bunch of kids in ohio" there is no question about what you do next. You join every other student at your school and riot and shut your school down for the rest of the year. You riot because you are legitimately pissed and not because you desperately want to be legitimately pissed. Nobody is pissed about global warming. Yea, its a crisis, yea, people care, but its different than having your friends get drafted and killed. Even though the hippies lost, they had the idea. They were something completely new, something that nobody had ever seen before, and they scared the shit out of the establishment. you think OSPIRG scares anyone? think of what would have to go down to get the national gaurd on your campus. In Berkeley the national gaurd broke up a peaceful rally using helicopters to drop tear gas. They actually used helicopters against students. Yea, it would suck to get beat by some dick national gaurdsman your age who's too dumb to get into college, but think of the satisfaction of looking up and seeeing helicopters dropping tear gas. YOu probably wouldnt realize it at the moment, but you have officially scared the shit out of the establishment and they have no idea how to handle you. All you have to do to handle hippies now is let them speak for 3 minutes before class and pass out their fliers about how you can help. "Oh man, I'm so excited to table! If enough people fill out these postcards and mail them to the governer then global warming/pollution/insert cause du jour here will be stopped. I can make a difference!" good try, we dont like it. You can get your signatures, but don't even compare yourself to the original hippies for a second. And don't pretend you don't fantasize about them, because they forever changed how society percieves youth. I don't know how to end this, I just wanted to put my feelings out there. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go get some fair trade coffee so I can stay up and write my paper. Wouldn't want any workers in latin america to be exploited... |
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| 06:18pm 15/12/2006 |
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So I'm in amherst now, which is about an hour and a half west of boston. It is weird. I can't really explain it, but it feels so different than UO. The library is 26 floors tall. I'll explain more about it later.
I've been in massachusetts since monday. Its both everything and nothing like I imagined it. The thing that really stands out to me is that everything is decrepit and rusted. Everything is just lower quality, including the people. I can't really explain it, but you notice it. Anybody who thinks springfield oregon is a dump has never seen springfield massachusetts. I took the greyhound bus there and its quite and experience. Traveling by bus is cool, because you really get the feel of wherever you are. You intereact with all kinds of people you would never even see most of the time. Everyone is completly polite to me, but as I sit in the bus station in my portland trail blazers sweater and my nice backpack and suitcase and goofy hair you can just tell that I'm from a completly different place than everyone there, geographically and economically. Its like a different country here. I feel like I could write a book on it, just on the subtle differences that mean so much more than you realize.
Traveling alone is cool. I admire max for going to africa, that takes balls.
And I shouldnt be too hard on the east coast. Boston is an awesome city. It feels a lot like portland, but a couple hundred years older. It has an element of cool, of culture that portland can't compete with. It might just be the arrogance that everyone here has. In portland, people are pretentious, but its contrived. Here, its just established that Boston and the east coast are far superior to oregon. Nobody questions it or doubts it. They don't get defensive because they don't have to. But I think that I really want to live in a city for a couple years. Eugene is cool, but its not a real city. You cannot experience as much in eugene as in portland, and you cant experience as much in portland as you can in boston. Its all up to you to take advantage of, and I want to start taking advantage of it. BUt to really experience it, you have to take some risks. Thats where it gets tough.
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| how movies should be |
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| 12:06am 14/11/2006 |
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I just saw Babel and its unbelievably good. By far the best movie I've seen recently. No movie has ever made a better political statement and it deserves the past several best picture awards because no movie in recent history has touched it. I'm serious. |
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| 01:07pm 09/10/2006 |
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people are so pretentious
its obnoxious |
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| 03:04am 05/09/2006 |
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facebook now sucks |
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| thought this was funny |
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| 04:40am 10/05/2006 |
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Dear Red States...
We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and
we're taking the other Blue States with us.
In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,Washington,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We
believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially
to the people of the new country of New California.
To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.
We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot
Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.
We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.
We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.
We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You
get Alabama.
We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states
pay their fair share.
Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the
Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a
bunch of single moms.
Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and
anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at
once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have
kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no
purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their
children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and
hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our
resources in Bush's Quagmire.
With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent
of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple
and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of
America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners)
90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most
of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and
condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale,
Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.
With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88
percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care
costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the
tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern
Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh,
Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.
We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.
Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was
actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred
unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say
that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved
in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy b*****ds believe you are people
with higher morals then we lefties.
By the way, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt
weed they grow in Mexico.
Peace out,
Blue States |
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| havent written here for a while |
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| 12:09pm 10/04/2006 |
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I should post more often. I read livejournal everyday but fail to post. Oh well, school is good, I still really like UO. Longer update coming soon when I have more time. |
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| I feel like dieing |
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| 07:26am 13/03/2006 |
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I just went for a run, which is something I pretty much never do. In fact, it was only my 2nd athletic activity since I have been at UO. The other one was a run about a month ago that made my entire body sore for a good 2 weeks. This run was harder and I dont even want to imagine how my legs are going to feel tomorrow. In other news, I got a job working for the school as a summer orientation guide, meaning I will be living in Eugene this summer. I'm pretty excited about that.
Now I shower and prepare for the pain. |
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| 03:30pm 23/02/2006 |
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Is it racist for me to think its stupid when white kids listen to a lot of rap? I want to know other people's opinions and then I will tell mine. |
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| 05:47pm 18/02/2006 |
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my hair was so long and now its gone :( |
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| 11:17pm 11/02/2006 |
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UO is awesome. If you don't know where you want to go to school, I highly recommend eugene. Its the shit. Just promise me you wont go greek. god bless. |
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| 11:07pm 24/01/2006 |
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UO would be amazing if it werent for all the Lakeridge kids
I hope I never see Laura Pazourek, Molly Ferris or Brea Norman again |
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| 11:59pm 06/12/2005 |
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Today I officially withdrew from Gonzaga. It felt good. |
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| I woke up at 5 this morning for no reason |
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| 05:49am 05/12/2005 |
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saw this, thought it looked kinda fun so I figured I would do it.
Open iTunes/iPod, Windows Media Player, or Winamp to answer the following.
How many songs?: 4247
Sort by song title:
First Song:!@#* - Rusted Root
Last Song: Zurich is stained - pavement
Sort by time:
Shortest Track: Four secounds of noise - Hot Hot Heat
Shortest Actual Song: Horn intro - dirty dozen brass band
Longest Track: Sound of Confusion - Brian Jonestown Massacre (its 33 minutes)
Longest Song: same as above
Sort by album:
First Song: sweetness - fischerspooner
Last Song: Holy Roller Novocaine - kings of leon
Sort by Artist:
First Artist: 2pac
Last Artist: The zombies
Top Five Most Played Songs:
1. 3rd planet - modest mouse
2. there there (the bony king of nowhere) - radiohead
3. wish you were here - incubus
4. positive tension - bloc party
5. I came as a rat - modest mouse
Put all your songs in a playlist and randomize it.
First song: Alternate ending montage - JOhn Swihart
Second song: Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Search for the following words; write the number of songs that came up, and name a few.
Sex: [4 items] Sexi Plexi - Jack Johnson, Tired of sex - weezer, Sexy Sadie - Beatles,
Death: [42 items] Kim you bore me to death - grandaddy, country death song - violent femmes, Sudden death in Carolina - Brand New
Life: [57 items] Life like weeds - modest mouse, life on mars - David Bowie, Someone saved my life tonight - Elton John
Love: [188items] This modern love - Bloc Party, Easy Love - Badly Drawn Boy, Loves me like a rock - Paul Simon
You: [424 items] party till you puke - andrew WK, The white lady loves you more - Elliott Smith, come as you are - nirvana.
Musical confession: I kinda like the song "Back Then" by Mike Jones |
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| thanksgiving |
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| 08:56pm 24/11/2005 |
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before thanksgiving dinner, I put on led zeppelin in the dining room. Nobody turned it off, so we listned to led zeppeling all through dinner. It was awesome. |
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| 11:59am 16/11/2005 |
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People here think I am a crazy hippy because I enjoy recycling and getting high
Its lame to be in the minority, but you definately learn a lot about yourself |
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