Jun 2012

Jun 2

adversarial mood

Woke up feeling grim this morning. I wonder what this portends.

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Jun 6

the long defeat

We can still win this if keep striving. And if we can’t win, then at least we can go out fighting.

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Jun 6

requiescat in pacem, ray bradbury

(Some scattered thoughts I originally posted on Friendfeed after learning Ray Bradbury had died, about Fahrenheit 451's continuing applicability to the contemporary world, and how the Internet's ability to save all information may be a double-edged sword, slightly edited)

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Jun 8

it's the way it's put together

So, yeah, up until 1 am for no good reason, except I got sucked into YouTube and the Hype Machine, finding covers and mashups of pop songs that have finally burrowed their way into my consciousness after constant exposure. And it both delights me and makes me a little wistful that I'm not the first person who thought two songs just happened to fit really well together not just thematically (lyrically speaking) but even in terms of key signature and rhythm.

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Jun 15

i think there's something wrong with me

So, yeah, I've been kind of out of it all day. I can't seem to concentrate. I feel like I'm pushing against an unseen force, like I'm swimming in molasses in something.

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Jun 18

what is gone is gone

You can't lose something you never had. And yet, that makes it even worse.

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Jun 29

music from the land of canadia

As my iPod decides to play some songs from female Canadian singer-songwriters back-to-back, I ponder over how I should probably be ashamed that some of these songs are on my iPod. And I wonder, was Carly Rae Jepsen directly influenced by Avril Lavigne? Was Avril Lavigne directly influenced by Alanis Morissette? Are these the only female Canadian singer-songwriters I actually know?

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