Stuck in My Head/Generic: Tegan and Sara

Artist: Tegan and Sara
Album: The Con
Song: Back In Your Head

Where I first saw/heard this: flipping through TV channels
Snap judgement: totally rad


I've had this song in my head for week, so far. It's a good thing, really. I first heard Tegan and Sara on NPR while driving back home for Thanksgiving and their interview brightened up an otherwise boring journey. I meant to look them up on last.fm when I got home, but I was totally exhausted.

While home for winter break, I've been enjoying all the extra channels on digital cable. I happened to stumble upon the video for 'Back In Your Head' as I flipped to LOGO.

You can look up biographical details on your own, since anything I could write in a few sentences might reduce them to a novelty upon first reading. (Not that any of it is at all bad.) Their music seems to stand on its own without gimmicky labeling.

More information:
NPR Music: Tegan and Sara's Walk in the 'Park'
Tegan and Sara - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tegan and Sara – Music at Last.fm

My Documents/Generic: old papers

Title: "Mood Disorders - Criminal Behavior and Violence"
Class: Forensic Psychology
Date: April 2006
Excerpt from: Heading under Fitness to Stand Trial

"Because of a good possibility for successful treatment [in the incidence of mood disorder], the forensic evaluator should always refer a client to treatment if he or she is experiencing an acute episode of illness before conclusively determining them unfit to stand trial. This, I might add, is probably common sense. "


Title: "Sexual Morality"
Class: Ethics
Date: Summer 2007
Excerpt from: "Part 1: Response to Traditionalism"

"The concept of perversion is interpreted by traditionalists as pure sin. Libertarians take a lighter view: variety. "

Click/Generic: what i've been looking at

Humor:

Lurking around at somethingawful.com, I found an installment of "Photoshop Phriday" that made me choke with something resembling laughter. It's titled "A Boring Day at the Airport." I'm at a loss for words to describe the silliness.

Website: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/boring-day-at.php

Found on Wikipedia:

"Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American Jewish actress and communications technology innovator. Though known primarily for her great beauty and her successful film career, she also co-invented an early form of spread spectrum, a key to modern wireless communication."

Apparently, she helped develop a form of frequency hopping (in the early 40's) that was the root of CDMA technology. Until recently, she was only remembered as a Hollywood starlet.

Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

Culture:

The "Commercial Closet Association" advocates for respect and equality in advertising portrayals of GLBT individuals. They also serve as a gigantic repository for some very fun ads, as well as a sizeable chunk of stereotypical and intolerant marketing.

I'm quite sure what to make of it all. From all the new positive and equality-promoting ads coming into mainstream rotation (at least on Bravo or MTV), I'd like to hope that companies are trying to be fair in marketing. (Indeed, many companies do seem to be making honest efforts.)

Either that, or they've realized that everyone's money is just as green.

Website: http://www.commercialcloset.org/

Good stuff on TV (described for the television attention span):

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - live action on Adult Swim, didn't expect it to make me laugh so hard, too bad there were only six episodes

Project Runway (Season 4) - the only reality TV I can stomach, fun fun fun, secretly wish I could sew

"Santa Baby" Victoria's Secret Ad - pretty girl singing, wow, loss for words

An introduction...

It has occurred to me that I may be looking for a job in a few years, following my graduation. Most any career advice these days mentions cleaning up your online act, essentially whitewashing your life's experiences and opinions apart from the mainstream. I'm working too hard for my degree to ignore such advice.

Hence, I'm coming off my year's hiatus from journaling. My identity isn't a closely-guarded secret by any means. I'm just not going to wave it about for all to see. If you put my real name in a search engine, you'll undoubtedly see some cool accomplishments. I even made the AP wire once.

I can tell you a few things about myself:

1. I love to build, design, and invent.
2. I'm rather fond of photography and it's won me enough money to pay off my camera.
3. I am known to draw a terrible comic strip (coming to a photcopied flyer near you). I think it's funny. You may or may not.
4. I'm very liberal.
5. I will rabidly defend anyone who is GLBTQ (or something of that nature).
6. I run Windows XP Pro and Fedora Linux.
7. I have a weird obsession with rotary phones.
8. I'm a vegetarian.
9. I'm in a classic cowboy band, but it's not my kind of music at all.
10. I think hot pink is a bitchin' color.

I used to have a negative outlook on life, which has largely changed in recent years. That isn't to say I never get down in the dumps. I do, but I deal with it in much more constructive manners.

Social activism interests me. When I see "hate preachers" on campus, something inside me boils and I itch to do something positive about it. I only hate people based on how much they frustrate me as an individual. (i.e. A MySpace page full of Java applets and usesless Flash crap that slows down my computer.)

I keep my sexuality a little ambiguous, since it affords so much freedom of expression. Few people know what I really am, and it makes me giggle when they guess.

So now you know more about me...