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| I think I'll rant about Fall.
Can you imagine the brisk November air coursing through your lungs with such intensity that you just felt more than alive? The sight of the changing leaves, the color and intensity on the trees. It's a brillaint season, set inbetween the heat of summer and the brutal beauty of the winter. Everyone, dressed in their wool coats, fallen leaves blowing up on the the path behind them, and it's a scene of perfect peace. JMU is an amazing place to watch the seasons change. You can't believe how much I've come to love it here, it makes me want to try in class (unlike my highschool experience). I look forward to the weekends, feel left out when I'm at home, and it's only the first semester. Can you imagine stumbling apon serenity at a school, where a community lives and works together, parties together, and just stays together? Katie was more than right when she said that the leaves on the ground smell like Fall. It's magical actually, and I eagerly await the first snow's descent. One more time, amazing. On another note, songs in the works, I've been feeling inspired lately. | | |
| New set of lyrics. Music to be written within the week.
Ben Stivers
11/13/05
The First Winter
These trees seem to hold the chill.
The memory of fall afternoons,
Daughters run down the hillside,
A simply poetic sunlit view.
Now these winters carry your face.
Throughout life, such waste in passing days.
It’s been four months since the funeral,
Still four more 'til the spring thaw.
What became of your breath after it hit the water?
The steam rose out of the cup like grass from the earth.
Staying up all night to the gentle pull in the breeze,
But only to see a sunrise on the horizon’s birth.
I could stay to taste the garden’s remains,
Preserves on dusty cabinet shelves.
I could feel the summer’s heat beneath snow covered
Ground, ground.
And when it’s just you and I,
I’ll sleep again. | | |
| ITUNES SURVEY, updated now using my new computer.
How many total songs? 2800
Sort by song title; first and last?
First: ... Then I Defy You, Stars by The Receiving End of Sirens
Last: Zona Mona by Bela Fleck and The Flecktones
Sort by time; first and last?
Shortest: One Last Woo-Hoo For the Pullm by Sufjan Stevens (:06)
Longest: Tranceport by Paul Okenfield (1:13:30)
Sort by album; first and last?
First: ...And Then There Was X by DMX
Last: Your Favorite Weapon by Brand New
Top five played songs?
1) Thus From My Lips, By Yours, My Sin Is Purged by As Cities Burn (108)
2) Sleepwalk Capsules by At The Drive-In (70)
3) Cecilia by The Blood Brothers (68)
4) Same Shade As Concrete by Circle Takes the Square (68)
5) Sleep Little Nemo (The Kidnapping) by Trophy Scars (68)
Find "sex"; how many songs show up? 23, with the Sex Pistols holding 12 of them.
Find "death"; how many songs show up? 67, with Death Cab and Notorious BIG's cd Life After Death, making up about 50 songs worth.
Find "love"; how many songs show up? 139, but there was "love" over half of those songs CD titles or band names.
And as a huge bonus, a really long survey.
Have you done any of these in the past 6 months?
[drive] yes
[dance] yes
[kiss someone that you aren’t related to] yes
[wear make-up] no
[dye your hair] no
[go shopping] yes
[go on a vacation to another country] no
[listen to music] yes
[stay up till 12 a.m. or later] yes
[sleepover] yes
[go to movies] yes
[get an autograph from a celebrity] yes
[go to a school dance] no
[give somebody a present] yes
[spend time with a senior citizen] yes
[talk on phone] yes
[download something on the computer] yes
[watch a music video] yes
[go over a friend’s house] yes
•¤•¤•¤•¤Do you prefer? •¤•¤•¤•¤
+ coke or pepsi? pepsi
+ watching tv or listening to music? I like both equally.
+ cell phones or AIM? Depends if I'm out or not.
+ kisses or hugs? Both are great.
+ bubble gum or sugar free gum? Sugar-free.
+ coffee or tea? Tea
+ McDonalds or Burger King? Fast food like that disgusts me.
+ night or day? Daytime.
+ summer or winter? Winter and summer.
+ Blogring.net or Soup-faerie.com? Huh?
+ xanga classic or xanga premium? Beats me.
+ Pac Sun or American Eagle? American Eagle
±•±•±•±•Love±•±•±•±•
*° If you were asked out to the movies, what would you see? Whatever looked the best.
*° How long would your ideal first kiss be? Um... probably like 5 seconds, considering it's only one kiss. Subsequent kisses would most likely follow.
*° What do you want in your dream girl? Ambition, intelligence, wit, humor, looks, compatability, interest, love, depth, and most importantly a real girl.
*° What holidays would you spend with your dream girl? Whichever ones were convenient.
*° What do you picture as a perfect wedding? European.
*° Would you want an older or younger girl? No preference.
*° How much older do want him/her to be? N/A
*° Who is the hottest celebrity? Jessica Alba
^•^•^•^•Favorites^•^•^•^•
~¤ movie- No idea.
~¤ color- Blue
~¤ store- Uh... the free candy store!
~¤ brand- Burton Snowboards
~¤ memories- The beach, and some others.
~¤ hang-out- Where-ever tha party be at, yo.
~¤friends- That's a rude thing to ask.
~¤ food- Pad Thai or fried eggplant.
~¤ ice cream flavor- Chocolate Cherry Cordial
~¤ vacation- The beach in the summer, mountains in the winter.
~¤ tv show- Nip/Tuck, Family Guy, The Daily Show
~¤ animal- Cat
~¤ band- As Cities Burn, Circle Takes the Square, Iron and Wine, Trophy Scars
~¤ actress- Jessica Alba
~¤ actor- Tom Hanks
~¤ holiday- New Year's Eve
õ˜õ˜õ˜õ˜All About You˜õ˜õ˜õ˜õ
+ Name- Ben
+ Age- 18
+ # of siblings- 2
+ Something Nobody Knows About Me is… I like the All-American Rejects, so damn catchy.
+ Best Friends- Don't have any.
+ Hobbies- Art, Guitar, Singing, Writing
+ Pets- 2 cats and a dog
+ If I had all the money in the world, I would… not be able to make anymore money.
+ Everyone likes this about me… My sense of humor.
+ Height- 6'0''
+ After School Activities- I'm at college.
`´`´`´`´Other`´`´`´`´
:* Can you lick your elbow? Maybe.
*: Have you ever done something really bad and never been caught? Yes.
:* How do you see yourself in 5 years? Working a low-paying job while I struggle to get my art/music careers off the ground.
*: How have you changed in the past 5 years? One word, puberty.
:* What was your reaction after 9/11? I didn't have a strong reaction to 9/11.
*: Were you relieved that Saddam Hussein was captured? The whole point behind invading Iraq still remains up in the air, the Republicans keep changing it.
:* How do you spell "xanga" in your own way? (ex- xanger, zanga, etc) L-A-M-E
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You Passed the US Citizenship Test
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Congratulations - you got 10 out of 10 correct!
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Obviously. | | |
| [B]Disclaimer:[/B][I] Honestly, if you are some "random propz" kid who's about to be offended by this, don't even comment with some nonsensical bullshit about how I don't know anything, because it will just prove what a tool you really are.[/I]
I stopped updating my xanga, although I was never really that into it, now I'm going to use it to rant on random subjects..
Yet I come back, and what do I see? Four million sad children that think wearing black and trying to call themselves a term they don't understand the basic history of, would rather misrepresent a musical movement that has become a disease in the teenage and music community, than actually understand who they are by finding themselves. Yeah, I think we all know the word is "emo", short for emotional hardcore, which isn't wearing stupid clothes and listening to pop-punk bands with a slight screamo influence, but rather a genre of music that broke off from the hardcore punk movement in the 80s, started by bands such as Fugazi and Rites of Spring.
First of all, I find it hard to believe that bands such as My Chemical Romance, Senses Failed, and Hawthorne Heights could represent a mindset of an entire generation. To call yourself an individual, yet listen to this crap that the media basically throws at you (oh, it's where you get your so called "unique" image too) and expects you to gobble up like a fat kid in a free candy store, is a hypocritical statement in itself.
If you're so individual, grow yourselves a collective spine. You aren't a supressed group of persons. A vast majority of you are suburban kids with no reason to be sad. You are amazingly well off. The price you pay for a few cds and t-shirts and those stupid pins, buttons, patches, and stickers every week is more than some people have to live off of. Where do you get off on being so selfish? Like you don't have enough attention at home, like you're so unpopular, like the music you listen to about incredibly dull and overused topics defines you, and only you. Like no one else has ever felt sad after getting broken up with, or felt that the world is against them. Your whole life revolves around living in yesterday's regrets, rather than looking towards the future, seeing what you have today, and making the most of what you can be, what you are, and what you can do. Music isn't meant to define you. Corporations are only out to get your profit, they dont care how you feel. If you think otherwise, ask and executive board member over at Victory Records. They will spit in your face, and you'll still buy their newest shit, because it's a representation of "who you are" and how you're "feeling". For those of you with diagnosable clinical depression, you should know better than to think these bands are speaking to you as well.
Singer/songwriter Elliot Smith commited suicide due to depression, but did he want his music to tell you who you should be? No, he wrote music to entertain, and for himself. Music that truely speaks to you shouldn't have an image attached to it. Commercialism is killing music. Look past what they are showing you and listen to what the bands really are. Cookie-cutter music, with the same generic guitar lines, drum loops, and awful vocals splayed out over awful lyrics. Is that really all you want to be? A pre-fabricated, cow to the slaughter, trite individual, who no matter how one-of-a-kind you think you are is always going to be the exact same as a million others?
See past what they are selling you, don't let image define your life. Stop living in your past mistakes, or heartbreaks, and love what you have today. | | |
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