light pollution

I think I will be able to get into this band. This song has a sortof crappy tune but I like what it's about. Damn the little league baseball games!! They used to kill my night vision all the time. I haven't gone out for a long time though :(

Light Pollution
Lyrics
Bright Eyes

John A. Hobson was a good man
He used to loan me books and mic stands
He even got me a subscription
To the Socialist Review
Listening to records in his basement
Old folk songs about the government
"It's love of money, not the market"
He said, "these fuckers push on you"

"And freedom yells, it don't cry
Whatever sells will decide
But there's no hell when you die
So don't look so worried"

He got a night life, lost his day job
Pushing papers, swinging pendulums
Anything to serve a function
Or to occupy some time

You gotta earn this living somehow
You're good as dead without a bank account
But it's funny how alive he felt down
In that unemployment line

With all that trash at his feet
The pools of piss in the street
All of that filthy empathy
For the way we're feeling

The billboards shade
The flags they wave
The anthem was playing loud
The baseball game was letting out

And all at once
he saw the dust
And heard every tiny sound
Got in his truck and turned around

Drove out through the crowd and the cops
Drove out past that center mall
Drove out past that sickening sprawl
Out past that fenced in crawl

And maybe he lost control
Fucking with the radio
But I bet the stars seemed so close
At the end
At the end
At the end

song

I apologize for all the song lyrics I've been posting lately! Just that I've found so many great bands you know. I still find stuff everyday that I think other people would find interesting, just don't post much anymore. I could go crazy and post a lot of stuff, but does anyone at all read this? There's an RSS feed, but it's a catch 22...if I continue like I have been it wouldn't bother anyone much, but if I posted stuff all the time it probably would heh. Anyways, I noticed a lot of people I checked at last.fm had Bright Eyes played a lot, so I checked them out, and not bad at all :)
Is a very mellow solo artist, but cool lyrics, not sure really how to describe. Good tunes :)

Lyrics
Hit the switch
Bright eyes

I'm staring out into that vaccum again
From the back porch of my mind
The only thing thats alive
I'm all there is

And I start attacking my vodka, stab the ice with my straw
My eyes have turned red as stoplights, you seem ready to walk
You know I'll call you eventually, when I wanna talk
'Til then you're invisible.

'Cause theres a switch that gets hit and it all stops making sense
And in the middle of drinks, maybe the fifth or the sixth
I'm completely alone at a table of friends
I feel nothing for them. I feel nothing, nothing

Well, I need a break from the city again
I think I'll ship myself back west
I got a friend there, she says, "hey, any time."
Unless that offers expired, I have been less than frequent
she's under no obligation to indulge every whim
And I'm so ungrateful, I take, she gives and forgives
And I keep forgetting it

And each morning she wakes with a dream to describe
Something lovely that bloomed from her beautiful mind
I said "I'll trade you one for two nightmares of mine
I have some where I die, I have some where we all die."

I'm thinking of quitting drinking again
I know i said that a couple times
And I'm always changing my mind, well, i guess i am
But theres this burn in my stomach and theres this pain in my side
And when I kneel at the toilet
And the mornings clean light pours in through the window
Sometimes I pray I don't die
I'm a goddamn hypocrite

But the night rolls around and it all starts making sense
There is no right way or wrong way, you just have to live
And so I do what I do and at least I exist
What could mean more than this?
What would mean more?
Mean more?
ohhhh

good song

Lyrics
Fragile dreams
Anathema

"Tonight your soul sleeps, but one day you will feel real pain,
maybe then you will see mee as I am,
A fragile wreck on a storm of emotion"

Countless times I trusted you,
I let you back in,
Knowing... Yearning... you know
I should have run... but I stayed

Maybe I always knew,
My fragile dreams would be broken for you.

Today I introduced myself,
To my own feelings,
In silent agony, after all these years,
They spoke to me... after all these years

Maybe I always knew...

Happy 25th birthday, compact disk

Holy cow, still holding up good :) I wish more cd players would support mp3 on cd's, but hey you can fit 15-20 songs on a cd at least.

Elliott Smith - Somebody That I Used to Know

I had tender feelings that you made hard
But it's your heart, not mine, that's scarred
So when I go home, I'll be happy to go
You're just somebody that I used to know

You don't need my help anymore
It's all now to you, there ain't no before
Now that you're big enough to run your own show
You're just somebody that I used to know

I watched you deal in a dying day
And throw a living past away
So you can be sure that you're in control
You're just somebody that I used to know

I know you don't think you did me wrong
And I can't stay this mad for long
Keeping a hold of what you just let go
You're just somebody that I used to know

Earth from space

A whole bunch of gorgeous pictures of the planet :)

The 10 Strangest (Real) Things in Space

Good reading :)

security tip :)

From the page listing Firefox's security fixes:

CRITICAL FIXED
MFSA 2007-23 Remote code execution by launching Firefox from Internet Explorer

Don't do this anyways, no matter HOW TEMPTING IT SOUNDS :)

swear words by ranking

Here's a good list of words to have memorized for those special occasions when you really gotta cuss, ranked by which are considered the worst! It's british, but interesting.

American version :)

Driver's revenge

Calling the idiot who almost tried to murder you or in this case tried really hard for a collision probably isn't the smartest thing, but who hasn't wanted to call some idiot in that situation? Well this guy was lucky enough to be in that situation when the idiot had their phone number on their car (at at least the traffic doesn't sound like it was moving very fast). I don't drive much anymore, but used to commute for half an hour, and when I was a delivery driver, had my share of buttheads thinking they owned the road when I was trying to find a address in pitch black with no house number and no porchlight :) Feel-good story of the day!

Ryu vs Duck Hunt!!

cat haiku

Not sure the webmaster of this website wrote this or not, but good poem about his cat :)

new favorite song

New favorite song is called "fucking electric" or something off Pantera's 2000 album. The next song, "Yesterday don't mean shit" is awesome too.

One hand on the bottle, the other a shaking
Fist, rejuvinated, isolated, no pressure
From the outside, my sight’s goddamn electric
And these eyes have seen a world
Goddamn electric system...

:)

Cause yesterday don't mean shit
What's over is over and nothing between
Yesterday don't mean shit
Because tomorrow's the day you have to face
There's no rewinding time
Yesterday don't mean shit
Yesterday don't mean shit

great lyrics

If there was a day I could live
If there was a single breath I could take
I'd trade all the others away
I'd trade all the others away

yay

Sortof did some digging last night trying to figure out how the heck to get my old rave directory to scrobble right, as I had no idea what to put in the "artist" tag, and only had a vague clue on some of the filenames (along with a cryptic letter-number combination on most of the tracks). Well, after trying a bunch of stuff, eventually decided to try the old webpage, and to my surprise, it was alive again! Sortof makes me happy, was sad when I tried to listen one day and both that radio stream and Sick Onion had dropped off the internet. Anyways, after clicking on some of those links, discovered that practically all the songs off that station are from a couple of guys who call themselves "DJ Sharpnel". (Am very glad I set off to learn Japanese a few years ago, it makes me happy to not be in the "I wonder what the heck all this gibberish means" stage anymore :) ) Anyways, not the sort of music for everyone, I loaned a cd with some of their tracks on it to a friend I know who loves techno, and he gave it back with a "what the *bleap* kind of crap did you give me to listen to" sort of feedback. Ah, very jarring, very driving, lots of samples and melodies from anime and videogames and such...but some awesome and some really really pretty spots. But when I get into the mood for this type of music I usually listen to it all night long...really gets my adrenaline and happy neurotransmiters kicking in!! :)

Also, discovered another duo named Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo after my discovery, and have really been getting into them tonight. They have a couple of songs that are a little out there, but some awesomely pretty songs as well. Think they popped up on speedcore tag radio station, which is mostly very similar music. Another couple tag stations I've been listening to at obvious times are sleep and sleeping, both have very pretty, very mellow and soft songs. (Right now none of the radio streams are working for me at all, hopefully they will again soon).

Am in a pretty good mood. I get my first day off tomarrow after closing several days at my new job, which is going pretty darn good. Met some cool people, kinda a blast in the past..the type of job and what I'm doing. Is a lot more busy than my last job! I forgot how fast time blows by when you get a new job, I guess cause I have a lot to learn and am concentrating to figure out the right way to do stuff.

Also I'm pretty broke right now, so finally laying off the whiskey and cheap 3 point beer :) It feels really weird, but I know I think a lot faster when I've been sober for a few days, things just seem to go a lot smoother.