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September 18, 2010 | In the News,Life in General,Music Queue

On my way to my hair appointment this morning, I listened to Linkin Park’s new CD, A Thousand Suns. There are two reasons why I love this band and why they will always and forever be my favorite:

1) I have all their CD’s (now uploaded to my iPod) and all the songs are fabulous. There is not one song on any of these albums that I would skip over. Do you know how rare that is?

2) Hearing them live is like listening to their CD’s. They sound just like that…and better.

I’ve read the reviews on Amazon and how there are more 1 stars than 5. The most recent review from Jane Austin said it best, so I’m not gonna add my two cents. All I have to say is, “Jane, you are preachin’ to the choir on this one. I feel you, I hear you, and I totally feel the same way.”

She hit the nail on the head and it all makes sense, especially after reading the below statement.

Hello, my name is Celise. And I’m a Linkin Park fan for life.

We were not making an album.

For months, we’d been destroying and rebuilding our band. The experiments that resulted filled the studio hard drive with diverse, abstract sounds. Amorphous echoes, cacophonous samples, and handmade staccato merged into wandering, elusive melody. Each track felt like a hallucination.

We didn’t know if any of those unorthodox ideas could be incorporated into a traditional album, but we knew we didn’t want our next album to be predictable. Sitting together in the same studio where we made our first album, all six of us voiced a commitment to going out on a limb, to making something truly daring. We asked ourselves: were we all earnestly willing, more than ever before, to abandon the precepts of commercial ambition in pursuit of what we believe to be honest art?

The inclination to begin writing conventional songs for a conventional album came and went. The temptation to adjust our creative vision to fulfill expectations beyond our studio walls yielded to the audacious ambition of what he hoped to achieve as a band. The two years of making A Thousand Suns marked our exhilarating, surrealistic, and often challenging journey into the creative unknown.

On the eve of its completion, this body of work, assembled through unconscious inspiration and unmitigated exertion, has revealed to us notions both stirring and surprising. The imagery personified herein is neither dogma nor political premeditation. The emergent themes and metaphors illuminate a uniquely human story.

Oppenheimer’s words resonate today not only for their historical significance, but for their emotional gravity. So, too, A Thousand Suns grapples with the personal cycle of pride, destruction, and regret. In life, like in dreams, this sequence is not always linear. And, sometimes, true remorse penetrates the devastating cycle. The hope, of course, springs from the notion that the possibility of change is born in our most harrowing moments.

Enjoy the music.

Linkin Park

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September 18, 2010 | In the News,Life in General

I read in the Yahoo headlines the other day that Katy Perry called out a former crush during a concert at her old high school.

Oh, to be able to do that! You know, just kinda, rub it in the person’s face that this is what you could’ve had if only you’d paid attention.

What I found funny was the dude’s response:”That whole story is fabricated. I never got the feeling that she had a crush on me. We’ve always been friends. I think it was more for entertainment and she was figuring out a way to embarrass me just for fun.”

And there you have it, folks. In writing. For the whole world to read and be reminded once again why men are totally clueless.

Lemme break it down for you, Mr. Shane Lopes. When a girl has a crush on a guy, HE ISN’T GOING TO KNOW IT. Unless your best friend tells you. Or her best friend tells you.

No girl in her right mind would go up to a guy she’s totally crushin’ on and say, “Hey, did you know I have a crush on you?”

The idea is for you, the guy, to notice on your own that this girl, who happens to be your friend, totally rocks and would be someone you’d like to date.

Duh.

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February 21, 2010 | "Whoa whoa I gotta go...back to schoooool...again",2nd Semester,In the News,LAS: Community and Social Change,Life in General,Prescott College,School Daze,Spring 2010,The 4-1-1 on Me

Borders-Sky Harbor Airport is sponsoring a journal drive for my Write it Out Journal Drive project. If you’re flying into or out of the Phoenix area FEB 21-MAR 13, 2010, be sure to stop by the Borders in Terminal 4 and support our cause.

Not visiting Phoenix, but still want to donate? No problem, for details on the project and how to donate, check out the Write it Out Journal Drive website.

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November 3, 2009 | In the News,Life in General,Random Thoughts

Remember that judge who refused to marry the interracial couple? No? Maybe this will refresh your memory. After reading this today, all I have to say is

PRAISE THE LORD! HALLELUJAH! PASS THE BISCUITS!!

and the reason he didn’t give an explanation is because he’s a racist asshole and no one was going to let him forget it.

October 15, 2009 | In the News,Life in General,Random Thoughts

I could dig out my stool, climb on and talk about this interracial couple who were denied a marriage license in Louisiana.

But I’m not going to.

Because it says it all in the comments.

I just hope there’s going to be a follow up to this article. With the headline reading: JUDGE LOSES HIS JOB FOR BEING RACIST.