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If we are constantly collecting memories and if those memories make us who we are, than at any given moment, I can only be the person that I am right now and I can never be who I was before or who I will be in the future.

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No, I don’t want to be Duckie,
And there is no way I can be Blane.
I won’t hold a boom box above my head,
So what is there left to do?

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I like going to museums by myself.
I like looking at random streaks of paint.
And if I spend too much time looking at one,
I don’t have to worry about someone else getting bored,
Or having to wait if they get stuck on their own personal blotch of canvas.
I also like the slow dance I have with other museum goers.
Sometimes they get in front of something I want to see,
Sometimes I get in front of them,
But it all works out as we each make our graceful turns.
A spontaneously choreographed ballet, organized chaos.
Just don’t take any pictures or touch anything.
Those sleepy guards have their eye on you.
They know from the moment you walk in if you are trouble or not.

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Alone
In the dark
Listening to Depeche Mode
I am sixteen again

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Halloween is a very evil holiday, and I’m not talking about the ghosts and goblins. No, I’m talking about Trick or Treating as a trojan horse for socialist ideas. Why are we teaching our kids to go door to door asking for free food? Why am I expected to share what I have? I was able to work hard and buy my own candy, and I buy the good kind too like M&Ms, Kit Kats, and Willy Wonka. Everyone else should buy their own candy too. And its one thing if the whole Trick or Treating thing was voluntarily but no, those of us who value a free society are punished with rotten eggs and toilet paper for sticking to our principals thus making Halloween a socially mandated activity forced upon the individual.

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Happy Halloween, and yes, I will be handing out candy tonight just like a good socialist should. Well, thats assuming that anyone comes by tonight. Weird that every year there seems to be fewer and fewer Trick or Treaters.

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Finally got my hands on the Beatles remastered box set, totally worth even though this will be like the 4th or 5th copy of Beatles songs I’ve bought (tapes, records, CDs, greatest hits, etc). I think I will stop buying copies until they come out with the super-duper, hi-fidelity, supertronic bitrate version that is beamed directly into your brain.

I got the stereo version but I get the feeling that the mono version would sound better. A couple of the songs on Please Please Me were in mono and they sounded better than the stereo tracks. Had a hard time getting use to the tracks coming completely out of one speaker or the other, it was a bit distracting. The later albums were mixed closer to the stereo we are used to now. But in the end it doesn’t really matter as the remastered songs sound amazing.

Now that you can hear the bass, I would like to make the case for Paul McCartney being one of the most under-rated bass players ever. Ringo’s playing isn’t bad either.

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Not sure what to make of this, but lately I’ve been getting my news from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.  Seems like they have the freedom to just tell the truth because they are a comedy show.  They just lay it out there.  Sure its for laughs, but it really makes you think about how the “real” news never really gets to the heart of the matter.

Take whats been happening in Iran.  The Daily Show actually had a “reporter” in Iran during the election before any of the “real” news shows were paying attention.  Then they did a week long series showing how Iranians and Americans were more alike than different, while at the same time satirizing our collective view of Iranians as a bunch of terrorists.  Best part was that they had a hard time finding Americans that knew anything about Iran, while they had no troubles finding Iranians that knew stuff about American history and politics.  You never get this type of information on news shows plus it was funny as hell.

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Finally got a chance to the see the new Star Trek movie and I really liked it. It was great to finally see a no holds barred kick ass Star Trek without all the over-intellectualizing that the TNG movies were prone to. The action and humor really does bring the franchise back to its TOS roots. But there were some things I had issues with:

• Everything I knew about Star Trek no longer applies.  All those years of filling my head with Star Trek history and trivial is now thrown out the window.  I can no longer feel superior to casual Trek fans, but I can learn to get over it as long as Paramount continues to deliver good sequels.  So I look forward to refilling my head with new Trek history.
• Kirk making Captain of the Federation flagship without even really trying?  Come on, give me a break.  So I guess it really does matter who your father is and who you know, and you can be an over-cocky ass to boot.  This is even worse than Harry Potter being special for no reason at all other than being born to the right parents.
• Time travel and alternate universe …. not again, come on, we need new plot devices.
• Whats up with Nero?  His character development and motivation were almost non-existent.  He was reduced to a generic bad dude out to destroy the universe for almost no apparent reason.  I read the comic book prequels to the movie which does go into detail about his motivation, but the movie on its own doesn’t do a great job explaining this.
• Uhura and Spock, where did that come from?  She gets into the turbo lift and is suddenly all over Spock, who starts kissing her back.  No internal conflict or anything.  I don’t have a problem with the concept, just wished the filmmakers took more time to develop the relationship.
• I like seeing Leonard Nimoy again, but if you’re gonna reboot the franchise, lets really re-boot it without any ties to the past.  I found future Spock’s presence to be un-necessary and distracting to the plot.  The comic book prequels were even worse.  Future Spock was actually helped out by Picard, Data and Geordi before he was sent back in time.  Come on, in a massive universe, there’s only a few people that must be involved in every crisis?
• What’s up with Winona Ryder getting above the line credit for only 2 seconds of screen time?  She actually did better than I thought she would, even in those 2 seconds.  Although no one is gonna beat Christian Slater’s 2 seconds in a Trek movie.  Slater and Ryder were both in Heathers, so I look forward to seeing Shannon Doherty in the next movie.

Despite all this nitpicking (yes, I am a nerd), the movie was great.  Zachary Quinto was amazing as Spock and I look forward to seeing what he does with the character in the future.  I just need to stop going, “what is Sylar doing in Star Trek?”, every time I see him.

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Incredibad is one of the best albums I’ve heard in a while.  The album was made by the guys that do the songs on the Saturday Night Live Digital Shorts, which they should just make into a whole hour and replace SNL itself.  Featuring classics like Natalie Raps and Dick In A Box, the songs are well written, performed and produced, but most of all they are still funny as hell.  Even without the videos the songs totally stand on their own.

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Facebook is winning and my MySpace page is dead.  Thats why its been a while since I posted anything here.

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