PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE ADVISE EVERYONE YOU KNOW
THAT THEY ABSOLUTELY CANNOT GO TO THE POLLS
WEARING ANY OBAMA SHIRTS, PINS OR HATS,
IT IS AGAINST THE LAW AND WILL BE GROUNDS
TO HAVE THE POLLING OFFICIALS TURN YOU AWAY.
THAT IS CONSIDERED CAMPAIGNING
AND NO ONE CAN CAMPAIGN
WITHIN "X" AMOUNT OF FEET TO THE POLLS.
"THEY" ARE BANKING ON US BEING EXCITED
AND NOT BEING AWARE OF THIS LONG STANDING LAW
THAT YOU CAN BET WILL BE ENFORCED THIS YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"THEY" ARE BANKING ON
OBAMA SUPPORTERS THAT ARE TURNED AWAY
WILL NOT GO HOME AND CHANGE CLOTHES...
TO AVOID ANY PROBLEMS, PLEASE DON'T WEAR
OBAMA GEAR OF ANY SORTS TO THE POLLS!!
PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION...
AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WERE ALREADY AWARE OF THE LAW,
THIS WAS NOT MEANT TO INSULT YOUR INTELLIGENCE.
JUST TRYING TO COVER ALL GROUNDS.
THANKS
To be honest with you, I think this particular Obama supporter is a bit intense, but who am I to judge. What I think doesn't really matter, anyway. And I'm sure this applies to McCain/Palin supporters as well. (I wonder what kind of Palin t-shirts they would make...)
So I decided, possibly naively, to search for African music on Pandora. It's a great service with a lot of music, so I thought I'd give it a shot. So the first song plays, Amplified Heart by Caged Baby. It does not sound African in the least, but I like it. It's electronic, but not the intense, clubworthy stuff; it actually makes you stop and listen. It reminds me of a song I really like, Play It For Today by The Legends. So I listen all the way through, and the next song starts up. It sounds like a bad mix of Death Cab and Paul Van Dyk: it's Depeche Mode. I have never listened to this band, even thoug I've heard good things, but this song is just NOT my style at all. So I skip over, and they finally play a Yousoou N'Dour song. I enjoy it, and look forward to another song. I get a poppy dance beat, like Cascada: it's Seal's Loaded, a song that made me wonder if this was the same dude who did Kiss from A Rose. And that's when I start writing this post.
The thing about Pandora is that it's not music-on-demand, it's radio. So you can never guarantee they'll play something you like. But I'm really disappointed at the fact that they have such a limited collection of world music. They don't even have Fela, for God's sake. No Amadou and Miriam, no Tinariwen, even though these bands are somewhat known in the US. I just don't understand how they can play songs side by side that sound NOTHING alike. I checked their analysis of the features of the song, that they assess using the Music Genome Project, and the only thing these songs have in common is "electronica influences". (To their credit, the Depeche Mode song also had "mild rhythmic syncopation" as a common element.) I mean, why not just play me a lot of Youssou N'dour and leave out the rest? Geez.
The next song I get comes from New Order, a post-punk era British rock band (that apparently used to be Joy Division) that incorporate electronic and disco elements into their music. That's when I give up, and thank God (and Steve Jobs, albeit reluctantly) for iTunes, and CDs. Pandora's great, but not perfect, and I'm still waiting to see a music service that gives me the wide range of musical genres that I want, (and have, to some extent) in my library. Hopefully, this will happen soon. In the meantime, I'll be posting some good world music on this blog sooner or later, so look out for it.
I know I haven't posted in a while. I've been busy. I took on a bunch of responsibility this semester, so I'm almost overwhelmed. Sometimes I think "Why do I have a blog in the first place?" Well, because I think it's cool. Because I think what I have to say is important. Because I need some sort of outlet seeing as I don't dance anymore, or do anything artsy because I've decided to devote my life to medicine. However, now that everyone knows what my blog is, I can't really let out, because people will know that I'm talking about them, or will know who I'm talking about. I need a change. I need to let loose a little. I discovered a while ago that there are no extremes in my life. I do everything in moderation. Is that a good thing? Or do I end up slowly losing my mind because I keep myself in a straightjacket all the time? I think this is one of the reasons I want to take a year off and go abroad, to Asia. I want to do something completely out of the ordinary so that I can be different, I can be special, I can be cool. And also so I don't feel like I have to distill or reduce myself to my future career. This is why I have a blog. And this is probably the most honest post I've written here.
let them see what I write. Let them talk. I think I need to free myself from society's opinion of me, and just do what I think is good for me. I think it's part of being a Christian, not conforming to the world's opinion. it's part of being an individual, of being a free-thinker. It doesn't mean you're atheist, or liberal, or whatever. You just do you. What's important to you, that's what counts.
Ay yay yay. I'm going to go socialize, then plan for medical school. I need help, God. help me out. Oh, and Lolia, I wrote this post because you didn't include me on your blogroll. Thanks for helping me let it all out. I think I'm going to post more often this year.
Lataz.
