Introducing the next big thing in Poetry: Emo Haikus

Sitting here, alone
While my mind plays tricks on me
You are in my heart

You see the thing that makes Haikus so special is that they don't have to make sense, therefore any idiot, like myself, can write one. I have taken some poetic license and created this new format. May the world forgive me one day. +gxl

Tie Up My Hands

(Starsailor)

Wipe the make-up from your face
Tie your hair and gently fall from grace
Until I come again
Take the disaffected life
Men who ran the company ran your life
You could have been his wife
I wanna love you but my hands are tied
I wanna stay here but I've been denied
Lets watch the clock until the morning sun does rise
Wipe the sweat from off your brow
All that you believe is here and now
You could have had more doubt
Wipe the shadow from your eyes
Rest your daughter while your mother cries
You could have let him fly
I wanna hold you but my hands are tied
I wanna stay here but I've been denied
I wanna lie here 'til we've killed this bitter doubt
I wanna hold you but my hands are tied
I wanna stay here but I've been denied
Lets watch the clock until the morning sun does rise
I wanna hold you but my hands are tied
I wanna sleep here but I've been denied
I wanna stay here 'til we've killed this bitter doubt
I wanna hold you but my hands are tied
I wanna sleep here but I've been denied
Lets watch the clock until the morning sun comes out

I Know...

you're reading this!

Can't Type This

Ok so I can't touch type. It is very sad, me being such a geek and all not being able to touch type. The thing is I have never had the need to learn. I was always more comfortable with my own style of typing because it was more practical for daily HTML and PHP developing. The thing is I am going to be a Computer Science major in the upcoming future and it wont look good. So I've spent a couple of weeks on it and im getting the hang of it. It is just a matter of getting my fingers adjusted to different keys. I'll be typing 90 words-per-minute in no time.

A&P

Since the creation of the movable type printing press, writers have been criticize for many reasons. Some writers have been accused of heresy, racism or even sexism based on the content of their writings. John Updike, the author of A&P, is not sexist because his descriptions of Queenie are in character, the character Sammy notices more than just the physical elements of the group of girls and Queenie is not the stereotypical blond bomb-shell.

John Updike's description of Queenie is in character via a young man, Sammy, in his late teens. Male teens tend to “adore” the physical gifts women posses. Updike tried to make Sammy relate to teens, since this was his target audience. The physical description of Queenie is important to the story because it gives us an inside into the mind of Sammy and gives us a sense of what he was thinking when he quit his job in protest.

Updike is not a sexist because the character Sammy notices more about the group of girls besides their looks. “She kind of led them, the other two peeking around and making their shoulders round.” Sammy notices the structure if the group. Moreover, he can tell that the other girls aren't comfortable in the store. “

Updike is not sexist because Sammy likes girls that are not the stereotypical blond bombshell. “She was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescent of white just under it...”

Emotionally Charged Words

Language is an essential asset to humans. Through words, language lets us experience the feelings and emotions of others. In the English language words stir different feelings for people depending on the life experiences and circumstances of the individual.

A person's life experiences can stir up negative feelings when the person hears commonly positive words. For example the word “mother” to many brings up good feelings about motherly love and care. However, if you mother was abusive or neglectful you get a negative feeling. Another example is the word “winner”. If one is a winner you are happy for you have won something. Unless you aren't the winner, which makes you the loser by default, and the “winner” automatically turns into a pompous asshole who didn't deserve to win.

A person's life experiences can also stir up positive feelings when a person encounters a commonly negative word. For example when normal people hear the word “masochism” they immediately think of pain. However, there are some people in this world who enjoy punishment and may feel excitement or some sort of arousal when encountering the word. Likewise the word “gluttony” to some bring ugly images of big men, or a skinny Asian man, eating twenty-plus hot dogs in a couple of minutes without regards to the hundreds of thousands of starving African children. Yet to the “gluttons”, gluttony may stir good feelings of fulfillment of ones appetite.

Life experiences can also stir up positive or negative feelings on words that do not commonly have a general feel. For example the word “wall”. The word could stir up positive feelings if one has a wall that is painted in the exact shade of blue one loves. However, if one is in jail, the wall separates you from the free world, therefor earning a negative feeling. Similarly, the word “mall” can stir positive feelings about shopping, or leisure. However on the day before Christmas, the word “mall” can stir up feelings of hell.

Words can stir up different feelings on people depending on their life experiences or special circumstances. If to one person a word has is positive, chances are that there is somebody in this world who thinks the opposite.

Quote of the Day

"In Oakland, if they don't like you, they'll stick you with a knife or shoot you. Here, they're just rude and crude." -St. Louis Rams coach Mike Martz

The Anti-social, Faux genius, Topic of Conversation

"The Anti-Social", "Faux genius", and "Topic Of Conversation --This is a merge of three posts that don't deserve to be on their own

As weird as this may sound, I do not like to be the center of attention. I am very freaking shy. I have never really learned to act around people. I have never learned to act around girls. I don't like the spotlight. It takes time for me to be comfortable around people. This explains why I like to sit in the back of the room of all my classes. Until now I thought I had succeeded in keeping a low profile. This doesn't prevent me from answering questions in class --in fact I am known to answer most of the questions in my government class. The thing is when I do, I get into a roll, and I really don't know when to stop. I hate when I do that because I always end up looking like an idiot. It's not that I am a super-genius that knows everything, it is just that I remember stuff that I've been taught (or taught myself) before.

I've been called "gifted" by my third grade teacher, "smarth buth verry layzee" by my eight grade English teacher (she was Russian), and other things by my other teachers that echoed something along the lines of "bright". This has really sucked for me because I always end up disappointing my teachers by scoring an 80 on the IQ test, and a 1060 on the SAT. Most of my academic life I've been trying to avoid all the "bright" echoes but somehow I always fail.

Today I was told that some of my teachers had a conversation about me. While this feeds my hungry ego it also feels somewhat weird. I'm sure there were echoes about "brightness" and probably of "self-sabotage." I'm sure it was probably nothing out of the ordinary. I have been told by my inside sources (his/her name rhymes with Anber Villis) that teachers like to talk about their students when they aren't gossiping about other teachers. I just don't like to be the center of attention.

And We Work 'Till The Sun Rises

Procrastination, while a fine art, sucks ass. I had the bright idea to procrastinate a lot of work I had to do during the winter break, and now I have about hours to finish it. What started as "I'll do it on the last week", became "I'll do it early Sunday", which became "I'll do it at 4", on and on. It is now 9PM. Now it looks like my only solution will be to bust an all-nighter. Besides, I can run on 2 hours of sleep, can't I? While I could use this time working on the work I'm supposed to do, I'm instead wasting this time writing this, proof-reading, editing and posting. There go 21 minutes.

Broadening One's Musical Horizons

It's been a long month and I have had with nothing to do. So what does a neo-nazi do when bored? Indeed my friends, he hates beaners, niggers, et al. But what does a depressed, lonely, fat geek do? Besides what you're thinking, he envelops himself in great music. So this past month-or-so i've been getting into these bands:

1) The Beatles
In this case by "getting into" I mean further enjoying for I've liked the beatles since I was a wee-young American lad growing up in the vast, dark forests of le Ville de'Angels. From their early "pop-esque" stuff to their late more folk-esque material, the Beatles rock.

2) The Mars Volta
Made up from members of the only emo band i've ever liked (because they were good, unlike the Thrice and Ataris bullshit), TMV has to be one of the best bands of this new millenia. TMV is like a roller coaster shifting from semi-Metal to Punk-ish to latin-ish, mixing english and spanish vocals that perfectly fit with one another into a 20-minute long track (progrock nod, which progrock bands use to nod classic music).

3) The Muse
Listen to "Thought of a dying atheist". Lyrics are eerie-ly good.

4) Dresden Dolls
Who knew a two-pice band, with a chick playing piano, with face makeup could be any good? But the Dresden Dolls sure as hell are. The lyrics are accompanied by the music in such a great manner that you can't only hear the chick's pain, you can also feel it (unlike the emo shit). It's cabaret rock --good cabaret rock.

Can't Be Fooled

(07:27:11) VtaranchulaV entered the room.
(07:27:11) SO rek NU t entered the room.
(07:27:15) SO rek NU t: wow
(07:27:18) SO rek NU t: so magnifico
(07:27:22) VtaranchulaV: indeed
(07:27:34) SO rek NU t: who else did you invite?
(07:27:39) PteauPteau entered the room.
(07:27:49) VtaranchulaV: hi
(07:27:51) PteauPteau: hi
(07:27:53) SO rek NU t: heya
(07:28:08) VtaranchulaV: so glenn
(07:28:16) SO rek NU t: jess mama
(07:28:29) VtaranchulaV: i would like to introduce my mistress
(07:28:39) PteauPteau: wheres jenny?
(07:28:49) SO rek NU t: how could you do that to papa?
(07:28:56) SO rek NU t: whore!
(07:29:02) VtaranchulaV: lol
(07:29:06) VtaranchulaV: calling me a whore?
(07:29:07) PteauPteau: whos this chris?
(07:29:13) VtaranchulaV: glenn
(07:29:16) VtaranchulaV: ya know
(07:29:18) VtaranchulaV: the dude
(07:29:19) PteauPteau: oh hi glenn
(07:29:22) SO rek NU t: waddup
(07:29:24) VtaranchulaV: that hangs out with dannyt
(07:29:27) VtaranchulaV: -t
(07:29:32) PteauPteau: ohhhhh ok
(07:29:40) SO rek NU t: whose this
(07:30:31) SO rek NU t: ok
(07:30:39) SO rek NU t: nice to meet you
(07:30:39) VtaranchulaV: annalysa foo
(07:30:51) PteauPteau: nice to meet you too
(07:31:51) PteauPteau: are you still with jenny chris?
(07:31:57) SO rek NU t: nah
(07:31:58) SO rek NU t: hes with me
(07:32:00) VtaranchulaV: no
(07:32:20) PteauPteau: glenn you like boys?
(07:32:28) SO rek NU t: haha
(07:32:29) SO rek NU t: no
(07:32:31) SO rek NU t: it was a joke
(07:32:36) PteauPteau: oh ok
(07:32:53) SO rek NU t: u thought it was obvious
(07:32:56) SO rek NU t: I*
(07:33:04) PteauPteau: glenn do you have a gf?
(07:33:07) SO rek NU t: so who are you?
(07:33:16) PteauPteau: annalysa
(07:33:17) SO rek NU t: haha no
(07:33:25) SO rek NU t: I know you
(07:33:27) SO rek NU t: ?
(07:33:38) SO rek NU t: (im not good with names)
(07:33:46) PteauPteau: ive seen you around with danny
(07:34:00) SO rek NU t: so who are you?
(07:34:12) PteauPteau: annalysa the girl with red hair
(07:34:20) PteauPteau: kinda tall
(07:34:28) PteauPteau: kinda pale
(07:34:38) SO rek NU t: oh!
(07:34:42) SO rek NU t: i dont know you
(07:34:46) VtaranchulaV: lol
(07:36:04) SO rek NU t: you are a senior?
(07:36:11) PteauPteau: yeah
(07:36:18) SO rek NU t: have I had you in a class?
(07:36:42) PteauPteau: no
(07:36:45) PteauPteau: i dont think so
(07:36:49) SO rek NU t: there we go
(07:36:55) SO rek NU t: nice to meet you
(07:37:03) PteauPteau: nice to meet you too
(07:37:35) PteauPteau: hey chris, when am i going to see you again?
(07:37:42) VtaranchulaV: um... i dont know.
(07:37:44) VtaranchulaV: sunday?
(07:37:54) PteauPteau: ok sure
(07:38:01) VtaranchulaV: where do you wanna go?
(07:38:10) PteauPteau: does glenn listen to iron maiden too?
(07:38:15) SO rek NU t: nah
(07:38:17) SO rek NU t: im straight
(07:38:28) PteauPteau: haha
(07:38:38) SO rek NU t: im into Rockabilly
(07:39:01) PteauPteau: thats cool. im into metal
(07:39:21) VtaranchulaV: oh glenn
(07:39:26) VtaranchulaV: keep this conversation
(07:39:29) PteauPteau: chris "girlfriend" likes that kinda music right chris?
(07:39:31) VtaranchulaV: hush
(07:39:34) SO rek NU t: haha
(07:39:40) SO rek NU t: jk
(07:39:43) SO rek NU t: i hate rockabilly
(07:39:49) VtaranchulaV: si
(07:39:51) PteauPteau: im telling him he should leave her for me
(07:39:57) SO rek NU t: Chris!
(07:40:01) VtaranchulaV: si?
(07:40:02) SO rek NU t: who told me i was the only one!
(07:40:07) PteauPteau: wouldnt that be cool glenn?
(07:40:18) VtaranchulaV: who?
(07:40:20) VtaranchulaV: i dont know man
(07:40:21) VtaranchulaV: lol
(07:40:26) SO rek NU t: dammit
(07:40:30) SO rek NU t: i meant you*
(07:40:32) VtaranchulaV: lol
(07:41:04) VtaranchulaV: so anyway
(07:41:11) SO rek NU t: yeah
(07:41:13) VtaranchulaV: when are you gonna ask gissel out foo
(07:41:14) VtaranchulaV: ?
(07:41:16) SO rek NU t: logs are public foo
(07:41:24) SO rek NU t: im not
(07:41:38) VtaranchulaV: ok when do you want me and danny to ask her out for you?
(07:41:43) SO rek NU t: dont
(07:41:46) VtaranchulaV: i see
(07:41:56) SO rek NU t: its not that I dont have the balls
(07:42:00) VtaranchulaV: when do you want me and danny to set up a group thang for you
(07:42:01) SO rek NU t: its something else
(07:42:06) SO rek NU t: dont
(07:42:07) PteauPteau: hey glenn, get me and chris together
(07:42:08) VtaranchulaV: you don't have a penis
(07:42:08) VtaranchulaV: ?
(07:42:13) SO rek NU t: haha
(07:42:22) SO rek NU t: i got some other thing planned
(07:42:28) VtaranchulaV: with who?
(07:42:31) VtaranchulaV: ipod?
(07:42:32) VtaranchulaV: lol
(07:42:41) SO rek NU t: so yeah
(07:42:55) VtaranchulaV: he's been trying to decide whether to go to prom or buy an ipod
(07:42:57) SO rek NU t: the logs for 2004 go public tommorow
(07:43:14) SO rek NU t: keep the ol ball and chain away from them
(07:43:22) SO rek NU t: the ol whip
(07:43:32) VtaranchulaV: well it's not like she'll be able to find them
(07:43:35) VtaranchulaV: i can't find them
(07:43:37) SO rek NU t: haha
(07:43:42) SO rek NU t: syop calling her dumb
(07:43:43) SO rek NU t: its sad
(07:43:46) SO rek NU t: stop*
(07:43:48) VtaranchulaV: i'm not foo
(07:43:54) PteauPteau: aww how sweet
(07:43:56) SO rek NU t: its like pointing and laughing at a cripple
(07:44:01) PteauPteau: are you in love glenn?
(07:44:08) SO rek NU t: nah im straight
(07:44:18) SO rek NU t: haha
(07:44:36) SO rek NU t: i point at cripples, i just dont laugh... i gigile
(07:44:38) SO rek NU t: giggle*
(07:44:50) VtaranchulaV: you jiggle?
(07:44:56) SO rek NU t: haha
(07:45:19) SO rek NU t: christ you should dump jenny
(07:45:22) SO rek NU t: now
(07:45:30) VtaranchulaV: what for?
(07:45:37) SO rek NU t: burn
(07:45:47) SO rek NU t: Pteauwhatsurface
(07:45:55) PteauPteau: i totally agree with you glenn
(07:45:57) SO rek NU t: haha pito
(07:46:06) SO rek NU t: i laugh
(07:46:08) VtaranchulaV: que?
(07:46:17) SO rek NU t: nothing
(07:46:20) PteauPteau: you hate jenny too?
(07:46:23) VtaranchulaV: ok jigglypuff
(07:46:31) SO rek NU t: who doesnt?
(07:46:35) SO rek NU t: i mean damn
(07:46:42) SO rek NU t: is there something to like?
(07:46:50) SO rek NU t: jeez
(07:47:00) SO rek NU t: top of my hate list
(07:47:06) PteauPteau: mine too
(07:47:35) SO rek NU t: yeah
(07:47:36) SO rek NU t: really
(07:47:43) SO rek NU t: she should let go of Chris' balls
(07:47:50) SO rek NU t: poor guy cant breath
(07:47:57) PteauPteau: seriously chris has noooooooo backbone
(07:48:02) VtaranchulaV: lol
(07:48:18) SO rek NU t: i mean
(07:48:19) SO rek NU t: dawg
(07:48:26) SO rek NU t: come on
(07:48:31) SO rek NU t: fly
(07:48:34) SO rek NU t: you have wings
(07:48:37) VtaranchulaV: haha
(07:48:43) VtaranchulaV: i believe i can fly
(07:48:48) SO rek NU t: buffallo soldiah
(07:48:51) PteauPteau: then fly my way
(07:48:53) SO rek NU t: fighting for survival
(07:49:03) PteauPteau: cmon chris
(07:49:08) PteauPteau: break up with her
(07:49:14) PteauPteau: new year new gf
(07:49:32) SO rek NU t: dude
(07:49:33) VtaranchulaV: well
(07:49:40) SO rek NU t: you should have bought an ipod with that money
(07:49:57) PteauPteau: glenn
(07:49:57) SO rek NU t: or some GOOG stock
(07:50:02) VtaranchulaV: lol
(07:50:07) VtaranchulaV: glenn we gotta goooo
(07:50:07) SO rek NU t: GOOG stock sounds nice
(07:50:12) SO rek NU t: you could havemade money
(07:50:14) PteauPteau: stop talking shit dogg
(07:50:20) PteauPteau: its jenny
(07:50:21) SO rek NU t: GOOG dude
(07:50:22) SO rek NU t: GOOG
(07:50:23) PteauPteau: gosh glenn
(07:50:25) SO rek NU t: no shit jenny
(07:50:28) PteauPteau: youre so mean
(07:50:29) PteauPteau: to me
(07:50:31) SO rek NU t: haha
(07:50:34) VtaranchulaV: kick hijm
(07:50:35) SO rek NU t: i knew it was you
(07:50:36) PteauPteau: what did i ever do to you?
(07:50:37) VtaranchulaV: him*
(07:50:41) PteauPteau: liar
(07:50:44) SO rek NU t: GOOG dude!
(07:50:50) SO rek NU t: think about it!
(07:50:52) SO rek NU t: GOOG!
(07:51:02) VtaranchulaV: yes google
(07:51:04) SO rek NU t: i knew it was a setup
(07:51:05) SO rek NU t: i played the part
(07:51:05) PteauPteau: im gonna kick you glenn
(07:51:09) SO rek NU t: thank you
(07:51:10) SO rek NU t: thank you
(07:51:18) SO rek NU t: i wish the academy could see this
(07:51:24) SO rek NU t: i shall submit the transcript
(07:51:30) VtaranchulaV: uh huh
(07:51:37) SO rek NU t: (bows to the standing ovation)
(07:51:45) PteauPteau: que?
(07:51:48) PteauPteau: alrighty
(07:51:55) PteauPteau: i gotta hight the mighty trail
(07:52:03) PteauPteau: bye glenn
(07:52:04) VtaranchulaV: i shall be on my way
(07:52:06) SO rek NU t: lates
(07:52:09) PteauPteau: happy new year
(07:52:12) SO rek NU t: yep
(07:52:14) SO rek NU t: ditto
(07:52:14) VtaranchulaV: happy new year turdo
(07:52:19) SO rek NU t: ditto
(07:52:20) SO rek NU t: bro
(07:52:23) SO rek NU t: haha
(07:52:30) VtaranchulaV left the room.
(07:52:33) PteauPteau: bye bye
(07:52:35) PteauPteau left the room.
(07:52:37) SO rek NU t: nacht