"Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe..."

[fredericks]

Because I would go to Zanzibar to pick up take-out if she asked me to...

Tagged by lostmiseashellz
List six songs you are digging:
(1)Another Day - Rent Original B'way Soundtrack
(2)I'll Cover You - Rent Original B'way Soundtrack
(3)Gone - Kanye West
(4)One Night in Bangkok (Remix) - Vinylshakerz
(5)The Ghost of You - My Chemical Romance
(6)One Song Glory - Rent Original B'way Soundtrack

I honestly am not that fond of Rent. I caught it a while back and remember, on the whole, feeling underwhelmed. I was sitting in the audience and all the while the South Park parody of it was running through my head: "We all have AIDS! We all have AIDS!" Then again, I'm not a play person - I'm a music person. I was okay when they were singing. And, dammit, some of the songs are catchy. The stir being caused in my circles by the release of the movie moved me to borrow the soundtrack from the library. I'm pretty sure that at one point today I repeated "Another Day" four or five times. My excuse is that I'm sleep deprived as a mofo. If I was lucid I probably would have made it up to seven or eight. I heart Adam Pascal for some unknown reason; he's not really my stereotypical type. I think it might be the voice (a touch raspy although nowhere near Bryan Adams territory, it takes a little getting used to) and the smile (dazzling, totally lights up his face). I want to see the movie to take in the Pascal on the big screen but I'm not going to bother to pay for a ticket. If I can't get into a screening I will wait for video, unless someone wants to pay my way *ahem*.

But, oh yes, the beginning of Tune Up #2 when Roger and Marc get a call for Benny re: rent (because, hello, title!) - completely hilarious to me. That too I've listened to an inordinate number of times. The way they emphasize the profanity...I'm a simple simple woman.

So there's another exam looming come the afternoon. This one too I'm going into not too concerned. I wonder if I'll get burnt. Eh. This stuff is a little more straightforward, what with all the cranial nerves, ROM, and examination stuff. It's times like these that I'm glad A&P was such a rigorous class.

Got a grand total of 45 minutes of sleep yesterday because I was working on a project for the clinical class. It was a group project, but I decided I wanted to be the one to put our information together. I honestly had no idea it would take me the entire night. Time seemed to be zipping by, *just* like it seems to be doing now. Frak. Something is wrong with either my time perception or my movement, because things ain't right. So, right; project. Worked on it from when I got home (6PM) until 5AM, slept until around 6AM, worked on it until 6:30, took the train to school to meet a partner for 8AM, worked on it until 9:30AM. It's not quality work at all (IMO), but that's not entirely my fault. One of my partners has serious time issues (not her fault) and the other...okay, this woman went to Columbia. She mentions this indignantly when she claims that the teachers that ask us to make our papers conform to APA style "don't know what they talk about". Yes, it's weird to do a book report in APA style but there's a method behind the madness - it's an easy way to get students comfortable with the style. Anyway, she claims to have gone to Columbia and her writing? Pretty bad. I mean, Jesus. I wanted to comb through what she'd written for her part of the project but my own procrastination limited my time available. And she was a Psych major, so I *know* she had to write a number of papers.

Enough bitching from me about that whole debacle, though. It's done, nothing I can do about it now.

I'm going to see if I can start writing again, if only to have something else to list on my resume. It's ridiculously ridiculous how few accolades I have to my name. It'd be endlessly amusing (in a shawesome way, of course) if I graduated in 10 months while the nursing shortage was still on and was unable to land a job.

Shawesome = "shittily awesome" - when something is so bad it takes on epic proportions and your first response is to stand back in amazement and watch it happen. Yes, I know "shittily" is not a word. Give me a break already. And start saying shawesome whenever you can.

I, fredericks,do so solemnly swear to get some sleep and make a coherent entry. One of these days.

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[fredericks.livejournal.com]

And I know I'll start a flame war with my next comment, my intentions are not to piss people off, but here goes: I really can not stand racists so I will never listen to Kanye West.
Flame war. Ha. You sorely overestimate the number of people that read my journal.

I was thinking about your comment during the course of the day, actually. I'm moved to ask you how you came to that conclusion about Kayne West; was it the whole George Bush/black people thing he pulled?

I remember personally boycotting Wagner's music once I found out how anti-Semetic he was. I hold, like you, that if the creator of a work is racist I'm not going to indulge myself in whatever they produce. But you have to wonder (or at least I do) - where's the line drawn? Is it fair to not separate the artist from the work? I have no clue. I'd say now the main reason I don't listen to Wagner is because his stuff is too bombastic for me. And, then again - how many artists out there are flaming racists but simply keep their traps shut about it? I don't know where most of the people I like to listen to stand on issues of race or gender or homophobia. Eh.

Here's another one: The only reason why I'd see Rent was for Rosario Dawson.
I'd only go see it for Adam Pascal. I'm not really a fan of it.

Thanks for the recs.

[tjfalcon.livejournal.com]

I actually witnessed Kanye's little spiel as he was standing there with Michael Myers (Wayne's World). The look on Myers' face when it was going on, he actually looked terrified. But is was how Kanye blamed Bush for what had happened and that it was racial motivated. It wasn't Bush's fault that so many people thought they could wait things out and he certainly didn't treat them because of their 'color'.

It's when the first words out of someone's mouth is to blame the way they have been treated is because of the color of their skin, indicates to me that they, themselves have a preconceived notion that people 'different' then themselves are treating them different, and thus racist.

Now this is not to say that every case is not due to some bais or racist influences. It's just when everything that ever happens to someone is just because of the color of their skin, it is clearly their perception and their prejudice.

Racism does exist. But the problems exist on all sides and not just because of upper-class, conversevative, northern european descendants (or for that matter the lower-class, shotgun wielding, southern inbreds).