Random shit from Monday and Tuesday:

Listening to Girl Talk raises a lot of questions I've always had with music and its influence on culture. By mixing oldies with the songs of my own generation, I'm wondering if he feels the same way: that they're entirely different. The oldies present love and relationships in such a pure way with no sexual desire, at least not on the face level (obviously, there are exceptions). Music nowadays is incredibly sexually explicit and sets sex up as a commodity and women as pure sexual objects. Or maybe by playing them on top of each other, he's stressing that they're the same? I mean I'm sure even all The Beatles wanted was just a quick piece of ass, but sadly she was just seventeen. And nowadays the Kings of Leon sing about the exact same problem...Anyway, his music's pretty amazing.

This country is too fucking beautiful.
There's so much it can make you cry.
I think it's the cause of the laid-back lifestyle. No worries. It's just calming...everywhere you look is beauty. Calm.

From the mind of Brian Clevinger:
Really, Lex Luthor is the hero. Think about it. Superman is the invader, he's the anomaly. He's the thing that doesn't belong. And what's he do? He robs humanity of its drive. Why excel at anything when Superman is already, by definition, inhumanly better than you at EVERYTHING?
Lex Luthor is giving us back our dignity. And he does this all while he's labeled a villain for doing it. How sick is that? The people of his society are so invested in Superman's superiority that they fight to lock up the man who dares suggest they may actually have some worth. We should all aspire to be Lex Luthor.
(He's got a point there, you know)

I can't wait until break. Things will slow down and I can write again.

New Zealand is good about making me wait to see movies I want to see.