for eating all of my money. fucking a.
this is an unimaginative post, it's just me sharing links. then i'll get off the screen and go to the barn.
Saturday evening in Pune someone bombed the German Bakery. Now the count is 9 dead, 60 injured. I wonder if the U of C will do a program there next year.. it's a funny city. I don't know why anyone would target the Pune German Bakery over any of the other ones in the country. Maybe proximity to the Osho Ashram? (AKA the Sex Ashram, it's an expensive place to go and very popular with western tourists. and they hang out at the german bakery a lot. it's a good place to meet creeps and drink kombucha and watermelon juice (mmmm), eat green hummus and really really good coffee-chocolate cake). I guess Headley (one of the main guys involved in planning the 26/11 attacks in Bombay last year) visited the Osho last year, scoped it out. so maybe... well anyway. this happened. feels weird.
completely unrelated to that
I've been listening to the radio because the CD player in my parents car is still broken from when justin, alonso and I went to Maine last december. 1) it's all gaga 2) if it's not gaga, it's me trying to figure out what magic is contained in the refrains of these three songs
Replay by Iyaz
Whatcha Say by Jason Derulo
Let's Hear it for New York by Jay Z and Alicia Keys
there's something in these refrains that makes me feel something. it comes from outside of me and i feel good or strong, or like driving faster, or like singing loudly and bouncing up and down. also present in the Kaskade Remix of Break the Ice by Britney (~50 seconds in). this sort of feeling I think is unique to pop. it feels contrived, dirty, manufactured. it's like the assholes who made that song "Tonight's Gonna Be a Good Night" knew they were gonna make it big.
i think it's that aaj kal (these days) I'm supersensitive to media. I feel like I'm overloading, I'm hyperstimulated. my mind's been whirling a mile a minute, even now when I'm alone with my dog in the house. I can't be quiet except when I went to the Quaker meeting house on sunday. i'm so excited and confused to be back and but i haven't yet given myself any responsibilities that come with home. whirr whirr whirring with activity and a low balance on my bank account. waahfladjklfa ca
but while we're on the topic of youtube,
check out Julia's Bad Romance video (julia is mine and justin's friend. she lives in Mass and made this video for something at her school. &she won!)
oh also wayyyyy to much gaga. i'm taking a break for a while. probably until j comes back. (a week)
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oh and then there was a song on the way to (and from) the barn on the radio that went
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and then the refrain is "youse a sexy bitch"
wowow "it's gonna be a good night" is too much everywhere here...little kids singing it in alto paraiso, no other english needed to communicate the Vibe, you know.
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too much too much.
it's taken on the status tween az and i of the song that merits a slap or a spit and still pops into my head too too much.
sorry to hear that it's everywhere.
"paparazzi" and "bad romance" are basically the only other 2 american songs i hear around...cars blaring them from giant speakers on the street...
a sad kind of diaspora, gotta say
there's a point where my self-imposed cultural exile comes back to bite me because i have next to no idea which of these songs are which or if i've heard them before or if i have how would i remember and anyway they're all the same?
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