– I’ve 70% changed my mind on the NIN album. On a couple relistens, it’s incredibly catchy. Likewise, the backstory is cheesy to the nth, but Rolling Stone said something to the effect that “at least it got his creative juices moving.”
… Read the restBefore the Vacation
The week before the week we went on vacation now feels like so long ago, I don’t know if I can properly talk about it. My schedule had become so busy, with one deadline basically on top of another, that I divided my schedule into chunks so that I could prioritize more systematically.
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1) Thesis: Done! (Much excitement and exhileration resulting.)
2) I bought the new Nine Inch Nails album. I’m initially disappointed, but I’m going to go on and give it more chances than it deserves. I had hoped that With Teeth was a transitional movement to something better, more daring and different… that Reznor had rediscovered the originality that he ceded after The Downward Spiral.
So the vacation and weddings were great, but so far today is awful. It has everything to do with a 300-page thesis absolutely due by six, and Kinkos having changed their mind on the question of whether or not they have acid-free paper.
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Hey. So Jess and I are going away on vacation/wedding-excursions to Chicago and Ohio. Then, when I get back, my thesis is pretty much immediately due. Obviously, I won’t be posting here. Blue Skies Falling will be back, with all its typical vigor, on Tuesday, May 1st.
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The temperature soared to 90 degrees F in New York City, 1896.
– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
Moss.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
One of you requested this one by email:
Compose a song/poem/lyrical what-have-you from found lyrics–to be at least 10 lines in length, and with an apparent rhyme scheme.
1. The big ones, the ones involving people in our demographic (generally speaking), have seemed to happened in March or April. Columbine happened in April, the Kayla Rolland shooting happened in March, the Oklahoma City Bombing happened in April. Jonesboro was late March.
… Read the rest– Approximately two weeks until Blue Skies falling is “back to normal.”
– It’s amazing how big a week can seem. I took the day off work today, on account of feeling sick and exhausted, and needing to not feel sick and exhausted as I attend weddings/fly to Chicago/fly to Ohio/finish my thesis.
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Form a single word from: no more stars.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY –
Thomas Jefferson. Also, FDR’s birthday was yesterday.
– NATION OF THE WEEK –
Bermuda.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Do you have (a) favorite painter(s)?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., you will be missed.
Perhaps the University of Chicago will finally give you your degree now.
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