there's shit on every hand you shook

Poll #644231 new year's
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: Friends, participants: 22

Did you make any new year's resolutions for 2006?

If so, what were they?

How would you rate 2005, overall?

I got my septum pierced on Friday.

( TMI and photos, for all interested parties )

Poll #537370 Your biggest musical guilty pleasure?
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Your biggest musical guilty pleasure?

Would you own up to liking said bands or individuals to friends?

Would you own up to liking said bands or individuals to a stranger in a casual conversation?

Potato salad:

pes·si·mism Pronunciation Key (ps-mzm)
n.

1. A tendency to stress the negative or unfavorable or to take the gloomiest possible view: “We have seen too much defeatism, too much pessimism, too much of a negative approach” (Margo Jones).
2. The doctrine or belief that this is the worst of all possible worlds and that all things ultimately tend toward evil.
3. The doctrine or belief that the evil in the world outweighs the good.


[French pessimisme(on the model of French optimisme, optimism), from Latin pessimus, worst. See ped- in Indo-European Roots.]
pessi·mist n.
pessi·mistic adj.
pessi·misti·cal·ly adv.

Poll #532932 eternal pessimist
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 25

Are insanely happy people morbidly disgusting to you?

Do you consider yourself a pessimist?

In your opinion, is it healthy to spend one's life in a permanent state of pessimism?

If you aren't a pessimist, do you have close friends who are?

A hypothetical situation: purchasing only baked beans, douche, and a lawn chair at the store.

Poll #530812 stolen
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 23

Honestly, do you think that you are better than most people?

I was looking through the birthday function on livejournal because it's late (or early, depending on how one were to look at it) and I'm bored. Two people on my list share a birthday with me! supercrush and etc. Odd, since I grew up thinking that, while there are a ton of December birthdays, not many people shared the actual date.

This is one of the many reasons why I love vfc's journal.

Amy Sedaris is on Letterman right now and I think she's been smoking crack. She's usually not quite that random--she was just telling Dave about her imaginary boyfriend and child. Weird.

Another announcement for my student group. If you live in Mpls, come and check out some of these events. They're all free except the concert, which is $5 for non-students and free for U of M students with ID.

RATH WEEK
Revolutionary Art Thing
April 12-16

This year, WSAC's Revolutionary Art Thing will focus on music and social
justice. During the week of April 12-16 we will have a series of events
examining the power of music in social change. All events are free unless
otherwise noted.

RATH Kick-Off
Monday, April 12, 12-1 PM
Coffman 202
Please join us for a lunch break with lots of food and good times. We will
be screening the film Grrlyshow by Kara Herold (2000), which examines
zines, music, and alternative forms of media


Check it While I Wreck It
Tuesday, April 13, 12-1 PM
Coffman 319
Lecture by Gwendolyn Pough, U of M faculty member, who recently published:
"Check it While I Wreck It: Black
Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere." Professor Pough will
address "the ways in which Black women use the counter-public sphere of
hip-hop culture to claim a voice for themselves and influence the ways in
which Black women are represented in the male dominated space of Hip-Hop
culture and the larger US society."


Workshop: "Punk on a Shoestring"
Wednesday, April 14, 8 PM
presented by Kim and Jenny of Eufio.
In this hands-on event, Kim and Jenny from Eufio will talk about how to get your punk band off the ground.

Rock Concert
Thursday, April 15 , 7 PM
the Whole Music Club (basement of Coffman Union)
Free for U students, $5 for non-U guests
Please join us for an amazing line-up of hot local music. This showcase
features local bands: Running on Empty, Coach
Said Not To, Eufio, Luke's Angels, and Ellis.