Bring Out Your Dead!

Right, See you next Thursday then.
Okay I stole it so shoot me.

Hello(just because I like doing pictures)

Mmhmm...

I now own Relient K's latest album Mmhmm. It is very good, although it is not quite on par with Nothing is Sound but then again the two bands have different things they're trying to communicate. For instance, K is singing about breaking up their girlfriend while Switchfoot is singing The Blues. But enough compare and contrast this is Relient K's spotlight. The lyrics of Mmhmm are witty and heartfelt ditties about, trite as this might sound, tripping, falling and getting back up again all the while losing their girlfriends in the process. That was an oversimplification but you get the idea, to put it into other words Relient K focuses on the physical side of life while Switchfoot takes care of the metaphysical. You dear reader will have to forgive me for my comparing the two bands but in my mind I cannot talk about one without the other. But back to the album; Mmhmm's music takes sort of a pop-punk standpoint on the world backing the lyrics with catchy riffs and hooks along with a few surprises on the way, like the banjo in Which to Bury, Us or The Hatchet. All in all the album is quite good just and my only complaint is that sometimes the music seems to have ADD and they just jump in to quickly but that is only a small quibble. Stand-out tracks: Be My Escape, I So Hate Consequences, More Than Useless, Which to Bury, Us or The Hatchet, Who I Am Hates Who I've Been.

Here it is.

A few weeks ago I was going to put up a link to a really interesting article but it wasn't online yet so I have waited and now here it is.

That's strange

Why does it seem that while it seems almost all the great poets are men (i.e. The Mentor Book of Major British poets has something like a 20/2 ratio), women seem to identify more with poetry?

High School

School has taken me by storm. Last year was a cake walk compared with the stuff I am going through. Well, it might not be that hard it is just that my books apparently conspired against me planning all the work for Friday. I mean my English book might at least have asked me to choose a poet at the start of the week so I could get acquainted with it but no drop the bomb on Thursday forcing me to do all the research that day and leaving the writing for Friday which I might add has a HUGE biology test. For an example of the scale of the test the first question asks me to define fifteen terms and then moves on to ask twenty-two more questions. And since I have been starting school so late I end school late in the afternoon leaving a small amount of time to read and be on the computer and stuff, you know. Well I shouldn't complain it is just a much larger work load then I am used to that's all. Anyway for you nuts out there U2 is performing at exactly 12:37 a.m. Friday morning (my time) on Conan O'Brien on NBC just so you know.