Well I called this one before the election...

It looks like the Obama Administration is already rethinking the deadline for withdrawl from Iraq.
(via The Daily Dish)
I truly feel bad for those who even partially based their vote for Obama on withdrawl. In my mind there are two stances on the Iraq situation. You either say that we shouldn't leave Iraq until they can fully defend themselves without our help. This won't be in Obama's first term, and probably not even in the next decade. So now taking that stance is saying that it is ok to indefinately occupy another country...aka empirialism. Doesn't seem very American does it? The other stance is to set an ACTUAL deadline for withdrawl, and plan for the blowback that will occur sooner than later. I admit, this sucks pretty bad too, but in my opinion it is a step in the right direction. It is a message to the world that we made a mistake that we intend not to make again.
I had hoped Obama realized this, but I'm afraid he hasn't. Hopefully (as Ive said before) I'm wrong.

Open Doors

All my friends are forward-thinking,
getting hitched and quitting drinking.
And I can feel them pulling away as
I'm resigned to stay the same

And you can't even begin to know
How many times I've told myself "I told you so."
And you can't even begin to believe
There's so many bridges engulfed in flames behind me.

The new death cab ep is so great. Sad lyrics set to happy music. You should listen.

Pity, take pity on me.
Cause I'm not half the man that I should be.
Always turning to run
From the people I should not be afraid of.

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And when my mirror speaks it never minces words
Because these eyes don't shine half as bright
As they used to and they haven't for quite some time.

Because I'm a man who hides from all that binds
And a mess of fading lines
And there's a tangled thread inside my head
With nothing on either end.

I always fall in love with an open door
With a horizon on an endless sea
As I look around the ones who were standing right in front of me.

Domestic Abuse w/ a Twist

Funny stuff from the people at What Would Tyler Durden Do? - My source for all Hollywood Gossip.

Important Things

So I just watched Demetri Martin's new show "Important Things with Demetri Martin," and it was great. He's probably my favorite standup comedian out there right now, but I was afraid that the skits and stuff would just be stupid. (some of them were) But overall it was a great show...I'd choose it over the crap thats been coming out of SNL world any day of the week.
Go check it out on YouTube before they take it down.




















My dog has no legs, yet we still need a leash.

This is the worlds biggest Big Mac, in the Big Mac museum, in some McDonalds in Indiana. I was sad to realize it was made of plastic.

Bale Out

New term...check it out, and spread it around.

In case you haven't heard, the story in reference is here.
(warning: very angry man, possibly roid-raging for the cause of terminator, spewing words you'd never use around grandma)

25 things.

1. I hate this kinds of things.
2. I hate when people start these kinds of things the way I just did.
3. But I wanted to waste a few of these facts since I'm not really that interesting.
4. I have no idea what I'm doing with my life. That's upsetting.
5. My parents separated a few years ago. That's also upsetting.
6. I miss living in Philly pretty often.
7. There is a strange disconnection between girls I'm interested in, and girls that are interested in me. Sometimes these two variables cross paths, but only for a little while. That's the best way I can explain it.
8. I wish I had the balls to talk to pretty girls in public places. Like they do in the movies.
9. I'm pretty introverted.
10. I normally say really awkward things to strangers...mostly because I'm caught off guard that they are talking to me.
11. I am working on writing a screenplay. I have about ten pages/minutes done.
12. I often wish I majored in something other than music.
13. I don't want college to end.
14. I love movies but I'm very selective: I wouldn't say I've seen every movie ever, and at times I'm annoyingly snobbish and even prejudice about movies I think are bad.
15. I love playing drums, but I'm probably more interested in songwriting, but I can't sing or play guitar very well.
16. I'm not very impressed with music in the past year, but I hate when people only like classic rock.
17. I'm pretty unmotivated. Especially when it comes to homework.
18. I'm one of those crazy third party kind of guys. Socially liberal and fiscally conservative, hence Libertarian, but there are some ani war, socially liberal Republicans that I like: Ron Paul.
19. I care more about my ideals than I do my neighbor. I need to fix this.
20. I want to get involved in helping people in need...but I do nothing about it.
21. I'm a Christian. I'm sometimes embarrassed by some mainstream "Christian" ideals...especially the judgmental, hypocritical kinds.
22. I care too much about what people think about me. I wish I didnt. I look up to people like freegans.
23. I'd like to play drums in a band and make money doing it, but it's unlikely to happen.
24. If my parents hadn't separated I probably would have moved to Nashville by now.
25. I don't understand why ice hockey is so unpopular in America.
25.5. I'll probably come up with a whole bunch more when I'm in the shower or walking to class, since that is when I do most of my pondering.

Time for a new phone...

and what better than a phone from the genius electronic makers of canada?
Check this guy out!