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demon_semen @ 2009-07-15T13:32:00

2009-07-15T17:33:12Z

demon_semen @ 2009-05-07T11:07:00

2009-05-07T15:07:37Z

I owe New Paltz 0 dollars

demon_semen @ 2009-04-21T19:25:00

2009-04-21T23:27:09Z

SUNY New Paltz just sent me an e-mail to my New Paltz E-mail address letting me know that I have an E-mail address. I graduate in Four Weeks. I started matriculating here in August 2005, and came back again in August 2007, and they decide i need to be reminded in 2009 that I have an e-mail address.

yahoo news is good too

2009-03-28T21:36:25Z

BANGKOK (AFP) – A Thai fireman turned superhero when he dressed up as comic-book character Spider-Man to coax a frightened eight-year-old from a balcony, police said Tuesday.
Teachers at a special needs school in Bangkok alerted authorities on Monday when an autistic pupil, scared of attending his first day at school, sat out on the third-floor ledge and refused to come inside, a police sergeant told AFP.
Despite teachers' efforts to beckon the boy inside, he refused to budge until his mother mentioned her son's love of superheroes, prompting fireman Sonchai Yoosabai to take a novel approach to the problem.
The rescuer dashed back to his fire station and made a quick change into a Spider-Man costume before returning to the boy, he said.
"I told him Spider-Man is here to rescue you, no monsters are going to attack you and I told him to walk slowly towards me as running could be dangerous," Somchai told local television.
The young boy immediately stood up and walked into his rescuer's arms, police said.
Somchai said he keeps the Spider-Man costume and an outfit of Japanese television character Ultraman at the station in order to liven up school fire drills.

demon_semen @ 2009-03-28T17:34:00

2009-03-28T21:35:25Z

imdb ftw

2009-03-09T03:52:13Z

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0702584/

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-02-27T17:35:06Z

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0693221/

demon_semen @ 2009-02-24T18:27:00

2009-02-24T23:28:30Z

I'm pretty sure someone just stole my backpack. Goodbye I-Pod, Goodbye TI-84, Goodbye semesters worth of notes FUCK

this video is made of win

2009-02-20T19:24:48Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE5Y3AJpL6g&eurl=http://www.tmz.com/&feature=player_embedded

demon_semen @ 2009-02-17T12:55:00

2009-02-17T17:55:41Z

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0681918/

demon_semen @ 2009-02-09T11:42:00

2009-02-09T16:43:57Z

The hot water in my house is not working. In order to avoid being the smelly kid at school I had to wash myself with a tub full of hot water from a kettle. I've never felt more like someone in a refugee camp.

Shonka Tonk

2008-12-12T05:09:22Z

1. Put your iTunes on shuffle.

2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.

3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!

4. Tag 10 friends who might enjoy doing the same as well as the person you got the note from

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
No Hard Feelings- The Bloodhound Gang

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Night Swimming REM

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
The Wind- PJ Harvey

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Dear Catastrophe Waitress- Belle and Sebastian

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Bittersweet Symphony- The Verve

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Add it Up- The Violent Femmes

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Time is Running Out- Muse

WHAT IS 2+2?
Expectations- Belle and Sebastian

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Play Your Part (Part 1)- Girl Talk

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
I Wish I Was Queer so I Could Get Chicks- The Bloodhound Gang

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Collapse- Sparta

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Just What I Needed- The Cars

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Gut Feeling- Devo

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Come to My Window- Melissa Etheridge (Yikes)

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Say it Ain't So- Weezer (that sounds depressing)

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Nathan Jones- The Supremes

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
"I Want You"- Bob Dylan

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Last Night- The Strokes

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things)- Martha Reeves & the Vandellas

WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
The Golden Road (to Unlimited Devotion)- The Grateful Dead

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell- The Flaming Lips

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Smiling Faces Sometimes -Undisupted Truth

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Heres to the Night- Eve 6

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Free Falling- Tom Petty

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Pictures of You- The Cure

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
What is Love- Haddaway (Lmao)

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise- The Beatles (Love remix)

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Clarissa- Mindless Self Indulgence

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
She Ain't Got the Boom Like I Do- Blaque and Destinys Child

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Shonka Tonk- Sloppy Meateaters

demon_semen @ 2008-10-10T10:13:00

2008-10-10T14:15:33Z

Mickey Rourke spilled blood in his latest movie role as a wrestler - by deliberately cutting himself with a blade during a fight scene.

The Angel Heart star taped a razor blade to his wrist and sliced his face as the cameras rolled, to make his part in upcoming film The Wrestler more realistic.

His co-star Wass Stevens tells the New York Daily News that Rourke took the drastic action after hearing how real-life fighters sometimes faked injury - to the delight of fans watching.

Wass says, "So Mickey taped a blade to his forearm, and when the time was right, sliced his forehead."

Let me just say that I thought Mickey Rourke was Mickey Rooney, which led me to have the most perplexed looks on my face I think I'll ever have.

demon_semen @ 2008-03-23T11:48:00

2008-03-23T15:49:19Z

heres a picture of a baby kangaroo! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Joey_in_pouch.jpg/711px-Joey_in_pouch.jpg

demon_semen @ 2008-03-21T17:26:00

2008-03-21T21:27:42Z

The time I spend on papers is always 10% work 90% procrastination.

demon_semen @ 2008-02-16T00:32:00

2008-02-16T05:44:44Z

My moms uncle was recently put in a nursing home because of his Alzheimers, his room at his home he'd lived in since childhood was unnavgable because of all of the towers of books he had laying around. His collection was probably the closest I've ever seen to a personal library. (if i haven't embellished the fact enough i will be straight forward with you and say that he has easily over 1,000 books) His sister wants to move out of the house now and is getting rid of all of these books. My mom has had boxes of them in her car for the past few weeks, and has told me i can keep ten. Which really isn't as easy as it sounds, especially not knowing how often i'll be able to make selections. Also my uncle was a like uber polyglot before he got sick, so amongst the books in my moms car are dozens of foreign language guides. I really wish I could keep them all. He has instructional guides, grammar books, and dictionaries for Swedish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Gaelic, Persian, Swahili, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Czech, Russian, Japanese, Thai, Romanian, Polish, Greek, and this Mali language called Mam. And those are just the ones I can list off the top of my head. This is a bigger dilemma than any Nelly ever sung of. Considering a) how indecisive i am, b) how much of a pack rat I am, c) how sentimental I am, I really am considering stashing a box of books somewhere until I move out.
(other notable finds that I am definitely keeping are a history of swearing, a book on the history of wine, this huge dictionary for polyglots, and this Virgil book).
All the books I don't pick out are going to the library, but even though that seems like a charitable donation i am kind of paranoid they're just going to be sold and thrown out.
If anyone would like any books on any particular language, or if theres any particular type of book you'd like me to keep an eye out for let me know, these books go way back to the 1920s too.

demon_semen @ 2008-01-13T02:14:00

2008-01-13T07:15:00Z

1Shimmy Shimmy Ya- Old Dirty Bastard
2 Bingo- MIA
3Eyes- Rogue Wave
4 If I Fell- The Beatles
5Airplane-Filter
6 February 15th- Bright Eyes
7Digital Love- Daft Punk
8Over the Hills and Far Away- Led Zeppelin
9Little Red Corvette- Prince
10These Days- Nico
11Nowhere to Run -Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
12How it Ends - Devotchka
13It's Gonna take a Miracle- Laura Nyro
14Burn It Blue -Caetano Veloso
15Don't Let it Bring You Down -Neil Young
16I Saw the Light- Todd Rundgren
17Crimson and Clover- Tommy James & the Shondells
18 More than This- Roxxy
19Everything Ends- The Books
track list for cd to be burned

homegrown

2007-12-18T05:28:00Z

1One television text that I would consider apt for analysis would be Showtime’s hit series Weed. This show centers around the life of Nancy Botwin a young widowed suburbanite who struggles maintain her privileged lifestyle she has grown accustomed to following her husbands death. In order to keep her live in maid, her swimming pool, and her spacious home Nancy resorts to dealing marijuana in her gated community. What begins as her involvement small dealing operation turns into her butting heads with small cartels, and Nancy becoming a fairly well known grower and seller. Nancy is forced to manage all of this added stress on top of dealing with her responsibilities as a mother, a position which is one of considerable stress alone. As one could imagine Nancy’s involvement in this lifestyle eventually has repercussions that are felt by her and her family members. I would really enjoy writing a rhetorical analysis of the show Weed’s, and in doing so would explore the character of Nancy and whether the message sent out through her characters storylines are feminist or post-feminist.
    Likely I would begin the paper discussing how Weed’s relates to other TV show’s that focus on working women such as Murphy Brown, and Mary Tyler Moore. I would analyze how the shows relate to each other, and discuss how a show like Weeds would not be possible without trail blazing shows like Mary Tyler Moore before it. Obviously Weeds is different than the two shows because of the illegal nature of Nancy’s work, the concept of an industrious woman entering a male dominated field remains prevalent. A great portion of the analysis would be a character analysis of Nancy Botwin herself, in which I would explore her personality, by analyzing her character attributes, her psychological states, and the overall theme of her characters storyline up until now.
    When discussing her positive characteristics specifically I would address Nancy’s intuition and cunning, as is evidenced by her rapid professional success on the show. In doing so I would cite her success at networking, and her ability to manipulate those around her. Examples I would use to support my would be the in the first season episode “The Godmother”, also I would discuss the episode “MILF Money” in which Nancy’s business reaches new heights and she starts to lucratively reap from what she’s sewn. Nancy not only has a good deal of foresight when it comes to her business, but she also is quick thinking and resilient. Problems she has to deal with in the series include blackmailing campus security officers, accidentally entering a relationship with a DEA agent, threats from rival dealers, and competition from legal grow stores, and that is in the first season alone. Despite her lack of experience Nancy’s quick thinking and diligence allow her to succeed in a world that is widely unknown to her.
    However Nancy has negative characteristics to discuss as well that directly correlate to her psychological state.. Similar to Murphy Brown, Nancy has difficulty balancing working and being a mother. However her situation differs (legality and risk factor aside) in that while Murphy’s professional life suffers as she becomes a mother, Nancy’s family life suffers as she becomes industrious. Nancy recognizes the fact that her work is putting her and her family in a great deal of jeopardy. Motivation for her work includes desperation following financial devastation. Prior to the series Nancy had been happily married for 17 years, and was a dedicated member of the PTA up until her husbands death left her near penniless after being ripped off by her insurance. Nancy is very attached to her lifestyle and not having an education uses dealing as a way to ensure that her home life will not change. Ther is materialism evident on her part as she also rewards herself with fancy hybrid cars, and expensive jewelry when she prospers. However as she becomes preoccupied with keeping them financially stable she begins to be neglectful of them. In the third season episode “Risk” Nancy’s youngest son Shane starts going off the deep end and claims to be communicating with his dead father, as Silas returns home having been badly beaten by bikers who Nancy had ended business with. Nancy reaches low points in which she feels a level of self-disgust for what she perceives as a failure at motherhood, but she continues on the track she’s on anyway trapped to a degree by her bourgeois upbringing.
    Weeds explores a modern woman’s journey as she delves into a lifestyle one would not associate with a upper middle class woman. While Nancy is a sympathetic character, she is not perfect and commits some actions that are reprehensible. While the quality of her parenting can be called to doubt, her love for her kids is boundless. Ultimately I would conclude that while Nancy’s lifestyle is far from normal, and may be damaging that she is not a post-feminist character. Nancy does not have the same level of opportunities as Murphy Brown, and Mary Tyler Moore, and while all shows feature women conflicting with working, I believe that Nancys character has more at stake as she deals in both senses of the term.

demon_semen @ 2007-11-21T10:40:00

2007-11-21T15:40:47Z

Nye Requests Restraining Order Against Former Fiancee

TV star Bill Nye has requested a restraining order against his former fiancee after she allegedly tried to poison him. Nye, also known as Bill Nye, The Science Guy, sought the order in a Los Angeles court on September 4, after spotting his ex, Blair Tindal, dressed in black and acting suspiciously near his home. The order would prevent Tindal from coming near his California house and contacting him. The legal papers filed state Tindal "emerged from my backyard... carrying two plastic bottles filled with some sort of solvent. Apparently she was trying to poison my plants including some vegetable(s). She fled on foot and then a car sped away from the scene." Tindal had driven by his house twice in the previous three weeks. Nye also complained in an abuse report that Tindal "left a coffee pot on my porch" on August 16. However, Tindal filed a response on November 13, disagreeing with the terms of the restraining order. A hearing has been set for December 20.

demon_semen @ 2007-10-16T02:40:00

2007-10-16T06:41:13Z

New decade. Hopefully I won't take this one passively.

asian film essay

2007-09-24T05:27:46Z

Zhang Yimou’s film “Hero” interprets the myth of the assassin Jim Ke through the Wuxiá genre. Wuxia is a classically honored genre in China, that involves martial artistry, romance, and an element of fantasy. “Hero” utilized the legend of Jim Ke to convey messages of moral subjectivity, utilitarianism, romance, and unification. The theme that I felt received particular emphasis was utilitarianism, however I believed that there were negative aspects to this theme. My suspicions were confirmed when I read about the mistranslation from Chinese to English, the phrase that was translated as “Our Land” really translates to “all under heaven”. While it is interesting to gain an insight to an Eastern take on manifest destiny I personally do not agree with this philosophy. Overall I did not enjoy the movie, although it was not by any means awful. The cinematography, set design, costuming, and special effects definitely succeeded in creating a chic film. However, in my opinion, the writing was not exceptionally substantive. I found many scenes melodramatic, and some carried on for far too long. I was unable to relate to these characters who were too archetypal to invoke sympathy. My impression of the film is likely largely shaped by my dislike of the action genre. I have a difficult time suspending disbelief while watching a film unless I am watching a comedy, or something which is completely supernatural or surreal. This film came out in China in 2002 and was likely popular due to the fact that it tells an inspiring origin to the country’s unification and furthers nationalist cause. Also, this film probably drew attention due to the controversy aroused by the theme of reunification. Whereas in the United States I think this film was popular because it’s American release was sponsored by Quentin Tarantino, and featured action sequences like those popularized by the Wachowski brothers. The film was a financial success in China because it’s Chinese audience was motivated by self-interest. Whereas the film’s United States audience was more likely interested in the film because they could associate it with a big name (Tarantino), and could draw similarities to a popular American film series (“the Matrix Trilogy”).

demon_semen @ 2007-08-21T22:52:00

2007-08-22T02:53:05Z

You scored as Thor,

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Loki

80%

Thor

80%

Bragi

70%

Freya

70%

Njord

70%

Balder

60%

Heimdall

40%

Odin

40%

Skadi

40%

Freyr

40%

Frigg

30%

Tyr

20%

Sif

20%

Hel

20%

Which Norse God or Goddess are you most like?
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demon_semen @ 2007-08-13T20:39:00

2007-08-14T00:43:32Z

Overall this has been a very important summer, it happened out of no where, and it's ending's going to be bittersweet.
Somethings were great like renewing old friendships, and never having a dull moment. But somethings were severly lacking greatness like having to put a cat and a dog to sleep within the same week. Everythings changing for better or worse, but when everything is changing there is never more opportunity.
I'm very excited to returnt to New Paltz, even commuting should be amazing. For some reason I'm thinking back to the fall of freshmen year of college, and Thanksgiving break. It was only six days long but I remember how longed it seemed to be away from everyone, and how unhappy we all were about it. Now six days has been nothing, but I am looking forward to seeing everyone so much that six days will seem like eternity.
SO MUCH POTENTIAL!

demon_semen @ 2007-06-25T01:25:00

2007-06-25T05:33:23Z

i really like peaches but i just saw a picture of her and think i've found her soul mate

a little random

2007-06-25T01:18:20Z

Just because I'm bored I think i'm going to list a thing of things that I really love:
High ceilings
Velvet
Lying in sand
Moist hot cookies
Rubbing stuffed animals on my face
running into anyone unexpectedly
Pacing
The feeling of warn down rock
The feeling of water drying up by the sun on your skin
Peanut butter anything
Putting shells up to my ear
Warming up my feet after they're really cold
Eating snow
Peppermint
Dancing!

I remember when i was little and my brothers were home, or just I was home with my mother and there was nothing to do she'd blast mo-town or disco, or some music from back in the day and we'd all dance like spazzes around in my living room.
Even if my dad was home from work my mom would stop him and dance with him too. I loved it when my parents would spin me. I can't remember specific times really, nor can I remember the last time it happened. But it's odd smiling looking back on that realizing that the only thing thats stopped that from occurring is age, and the changes that have occurred in us. It's weird to reminisce about something impossible to recreate.