"According to McCabe's research team, white male undergraduates at highly competitive schools - especially in the Northeast - are the most frequent collegiate users of neuroenhancers. Users are also more likely to belong to a fraternity or a sorority, and to have a G.P.A. of 3.0 or lower. They are ten times as likely to report that they have smoked marijuana in the past year, and twenty times as likely to say that they have used cocaine. In other words, they are decent students at schools where, to be a great student, you have to give up a lot more partying than they're willing to give up."

-"Brain Gain" by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker

i always knew it.

rock the bells dates announced!!!!!!
july 18- boston.
july 19- nyc.
trying to do both.

too soon?

pete reminded me...

5th category - concert videos

which means, i guess, that there are 6 rap video categories.

all rap videos can be divided into one of four categories:
1. baller/pimp (sometimes on a boat; cristal is featured)
2. action movie (lots of guns/possible shootout with cops)
3. love story (any usher video where he's probably sitting on a bed)
4. in the hood (getting back to the streets, close-up shot of spinning rims/dice games necessary)

i suppose there's also the video with any blank white or black background that's meant to be artistic and minimalistic (think snoop and pharrell in "drop it like it's hot").

...or that d'angelo video.

"So when I saw you in her robe and slippies, you weren't trying to get into her head...You were trying to get into her...ROBE AND SLIPPIES!"

-buster bluth

according to wikipedia, tracy morgan has the words Stove Top tattooed on his penis.

imagine if you can
what it is like to have no possessions at all
nothing
very few people are able
to imagine such a thing
to have nothing at all
well let us
you and i
try to imagine something
a hundred times harder
not just to have nothing at all
but when there was nothing at all
the very beginning of time
the dawn of history
page one
nothing at all
the earth itself
without form
a void
only an emptiness
formless
a dark endless waste of water
no living thing
no plant or tree
no bird or animal
nothing
this is before people
before anything at all
a void
sitting silence
still
and then
nothing.

-lemon jelly, "page one"

when the stress burns my brain
just like acid raindrops
maryjane is the only thing
that makes the pain stop

-people under the stairs, "acid raindrops"

i might get a haircut.

"But what else is one to do at college except drink beer or slash your wrists?"

-The Rules of Attraction

just bought lemon jelly.ky by lemon jelly. i hate giving itunes my money, but this was necessary.

oh, and happy 420!

read this because it's funny.

modern art.

new background of my laptop.

We Live In Public

"On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of 'the greatest Internet pioneer you've never heard of,' visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director, Ondi Timoner (DIG!), documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade, to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives."

"Josh Harris, often called the 'Warhol of the Web,' founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-come boom of the 1990s. He also created his vision of the future: an underground bunker in NYC where 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days over the turn of the millennium. (The project, named QUIET, also became the subject of Ondi Timoner's first cut of her documentary about Harris. Her film shared the project's name.) With Quiet, Harris proved how, in the not-so-distant future of life online, we will willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including another six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price we will all pay for living in public."

more nyc.

"I came to New York for two things: to get to Africa and to find LSD."

-Lauren Hutton, actress

nyc.

"The first night I moved here, I met Madonna. She walked up to me at the opening of Club USA with a lollipop and a beer, and she was like, "Hmmm, you look cute." And I was like, "You're Madonna!" I'm like, This is New York. Wow."

-Richie Rich, designer

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

-ernest hemingway

i was in seventh grade when i heard the slim shady lp.

"Whatever the case may be, it's a tragedy for the entire City of New York, which relies heavily on the Beatrice to each night safely stow away some 125 of its most fucking annoying citizens, so the rest of us don't have to deal with them."

-Gawker

okay and number 2, being fucked up is not an excuse to piss in the goddamn fish tank

hi this is a message for sean
i don't know if i am going to be able to deliver this very well
but um here it goes
can't understand the compatibility between a rat and a monkey
because eight years changes your whole mentality
and can i ask how many times was it your subconscious mind
that made the decision
that resulted in the unwanted confrontations
the parking violations
and the boy with the arab strap
listening to the dead air on the radio
trying to decide which exit to take on the I-94
feeling kinda lost
having misplaced the directions say
still three circles
careful not to lair
one week later i find out i've got the whole rest of my life to live
but nothings for certain i could die tomorrow
and i don't know if you know who this is
but i can smell the liquor on your breath
i was just wondering if you might like to sit
and talk
about the carpet and the ceiling for a while.

-atmosphere, "molly cool"