okay, here goes. i was in the car listening to my 1 of 2 actually decent radio stations (and the other being NPR). they were playing their usual awesome rockin when suddenly nirvana’s in bloom came on and i began to think about a certain person i know because for a perioud of time he lived straight out of bellingham, washington, which is roughly 90 miles from seattle, during an explosive time in music history for certain group of people. for example, i suppose you could call the boy band thing a blip in the music history, but did it affect one certain group over another? and i’m not talking about if it affected an entire generation. for example, growing up in your teens while living in liverpool during the mid sixies is kinda what i see my bro, as having been in washington during the time of "all eyes on seattle" because every freaking top song on the radio and mtv is a band from there, and every new band after them sounds exactly like them. that makes him kind of as someone who will go through life being able to say, “i lived through something extraordinary.” kind of like if you were in WWI or II, i saw it happen in dallas that sunny november day, i was in the WTC the day of. now in no way am i putting a comparison between seattle and all the ones above, but what i’m saying is that they are kind of in a class of their own. i am a firm believer that music, with a huge population of the world (unsure if more or less than majority), shapes their lives completely, in style of clothes, walk, talk, look, morals, likes, dislikes, etc. do you think hicks would be hicks without kuntry musik? its certainly not living in texas that does because i know there are plenty of suburban hicks not living in texas or the country or the south, or the midwest. so the kuntry influences the suburamite wife, which makes her make him listen to it, which he finds kinda catchy, which makes him watch CMT, which makes him start to like nascar, which makes him hang out with the rednecks buddies at the office, which makes him go to a truck show when they come to the city, which makes him go to a rodeo, which makes him a stinky cowbowy. see what music does to a person? and of course it is an extreme exaggeration, but you can’t tell me that at some point in your life, music hasn’t pretty much completely shaped you. so because the huge impact music has on a person’s life, i feel that if you are living in a city where something happens that shapes music in such a way the all of the population is affected and it changes the way music is forever played and just changes the people, then that belongs in the history books as people who lives through something really amazing (good or bad) in history. And no, not just the history of pop culture. then i starting on about i would love to ask my brother about what it was like and if he misses it and so on. as nirvana contined to play along, i began to wonder off topic and just started thinking about the beatles anthology that came out like 10 years ago or something and how i had always wanted it ever since they played it all on tv for like 6 nights in a row or something crazy like that. then started thinking about how it would be cool to own all the histories of the big music things that i’ve been talking about on dvd. get something about living in new orleans during her day, or even something like vienna with beethoven? why stop there though? what about other huge events in human history? i would love to own dvds about the big things in life; stuff with meaning. even if that means going out and buying those dumb time warner time life national geographic videos, then that’s what that means. of course you’ll want to know why i want this craziness, but if you know me at all this won’t come as a shock. creating the utlimate dvd collection (to me of course) is something that i’m basically striving for in life right now. and i’m a huge fan of history and film and facts and numbers and all the other crap that bores so many out there aside from dads in their late 40s to early 50s. on my computer i have toooons of historical footage i’ve found from time to time. and i loooove showing people all this crap and telling the ear off of kim about all this crap and i know i’m such a loser for it. what i realized is that its time for another list!!!! after i have made my ultamite dvd collection for theatatrical movies, i will move on to another list, that being dvds about the big events of history. obviously, being that there is like 70 more dvds on my list today, i won’t be getting to that time, for a long time. but what i’m hoping for is that by the time that comes, i’ll be a tad older and really, really into this crap. i finally pulled into campus and kurt was coming to his end, then it was kind of funny because weezer’s say it ain’t so then came on. and just in case you are wondering, no, I don’t think that living in l.a. during the mid nineties when this geek/college/garage/rock/post-alternative thing was going on. i praise weezer, but i realize they aren’t they greatest band of all time. then i parked, walked to class, hopped on the comp, and typed away. not sure what the point of all this is or why i feel like I have to take an hour of my life to write it all. i guess kim could thank my brother for the fact that i’m now going to probably spend hundreds of dollars in the future on more useless crap (dvds).
please remember that this is just one of a zillion other opinions out there. this isn’t set in stone. if its was i’d be king. a lot of you are going to disagree with me about believing nirvana should get a mention in the history of us here beings, but get over it.
two people this time did their homework in stats; myself and this other guy who has been thrusting his fist in the air and yelling YEEEEeeeesss everytime the teachers goes over one he got right!!! that’s good and bad i guess. means that i’m gonna have to sit here and waste my time while he goes over every problem for these morons but it also means that i’ll be able to write all this without missing anything new in class.
so while the teacher does it for everyone, there is the guy next to me on a laptop and i heard his laptop make the sound when a little error message screen pops up. then i saw him just throw his hands up and yell, “son of a bitch!!”. he seems to be playing mike tyson’s punchout on his laptop now. then on my left is this wife helping her husband finish his homework. the professor made it well known earlier this semester that they don’t cheat because they got different scores on an exam once. well its pretty cute stuff going on next to me because she is getting frustrated because she is already done. she just took over his computer and mouse and is just doing it and showing him now. (that will all sound really sexual if you read it again starting from “well its pretty . . . “ she has now just been doing his homework for about 30 minutes now. she’s a very good wife. i have a very good wife.
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