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[frontdispatches]

Ah, friends.

It’s been awhile since last I posted, and we’re in finals now.

Last week was a good one (graceful, restful), and it marked a pleasant conclusion to the otherwise revolutionary month of May, in which altogether too many things (most of which were stressful) happened; indeed, the turbulence of the past four weeks was entirely

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[thewolpertinger]

i really want to see ¡Viva La República! I have a feeling i might hate it, though.

Also, while i somewhat agree that Life After Humans would have been better as a straight doc, we do need a bit more of the alarmism in our lives... because no one seems to give a fuck and there IS a problem.

[frontdispatches]

it's your lucky day - if you know spanish. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Luk99QAQOc4

re: life after humans - i agree about alarmism, but life after humans basically skipped addressing any of the matters that might be relevant to improving the actual situation. instead, it only seemed to take bizarre, almost erotic pleasure in describing, precisely, what would happen if we all just managed to disappear. it was kind of silly in that sense, in that if we ALL disappear and no one is left, then who cares what happens to the remnants of our civilizations? if there will never be any one around to enjoy the mona lisa, then who cares if she's kept or not? dunno, dunno. how are you, sir?

[thewolpertinger]

Ha, I guess I have an incentive to learn Spanish now

[frontdispatches]

aww, but having little left can't be that bad. old percy would only a minor anecdote in a more detailed biography section of critical editions of 'frankenstein' were it not for old ozymandias

[lasdesperadas]

no, this is the greatest music video you've ever seen:

[poesian]

Who the fuck is in that music video? Woah.

Also, that kid is a crazy. A year-and-a-half of his life wasted at 16?!

Also, this one's pretty amazing. (However, although she wrote it, this version is certainly the better.)

[frontdispatches]

isn't she crazy-pretty? her name is matina sorbara, and she's a canadian singer-songwriter-daughter-of-an-M.P.

pssssh, hardly a waste. and, methinks, a far better adventure than, you know, puberty and prom.

hahaha, robin's [ex?]-g.f. used to be OBSESSED with this song. that ukelele version is brilliant; i love the beginning - "you know why they call it modern jazz? because the word 'crap' was already taken."

[poesian]

By "bay" do they mean from the UK? I'm confused about what building that's supposed to be.

Yeah, she's pretty, but I like the Russian flavor. Duh.

I disagree. Maybe. Or, rather, this kid will be a worthless human being. I don't know; it sounds similar to Into the Wild in some ways -- he's running away from society (albeit slightly more prepared) and not doing anything useful. I guess I could counter that by asking what useful things the rest of us are doing, and that's a good point even, but I just feel like adventuring as a lifetime goal is good for The Atlantic articles and not much more.

[frontdispatches]

eh? what bay