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Leaving
Liz
I’m leaving Boston tomorrow. It’s a strange feeling. This place has been my home for the last 4 years. I’m in the process of packing. I can only take as much as I can reasonably fit in my car. How do you decide what things you will need for the next 6 months, and what can sit in storage until you can come back for it? Can my stuffed animal come?
I’m sad to be going. I didn’t realize how familiar everything around here has become. I know all the shortcuts to get around on my bike, and I think I may have even mastered the art of driving in Boston (though I still get lost sometimes). Almost everyone I know is here–my friends in my hometown have long since drifted away to their own adventures. But then again, all of my friends here who graduated this year have also moved on. I’m one of the last who is still in the Boston area.
So there is nothing to do but start my own adventure.
Step one: shove worldly possessions into car.
Step two: …..
Step three: Adventure!
Album Review: Red Album by Weezer
Ben
As any geeky kid who ever had a 12-sided die will tell you, Weezer is awesome…or at least used to be. But what about now? I liked the single they released: Pork and Beans. But I’ve heard bad things about this new album. Below I’ll give a track by track review of the new album.
Track 1: Troublemaker
Yea this one is pretty horrible, and gets grating after a minute or so.
Track 2: ummmmmm why does this sound like Girlyman? Oh. Ooops.
Track 2: The Greatest Man That Ever Lived
Started off HORRIBLY. But then during the Choir section I action really liked it. Then Rivers came in singing in a falsetto… :<
Why is he stupidly quoting shakespeare?
Track 3: Pork and Beans
Excellent. Pure Weezer goodness. Simple and catchy with a hint of El Scorcho.
Track 4: Heart Songs
Eh. The lyrics are pretty dismally trite. It’s sad cause I feel like the sound they are creating is overused and overly generic. It’s not that I don’t like “Pop Weezer”, but this just isn’t very good. But I could maybe see this song growing on me. The ending is extremely reminiscent of old weezer. To the point where it’s like they are teasing me with good music.
Track 5: Everybody Get Dangerous
This is just troubling, it’s almost like that other song Hashpipe (which I also disliked). And what is this Sympathy for the devil stuff at the end?
Track 6: Dreamin’
I liked this song better when it had the muppets.
Track 7: Thought I Knew
Um, who’s singing? This sounds like the absolutely worst Guster song I’ve ever heard. No, I’m sorry Guster would never have a song this bad, Guster could sing about cookies and I’d be happy.
Track 8: Cold Dark World
LA la la laaaa La la laaaa la la…oh sorry it was the same opening as an Architecture in Helsinki song. This song is bad. This album is not looking good.
Track 9: Automatic
:< This isn’t Rivers either. Bad.
Track 10: The Angel and The One
Good start! Will they screw it up? No. The first good song since Pork and Beans.
Track 11: Miss Sweeney
It’s weird…I think I might like it, but I honestly am not sure.
Track 12: Pig
I actually liked it. I thought I wasn’t going to, but you really need to listen to the entire song before you make the call.
Track 13: The Spider
Too slow. Wrong sound for them.
Track 14: King
Wow, I really like the intro. Not-Rivers sounds good for the first time. It reminds me of Kill Bill for some reason? This is the best song on the CD but it sounds nothing like a Weezer song, honestly it’s like I’m listening to a different band. That being said, if this One song is a hint of a new direction they are thinking about moving in, then I strongly support it. Listen to it here.
Is this how it begins? My parents don’t listen to much music, and to be totally honest I don’t know many adults who do. Is it just that they follow the bands that they grew up with until they either a) broke up or b) got dismally worse and worse?
Also, am I an adult yet? Maybe more importantly – to me at least – am I a physicist now?
aww
Ben
#returning a "tuple" or nothing if plane<3: return listOfObjects, evtList
Awwwwwwww, if plane loves returning listOfObjects, we all get an evtList…how cute.
And then I Found Twenty Dollars
William
So, Ruth and I are still on the beach. Our kayak rentals are expiring this morning, so I got up at six to make a little more fun before returning them. Ruth was too tired to go, so I went fishing instead. The bait fish were schooling like I have never seen before, and I even saw some kind of large ray swimming along the beach. I caught one fish and then the school moved on, so I gave up and went back to the beach house. I spotted some dolphins chasing the fish, and I did the only logical thing–running wildly down the beach chasing the dolphin. This could not go on forever, so I stopped and stared into the surf. And then I found 20 dollars. For reals.
Perhaps I should donate it to some dolphin research or protection fund. Any ideas?
Kayaking with Ruth and Shark
William
Ruth and I are vacationing in Florida with my mother’s side of the family for a week. I rented some kayak’s for a couple of days, and we have been having great fun with them. They are the sit-on-top ocean type and are really easy to use. We headed out east this morning along the shoreline toward the Coffeen nature preserve. Huge groups of fish were schooling and jumping out of the water, and it was pretty amazing to paddle through them. The larger fish circle around the smaller ones and forced them to the surface where they can more easily attack them. This whole spectacle was pretty awesome until a much bigger fish, specifically a five-foot long sand shark, spotted us. I stopped splashing my paddles, and the shark approached from the rear of my kayak doing that wide swooping, swimming motion that is so scary to watch from above. He came with in about four feet of my boat, but decided we were not worth eating as we were drifting away from “his” school of fish.
.mit.edu
Do you know how hard it is to break the habit of typing “.mit.edu” after every computer name? I swear, I should just change my shell so that .mit.edu always gets replaced by .cern.ch.
