si should i stay, o should i go

[rocknload]

I dislike a lot of what's going on in this post. And what the hell is happening in this thread: "What's sad is that even Fahrenheit 451 is coming true. They aren't burning the books, though. They're digitizing them, making them into convenient little travel sized bits that slowly but surely are never getting read again." What. Is Project Gutenberg really where the brutal, fascist dystopia begins?

Barely related, bitchy tangent: whenever someone brings up ebooks, someone else without fail brings up the wonderful ~smell~ of an old paper book. Dude, we get it. You wish you lived in a used stationary shop. Me, I sort of enjoy carrying dozens and dozens of free classics with me wherever I go, and I do it everyday. I guess that means I don't love books like you do, and I'm sorry for that.

In other news, I have school, it's terrible. Okay no, not really, but I think it might involve like, work and stuff, boo.

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[pretzelcoatl.livejournal.com]

Fucking pseudo-intellectualism how does it work

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

apparently all it takes is a complete lack of self-awareness

like bitching on a public post in an Internet community about how you don't want anyone else listening in on your conversations, ever

[pretzelcoatl.livejournal.com]

Between this and having to listen to too many people whine about how they don't care about things that they obviously took time out to complain about, I'm kind of full of hate for most Internet people this week. :P

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, the I DON'T CARE SO MUCH I WON'T EVER SHUT UP ABOUT IT tactic, which has never worked in the history of anything. Who was it this time?

[pretzelcoatl.livejournal.com]

A couple of people on my F-list responding to the Writer's Block about the VMAs.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Did anything worthwhile even happen? I tried to search for news about what people were talking about on Twitter but it all came up in Mandarin and I didn't care enough to force Google to spit stuff out in English.

... SHIT I JUST DID IT DIDN'T I

[pretzelcoatl.livejournal.com]

Taylor Swift apparently whined through song about how Kanye was mean to her but it's okay she forgives him and the hostess was unfunny and apparently Florence & the Machine kicked ass beyond all reason. That's all I know.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

THAT'S WAY MORE THAN ME I don't even know who Florence & the Machine is, and I don't mean that in an I AM TOO COOL TO KNOW POP MUSICIANS way. I have seriously never heard those words in that order.

[unicorn]

THEY'RE PRETTY OKAY

THEY WERE IN THE JENNIFER'S BODY SOUNDTRACK