Final Countdown

Posting will probably be sporadic for the next few weeks - Finals start on Monday and I'm ear deep in trying to study for them and also write a 25-page paper. Whilst studying I've been composing a nothing-short-of-brilliant post about good study snacks in my head (because let's be real, stress-eating is the best part of finals). The problem is that once I get to actually type it, it will take me like an hour and an entire whole hour is pretty rare around these parts at this time of year.

To prevent from eating myself to death during this time and also to attempt to not leave my faithful readership hanging, I've devised a plan. There's this one Bright Eyes song that I LOVE and that is about 8 mins and 30 seconds long. When possible, I'm going to try to exchange a snack break for a listen to the song and 8mns, 30 seconds of blogging.

This is bound to result in incomplete posts, but I submit that this will be part of the fun (I'm hoping). I'll leave you on cliff hangers, maybe even in the middle of sentences. We'll see - it actually might be quite stupid.

My 8.5 mins are pretty much up, so for this first experiment I'm going to leave you with the lyrics to this Bright Eyes song, which I love so dearly. And if you can download it, do it. Because this song should not be missed.

Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and To Be Loved)
The animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness. A baby cried hard in an apartment complex,as I pass in a car buried under the influence. The city is driving me out of my mind.I have seen a child is caught in the sad trap of gravity.He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree and lands in the grass and weeps for his dignity.Next time he will not aim so high. Yeah, next time, neither will

A mother takes loans out, sends her kids off to colleges.Her family is reduced to names on a shopping list.Meanwhile, a coroner kneels beneath a great, wooden crucifix.He know that there are worse things than being alone.I have learned to retreat at the first sign of danger.I mean, why wait around, if it's just to surrender? Ambition, I have found, can only lead to failure.I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you.

I stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well. And I would throw my whole billfoldif I thought it would help. With all these wishes I make,I should buy something real, at least a telephone call home.My teachers, they built the retaining wall memory, all those multiple choices I answered so quickly.And I got my grades back and forgot just as easily, but as least I got an A.So I don't have them to blame.

I should stop pointing fingers;reserve my judgment of all those public action figures, the cowboy president. So loud behind the bullhorn so proud they can't admit when they have made a mistake. While poison ink spews from a speechwriter's pen, he knows that he doesn't have to say it,so it don't bother him. "Honesty" "Accuracy" are really just "Popular Opinion." And the approval rating is high, so someone is going to die.

ABC, NBC, CBS: Bullshit. They give us fact or fiction? I guess an even split. And each new act of war is tonight's entertainment. We're still the pawns in their game. As they take an eye for an eye until no one can see,we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history. Well, I guess that we all fit into your slogan on the fast food marquee: Red blooded, White skinned oh and the Blues. I got the Blues! I got the Blues! That's me! That's me!

Well, I awoke in relief. My sheets and tubes were all tangled weak from whiskey and pills,in a Chicago hospital. My father was there, in a chair, by the window, staring so far away.I tried talking, just whispered, "...so sorry...so selfish..." He stopped me and said,"Child I love you regardless and there is nothing you could do that would ever change this.I'm not angry. It happens. You just can't do it again."So now I try to keep up, I have been exchanging my currency.While a million objects pass through my periphery. So now I am rubbing my eyes becausethey are starting to bother me. I have been staring too long at the screen.But where was it when I first heard the sound of humility? It came to my ears in the goddamnloveliest melody. How grateful I was then to be part of the mystery,to love and be loved. Let's just hope that is enough.