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I don't even have a 3 day weekend. I'm actually working saturday morning as well as monday morning (this was my own doing) I'm due for my 2 week vacation in late july anyways (still don't know where the two of us are going)

You can't possibly buy this, can you? Even if this is legit, it's fate telling you "No. Move on, son".

People used to do that all the time, even when Gas was dirt cheap but with prices as they are, nearly 90% of stations are monitored. It's also why probably 90% are pre-paid* *Made-Up statistics, but probably close enough to reality.

I was just saying she represents the reality generation that created her. She defines that aspect of our reality crazed generation. You can't deny that she represents that part of our generation, it's no different then Eminem in the sense he represents a section of our generation as well. That is where the comparisons cease. In 20 years, people will look back at AI and it'll be remembered for being an enormous success for at least 5 years (It probably has a shelf life of 2 more seasons, but it'll need more Kelly like stars to emerge). While AI hasn't really altered the music business, it has become a big deal in the general mainstream. Kelly is the face (if not Simon Cowell) of this phenomenon, and her existance will forever define this time where AI was the king. So, she is a defining artist of this generation. She, obviously isn't comparable to Jackson, Nirvana, Stones etc, etc but AI is a part of the generation (not everything can be a good thing, it's no different from what Banky said in his Limp Bizkit tirade) and Clarkson was a product of that.

I called Clarkson awhile ago, but people were caught up in the Eminem/Radiohead battle. Clarkson, while a decent act is not quite the defining artist of this generation but rather the representation or effect of this generation.

No one can have that little of a life to go into all these details for what was a horrible climax.

Baby Show...

Actually, Alexa was rather tame. I have seen some normal chicks though but those are far and between. I don't even remember my 16th birthday. I'm pretty sure it was just dinner with the family and some money. I know I already had my sister's old car, so there was no drama and hope there. Come to think it, aside from my 5th (wrestling show) 9th(UC Basketball game) 19th(met my ex) and 20th birthday(a very lovely time with my other ex)...they all sucked or were just meaningless I won't even make a stink about my 21st. I don't drink so whats the big deal. I'm more looking forward to my 25th birthday.

I'm seriously considering booking Marvin on a flight to here and giving him the push he really needs. Not to say the local college chicks are easy, but well they are. Marvin should have a shot.

You are aware that MTV hasn't been remotely meaningful or influencial to anyone over 15 in the last 5 years as far as music is concerned, correct? That statement might work in 1999. MTV's influence was completely erased by the blog nation. Our generation might still see MTV as something important but the next generation, a generation that will be completely raised on IPods and blogs (as well as the next technological innovations that we haven't seen yet) won't even realize what MTV is.

Why is Griffey Jr. such a whiner? I don't care if people talk to you at Krogers. He complains because a radio host suggest the possibility of switching Junior to LF/1B. It'd only make the team better but nope, Junior acts like him Junior again and moans about it.

All I've learned in this thread is that naiwf is totally unaware of what cultural and musical impact even means. His arguement is that no one would know it Thom Yorke if he was sitting on the bus across you. That's his arguement against Radiohead's impact and status on this proverbial "generational defining" critera. I'm far from a Radiohead fan, and in fact I've been bored with them for the last two albums and they are severely over-rated as live acts but that doesn't mean Radiohead are just another band. They do mean something, even if you don't like them. Czech, loathes rap but he'll credit Eminem to an extent. As should you. Radiohead, however is still a niche band as Eminem is a niche performer. Eminem nor Radiohead are popular and influencial across the board, massive album sales doesn't prove anything except they are able to promote to a general market. A better move would be looking at concert sales in the IGeneration. Speaking of which, why wasn't Madonna and Bruce Springsteen included with Jackson, Nirvana, U2, Floyd, Zepp, Stones and Beatles? I think they easily fit the critera.

I’ve mentioned before about my job and my recent promotion as head of the assembly crew. If you recall, I was once just a meager worker on that crew until the company did some shuffling and assigned me as the new head of that crew. Since the crew was shuffled around, it was basically just me left standing. I hired 4 “new” (as in former laid off employees) and a couple rookie punks that work for free (part of school credit). What we do is simply this; we design, build, customize and assemble conveyors of all sorts to various major corporations. My specific job is to assemble the conveyors @ our home site and the company we build for gives it the approval and then we dismantle weeks of work to pack it up and then my crew goes to their HQ’s, warehouses, fields and whatnot and re-assemble it. Yeah, hardly what I expected to be doing @ 20 years old when I started HS. I make good money though, so hooray. Anyways, here is the point of the back story explaining the purpose of my job (I’m a detail whore). This morning I had a “big” meeting with some rep’s from a big name corporation (let’s say it rhymes with Mineral Metric). This was new for me, I’ve done meetings on sites but never as a direct reprehensive of my company, and even the home field advantage wasn’t helping me. It’s no big secret why I got the gig; the boss is my father’s best friend. He had seen me as his son for years. People think that shit is an advantage…It’s not. It just means I got to work double and bust my ass harder to prove I earn my wages. Now that I’m a suit, I can make more $ and do ¼ of that work. So I’m sitting there, bored out of my mind listening to this moron fuck babble about design changes he wanted to implement and during his diatribe, his cell phone goes off. (Fucking piece of shit). He doesn’t rush to end the very important conversation with whoever the fuck it was (his tax attorney or mistress, im guessing. Maybe a little of both). Finally, after I masquerade through a bullshit grin and false “Oh, It’s okay” sincerity, we hammer down and I basically bullshitted him into agreeing to do what I had planned to do with the job in the first place but he talked forever and walked out feeling like god thinking he turned me. Whatever, douche bag. So I take the original and new prints (same one, but don’t let him know that) and I gather my crew up and we go over it. Here is where I get pissed, my rookie trainees were completely into the prints, asking questions and throwing out suggestions. While a couple of the older “new” guys were basically tuning me out, I get that they know this shit pretty well and have heard it all before. I was in their shoes not so long ago. I’m sure it has to suck being middle age, with wife and kids and taking orders from a punk ass 20 year old college student. Tough shit, you want to pay your mortgage? Either pay attention to me, or grovel to get your previous piece of shit job you slaved for lesser pay back. I’m a good boss, I think. I listen, pay proper credit to the ones deserving, I haven’t fucked anyone over (yet)…So I’m not sure if this is a reaction to working for me or they just couldn’t give a shit about this job. They should be appreciative, I didn’t have to hire them. I could have loaded up with a bunch of Mexicans and got the job done dirt cheap, but I wasn’t going to account for missing drive engines, steel beams and Flex-Link chains. This was all before lunch, and we were going to dive into that job this afternoon and to motivate them, I treated them to lunch at Applebee’s and expensed it. I left the “vets” to do the jobs, while I took the trainees out to our housing facility and showed them the previous job we had done for that company, to show them how it operates and all that jazz. They were thoroughly involved, taking notes, questions. I appreciated that, they aren’t even getting paid and they cared more about this job then the overpriced fucks I left at the shop. The moral? It is my belief that the less $ you make, (or none at all), the harder you work. --- Other world stuff… I was going to mention this in the thread about it in the LSD fourm, but I figured WP gayed it up enough. after all that bullshit…the boyfriend was cheating on her for the last couple months. She was actually in a committed stance. Typical…BF accuses the gf of cheating, when it was really him all along. I still would like to know the purpose of his tirade against me though. I wasn’t worried before, and I guess now it’s behind me for good now. Before anyone makes the assumption that the ex will work her way back towards me. She isn’t going to. Besides, like I’ve said all along…I wouldn’t do it anyways. Especially now.

I got a good feeling she was there in the lobby with her real boy-toy getting a good chuckle out of you standing there awkwardly probably constantly checking your watch/cell. Move on, there's a billion fish in the sea. You might need to head towards the swamp now. Don't listen to WP. Cast this one aside.

It might stand, right now as the best weekend of the year for me. In fact, it was. Without any doubt in my mind, I'll remember the weekend of May 20/21 for quite some time. How often does a childhood crush come to fruition when you least expected it(observe the thread in LSD regarding my ex and her boyfriend)? I hadn't expected it to occur but I'm glad I did. How often do you find the girl that everyone always said was the one for you, and you knew it all along but it never could happen and you let it go by and you moved on. I spent all day with her saturday, embracing the sun with her friends and her family. I don't know what led to this, it just happened with a kiss that sent a pop bang shot through my heart. There are different kinds of kisses, that kiss was the kind of kiss that blows you away. The kind of kiss that is 100x better then some worthless fuck, the type of kiss that lingers physically and emotionally for awhile. She is away on vacation right now and I'm already counting the days til I see her again and start something, that will probably define not only myself, her but my childhood and my future to come. I spent the last few months feeling down because of two girls that made me down. One girl cheated on me (something that has been covered well enough here) and the other girl, who was my best friend and I guess in some ways, still is but losing her questioned my will to give "love" another try. Things have a way of working out for you, if you let it happen. You can be a worthless loser like WP's gimmick and always think about it, but never actually do anything. He'll never know moments like this weekend, he'll never realize that a stripper is paid to flirt and smile at him. He can try to play Freud and analyze my relationships but he can't talk about something he never been through. WP, might be able to analyze a wrestling match to intricate details but he can't speak on love or anything remotely similar to it. I'd rather actually do the real thing, feel the realness with the chill down her spine sending her into shivers.

She's camping in Tennessee, actually. So maybe a rugged mountain man.

How long before Royals players start throwing themselves into the wall to avoid the misery?

People complained about them wasting time doing nothing but fluff hype pieces on the two finalists. So they fixed that with bad comedy. Prince should never follow 3 gay cowboys.

This is every gay american's dream.

Think Kelly will show up? Yeah, didn't think so.

I figured Chris would debut with Fuel tonight and I can hardly tell them apart now.

Wait, he turned down a chance to exploit Eddie some more?

Okay, I did a rough survey (i.e asked people on my buddy list) and I got 10 serious answers(that weren't loser trendy emo/indie pussy music) after defineing this generation as "post-cobain" and I got... Eminem: 5 (Been covered) Dave Matthews Band: 1 (Ugh, it's credible enough in the sense that they are really popular with the college scene but have enough name to carry outside of that demographic) No Doubt: 1 (Seriously, while I don't hate them, I don't observe them as generation defining artists, esp when it was a glorifed Gwen act until she finally offically went solo. I didn't get an explanation for this, but I'm guessing the selection was they were one of the first bands to get popular after the grudge era died out and they remained popular ever since, and of course had/have a well known lead) Snoop Dogg: 1 (This was a good pick I think because while musically he isn't the most beloved but on personality, popularity and cultural influence, he was a good choice on those points) Kelly Clarkson: 2 (How did this one go pass everyone? Seriously, Clarkson might be the actual answer to this question. This generation has been defined as reality crazed and no one paid off from that more then Kelly Clarkson. While she broke the stigma of being the first AI winner, she is still responsible for the biggest ratings bonanza on TV in years and ushered in a franchise that has produced a slew of multi-platinum artists) So after all of this, I'm changing my answer to Kelly Clarkson.

Except for the entire month he missed, you mean?

How about we delete this thread and just put up an new thread without the fake reports.