Wow. Today was a blog-worthy day...*g*
Oh. But yeah. So, I got the new U2 Best Of?
Holy crap, it's GREAT.
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Lovely pics, awesome songs (don't believe the hype (*hehe*..unless it's The Hype ^_~)...the remixes *rock*, they're not just some lame techno version or that sort of shite; the b-sides are wonderful, the new songs are gorgeous, Passengers finally gets paid some attention..and you can hear Larry singing on "Numb". *dies*), the dvd's far too cool... yay. ^_^

Sooooo...yeah. I've been bouncing off the walls since then, I'm on such a high, it's *GREAT*. ^_^

And guess what?!!? I finally got my schedule all sorted out, and I GOT IN DRAWING I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *squeels and dances around the room* w000007!!!!! :D ..so, YAY for incredibly nice and helpful secretaries in the art dept. ^_^
So, schedule for Spring semester:
Mon/Wed:
10-11: Applied musicianship
11-12: Written theory (with a DIFFERENT professor)
3.30-6: Drawing I
Tues/Thurs:
10-11: Aural theory
11-12.30: Speaking dialects (yes, you read that right. Britty wanted someone to take it with her, and it just looks *FUN*. ^___^)
2-3.30: Internet and web programming
3.30-5: Third world lit. (see, Laur, an english course ^_^)

Notice that there is nothing prior to 10am, plenty of space for naps between morning and later classes, and also: NOTHING ON FRIDAYS!!!!!!
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So, yeah. *phew* *SO* glad that's finally taken care of! :)

Alright. So, today...
First, Erin had to watch this HBO special on hate sites and things on the internet...Britty and I watched it too, and..oh *man*...there are some *fucked up people* out there...what they do in God's, in Christ's, name, pisses me off *so* much...you wouldn't believe......they think of blacks as *animals*. *STILL*. They praise as heroes those who go out on their own and torment and torture and kill blacks and minorities and..just......Britty and I were *yelling* at these stupid fuckers, we were just...we couldn't believe some of this shit.
And this guy...his *twelve-year-old (it was the day of the 12-yr. olds..merani-chan, I'm so glad you are who you are, and you've got us..) son* had his own website on white supremacy.....and the boy was so *obviously* spouting lines given by his father...but it creeped the hell out of us.....there was a young woman, probably early twenties..with an anti-Semantic tattoo...Nazis symbols on the wall behind her...holding a baby...talking about how she felt it white women's duty to make the race spread, to reproduce so that the white race can take over the world......

Then we caught part of a Ricki Lake thing...they were doing their own sort of "reality challange" thing, narrowing down contestants to be Playboy's next web-bunny.
...and this girl, who seemed sweet and nice and all, early twenties...was *SO* happy, said all her dreams came true..after she'd done a photoshoot with these, y'know, 30, 40, 50-yr. old guys...barely dressed, and then completely naked....and she's going on and on, this is amazing, Ricki, thank you sooo much!...and Ricki's just talking on and on about it, now, this is all we can show you on tv, but if you go to their website...

When I came back from philosophy (where we finished off discussing, of all things, ethics), caught the tail end of Dr...something or another, I can't remember. But they were doing a whole thing on young kids dressing too sexy for their age...and there's this girl. Twelve years old, this's the same age as my little sister, and this girl's got a website, where she's barely dressed in a bikini and all this stuff...photo galleries...selling *videos* of her...the money goes to "her college fund"...and the site is paid for and run by her mother.
me: "How..has she *not* gotten in trouble for child porn? Cos that's *exactly* what this is!"
...and we couldn't get to the actual site, to see just how bad it was (I'm thinking the server was overloaded after the show), but we got to parts of it...a page of links to all these other young girls' sites.....

To top off the day, philosophy society had a speaker in, this guy who's an expert on serial killers. I'd planned on going, Britty decided to come with.
"Hey, it's been the day for social decay anyway--!"
So, went to that...the guy who did it was really good. ...but oh man.....some of the shit he told us, what these people do..... ...and how they can do it, is by simple detachment. They get drunk or high or whatever it takes, and it just doesn't seem they did it...they take something away from the scene, an earring (or..pieces of the body..), and replay it in their minds and get *off* on that! ..but it was just...it was horrible.....and I think Britty and I were both thinking back on the hate-groups we'd heard from earlier, too...just.....
...and thing is...according to this guy...people like that, you *can't* "fix" them...there's something actually biologically wrong in the brain.....

Oh. But, to explain my earlier away message, for anyone who was confused...Britty is, in fact, okay. (Well..as ok as she ever was to begin with...*hehehe*) The guy used her for an example...they'd gone on a date, then back to Britt's place, Britt wouldn't let him, ehrm, go where he wanted to go with things, so he got pissed and raped and killed her.
"You're never gonna come anywhere with me again, are you Britty??? I'm soooorrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyy!!!"

*sighs* So, yeah.....my God. The things that still go on in this world...in this very *country*!.....

"Jesus, Jesus help me
I'm alone in the world
And a fucked-up world it is, too
Tell me, tell me the story
The one about eternity
And the way it's all gonna be
Wake up, wake up, dead man..."
- "Wake Up Dead Man", U2