Mad World
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places - worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere - going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression - no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tommorow - no tommorow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very Mad World
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday - Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen - sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me - no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me - look right through me
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very Mad World
written by - Roland Orzabal
as performed by - Gary Jules and Michael Andrews on the Donnie Darko soundtrack.
P.S. I've learned that when you're brushing your teeth and you have to sneeze its best to find your way to the sink quickly and take the toothbrush out of your mouth and then sneeze into the sink. That way you don't have to worry about cleaning your keyboard.
The freemarket has failed and is continuing to fail the sectors of the population whose collective spending power is vital.
America covers up its racism and racist past under the language of the Declaration of Independence.
Dubya wants to go fight a war while the economy and this county sputter along like an old jalopies in disrepair.
The university I attend is turning into a large educational press. Stamping people into molds.
Pants still reign uncontested.
New Orleans has a bye week. This is bad.
I don't know which way I'm going because its too dark to see and I can't smell anything.
- Randomness: -
Cool quote: "What would the future be like without Mozilla? There's the frightening risk that Microsoft Internet Explorer would become the Mr. Burns of our online Springfield." - Andy Ihnatko
Funny quote: "You know fat guys are so kinky!" - Girl talking to friend in line at Subway thinking no one else could hear
CNN is not news.
Fly the friendly skies.
Of the money, by the money, for the money.
Often as I row the boat of my existence through the river of life I catch myself reliving moments past, that cannont be relived but in the blink of an eye.
I see the world from whence I saw it at the age of 8, or 9 or even 10. It too clear...as if trying doubly hard to put digital to shame.
Blink. I'm walking along the street, my mother to my right, the hot air trying to keep with the commotion about it. The pungent kerosene smell of the rickshaw whirls about me as it put-put-puts along its way a weary traveller peeping out into the bustle. Nameless hawkers enticing my eyes with their bright ballons of red and gold. The fresh vegetables tiring under the heat of the late evening slowly sweating out their freshness.
Blink. The train is rocking lazily along past Dadar, Elphistone, Mahalaxmi, Bombay Central, Grant Road, Charni Road....always so sure footed on its way to Chruchgate. All around me big people grasp something anything to remain stable through the rockings. I needn't worry...the limbs of the tall people will keep me solid.
Blink. My gumboots are heavy with water. The rain will not relent...school or not. My backpack is heavy with the useless books. The grueling schoolday lies ahead but all my thoughts are focused on getting home...being dry, away from this tireless monsoon that withers me from the inside out washing away every thought I pretend to have.
With each fibonacci blink another memory comes rushing back....beaming me to a time long gone....but not gone at all.
First read the A sing of times... post before this one. Now go read this article. I thought this was just a trend in India. In America it makes even more sense to spend god awful amounts of money celebrating a union which statistically has only a 50% chance of surviving. Its one thing if you have a cool $50G burning a hole in your pocket and there are no more hungry people in the world left to feed, but come on!!!! I mean really?? A second mortgage for a wedding?!??
Also today is the 133rd birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. Props to the BBC for covering this in a cool photo collage/article. Only one of the major US news sites has any mention of this (NY Times, On this Day). Thats kind of sad because the whole non-violent civil rights movement was based directly on the ideas that Gandhiji professed. A majority of the world will be vegetarian before Americans learn to look outward towards the world rather than inward at themselves.