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Weezer songs describe me: a meme

nobody@vox.com(Matthew J) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:24:50 -0600

Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, answer these questions. Pass it on to people you like and include me. You can't use the band I used. Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder
than you think! Re-post as "my life according to (band name)"

In the cases where the title doesn't say it all or maybe doesnt make sense, I'll put in quotes the line that particularly makes that song work for the question.

Pick your Artist:
Weezer

Describe yourself:
In the Garage

"I've got dungeon masters guide, I've got 12 sided die, I've got kitty pride and night crawler too. ... in the garage, i feel safe, no one laughs about my ways, in the garage where i belong, no one hears me sing this song."

How do you feel:
Waiting On You

Describe where you currently live:
Slob

If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
Island in the Sun

Your favorite form of transportation:
We are all on Drugs
"when youre out with your friends in you new mercedes benz, and you're ~~on drugs"~~ (i just would like a mercedes benz, but i really hate anyone driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs)

Your favorite thing to do:
Hold Me

Your best friend is:
My Best Friend (couldnt help it, it was too perfect)

What's the weather like?
Beverly Hills

If your life were a TV show, what would it be called?
American Gigolo

What is life to you?
Holiday

"Let's go away for a while.
You and I to a strange and distant land.
Where they speak no word of truth.
But we don't understand, anyway."

Your last relationship:
Undone

You fear:
Say it Ain't So (read: alcoholism)

What is the best advice you have been given?
This is Such a Pity
"This is such a pity
We should give all our love to each other
Not this hate that destroys us"

Thought for the day:
Pardon Me

"I know that I can be the meanest person in the world
So I apologize to you
And to anyone else that I hurt too
I may not be a perfect soul
But I can learn self control
So pardon me! pardon me! pardon me my friend"

Your soul's present condition:
Peace

"All these problems on my mind,
make it hard for me to think.
There is no way I can stop,
my poor brain is gonna pop.

And I don't have a purpose
scattered on the surface,
I need to find some peace"

Your motto:
The Damage In Your Heart

"One more dream
Vanished up in Smoke
Now I have no hope
Anymore

Let it go
The damage in your heart
Let it go
The damage in your heart"

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Glorious Day: My iTouch defines my life in 25 steps

nobody@vox.com(Matthew J) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:06:26 -0700

Ok I give. here I go

1 IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Tired of Sex - Weezer

2 WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Can't get enough of you baby - Smash Mouth

3 WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
She - Harry Connick Jr. (Lolololol)

4 WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Walkin on the Sun - Smash Mouth (again? and does this mean im going to be a suicidal astronaut?)

5 WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Give me somethin' - Take over Tuesday (sick burn on me...)

6 WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Rebels of the Sacred Heart - Flogging Molly

7 WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Only You - Inside out

8 WHAT IS 2+2?
Damn Regret - Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

9 WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Keep Fishin - Weezer (I have 424 artists on my iTouch... whats with the repeats)

10 WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Sanitarium - Metallica

11 WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
You don't know me - Michael Buble (ummm... hmm)

12 WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
I'm in love with my car - Queen (lol)

13 WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO (hear) AT YOUR WEDDING?
We hold on - Rush (Yes)

14 WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Brian Wilson - Bare Naked Ladies

15 WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
I melt with you - Modern English (Yes!)

16 WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Ebudae - Enya (what does that even mean?... its a secret!)

17 WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
We are the champions - Queen (Yes!!)

18 WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Get busy living or get busy dying - Fallout Boy

19 HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Countdown - Rush (interesting..)

20 WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Instant Mash - Vocal Point (wha?)

21 WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep blue something (lol)

22 WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Simple Pages - Weezer

23 WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Dance of the Earth - Stravinsky

24 WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Yellow - Evan and Jaron

25 DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Good news first - Rush

26 IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
The Chronicles of Life and Death - Good Charlotte (lol)

27 WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Between Sun and Moon - Rush

28 WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Glorious Day - Weezer

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Photoshoppin'

nobody@vox.com(Matthew J) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:50:29 -0700

For the economics club shirts. made using photoshop CS4

Econ Front

Econ Back

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Doomotivational Poster

nobody@vox.com(Matthew J) — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:02:25 -0700

Whipped this up this morning in photoshop... enjoy and share if you care

Video Games

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Econormics

nobody@vox.com(Matthew J) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:25:21 -0700

Warning: I'm completely out of the habit of writing. I haven't done it a while, and am not going to thoroughly edit this. I dont want to be addicted to Brain Crack, so whenever I have an idea, im going to kick it out into the world no matter how much it sucks. so, here goes.

Econormics is a word I just made up, because I think it sounds better than Normative Economics. Normative, or prescriptive economics is what tells us what we ought to do (usually with the oh so strong social More of what makes you more money). This works out pretty well for businesses who are trying to figure out how much to charge for their sandwhiches or video games, or for enterpeneurs who are trying to decide where to invest their time and money, because there are magical mathematical formulas and functions and relations that will tell them exactly that and more based on the model they have of reality.

Sometimes however, people have economic questions that don't have anything to do with the desires of businesses or entrepeneurs, and less to do with functions or formulas. They want to know if a human being deserves a certain minimal amount of money for their work (whatever it may be) and how much that ought to be. They want to know if they ought to bail out the car company or the chocolate factory, and who should pay for it and how much should they pay? Usually these questions are some form of the question "to what extent does the property of one man belong to his fellows?".

These are difficult questions to answer becuase they don't correspond to a social more as simple as "maximize profit". We don't have models of reality that will tell us anything useful because no one agrees what model we ought to use or exactly what it looks like.

I have pretty strong opinions on this sort of subject, and I can point at my reasons and say "Look" and hope that people look and see and perhaps agree. This sort of thing doesn't usually work very well. Macroeconomics is complicated enough that it's quite nearly impossible for cause and effect to be directly linked like we might want. For example, it is a matter of debate whether America has succeeded economically up to this point because we have so much freedom and in spite of socialistic aspects, or if it is instead because of our socialistic safeguards and in spite of our freedom.

Microeconomics is simpler. As you shrink the scale, it becomes increasingly clear what causes had what effects. I'd like to talk a little bit about something we all have to deal with and so might all have questions about, and in the process, maybe give a start to an answer for larger inquiries.

When I have something I didn't earn, I don't love it. I don't respect it, I dont care for it, and I don't assign it value in the same way I would If i had worked for it, bought and paid for it. In fact, the greatest satisfaction I get from "Stuff" is just that I earned them. It's quite nearly akin to the satisfaction I might have gotten from actually having created them. I worked to earn money which was paid in a hundred different ways to allow the creation of the things i own, and there was no coercion or force in the entire matter. I believe this holds true for many other people, though certainly not all. And this is not to say that I do not love things I am given.

We've all been given things, by parents or friends or others, but we also know there are some people who have been given everything and more, and have not conceived of ever earning anything. It's difficult for me to suggest that these different kinds of people will have the same answer to the question of how much of my brothers' belongings are mine by right. This, I suppose is natural and alright. However, what upsets me is when a person who does not earn or deserve condemns a person who does for loving the property they so rightly treasure.

I'm really going to have to work on my writing

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2008: i missed a spot

nobody@vox.com(Matthew J) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:36:08 -0700

I didn't update that year. Here are some of the things that happened

I spent the entire year dating one woman: a first but very very enjoyable
I worked at an apartment community as a leasing agent: a first and last
I lived with my parents over the summer: not the first, Definitely the last

I ditched a shitty roommate for an awesome one
I studied game theory, and yes it was awesome
I quite nearly approximated "owning everything ive ever wanted"

I made some really really excellent friends
I quite nearly stopped talking to some other very excellent friends
I played Paragon for what seemed to be the last time and then discovered it was not so

I became a Senior
I was a nude model for the department of art and architecture
I only cried out of long-over-held-self-pity twice (out of the whole year!)

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NerdFighter Project for Awesome!

nobody@vox.com(Matthew J) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:51:26 -0700

If you're reading this, you're probably a nerdfighter. 1) because most of my friends are, and 2) because this is a blog and the majority of blog readers (as opposed to youtube commenters) are generally nerdfighters.

Whether or not you knew you were a nerdfighter or not, you should know about this project for awesome.

decrease worldsuck today please

Project for Awesome: Explanation and Humane Societies

theres the first one. theres lots of others too though. comment on them all if you want to produce even more awesome.

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QotD: My Holiday Wishlist

nobody@vox.com(Matthew J) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:42:55 -0700

What's on your holiday wishlist?

Xbox live points to buy rock band songs and psychonauts with
Another guitar controller
geometry wars galaxies for the wii
Call of duty 4 for the 360
USB signal broadcaster for my laptop to get my wii online

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Cells are Important (and the fact that they split in two)

nobody@vox.com(Matthew J) — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:36:20 -0700

I'm taking biology right now, and it pretty much sucks. However, there are 7th graders taking biology right now, for whom it sucks less. because they're taking it from my brother, Jake. I have to learn about Mitosis and Meiosis and a bunch of other stuff that doesn't interest me in the slightest. However, I feel a bit differently if my teacher were, like my brother, on youtube doing this:

The Phase

He teaches at a state of the art magnet school for artistic children who tend to learn better with visual and audio cues, and Jake helps them learn they way they do best; in this case, with a song about cell division.

He's just getting started on youtube, so please, if you like the song, rate him five stars

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Good Bye 20 Year Old Me

nobody@vox.com(Matthew J) — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:12:45 -0700

The day that you died was a good day
The friends on your facebook all wished you on your way
You drank five Jones creme soda cans
And got some new socks, a sweater and new pants

CHORUS
Goodbye 20 year old me
You got a great new job and a giant tv
And though you loved your new nintendo wii
All your rock bands are now belong to me

Boy Matt you sure will be missed
You worked your ass off and made the college deans list
Your Druid became celestial
But you never did find out what made him so freaking special

CHORUS

You worked with some cons in a paint store
You ran a campaign and hung out with piscis more
The pandas and you watched youtube
And you murdered your best friend: weighted companion cube

CHORUS
CHORUS

Modeled after Hank Green: brotherhood 2.0

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