I wish I could go down to Cali for the Coachella Music Festival. It’s a 2 day festival. Check out this lineup: Chemical Brothers, Groove Armada, Cake, Sasha & Digweed, Jurassic 5, KRS-One, Pharcyde, Princess Superstar, Kosheen, Oasis, Prodigy, Foo Fighters, Oakenfold, The Strokes, Tiesto, Mos Def, BT (!), Dilated Peoples, Mixmaster Mike and more! Holy Jesus! It’s in Southern California. Cost is 75 bucks for one day or 125 for two, though. Ouch. But that is a jesus good lineup.So Princeton sent me a postcard concerning admittance. Here’s the scan:

OK, so maybe they only sent a letter, but the two mean the same thing, eh? Ah well. I tried my best to get in. So right now, I’m thinking I’m going to wind up at Boston U next spring. I haven’t totally decided yet, but I’m prob’ly about 60% sure. CM and Adam both didn’t get in to P’ton either. It must be damn hard to get in, heh.AYSO soccer started this weekend. It’s great, heh. The teams are grades 9-12, co-ed, so the quality level is…somewhat lacking ^_^. I ran down to my game, but they were a little behind and Mel’s team’s game was still going on. They only had 10 players, so they had me play for them in the 2nd half, and I ended up scoring 3 goals in that half! Word, heh. They lost 4-3, though. Then our team played and won 5-3. I got 4 more goals. Our team is gonna ball, cuz this guy named Xan who’s apparently really good wasn’t even there and we still dropped the team we were playing. Eyal hurt some girl’s ankle, though. It was bad enough than me and Mike The Buc had to carry her off the field, heh.

After that soccer, I was physically exhuasted for the first time since, prob’ly daily doubles before junior year. From Thursday at 4PM to Saturday at 4PM, I played 2 varsity tennis matches (I got a 4th letter, yay!), a DDR tournament, a soccer practice, one and a half soccer games, and had a basketball referee training. My legs still hurt today (Sunday afternoon).

Eyal and Travis’ birthday is today, so there was a little thing for them yesterday. It was fun cuz I got to see a lot of my buds that I haven’t seen in the while (I hadn’t seen Erin in weeks and weeks, what’s up with that?). It was also cool cuz we went to Castle Superstore at 3 in the morning. My 18th bday was back in January, but I hadn’t been to the porn store ever. It was pretty cool. Much classier than I would’ve thought. The names of the movies are great, too, “Spankenstein” being the best. Some of the dildos they sell there are freakin’ gigantic, too. Now this is just a guess, but I can’t see that being comfortable for any girl. Y’know what else is wierd about the porn store? I can honestly say I was not once turned on the entire time there. I mean, a lot of the girls are damn fine, but there’s nothing erotic at all about the stuff they have there.

The Index of Censorship, a great magazine, has a big thing showing the pros, cons and data from the Israel conflict. Most objective thing I’ve seen so far concerning that battle of ideologies.

Mike, Catherine, Jess, Marga, Jen and me went to the Boom Bap/One Man Army concert on Friday. It was pretty tight. One Man Army (one half of Binary Star) is a rapping god. He actually smiles when he raps. I don’t like angry rappers or rappers who don’t even look at the crowd when they rap. Boo to that. He’s also wicked clever: “I’m coming after you like the letter V”, heh. Boom Bap was pretty much garbage. Their flow wasn’t bad, but the songs were about obscure political subjects that no one cares about. Old Dominion, out of Seattle, were two white guys and an Asian guy who could rap reeaaaaaly fast (think Twista), but all their raps were about religion and how I’m going to go to hell and how they don’t believe in evolution. That was sorta wac. I can’t understand why rappers stop in Eugene, though. The last two concerts I’ve been to have both had less than a hundred people there. There’s no way they can make money.

I hardly ever watch TV anymore, but I caught some when I was in Beantown with my grandparents during Spring Break, and y’know what? There are actually decent TV shows now. I caught West Wing, Bernie Mac Show and Amazing Race, and all are definitely worth watching. Much better than the shit sitcoms who wish they could be Seinfeld that have been on TV for the last few years.

I used the WWYD the other day! I was driving down 18th (30 MPH speed limit) and the car in front of me would not go faster than 20 MPH. It was driving me nuts. So I thought, “What would Yoonie Do?” She would prob’ly have thought that maybe they had a broken leg and couldn’t drive faster. So I did. And it made me calmer. Yay for the WWYD.

So y’know Heart of Darkness? It’s the only book from school ever than I’m not going to finish. It has no tension whatsoever. I don’t get why it’s so popular. Travel narratives, which is what HoD is, are one of my favorite genres. For instance, Journey to Jo’Burg by Naidoo was one of my favorite books in middle school. The writing is in a way that makes it really hard to understand, too. Why are books like that? I can’t say I’ve ever seen a movie which can’t be enjoyed on atleast one level in its first viewing without a teacher explaining what’s going on. Almost all books need someone who knows about the symbols and all that to even make sense. Why is that?

And Churches need better song writers. At least in the Catholic church, all the songs they sing were written after the 1960’s, cuz that’s when Vatican II said that services could be done in languages other than Latin (hence they needed English songs). Here’s an example of a baptism song: “You are God’s work of art, created in Jesus the Christ.” I’ve taken CCD, been to church for tons of years and all that, but as far as I can tell, that don’t make no sense, heh. Even if they didn’t have a rythym, they could at least make verse that made sense.

Speaking of verse that makes sense: “My voice is like you in Jurassic Park facing velociraptors / Cuz when I spark it massive, other rappers be collapsin’ backwards / My triassic island access only add to those with passes / You rap’s only like T-Rex in that what you write be dead / Couldn’t the bright light meteor strike have ended your life on the mic before tonight? / And get this right: The only ’saurus’ I am is thesauras / in that my mind chorus and melody has verbiage / more obscure and rare than a riced-out ford taurus / who’s runs its engine on the oil of dead organisms / who long ago were slayed by Cure for havin’ bad rythym.” Word.

MP3 Prime Cut: “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” by Lady Smith Black Mambazo
The greatest rugby anthem ever, heh. Sung by a group of South Africans with some great chanting (I like chanting in my songs, have you noticed?). It reminds me of “Campione 2001″ by E-Type which has sports crowd cheering in the background. Tyler and Byerly would like the wicked choppy jungle-bass of “Blaxploitation” by Mambi Swift. It’s like a disturbing Aphex Twin.MP3 Prime Cut Extra: “Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins
It’s the Top Gun theme! “Highway to the Danger Zone.” 80’s music is where it’s at. “Paragraph President” by Blackalicious sounds like their Alphabet Aerobics. He got good technical rap skills. “Hell Bent” by Kenna starts off like a really mellow Radiohead and then blows up. It sounds like Bowie with a more 2002 beat. DJ Assault’s “Ass n’ Titties 2001″ is a deep techno track with “Ass and titties” and various other quality sexual lyrics. “If you a freakin’ dancin’ ho, keep shakin’ ya shit. Let’s see how you can shake it on top of my…” Best sex song since The Whistle Song. “Watch Out” by De la Soul and Cuban singer Pariquo Hernandez is a sweet track from those old-skool rappers featuring an old Cuban guy. “Take Me With You 2″ by Cosmos is a prog-house track with a really addictive beep-beep hook. Good for dancing. Usher’s “U-Turn (G-Force 2002 Remix)” is an awesome garage take on the new Usher single. It has Spanish guitar in parts too, and I love that. The remix is a damn awesome dance tune with a little garage rap dub in the middle, and Usher has a pretty sweet voice.