Stuff for you!

[brigdh]

Yesterday you gave me stuff, today I give you stuff:

The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health. Is this song in English? Probably, even though I can only make out one word in ten! What does the title mean? I have no idea! Is this nevertheless the greatest song ever? Yes! It is a weird mix of indie and techno, and it will make you want to throw up your hands and shout "we share our mother's health!" regardless of how little sense that makes.

Freezepop - Bike Thief (Remix). Techno that kinda makes me want to steal a bike. Or just ride around on one really fast.

Kaiser Chiefs - Every Day I Love You Less and Less (Boys Noise Remix). Techno, again. Takes a while to get started, but once it does, it's great.

Eminem - Soldier. Rap. "I spew it, and look how I got you bitches rocking to it / You motherfuckers could never do it like I could do it". The best song for when you're feeling pissed off and arrogant. Not that most of rap doesn't fall into that genre anyway, but this is my current favorite example.

Stars - He Lied About Death. Indie rock. Because how many songs do you get to scream the line "I hope your drunken daughters are gay"?


Also: The Wisdom of Parasites- an article about the coolest, grossest wasp I have ever heard of.


Finally, today I learned that I should not threaten to punch people in the face. Not because I ended up actually getting into a physical fight, but because I should at least try to be a better person than that.

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[redshoeson.livejournal.com]

To the uploads I say, "w00t." But:

Finally, today I learned that I should not threaten to punch people in the face. Not because I ended up actually getting into a physical fight, but because I should at least try to be a better person than that.

WTF?!?!?!?!?!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hah, yeeeeeeeeeah. But like I said, no one actually got hit, so whatever.

[redshoeson.livejournal.com]

OMG, giiiiiirl. You do not still need to prove your street creed, yo. :P

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I wasn't trying to prove anything, really! I- ARGH. Okay, this is what happened.

So, I went to writer's club last night, and I got there about ten minutes early, and the only other person there yet was this guy who is a total bigot. Like, this isn't even me being overly sensitive about the issue, like I know I sometimes am, this is like to the extant that Ashleigh- who's the friend I started going to the club with- warned me about him. But everyone just tries to ignore it, because it's not like you can keep him out for it, and no one has the patience to argue with him about it for hours.

I come in, and I'm like hi, and he's like hi, and we're talking, and he mentions he has a paper due tomorrow, and he makes this comment about "It's so ironic that I would have to write about the Civil Rights Movement", but at this point I'm still being I'm going to pretend I don't totally know what you're implying! so I just say, oh, what class is that for?, and he says history, it's a 597 class and he doesn't like it much, but you know, you've got to take one to graduate. I say that I took mine in the Anthropology department about human genetics, and he goes "Oh, did they try to feed you that old switch about race not being real?"

And I don't want to let that one go, because it's such a terribly important concept to me, and I love it, and I could explain human genetics for hours, so I just say, "Well, it's not just a switch, race really doesn't stand up as a biological concept, and here's why." And we're going on about this for a while, and someone else has come in by this moment and is listening to us and doing the kind of laughing thing you get when someone is being such a total bigot idiot you don't even know how to respond. But it's still civil, because, at least on the surface, it's a neutral discussion about race as biological vs social, and changing definitions of race, and though it's really obvious why he's trying to make the point he's trying, he hasn't said anything directly, and I'm still pretending not to notice the things he's implying.

But then, he goes- I swear to god- "Look, I'm just saying that everyone knows that blacks are a worthless part of humanity" and I jump up- I'd been sitting at one of the tables and he'd been pacing around in a corner of the room- and go get in his face, and say, "If you don't shut up I'm going to punch you in the face." And he says, "Try it." And I say "What the fuck is your problem!" And he says, "The blacks haven't contributed anything to human civilization, you can't deny that it's true, all they have is some ruins in Zimbabwe-" and I say, "And what great civilizations came out of Europe?" And he says, "Well, the Greeks-"

Me: No! Doesn't count! Greek culture is a result of the spread of Mesopotamia culture- Middle Eastern, not European.
Him: Wait, but Greek is an Aryan language, not Semitic.
Me: Culture's still from Mesopotamia. There are only five original civilizations in the history of the world, and none of them are from Europe.
Him: That's not- Are you sure? How do you know that? That's not right.
Me: Archaeology! Major! I study this! EVERY DAY! Do not even attempt to check me on Archaeology facts.
Him: Well, anyway, race exists.
Me: Give me a scientific definition of race.
Him: I- well- I mean- you can just see that one person is white and one is black, so it has to exist.
Me: No. What, scientifically, makes someone white?
Him: Okay. Um. Whites are people who live in Europe, North America, Northern Africa, except for the Berbers (I swear that he said this. I don't even know what a Berber is. It was like talking to someone from the Victorian Age. He'd also gone on about the 'Mongoloid' race for a while earlier).
Me: People who live there now? People who lived there a hundred years ago? People who'll live there a century from now?
Him: Look, the Iranians were part of the Aryan race, and that's where the word 'Iran' comes from, 'Aryan'.
Me: ...that is true. But I don't see how it matters, and you still can't come up with a scientific definition of race.

tbc

Part Two!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

And then the president of the club yelled at him and I went and sat down. There was also some stuff in there where I screamed at him, "Have you ever MET a black person!?" and he, not getting the sarcasm, replied, "YES! And some of them are very nice individuals, but overall-" and I interrupted to say, "Then why do you want to exterminate them all?" and he said, "I NEVER SAID THAT!!" and I said, "Okay. So what are you saying?" and he stuttered for a while.

And so obviously I was provoked beyond reasonable expectation to act nice! I kinda wish I would have gotten to punch him, though. I totally could have taken him. When I got up in his face, I noticed I had to look down to glare at him- and you know me, if I notice height at all, he must have been like a foot shorter- and he's all pudgy. Also, I'm sure I was way angrier than him. If I can take John, at 6'4, muscles, and football player, fighting with this guy would have been thirty seconds before he was out. And I would have gotten closure; now I just feel all frustrated.

Re: Part Two!

[redshoeson.livejournal.com]

OMG *dies*!!!!!!!!!11111111111!!!111!!!!111!!!11!!!!

Woah.

I totally would have punched him. You have the patience of a friggin' saint. OMG.

*is still stunned*

Me: Archaeology! Major! I study this! EVERY DAY! Do not even attempt to check me on Archaeology facts.

::loves::

In conclusion: OMGBIGGESTBIGGOTED@$$EVAR!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111!!!1111!!11

Re: Part Two!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I totally would have punched him.

I badly wanted to. But, well, you know how people say "you shouldn't hit a girl"? While obviously I disagree with it as stated, I've always interpretated as "you shouldn't hit (physically or emotionally or intellectually) someone who is so much weaker than you that they can't defend themselves", and I agree with that. It wouldn't have been fair for me to hit him. It wasn't fair for me to argue with him even, he was such an idiot, and I sort of feel guilty about that.

But hee. Glad I amuse.

Adobe Photoshop 7

[redshoeson.livejournal.com]

You didn't respond to my other comment re: Adobe Photoshop 7, but I uploaded it for someone else, so...

Two different links in case it does't work:

YSI link (http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2FSQBN9G6DGKQ0VLTTBZFBQ969)

SendSpace (http://www.sendspace.com/file/mfnp9i)

Be sure to read the #README file before you install!

Re: Adobe Photoshop 7

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

But I did reply! Maybe LJ is being weird and not sending comment notifications again.

I don't need it, but thanks anyway!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*grins*

Re: *see icon*

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee. There's an whole explanation of it now in the comments above, but I still say that I was totally justified!