Mike's Journal

3:51PM

As it enters the twenty-first century, the United States is not fundamentally a weak economy or a decadent society. But it has developed a highly dysfunctional politics. What was an antiquated and overly rigid political system to begin with (now about 225 years old) has been captured by money, special interests, a sensationalist media, and ideological attack groups. The result is ceaseless, virulent debate about trivia -- politics as theater -- and very little substance, compromise, or action. A can-do country is now saddled with a do-nothing political process, designed for partisan battle rather than problem solving.

-Fareed Zakaria - Foreign Affairs - "The Future of American Power" May/June 2008 Issue

1:59PM - Really?

LOOK HOW SMART I AM!

Current mood: amused

1:18AM

Wait, what?

10:57AM

Why don't I have this gold diamond studded camera?

Current mood: amused

12:56AM - Possibly the best song ever

3:03PM

2:24PM

2:32AM

Current mood: amused

Current music: Bowling For Soup - "Trucker Hat"

1:54AM - Yay! Meaningless lyrics! ... You know you like it!

Fountains of Wayne - Hung Up On You


While I down Kentucky bourbon
I am waiting for a call
And the moon and stars tonight
Are playing shadows on the wall

With the moon the way it is, dear
Would you answer out of spite
Or are you feeling lonely tonight

Cause I remember last time
We were out under the stars
Driving crooked down the highway
Drinking beer in roadside bars

And now and then I wonder
Why this painful memory
Can never find its way to you from me

And I can't dial the phone just now
Even though I know your number
Can't bring my broken heart to be untrue
Like you did today
You'll say goodbye the same old way
Ever since you hung up on me
I'm hung up on you

Well the house I'm ringing up from
Is a half a mile from you
But with the reception I'm getting
Might as well be Timbuktu

And behind the door of your home
Is a strange and foreign land
Where you speak a language I don't understand

And I can't dial the phone just now
Even though I know your number
Can't bring my broken heart to be untrue
Like you did today
You'll say goodbye the same old way
Ever since you hung up on me
I'm hung up on you

Now I'm going down to Jimmy's bar
Like a thousand other times
With an appetite for poison
And a suitcase full of dimes

And I'll wait there by the payphone
With one hundred other guys
With those sorry hung-up teardrops in our eyes

And I can't dial the phone just now
Even though I know your number
Can't bring my broken heart to be untrue
Like you did today
You'll say goodbye the same old way
Ever since you hung up on me
I'm hung up on you

12:24AM

"The foolishness of that comment is so deep, it can only ascribed it to higher education. You have to have gone to college to say something that stupid"
-Dennis Prager

Current mood: amused

10:22AM

Last night we destroyed ALL!!

1:40PM

Marixxa is a n00b!

7:37AM

I was hiding from the sun once again
I was running from the time my friend
I've lost another war
So, I poured one more and went home drunk again
She was up when the key hit the lock
And the clock looked at me just like the devil in disguise
I saw it in her eyes - she'd be gone before the evenin'

So, I poured another strong one and chopped a line from here to
Texas
Cause I've lost another good one - she's on the midnight train
to Memphis
With a brand new start, I swore I'd love from the heart
I meant to change my ways
But I've seen better days than the one's that's here this
mornin'
With a wife and kids at home with a job some where on some
assembly line
I wish I had that life - I bet you wish you had mine
So, let's pour another tall one and chop a line from here to
Texas
Cause I've lost another good one - she's on the midnight train
to Memphis

6:47AM

You know I've tried a thousand times and I've tried to explain

And I've cried a thousand times over things that I can't change

I've learned a lot you know, I grow each passing day

And I blame nobody but myself for mistakes that I have made

8:38PM

So close to being done!!!!

Current mood: drained

Current music: Joaquin Phoenix - "Cry, cry, cry"

4:35PM

My new LJ icon has come to kill you...

2:21AM

Oh yeah!

Journey kicks ASS!

12:56PM

It's a new week.


Here we go again...

6:54PM

...
I know I would apologize
If I could see your eyes
'Cause when you showed me myself, you know
I became someone else
But I was caught in between
All you wish for and all you need...

8:04PM

Well...

It looks like I have no choice but to drop Japanese like a bad habit...