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Death Cab For Cutie’s new release, Narrow Stairs, is out in stores and available for purchase online today (hellooo itunes).

Go spend your monies today, get it,listen to it, and leave a comment to tell me what you think.

(yeah, yeah, yeah I’ll do the same :])

While procrastinating (what’s new) I ran into Panic at the Disco’s “Nine in the Afternoon” (Acoustic).

They probably shot it when they were doing their MTV spots because everything looks suspiciously familiar.

Well, off to my murderous Econ final…::sigh:: If I was a masochist I’d be on cloud 9.

Oh, But you go ahead and enjoy PATD.

Meat Loaf and Tiffany have joined forces to sell AT&T’s Gophone. The commercial makes me think of the John Waters’ film, “Cry Baby”. I love the camp of it all.

This commercial is so good I never skip past it, even when I’ve DVRed my show. Seriously…sometimes I walk around like some weirdo going…”Let me sleep on it!” hha. My roommates use to think I was nuts, but now that they’ve seen the commercial they burst out of song and fill in the missing parts.

Here’s the extended commercial below:

The ad campaign was created by BBDO New York and Atlanta

AND Meat Loaf commercialized his song “Paradise By The Dashboard Light”.

Below is a screen shot of the credits, yeah, the kid isn’t really Meat Loaf’s son, there were a lot of internet rumors floating around that he was.

For people who are into the Advertising facts (like me) CLICK HERE. It explains the train of thought for the ad. It’s nice to learn about how people pitch their ideas to begin a campaign.

It’s the Friday before finals and practically no one came to class.

I fucking HATE coming to school when no one shows up.

The professor now has the opportunity to “notice” you because the class isn’t there to camouflage you for safety.

GAH! As I’m typing this, my keyboard is sounding unusually louder than usual because there aren’t any whispers or random banter to mask it.

Blah, I could have gotten more sleep.

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Below is the mass Email sent to SDSU students in regards to the drug arrest that took place today:

This morning, SDSU Police concluded a year-long investigation with the arrest of 18 SDSU students suspected of selling drugs to other students. The majority of the arrests took place in the College Area and on the SDSU campus as part of a joint operation by SDSU Police and the federal Drug Enforcement Agency.

For updated information on the investigation and arrests, visit: www.sdsu.edu/information

I want to commend the excellent work done by the SDSU Police – who led this investigation. I also want to extend our gratitude to the Drug Enforcement Agency and District Attorney’s Office for their outstanding cooperation and support.

Several SDSU students are among those arrested today. Each of these students has been suspended. They will not be returning to class or taking final exams until completion of due-process review, to which they are entitled under the law. Those who were living in university-managed housing have been evicted.

San Diego State is dedicated to higher learning and to human growth and development. The use of and/or trafficking in illegal substances are inconsistent with our values and with the pursuit of our mission. Certainly today’s arrests underscore the scope of the challenges universities face as we fight this major societal problem. We are determined to remove people from our community who place our students at risk, and to see that they are turned over to the criminal justice system.

Today’s arrests are a big step forward toward a safer environment for our students, faculty, staff and neighbors. SDSU will continue to do what is necessary – through both enforcement and education – to encourage students to make the responsible choices to ensure the health and safety of our campus community.

Man, everyone knew that there were drugs at SDSU. One time I was waiting for courtesy patrol in front of Villa Alvarado to come pick me up (does that still exist btw?) and while I was waiting, some guy in a rickety car call out at me asking if I was waiting for some E (ugh I thought he was asking me if I was waiting for security). Big “surprise” there’s drugs at SDSU, but it’s great that something VISUAL was done about it.

SDSU is less than a week away to finals, and it’s pretty damn stressful. The school is packed, which is annoying. I hate going in the library because there are no more open seats to study and half of the people in them are sleeping…geez people just go home.

Oh, and now the trolley is always packed and the school is crowded because people stopped ditching, as if coming to the last week of school is going to redeem them.

::sighs::

Anyway, I can’t focus in class anymore and my classes are all going off tangents. Yesterday, in my Eng 530 class they started a conversation on British longbows, and movies that involved them…it revealed to me that some of my classmates have “eh” movie tastes.

The one characters I’ve named “Quite Contrary”…she ALWAYS brings up movies as concrete detail to support her arguments…they’re type that you roll your eyes at because they’re re-runed on TBS or USA all the time…like “Pleasantville” or “Knights Tale”…or “Blockbusters” that everyone has watched, but are totally over…like “American Beauty”.

Below are the notes I took…enjoy…

In case you can’t read it it says:

“Quite Contrary and Guy that sits in front of me bring up the movie, “Troy,” for comparison. blah.

Then Guy in front of me then brings up Iron Man, because he just saw it and they mentioned the bow and arrow in the film I guess…I swear…collectively my class would have the blah-i-est Netflix ever.

We were talking about the British longbow and how the British would have won the revolution had they used that instead of rifles.

Which brought up the Elves in LOTR, who Quite Contrary thinks may have used British Long Arrows (I have no idea)…do you see what I’m saying about Netflix?

*Wait the professor just brought up 40 Year Old Virgin…I wouldn’t mind placing that in my Queue…but she’s the professor, of course she’d place above the curve.

BACK TO CHAUCER…”

New Nine Inch Nails for free. Damn, it’s a good year for music…Trent Reznor has released another NIN album as a DRM-free digital download. This is the SECOND album he has released for free. Below is a screen shot of a message released to fans…

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CLICK HERE to get NIN new release, The Slip, for free!

The Gum Thief
Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland is best known for his book jPod and while I haven’t read the popular book, I doubt I will. I’m not being harsh; I’m being honest.

The Gum Thief started out with such promise. A forty-something man with a quite downhill life is working at Staples where he meets a young twenty-something girl. The two of them write back and forth to each other about life philosophies and woes. The first forty pages had me laughing out loud and agreeing with the main character’s cynical and depressing view of society. As the book crept on, I was still enjoying it because I thought I was waiting for something to happen. Here’s where my idea of a good modern novel and Coupland’s depart.

If nothing major would have happened in the book, I still would have given it more than one little lightning bolt. Modern stories, whether they be books, movies or poetry, have a spirit (if you could call it that) of apathy. People with less than satisfactory lives are introduced to us under the pretense that there is much change in store, yet because of the character’s flaws no change occurs or the change is not the saving grace
the character anticipated. The Gum Thief was a cop out.

I don’t mind spoiling the ending (because it was lame), but if you plan on reading, I would skip down to the next paragraph. Coupland ends his book with the most cliche of all modern novels. The depressed and distraught twenty-something attempts to take her life. Though it didn’t kill the character, it killed the book.

If you’d like to read it, go ahead. It will give you a few laughs and make you want to remember some of the lines, but it’s not the ‘great book’ you were hoping for.

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The new Fall Out Boy music video is @ddicting.

It’s pack with things I love such as:

Donald Faison
Hal Sparks
Tony Hale (Arrested Development)
Shiny things (the famous glove)
And having a tiny metal feel :]
Everyone go watch it now! It’s going to make your day so much better!

CLICK HERE for Fall Out Boy’s “Beat It” cover.

On Friday visit NOKIAUSA.com to see Panic at the Disco’s new video for ‘That Green Gentleman’ off of their CD Pretty. Odd.

Here’s the teaser:

If their video for ‘ 9 in the Afternoon’ is any indication of what music videos are to come from this CD then we don’t have to worry about any weird fishbowl scheisse. I was tired of being so distracted form their overly metaphorical video oddities.

Anyway… the teaser is cute and the kids that play “mini Panic” yell that they’re Pimps in training :]

Looking forward to it.