Hey Mr. Deejay, put a record on, I wanna dance with my Baby... (Aug 28, 2000)
Thank you Madonna, for taking on the task of teaching children what 'bourgeoise' means after the general California public educational system has given up.

This was acknowledged after my adorable baby sister used the word in a normal conversation over the phone.

"Wow! Where did you learn that?" (I am aware that Grey Davis has thoroughly destroyed any possibility of her picking this up in school, and I hadn't reached Moliere in my "cram stuff into my baby sister's mind whenever I happen to see or speak to her" series.)

"The Madonna song. It's cool."

Let us compare this to Grey Davis' plan to practically eliminate electives (Music, foriegn languages, art, practical science, AVID (a programme that helps underprivledged kids get into college), anything that promotes culture and beauty and freedom of expression, etc.) and concentrate on math and science because quote "It makes more money".

Have I bitched about this guy enough, yet?
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Improvments are Unnatural. (Aug 6, 2000)
MSN draws in smiley faces. I can't handle it. And what's with this alabaster? It's just not normal. Decadence. You can't even see my page. That's just wrong. WRONG! I'm forced to complain into my journal.
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The Attempted Official Guide Entry Flame has been Rekindled! (Jun 25, 2000)
An' this is how it happened - after nearly 24 continuous hours of having Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus" in my head, I started thinking about that crazy Amadeus himself, and how he never really DID rock me, 'cos I find him music rather flowery and superficial. If you hear Mozart, you know it's Mozart. And not in a good way. Too flowery, no sense of passion. At least, not the fun, powerful, good kind. Like Botecelli- he was good, but only at one thing. He painted chicks, Mozart composed sparkle-dust. Over an' over. An' over.

So, after being generally dissappointed in my conclusion that Falco was wrong and Amadeus can't really rock me all that well, I started thinking of all the people that could. Beethoven's daddy wanted him to be another Mozart. Let's be glad HE wasn't. HE had raw passion. Then I thought of the guy (I dunno who) that did the Gypsy Dance with the violins. He was russian or something, I think. That was gold. It was love an' happiness an' sunshine all mixed in with worldliness an' knowing that you've got a mortal body, but you know you can use it to dance an' so it's okay. I like him. I like Strauss, he rocks me. Tchaikovsky was... er.... sad, but his music conveys that so nicely. Then I remembered Orff.

Orff - Now that's a dude that can rock me better than Amadeus ever could.

I've always said that people who obssess over Orff frighten me, but that can be directed back to only one young man in the 9th (I was in 8th) grade who would have frightened me whether he listened to Orff or not.

Not that Orff isn't frightening at times, mind you.

But I suppose I'm frightening in that case. No big deal, really. At least I'm a cultured sort of frightening.

Orff took the beauty of nice, big, classicalish, lots-of-instruments-to-control and so you need real talent music an' applied the forbidden stuff to it. Even subject matter is no longer boring. No more Shakespearean novels retold (though that subject matter isn't boring either, only jaded). An' how much greater can you get than poems written by defrocked monks? He took really really good, powerful music, and then went even further by showing that scholars - because the lyrics were written in Latin, long dead by the 1930's and with incredibly impressive rythm and poetic beauty - want and think about and do anything anyone else could do, an' they don't suddenly become dumb, or anything. They just... lose their frock.

So I'm going to do an entry on Carmina Burana.

Maybe the guy himself, if I feel like it.

Ranting is fun.
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Guide Entries (Mar 25, 2000)
I have the urge to write more guide entries, but I can't think of what they should be about. All I can think of is the insane price of gas ($2.00 a gallon!) and possible choices for dinner. Hmm.
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Nevermind (Mar 18, 2000)
I'm NOT better. Now I'm SICK. *sigh*


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All better! (Mar 11, 2000)
Okay. My knee's all better. I know you were all terribly worried about me.

Once again;
Fenchurch M. Mercury
Putting the "lack of" back into "humility"!
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Ouch! (Mar 10, 2000)
My knee went out. I thought I was too young to have anything 'go out', but that's it. It went out. I limp. It's fairly frustrating trying to get around. I may have to stay home. Darn.
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People are Beautiful. (Feb 27, 2000)
Every now and then I am wonderously reminded that people are truly good and souls do exist. It makes me incredibly happy. That soft, sweet sort of contentedness reminiscent of a little kid singing, or looking at a sunset and becoming the colour.

I feel like that now.
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What a bunch of WIMPS! (Feb 22, 2000)
It's been raining for maybe two days. Not even rain, just the sort of precipitation San Diego likes to *call* rain, to add some variation to life. Two days.

And they put out... a COUNTYWIDE FLOOD WARNING. And make it a big deal. Stay inside! Don't drive! Beware the leapord!

There are people SNOWED IN, or suffering HEAT STROKE, or being cloncked by HAILSTONES, and we get a flood warning, and it's the end of the world!

I... am SO ashamed.
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Modern Twist? (Feb 8, 2000)
A tale of Love...
Danger...
and the Forbidden.

Coming to an operahouse near you, it's:

Richard Wagner's
LOHENGRIN
With John Cleese
as Lohengrin
*and the rest of the Monty Python Cast*
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"I'm sorry, sir, but this swan appears to be dead!"
"Dead? It's not dead!"
"It's not dead? It's bloody nailed to the boat!"
-*
"Go on."
"What?"
"Tell me your name."
"Tell you my NAME?"
"Yes. Go on."
"I will not!"
-*
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Woo-hoo! (Feb 6, 2000)
I've found my "black disk o' articles"! All the unfinished articles shall be finished and submitted! BUHWAHWAHWA!!

In the meantime, what's up with all you good people? Having a nice day?
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An Announcment (Jan 24, 2000)
I speak on behalf of my Vice Mayor and myself when I say that we are your rulers.

Discuss.


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My New Book (Dec 1, 1999)
New, by the author of the future bestsellers: "Lisumunden the Windpipe Eating Monster", "Eros and Thanatos Meet Freud's Tea", and "The Interpretation of Walden's Dreams", a gripping tale... "Calculus: the Friend that Locks me in the Closet and Beats Me Up". (the sequel to the thriller "A log over a log makes a really big DAMN"). Look for it in a secondhand bookstore new you!
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What I think when I should be listening to the lecture (Nov 14, 1999)
"It would be really funny if classes were taught in musical form. Not just as music, but the all - out - Andrew - Lloyd - Webber - fest - starring - the - professor musical. He'd wear a red satin suit and simply go 'One... hydride shift'll do it - in SN1 re-act-i-ons....' as the students prance around in a line in front of him and he spins a cane..."


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What I write when I *should* be writing a paper (Nov 14, 1999)
In order to fully understand federalism, one must divide the word into it's roots: fede and ralism. Then and only then can you begin to understand the essence of this idea.

Yet another reason I'd rather be paid for doing nothing, by Fenny.
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Woo-hoo! (Oct 27, 1999)
My dear friend Shorty

http://www.h2g2.com/u91398

is having an RHPS! Why not?
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HEADACHE! (Oct 23, 1999)
I've got this horrible headache .

I think it's because 1)I just got new glasses (either h2g2 is a lot more damaging to the eyes than anyone would think or I'm going to be completely blind by the time I'm 30, as last year I was 190/20 and now I'm 230/20...which is officially BLINDER than a bat...) and I'm trying to adjust... everything's sort of tipped to one side and really thin...

2) My baby sister decided to spend her entire visit listening to Limp Bizkit and other such delights which are okay one song at a time, I guess... but 56 hours nonstop isn't fun...

3) Midterms, but I'm doing alright so far... eh, what can I say?

So I'm expecting h2g2 to work it's healing miracles and make me all btter!
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A New Homepage Song (Sep 19, 1999)
I'm using "Play the Game" till I can find a better 'midi' version of one that's more upbeat. Dave Matthews? More Queen? Some of the calmer Metallica would be nice, 'though I can't really find any quality midis that do Jimmy and the bunch even a bit of justice.

I found a version of "Seven Seas of Rhye", but it's a bit annoying at the start. And I would put "Death on Two Legs" on, only that I've no one to dedicate it to, and I don't feel like just playing the way-cool first part (after the loud muffled wierd sounds but before the singing, where the guitar plays)...."Stay" or "Pig (a beautiful, meaningful song despite the title which is more reminiscent of NIN)" by DMB, Pink Floyd songs just don't translate into midi well... I'm at a loss. There was a very good version of "Bloody Sunday" by U2 I'd heard somewhere, but I can't find it anymore.

That who ramble was partly because I do prize the music on my page that much, and partly because it's been ages since I've seriously pondered about nothingness on h2g2. It feels good. Now I gotta think of a somethingness to ponder...
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Whoa (Sep 10, 1999)
I leave for 3, 4 days at most, and all chaos dissappears. Explanations for everything. Nice.
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The Punchline... (Sep 6, 1999)
...sounds like supercalifragilisticexpialadocious. One example is
"a super calloused fragile mystic plagued with halitosis" but I've heard more.
This has been bugging me for some time now.
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Permanence (Aug 31, 1999)
Someone told me to "be gone". In a forum I started, no less. That's never happened to me, even in real-time human life, nevermind digital-twin keyboard Fenchurch life.

And while the preceding words leading up to the "be gone" made sense in their own context, at the same time it didn't.

Because who *can't* turn their thumbs up or down at others? We're by nature social beings, and that just comes along with it. The idea is to not have your opinions so rigidly set that you can't learn more about things with an open mind.
It's like molding a clay figure of someone you've seen once or twice. You may have a good idea of what you think they look like, but don't fire the sculpture until you've seen the person up close, or you'll have a sculpture that may look like someone else altogether. You may not, but if you truly *want* to sculpt a good likeness, keep it malleable.
I suggest never ever making it permanent. Permanence is dumb, anyway.
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My Maslow Pyramid of Needs has been KIDNAPPED!!! (Aug 25, 1999)
That's right, the most adorable picture of the pyramid of needs, including a very happy shiny stick-figure self-actualised person at the top, created with love by yours truly, has been brutally EDITED from my article. Now I understand why they take it of, assuring continuity in the picture styles of entries and all, but now, how will everyone see what may be the closest thing to my painting a picture....ever. So, I will provide you with the URL, if not so you can see it, just so I know it's possible for it to *live on*...
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/2495/h2g2/MASLOW.jpg

In other news- they also edited my self-indulgent comments, which is okay because those were just jokes anyway...they were true, but they were jokes

My keyboard DIED and I'm forced to use this one with Arabic symbols in the right hand bottom corners as well as the english letters at the top left...looking at it hurts my brain.

Oww...see?

The Cult Movies thing is taking off like... something else that's cool and fast. Thank you everyone
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Keep the Faith...? (Aug 19, 1999)
So the Padres are doing bad. Ok, terribly.
But that's okay. I'm a good San Diegan, and I will continue to love the Padres, just as I love the Chargers and the Sockers, also known for their close calls tailgated by pitfalls. Because I keep the faith, like that happy monk and the Chicken. We love our Chicken, I tell you what.
I'm even proud to say the soccer Sockers. It doesn't mean that we have no creativity, we just love puns.
Just as long as Ben Davis is there, everything will be all right. Oh yeah, and those other guys..er.. Gwynn and Rivera, was it? They're all right too, I guess.
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Grraaaayyyyyeeeegggg (reprise) (Aug 17, 1999)
So another one got rejected. Actually, I quite liked that one. But oh well. I'll still knock their socks off with such gems as "San Diego" and "Mexico City" and the in progress "simplicity of bread", although I'm afrid it'll be one of those forever-going things
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Death Penalty (Aug 11, 1999)
Mark Barton crushed his own children's heads in with a hammer. To save them from "the evergoing pain of life". They'll never have to feel the pain of graduating, or finding the love of their life or watching their kids grow up, or having kids at all. Or even making the choice not to.

Yesterday Buford Furrow decided to stroll into a little kids' community center and shoot at them. Over and over and over again.

I'm sorry, but these bastards should die.
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