"So, what now?"

On Wednesday of last week I checked my grades for my last semester of undergraduate classes, and found out that I graduated. Ever since then I have heard the title's questions, usually with that exact wording, from every single person I know. My mom even managed to make every sentence of an entire conversation essentially mean that question. So, I welcome everyone's comments to this post of, "what's next" and "what are you going to do now?" Maybe if I answer the question enough times I will invent something better than "I will finally beat GTA 3 yeah!!"

They stole my idea!

"Richard what music have you been listening to? I have been dying to know, ever since you told me how stupid Dave Matthews Band is and I realized you were right!"

"Funny you should ask, I was just thinking that there should be a site that has the great rating and lists functionality of IMDB or the even better (when you subscribe, or your parents do) Netflix, but with music instead of movies. I will surely put the plan into action when I am done with this goddamned epic william blake paper arghgoddammit..." etc. etc.

LAST-FM has stolen my idea, except their version isn't as cool. For one thing, the rating system makes no sense to me, but maybe I just haven't figured it out yet. I just signed up and am leaving it up while I play hard-driving last-minute-paper-writin' winamp playlists. You can look at what I've been listening to with this link. I have yet to decide what I think about the execution, but the idea is cool, so I am giving it a chance--sign up and let's get disappointed! As you can see on the profile, I only have one friend--but he is a hot one.

fun little baby games

I have invented a new game. A "drinking" game for all you college folks!

Go
here or any other place like it, and try to find a picture of Monica Bellucci where she looks ugly. Every female celebrity has at least one photo around that makes her look bad, but Bellucci either has really masterful PR or she is some sort of deity or demi-goddess. Or maybe I haven't seen the pre-surgery pictures yet.

I don't know where drinking would factor in.

"Dirty Tissues"

Lest I say anything that might shed the wrong light on the work of my friend John "Palpatine" "Papa John's Pizza" "I'm Greek and Masturbate a Lot" Papageorgiou, let me simply link you to his new comic, Dirty Tissues.

You may scoff at an amateur comic, but know that merchandise is already printed and ready to unleash on the mass market. I could also mention the humble beginnings of other such endeavors, but you've already gone to the site by now, right?

Nothing and Everything

A quick post, by necessity and in keeping with its thrust, which is my fear and ambivalence about the sheer quantity of shite on the Internet. Not a new issue, I know, but...

I'm sitting here procrastinating on my last days of work here, and I decide to see what's on Billy Corgan's web site. I haven't checked it in a few months, and I see that the Confessions still await me unspoiled and ready to consume in one sitting, and there's a picture from the tour. I'm curious about the shaggable female figure I've been seeing perform with him who has gone unspecified, so I visit the "friends of the tour" page. I click and click and see that EVERY MEMBER OF THE BACKING BAND HAS A TOUR BLOG, or journal as they call it. Not only that, but the opening band members have tour diaries, too. Not only THAT, but they are fucking interesting, too boot!! The female provides a candid, if narscissistic first-timer view of touring with Billy Corgan, replete with pictures of swanky hotel rooms (Billy not averse to luxury hotels shockingly) and lists of the DVDs they watch in the tour bus, further demystifying Corgan as his DVD list is more akin to WWF archives than Criterion Collection archives.

Even more interesting is Matt Walker's tour diary, in which he hangs out with some guys named Bono and the Edge in Germany. In London he gets drunk with a one Robert Smith who offers "impromptu renditions of push," which latter detail makes this all sound like some elaborate fantasy encounter I just came up with, but alas no. In spite of all this, it "feels good to be back on american soil." Huh?

Anyway, one of you might want to check out one aspect of Walker's website in particular (*ahem*downloadableloops*ahem*). I hope I've conveyed the confounding glut of not-quite-compelling-but-must-read things on this here internet, as I add to it. Reading takes time, this is just too much! It has to end! Plus, it's so overwhelming that it starts to become meaningless, as Bourdieu put it.


NB: I didn't even get into the craziness of the political bloggers, can anyone really keep up with these people, as entertaining as the conservative ones can be?