Crushing Krisis

lyrics to the new song, right now referred to as “punk”

How do you find your voice
when you've got it buried under
 years spent not digging out
how will you ever make a choice
when you can't even get the words
 out of your mouth

maybe we can join a punk band
if we half ass it you can scream
all the words and i'd get
by with a little try all you
need is a guitar and three or
four chords i'd go all out and buy
and electric a star is what we'd
be if i could just thrash it
but i think you need a chance to 
say what you feel for real and 
you shouldn't waste it

whoa-oa how could you ever make a choice
whoa-oa i think you need a voice for that
whoa-oa why don't we join a rock band
whoa-oa we could fade into the background

i think we need a wall of sound
around us so no one will know what
we are saying if we blend in they 
can't pick on us and pick us out
and ruin our day maybe we should 
go back to highschool where
i was a nerd and you were a lesbo
(i was a dyke and your were a smart-ass)
i know that we could do it again
you(i) could be the prom queen and
i(you) could be the captain of a team
any team we know now that it doesn't
matter what you win as long as you
look good within

but did you ever make a choice
i thought you needed a voice for that
whoa-oa why don't we join a rock band
whoa-oa we could fade into the background

I really can’t play guitar anymore… it’s so sad. However, i proved today that i might have a future in bass if i could stand not being in the spotlight constantly. I am getting good vibes about working on music with Gina this year… she just wrote a great song called “Nuclear Winter.” The upcoming CD could be a fully collaborative effort…

Electric Biscuit suddenly got ten times more fun than it used to be; it might have to do with their smooth new layout. Aside from getting huge bonus points for liking the house of yes, they have waded into the fray of the WeBlog World War (from now on to be known as WbWW1, until i think of something less clunky)

Yay for vegetarians in Philly!!! I might be flirting with poultry lately, but at heart i’m a veggie, and now the MacDonald’s in Suburban Station is serving a grilled veggie sandwhich! The rather newly established McD’s is only the fourt in the nation to carry the sandwhich, though all Center City locations are expected to carry it soon. I just found this out via Beautiful Freak, who should be all the more envious when she finds out that the MacDonald’s in question is on my way to working at coffee shop. My days of mooching high-priced pastries are over!

My schedule is a fine example of my inability to decide whether i’m a workaholic or a slacker. I’m not taking any classes in my major, but i am taking three general requirements. Furthermore, i’m taking 9 credits of music classes, which will leave me a mere one class away from my music minor. So, there’s an interesting balance of slack and ambition. I really am interested in the MS/BS program now that i know more about it, but i’m really interested in obtaining my BA, so i really need to go and chat with my department about that.

Meanwhile, in terms of physical scheduling, i have class pretty much straight through the day M-W-F, but only one on T-Th morning (which is also a nice cross between ambition and slack, although i’ll be spending T-Th at the coffee shop). And, it all starts tomorrow, again. I don’t know how people at normal colleges deal with only having two semesters each year and such a lengthy summer break. I was going batty over the summer, and the only reason i can have so much leeway with my schedule is because i can make up for it by taking a full class load every semester. I suppose i’m just nervous that the classes are going to get harder… i’m intelligent and a good worker and all that, but classes that send me out to do something (like chases down obscure research at the Philadelphia Free Library) also intimidate me despite the fact that i do very well in them. Hopefully i’ll get back to the Comm classes in the winter, and i’ll have my general requirements done at the end of next fall. >sigh