Anybody Want A Peanut?

Hello good people, and welcome to my blog. I got Get Up Kids blasting on my radio and I'm in a particularly creative mood, so it seems like an appropriate time to get blogging. Today was as uneventful as any other day. This has become a growing trend as far as my days go, and it's making me a bit unsettled. Anyways, coming back to Cornell has made me realize the following: 1) I am way to cynical for my own well-being, 2) this cynicism has led to a paltry social life, 3) the paltry social life has led to a slew of existential crises, 4) existential crises, while productive and necessary, inevitably make me even more cynical. It's a vicious cycle, but it's not as hopeless as it may seem.

Music seems to be the primary outlet through which I rid myself of these "demons of consciousness" as I like to call them. Everybody is familiar with these demons. Its that little voice that tells you that no matter how hard you try things will never change, and if they do its for the worst. And for me at least, this little voice only gets louder the more I try to get rid of it. I find the only way to cope is to drown it out with loud, hot, steamy, dirty punk rock; nothing else will do. Polar Bear Club, A Wilhelm Scream, The Swellers, Thrice, The Get Up Kids, Hot Water Music, Bridge and Tunnel, Propagandhi, etc all seem to be effective, albeit temporary, remedies for the little voice inside my head.

I'm not a schizophrenic if that's what you think. I'm not a schizoid either (at least I hope not). I'm just having a hard time creating meaningful relationships with interesting people. "Do they have to be meaningful?" is probably what you're thinking. Well, yes and no. Human interaction in general is always a good thing, but in order to truly appreciate that connection there has to be something behind it, whether its there from the beginning or it evolves as the relationship does. I'm going to stop there before I lose anymore readers (Roman, Vivek, you guys still reading?)

Recommendation of the Day: Dexter is without doubt one of the best TV shows on today. I won't go into details, but I highly recommend it. You can thank me later

Album Review of the Day: Yeah, so a few friends and I were anxiously waiting for the album release of a band I mentioned earlier--Polar Bear Club. Well, it finally leaked a few days ago, and much to our chagrin, it did not live up to all the hype that, admittedly, we generated. Maybe we had our expectations too high, and its not necessarily a terrible album. But in the context of their previous releases, it definitely comes in last place. I say all this with hesitation because their last release, Sometimes Things Just Disappear, didn't wow me initially either, so I would need to give it at least a few weeks to grow on me. That said, I just feel like it lacks the emotional intensity that PBC is known for. The only standout tracks are Living Saints and Boxes, which were released on an earlier EP, so they don't count. PBC is still one of my favorite bands.

Thank you to the three people who read this, and you know who you are.