butch, jayce, and slug: you are my heroes.

i liked the marvelous 3 in high school. i heard freak of the week, really liked the song, and got into them from there. they were fun to listen to...i got hey album! and readysexgo, i listened to them every so often, and it was good.

it wasn't until a couple years ago, third year of college, when i started listening to them on a more regular basis. i started bringing those two albums to work and listening to them more and more...i don't know what it is, but they are a most excellent band. i didn't appreciate them to the fullest extent until then, which was long after they broke up. most of their songs are so upbeat and catchy, a lot more so than almost anything else that i listen to. it's not music i listen to when i'm moody and feel like wallowing in it; it's not depressing in the least. that's not to say all their songs are happy songs, but their music has a general glass-half-full air about it. and then, some of their songs are just silly.

maybe this is just more proof that i'm definitely a child of the nineties. despite the fact that readysexgo came out in the summer of 2000, they're still a thoroughly late-nineties band, and one of the best there is. there are so few bands who have so many songs that stand up to obsessively repeated listenings...and the marvelous 3 is one of them.

llama, llama, martha stewart

why does Martha Stewart have a llama??

(context: i am in the law school lounge. the martha stewart show is on the television. martha stewart is standing there, hawking her new book or something. the book is is one hand. in her other hand is a leash, a leash attached to a real live llama.)

really, i hope the llama eats the book. and martha stewart. llamas are cool, and martha stewart annoys the crap out of me. she's not cool enough to have a llama.

spamtastic!

gmail is really amusing me right now.

i was in my spam folder deleting my spam. right above the part of the screen where the messages are listed, there's a bar. on this bar, there's a link to a recipe that involves spam. at the right of the bar, there are arrows that allow you to go back and forth, from one spam recipe to another. it has really random stuff, like french fry spam casserole, ginger spam salad, and the piece de resistance, spam primavera.

this is the greatest email feature ever. if i ever need to cook something with spam, i will have to look no further than my junk mail folder. that's a comforting thought.

sex lack-of-education

don't read this unless you want to start throwing things.

it's a collection of passages from state-approved abstinence-only sex ed curricula. it's from harper's, excerpted from information collected for a congressional report in 2004. it's scary, absolutely scary.

my favourite (and, by favourite, i mean most disturbing) part of the excerpts is the one that reads:

5 Major Needs of Women:
Affection, Conversation, Honesty and Openness, Financial Support, Family Commitment

5 Major Needs of Men:
Sexual Fulfillment, Recreational Companionship, Physical Attractiveness, Admiration, Domestic Support

i'm not saying that all of these, or any of these, are bad things per se. what i'm saying is that i have a problem with insinuating that these things are things that men can only get from women, or that women can only get from men. as in...financial support is great, but i don't want to rely on anyone but myself for it. or...family commitment is great if you're into that settling-down-and-having-a-family sort of thing, but i don't think it's an inherent womanly need: no matter what your gender, if you want to start a family, everyone involved should be committed to it, but it's not unnatural not to want one. and...don't get me started on men needing domestic support. again, if you're starting a household, whoever is starting it needs to divvy up the responsibility accordingly. but, don't insinuate in my sex-ed program that the men have to make the money and the women have to provide the "domestic support." there's nothing that has to be inherently womanly about cooking and cleaning.

i could keep ranting all night about this, but i have to go to mock trial practice. besides, it would probably do no good, because i can already feel the aneurysm coming on.