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Okay, now d0n't check out my ne0h0me because I haven't updated it since Hallows Eve of two years ago, so I'll actually write my interests in here after my neogoals.
==NEOGOALS===
Title Posts
Neo-newbie 0 - Done
newseeker 10 - Done
not-such-a-newbie 20 - Done
postee 35 - Done
forum regular 50 - Done
forum junky 75 - Done
submission happy 100 - Done
forum native 150 - Done
no-stoppin-me-now 200 - Done
mad messenger 275 - Done
forum fever 350 - Done
forum fanatic 400 - Done
gone postal 450 - Done
member: postin' posse 500 - Done
threadnought 575 - Done
high on "N" 700 - Done
seek-o-holic 850
true seeker 1000
ultra seeker 1250
s-e-e-k-e-r 1550
true seeker (2K Remix) 2000
forum raider 2500
Still Seekin' 3250
Hooked on Neo 4000
Seeketh Maximus 5000
Neolithic 6200
Neo or Bust 7450
NeoXtreme 8700
Neoholic 10000
Neo: Essential 11500
Permanently Plugged In 13000
Legendary Seeker 15000
True Addiction 17500
CruisiN' 20000
Elite Seeker 30000
Ultimate 40000
Can't touch this 50000
===MUSIC===
(A to Z)
Abandoned Pools
The Academy Is...
Alice In Chains
Alien Ant Farm
Alkaline Trio
Ambient Manhunt
Animal Collective
Another Tragic Ending
The Apples in Stereo
Aqua
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Audioslave
The Beatles
Beck
Beth Orton
The Black Heart Procession
Blinded We Fall
Blondie
Blur
Bob Dylan
Boris
Brand New
The Bravery
Bright Eyes
Brougham
Butthole Surfers
The Buzzcocks
Cake
Candlebox
The Cardigans
The Cars
Cathercist
Cell
Coldplay
The Counting Crows
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Cure
Daft Punk
Dashboard Confessional
David Bowie
Death Cab for Cutie
Deathrash
Deep Blue Something
Deep Purple
Deftones
Dinosaur Jr.
Disturbed
The Doors
Dragpipe
Dropkick Murphys
Edenbridge
Eiffel 65
Elton John
EMF
Eminem
Everclear
Fear Nuttin Band
Felix Da Housecat
Filter
Finger Eleven
Flaming Lips
Flobots
Flyleaf
Foo Fighters
Garbage
The Get Up Kids
Gin Blossoms
Godamhate
Godsmack
Golden Earring
Goldfinger
Good Recreation
Gorillaz
Green Day
Head Automatica
Hesher
HIM
Hole
Iggy Pop
Imperial Teen
Incubus
Jack Johnson
The Jam
Jawbreaker
Jefferson Airplane
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Eat World
John Lennon
Johnny No Stars
Jonas Grumby
Joni Mitchell
Jonny 5 + Yak
Joy Division
Junkie XL
The Killers
The Knack
Korn
Kreator
L7
LCD Soundsystem
Led Zeppelin
Leonard Cohen
Lotus Plaza
Lucky Boys Confusion
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Marcy Playground
Marilyn Manson
Matchbook Romance
Maximo Park
Mephisto Odyssey
Mest
Method Man
MGMT
MIA
Modest Mouse
Moonspell
Motion City Soundtrack
Motor Ace
Muse
Neil Young
New Radicals
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
NOFX
The Number 12 Looks Like You
Oasis
The Offspring
OneRepublic
Opeth
Orgy
Our Lady Peace
Panic! At the Disco
Pantera
Papa Roach
Paranoid Social Club
Pearl Jam
Pendulum
Pennywise
Peter Bjorn & John
The Pharcyde
Piebald
Pink Floyd
Placebo
The Presidents of the United States of America
Primus
Pulp
Queen
Queens of the Stone Age
The Raconteurs
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Rainer Maria
The Ramones
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Reggie and the Full Effect
Rhythm Ruckus
Rise Against
Rob Zombie
The Rolling Stones
Saliva
Save Ferris
Seether
Serj Tankian
Shades Apart
Silo 64
Slam Year Zero
Slipknot
Slayer
Smile Empty Soul
Snake River Conspiracy
The Sneaker Pimps
Snow Patrol
Soilwork
Sonic Youth
Soul Asylum
Soundgarden
Static-X
Stone Temple Pilots
Stormtroopers of Death
The Streets
The Strokes
Stuck Mojo
Sublime
Sugar Ray
Sum 41
Sunny Day Real Estate
The Sword
System of a Down
Taking Back Sunday
Talking Heads
Testament
Third Eye Blind
Thursday
Tomahawk
Turmion Kätilöt
Unwritten Law
The Used
The Verve
The Wait
Weezer
White Stripes
White Zombie
The Who
Winter Gloves
Wolfmother
2 Pac
If you have any music recommendations based on my favorite music, please PM me, I'd appreciate it! :]
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===BIO===
I don't like how my daily life is set up. I get up, eat a banana, go to school, go on the internet, get bad grades, go home, do homework, and go to bed. I don't have internet at home. I recently moved from Rhode Island to Vermont and my step-grandmother gave me a laptop for some weird reason, and this month is the one year anniversary of me having my laptop. It's gone through a lot, and has overheated countless times, and has done weird things, but thats why its better than your computer, or laptop, or iPhone. iPhones...I may be the only one, but I have been noticing the huge explosion of popularity spreading on iPhones around my school. One kid ends up with them, and then they shortly replace iPods, and now kids are actually searching the net SECRETLY in CLASS. A teachers worst nightmare. Now I'm going to invent fingernail polish that make your fingernails serve as touch screens for your other hand. They're going to get smaller and smaller until its ridiculous. I typed this on 2/9/09, apparently a day of change. I have had the same profile bio since the beginning of seventh grade, and now it has all been changed. You expect NeoHome updates? Yeah right, that was such a waste of time putting all my [img] formated pictures and little quizes I took out of complete boredom. I think I haven't updated the timeline since Hallows Eve of 2007, the year I dressed as Dib. From Invader Zim. What the hell was I thinking? Yeah, I was obsessed with the show at that time and still think it's pretty cool today, but why dress as Dib from Invader Zim? I was only dressed as him, and I dyed my hair blue. I was so messed up, and my girlfriend's (well, future girlfriends on that date) friend kept plucking out my hair. That was just weird. A weird Halloween. Last summer, I was living without a computer, which meant no Neoseeker, and I swear I was going almost insane. The people I would hang out with all the time, like Murray3 and Zeldman and all of them regulars, seemed to be gone forever, and I felt so bad. Anyway, I love TIm & Eric Awesome Show Great Job. I only wrote this because I'm trying to get some sleep and this type of stuff makes me sleepy...Well today we had a weird assembly with singing and drums and in the end there were 15 donuts and 100000 bagels outside for free with orange juice and milk and apple juice and some sort of cran-raspberry drink. Everyone was saying "Great job" for no reason and I just wanted to take a giant black and white picture of the whole scene, get a red pen, and write "Great job!" right on it. Falling asle...
===FRIENDS===
(Not going in any specific or intended order)
ZELDMAN - This guy helped me through pretty much everything I needed to know from the start, and ended up extracting most of the spaz out of me
MURRAY - This guy was with Zeldman when I first met him, he also helped a lot too
BPE - (Best Player Ever) He became a member about a year ago and posted in the Zelda forums, he gradually became a forum favorite
STRAWBERRYCLOCK - This guy I think may have been the one to reply to my first post, and I think he was only being nice because his sister was using his account...
LUFFYLUFFY - I met this person on the Super Mario Sunshine forum when I posted 'Super Mario Vulgarity'. She seemed to be the only one to agree with me, but it was a grueling process becoming her friend.
I'll post others later, but if you want to be here, just PM me and I'll see if your worthy. :]
===ONOMATOPOEIA===
East Timorese, Guatemala and Mumia. The beast seems to reach where they've got a walletful of wealth, so COINTELPRO police goin' to hell "NO JUSTICE NO PEACE" is the onomatopoeia.
Well, anyway, somehow hip hop's no fun now. It's all been done now. So I stall my puns, wow. But then I recall my one vow is to bust this bubble of injustice, subtly. What'll we muddle up if we bum rush this plush system? UmÉgood if we crush this one. But maybe puddle's of blood'll be the rebuttle. I stood in the huddle, but would I risk lung trouble? Could I lift guns that'll take life? 'Cause there isn't a stunt double or a fake knife. So should I just run cuddle up with a great wife and make life-erotically perpetuating paradise on the late night, melodically. U.S. invading places like we got a key to every door. The people never see the war when we plan to slaughter smaller villages, killing woman to man to daughter. All of us'd really feel ill if we knew who we hand a lot of dollars to, so my soliloquy is bananas-- like Guatamala. Hands Off Asaata! While ya'll feast in the belly of the hairy beast, somebody better free Mumia, at the very least, release Leonard Peltier. Try to keep the peace by yourself. Where can you police the police? East Timorese health care fees increased. I wonder how it felt there when bombs scorched the nation with Tomohawk contracts from Textron (checks for the next welfare mom corporation).
D.A.R.E. Drugs Are Really Expensive. Drug Availability Reflects Extensive Dependence. And Real Educated Descendants are Able to Respect Even Deadbeat's Amendments. Racist Enforcement Deployed Aggressively. RED-blooded Americans React Excessively, Directly Attacking Recreation, Eventually Destroying A Relatively Elementary Drive to Alter Reality, Essentially Dimension Advancement; Radical Enhancement. Dangers Are Real--Especially Drinking Alcohol, Right? Except it's Distinctly All Right: Elite-Declared Appropriate; Rationalized, Enjoyable. Dope and Ritalin Employable Dose After Red-Eyed Dose. Aboriginal Religions Each Denote A Reincarnation, Exploration, Done Again Re-experience Elation. Drug Abuser Reincarceration Efforts Don't Allow for Rehabilitation. Effect: Does Anybody Really Expect Dealers Are Responsible Exclusively? Deep-seated Apathy Reflects Existing Dissatisfaction: Another Reclusive. D. A. Readily Eradicates. Dramatic Ad's Ridiculously Exaggerate. Drugs Aren't Restricted Evenly. End the War on Drugs immediately
"No Justice, No Peace" is one tough phrase in an unjust world, living unjust days. Must gray guns delay stuff from bloomin'? What's the way you can trust to stay human? Cracks in the street, a crease in the sky and it might spell doom but at least I try to keep gloom from whom ever 'til the whole things boomin', zoomin' on in on my blue piece of pie. I have it and eat it too. I need it to inspire me to watch, stay seated through the whole fractal, stay on track 'til the end, treat moments like eternity, learnin' that time bends. Find tens of tendencies in friends and plenty of these blend with trends I see in many of my enemies. "By any means necessary" that's convincing. If you want a house you break the wood fence but believin' in God doesn't make good sense so I listen to the words of a madman,
"--If it's wrong why don't you arrest us?
--Why don't you get out in front of the camera and go on?
--It's not a matter of being in front of the county, it's a matter of facing your judge, and facing your Sheriff. We're willing to be beaten for democracy!!"
When he turned the other cheek never seen such fiest. Can't wait for peace, he's a fool for Christ, lookin back through the last two millenniums of symbols and signs, and life's not fair but they're kind. "No justice, no peace" is too gradual. My natural sound's got to be more radical:10,000 pacifists-- top rank is a lunatic starin' down a tank.
===POEM===
Ik ben wie ik ben
een poppetje in een doos
aan het wachten totdat iemand me nodig heeft
totdat het tijd is om iemand te laten schrikken
me leven is donker
en gaat snel voorbij
ik weet niet hoelaat of welke dag het is
totdat ik er uit word gehaald
en die speciale klok zie
de tijd gaat zo snel voorbij
misschien ben ik al dood
Ik ben wie ik ben
nog steeds het poppetje in een doos
is het leven wel zo erg
lekker eenzaam en rustig
totdat er aan het hendeltje wordt gedraaid
en dat irritante geluidje er weer is
Ik ben wie ik ben
een poppetje in een doos
en niemand anders
en ik moet ermee leren leven
I am who I am
A puppet in a box
Waiting till somebody need me
Till it is time to scare somebody
My life is dark
and goes so fast
I don't know how late it is or wich day it is
Till I get out
and see that special clock
The time is going so fast
Maybe I am already dead
I am who I am
Still the puppet in the box
Is the life so bad as they sa
Lonely and calm
Till somebody spin the handle
and that irritating sound comes back
I am who I am
a puppet in a box
And nobody else
And I need to learn living with it
===JONNY 5'S RSS===
Don't Put Down Your Flag: America in Flux
Jonny 5
Oct 31, '08, 2:33 PM
Being an emcee in a hip-hop band sometimes feels like being an irresponsible substitute teacher. One stands in front of groups of teenagers encouraging them to "make some noise" and they shout obscenities in approval. Occasionally things get out of control and intervention is required.
Such was the case at a recent performance in Chicago. As we railed against the Iraq war and CIA-backed assassinations, the crowd swirled in an energetic mosh pit. Several songs into our set, a group of young people began chanting.
"U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!"
Despite the fact that our music includes phrases like "New American Insurgent" and our promotional artwork prominently features American flag bandanas, the chant took me by surprise. The last time I'd heard it had been just after September 11th when a candlelight vigil had given way to a chorus of "USA's" and accompanying calls for vengeance. An audience who embraced this sort of blind patriotism clearly did not understand our message. Intervention was needed.
"I want to say something" I said.
"I see a lot of you have American flag bandanas like the ones we wear on our album cover. There's something you need to understand about what those represent. It is NOT the flag of genocide, slavery, and war. It is not the flag of the old America. It is the flag of the other America, of all of those who struggled against such oppression."
There were cheers.
"It is the flag of a new America that we are going to build together. The poet Langston Hughes wrote 'America never was America to me, and yet I swear this oath -America Will Be'. This is the flag of the America that will be."
The crowd went wild with reassuring applause, and for a moment I felt reassured. Then they resumed chanting, "U-S-A! U-S-A...."
Discovering Patriotism
Growing up in a liberal family during the apathetic '90s, there was a total disconnect from the flag. It was neither cool nor especially relevant. My aloofness matured into an aversion as I entered college and learned more about US foreign policy. Then, during the leadup to the invasion of Iraq, I was among those anti-war organizers who utilized the flag during marches and rallies. Amidst the us-them uberpatriotism that policed the post-911 America psyche, this was a pragmatic way for peacemongers to complicate the categories. Only now, after several years witnessing the incorporation of patriotic imagery into progressive movements (most notably in the immigrants' rights marches), have I come to embrace the flag with more sincerity. My patriotism is something I can describe as a process of critical engagement, in which the other America struggles with the old America to make it new.
But what about these kids in Chicago? Adolescents or younger at the time of the September 11th attacks, their sense of national identity has formed against the backdrop of the Bush Administration, the "War on Terror" and the emergence of Barack Obama's insurgent political campaign. What does patriotism mean to them? Has the political landscape evolved so much that what took me seven years to discover took them 30 seconds? Have our "Peace Is Patriotic" bumper stickers been THAT effective?
To an extent, yes. This decade's antiwar movement failed to prevent the invasion of Iraq, but we have helped to bring about a shift in consciousness about what it means to love one's country. For evidence, look no further than Obama himself. His opposition to the Iraq invasion, which in 2002 was seen as a political liability, became his biggest asset 5 years later. Now, with public opinion solidly against both the war and the Bush administration, Obama is being welcomed both domestically and abroad as the face of a new America.
This is cause for celebration, to be sure. But we must not get lost in the symbolism. Whether or not Obama wears a flag pin is, after all, of little consequence to Afghan civilians killed by American bombs. How do we make sure that the "change" we elect is more than cosmetic, that a shift in our national self-conception translates into a policy shift? How do we take a symbol that has represented violence and authentically transform it into a symbol of peace?
Redefining Symbols
In "Don't Put Down Your Flag", rapper/revolutionary M-1 of Dead Prez addresses gang members and advocates redefining gang symbolism rather than abandoning it.
"So what if we just tied our flags together?
And put away our differences forever?....
[because we're] from the same family line
now I'm not trying to say don't ride or don't bang
but use new eyes when you're looking at the game
like no slanging around the babies
and makin sure they get to school safely...
...when your kids start saying 'that's gangsta'
it was because they kept their granny outa danger"
Rather than challenging people to reject their flags, he appeals to the values (familial ties, self-defense, financial empowerment) that he believes are the ultimate source of meaning for those who wave them. He then calls for a change in behavior based on those values in order to reduce (though not eliminate) the violence waged in their name.
A similar approach is taking shape across the political spectrum. Through aggressive outreach and public witness, people like Evangelical leader Jim Wallis of Sojourners magazine have brought nuance and depth to the national conversation about faith, freeing "Christianity" from the clutches of the Religious Right. From the Iraq Veterans Against the War to Colin Powell himself, military servicepeople are stepping forward to challenge the notion that Republicans hold any sort of monopoly on caring for our troops. Progressive Jewish leaders have come together to form "J-Street" a family of organizations designed to "mobilize political support for a new direction in American policy in the Middle East." "Pro Christian" "Pro-military" and "Pro-Israel" are just three of the terms whose definition is in flux.
The Other America
For the "Don't Put Down Your Flag" approach to lead to real change, we must redefine "Pro-America" in a way that that appeals to basic democratic principles and reduces our violent behavior. This means that those of us who have seen ourselves as "the other America" must take the drivers' seat, and engage those around us in a discussion about our core values. We must talk honestly and without defensiveness about the violence that has been perpetrated in our name in both recent history and throughout the past century (a basic knowledge of CIA overthrows in places like Iran and Latin America will help people to understand those regions today). As Obama's much-touted core constituencies, African Americans of all ages and young people of all races may be especially well-positioned to engage in this conversation.
The young people at our show represent a generation eager to believe that our flag could represent an entirely different set of values from what they've seen the last 8 years. They wear the flag because they are inspired by the possibility that the "Change" is more than a slogan. They are ready to serve something larger than themselves, and this excitement is infectious. Introducing his song "Black President", Nas sums up these hopes, proclaiming "Out with the old America, in with the new!"
Do They Get It?
About a month after the Chicago performance I was sitting with my bandmates in the Mile High Stadium in our hometown of Denver, waiting for Barack Obama to give his acceptance speech. We'd begun the week by performing for the DNC welcome party and three days later had joined Rage Against the Machine for a concert in support of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. After the show, 7,000 young people had marched to the Pepsi center to call on Obama and the Democrats to make good on their antiwar rhetoric. With the previous day's outspoken criticism fresh in our minds, we sat surrounded by 80,000 Democrats waving American flags. It was a convincing display of patriotism that bode well for the campaign's appeal to mainstream America. I wondered how many other people in the audience had been in the streets the day before. As Obama took the convention floor and declared "Enough" to Bush's policies, it was easy to imagine that we were a new generation witnessing the birth of a new nation. Then a chant sounded out from the convention floor.
"U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!"
I thought back to the performance in Chicago and wondered again which America the crowd was celebrating. The old America? The other America? A new America? Under an Obama Presidency, which one does the flag represent?
The answer will depend on what we do next.
MY UNKNOWN QUESTION MARK
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