To celebrate I tried my best to climb the 65 foot wall at the REI H.Q in Seattle, and surrounded myself with two of my most favorite things: hippies, and folk music. Where you ask? Why, the 37th Annual Northwest Folklife Festival 2008!
I was completely psyched to know that this smörgåsbord of folk metropolis was transpiring near the Seattle center on my birthday weekend!
I'm still married to our production, so I only had a few hours to spend, but as I ran through the Piroshky booths, vendors, giant fountain, and mass amount of people, my ears were delighted by some sleepy, some lively, but all pleasant string plucking, and humble vocals.
The Seattle sun awoke from its slumber, and lit up all the tie dye, hemp, quilts, and musicians there.
I saw the Tallboys, the Hail Ceasers (representing my own Olympia: nicely combining a folk attitude with a sprinkle of punk), Chickweed (rightfully folk named string plucking trio), and several student performers. Even at the 'food court' of the mall, there was a rendition of Fiddler on the Roof playing and the very basics of square dancing being taught.
I'm usually quite emotionally allergic to big crowds of people, especially in any Fair environment, but this wasn't too bad at all. You tell me the mistakes you see in these pictures: it's the culprit of what happens when you use photo-stitch with pictures that aren't really panoramic; I kind of like the surrealistic outcome.
(I had to use Picasa, since I think I'm running out of file upload space!)
God is good, I ask for xylophones and what do I get?! Xylophones!! This group, called Chenjera is a student band made up of at least six xylophones (some gigante!) that perform music from Zimbabwe. After writing my campaign for more of them, I thought that was pretty ironic! The best part about that experience besides the poly rhythms and dancing in the grass, was that the kids would dance *while* they played. I'm all for performance quality in live music.
Anyways, if you find yourself craving a summer experience where the Evergreens rise high and the days are bright till 10PM, I'd suggest it.
Live from the 2008 Northwest Folklife Festival, is the name of a compilation CD you can buy on itunes, if interested.
How'd you all spend your Memorial Day?
-Folkie Frankay
Ps: Baloney! I've gotten some links from you guys that don't seem to work, do resend!
My 20th year has already started off with a bang! After opening night of my show, I crashed on the couch and woke up to find I had left the oven on all night, as well as the front door wide open. Not to mention, I lost my cell phone and wallet last night (for the first time in 6 months) and can receive no phone calls or purchase bubble gum! Already my responsibility and maturity has sored through the roof! Speaking of the ceiling, I awoke to find several streamers and banners decorating my humble abode!! I had secretly decorated the place for myself the night before, so I could wake up to a surprise! It worked, and the yellow streamers seemed to present a kind of sunshine of its own on this cloudy spring Washington day. You see...when I was a youngster, my parents would decorate the house late at night and when I arose, it would be filled with all sorts of fun decorations! When I got older, they stopped decorating and I would wake up to wild disappointment. Therefore I have taken it upon myself! 
Today was the first birthday in 20 years that I have woken up to an empty house. Maybe one day when I have kids running all over the house, I will miss that. But fortunately, Nava (my princess of a cat) was in an extremely affectionate mood. I *was* feeling old and that I hadn't quite lived up to my potential of doing something fabulous by the age of 20 (you know, like creating a new planet, or being the world's biggest superstar, maybe creating a recipe for world peace) but then all my friends were going to a bar last night and of course, I'm too young to go. That helped put me back in my rightfully youthful state! To be frank, like a Frankay would be, I can think of few things that would be worse than my 19th year, so 20 has to be better!!
I thought I'd share with you all some lists of 20. One is 20 things I have learned (like, actually learned and put into practice) and one is a list of the 20 most beautiful things I have seen so far on my whirlwind of a journey here. Would love to hear yours!!
20 Things I've Learned By Age 20 That I have every option of proving wrong by age 30.
1 Use Pretty Notebooks: Write all over them*
2 You cannot change people or control them, and any attempt to do so is manipulation*
3 People cannot promise anything for the future, even yourself*
4 In every situation, you will have your withs and your withouts. Appreciate your withs and prioritize your withouts*
5 The only things that matter at the end of it all are your relationship with God, if you loved, and the choices you made. *
6 Dreading something is always worse than actually doing it*
7 Get to know guys before you think of dating them. See them in several situations *.
8. Buy lettuce in small amounts, or else it wilts or you forget about it*
9 Have great faith when you pray*
10 When talking to people in the entertainment industry, always ask them about a trip they might have just gotten back from. aka: shmooze.*
11 Avoid things you feel mediocre about, the only lesson you'll learn from such situations is this.*
12 God knows what He is doing. *
13 Life has meaning. (this one took awhile) *
14 Love is Love. Not need, or understanding, or obsession, or like, or fascination, or infatuation, or interest, or lust, or ownership, or want, or greed, or boxing someone in, or desire, dependence, need, or even enjoyment. Love is love. Real love does not often hurt, and it does not die. *
15 Happiness means something. What that is I'm not sure, but there is a reason we want to feel better if we are sick, it can't be just to function better. So therefore there must be a reason to be happy even simply because it FEELS better *
16 Network *
17 It's ok to have friends. This does not mean that you are living a less meaningful life*
18 When making a decision think forward as to which one you will regret further in life. EX
1. Will I regret being afraid to get close or
2. Getting close?
or
1. Will I regret never trying it or
2. Trying it?
Maybe you will regret both, but there is usually one you will regret MORE. *
19 Ken Kesey smartly said: " People who say they don't have regrets are either idiots or liars. Or both"*
20 People's weaknesses are usually also their greatest strengths. Artistically, morally, and in general. *
THINGS I AM TRYING TO LEARN
If something is not working for you, find a different solution.
Concentrate on small goals:
Take Care Of Yourself. Your Body is God's Temple. Do not give your pearls to Swine.
There's a lot to be said about being pleasant
Remove yourself from harmful situations.
Focus Focus Focus on others.
20 most beautiful things I've ever seen/felt:
1. A creaking Evergreen (the sound mostly)
2. The Border of Zermatt and Cervinia
3. My niece being born
4. Andermatt in the morning
5. Gimmelwald, CH
6. A woman Sca-ing with more vivaciousness than anyone else at a music festival in Alaska, on crutches.
7. Flying over the rocky mountains, or the mountains on the way to Alaska.
8. A very special canyon on the Navajo Reservation
9. The Arizona Sky. Night and day.
10. The Northern lights on a flight away from Alaska
11. The proud, unbeatable smile of Broadway performers after an amazing show.
12. The stories of Craig Childs on a beach on the San Juan.
13. Dancing with my mother in the living room. (more like experienced)
14. Love, when it is very hard
15. God's love (more like felt)
16. The way the Evergreens rise on the way to Evergreen State College.
17. Snow
18. Forgiveness (felt)
19. Mouthed " I love you's"(felt)
20. 01.01.05 - 05.14.06 -
Love, Frankay, decade II
G-Chat conversations keep me awake while blogging, among other things. Even though I've had Gmail since 2004, I've only recently noticed the "go off record" button that is sheltered by the options button. I clicked it, and very consistent with its title, it proclaims the following conversation "off the record" meaning that it erases it entirely from existence! You know (or may not know) how Gmail saves EVERYthing, well now there's an out to have it not. I guess you could call me an e-mail pack-rat, but there isn't an e-mail outside of junk mail that I will delete. As of now I'm sitting on 4697. I could basically live the last four years of my life over by reading about what happened while browsing through old content. Still, the idea of something created just so it can later be erased is sickening to me, and I do not understand. Are there this many secrets and things not to be proud of?! If I am over exaggerating, please give me an example of when you've used this device. It kind of makes me sick.
Iggli retort : Frankay, calm down! We did not know of this device or it's existence.
Hm. Just wondering when people use it. Just upset maybe, again about secrets. Speaking of Secrets, here's this weeks: 
How my roomate admittedly feels about me. 
What I do, when I really should be Blogging. A confession by Frankay
1. Complain about How I need to blog.
2. Listen to music-o-very
3. Think about Blogging
4. Go on facebook
5. Brainstorm Blog Topics
6. Instant message chat
7. Write half a blog
8. Rehearsal. Audition. Call Back. Rehearsal. Repeat.
9. Look up new wigits for Opera
10. Write on my stickies.
11. Scroll through pages of my possible blog topics
12. Crash on the couch
13. Enjoy and live my life
14. Stress about blogging
15. Constantly say "I'm going to blog about that" to friends or whoever is in my radius.
16. Enjoy the new "art" tab on google, look at pretty photo pictures.....(but since I've written this I forgot where the link is)
17. Write poems ("Sweet Frankay, how she wishes she could blog the day away!"
18. Think about blogging about facebook, while on facebook
19. Troubleshoot my comcast internet connection, which has had to be repaired 12 times in the last 6 months and still doesn't work.
20. Stress about comcast.
21. Think about blogging about how much comcast sucks.
22. Take Mapple to social events in order to blog but really she just sits by my side like a white mute, computer shaped parrot.
23. Glog! (Embarrassed smile)
24. Finally blog
25. Internet Dies!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Love a little ball of Frankay Stress. (Can you blame me? It's opening night!)
Having made coffee for around four years, I thought I knew something of the dark brew. Then I moved to the Northwest and realized my knowledge was more like dusting on a large, broad beach. Speaking of beaches, I had the rare oppurtunity to watch my friend take a 60 foot kite out the other day and fly it with a harness, pretty spectacular. Moving on, one can't get around the fact that coffee *is* pretentious here in WA. Most mochas that my small quivering wallet can afford are adorned with a white floaty leaf, heart, or swirl design. I take my cup with an under breath of awe, or jealousy, depending on my mood, but always enjoy it. I'm not even supposed to drink coffee! I'm just budding on my second decade and have to ask for "decaf". 
Now, we all love sitting around the coffee shops and listening to local bands, chatting it up in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Reaching over and tapping a stranger (no not like that) to converse with us, pleasantly inviting them to a conversation in which ever language. (Pauses for thought, imagines several slightly wonky faces). Is this not the type of cafe you drone into? Is FranKay being a little pretentious?
Nope. I'm talking about the social networking site for learning languages: livemocha.com. Apparently I've been hoarding her, since I've been sipping the loquacious lattes since October. My three friends and I were learning Spanish, French, and Arabic respectively and they filled me in. Really, it's quite wonderful.
The website is free. You can choose to simply chat with other world-folk, help a friend by reading in your native language, or sign up for a course if you have the ganas. It even takes the courtesy to send you e-mails to encourage you to continue the course. Right now there are only 10 languages offered but that is a good enough start for me!
Since I'm learning German, and always trying to brush up on Spanish, I've found this site to be a big help. Who knows, maybe I've even blogged about it before. If I only spent as much time on livemocha as I do on facebook, I'd be fluent by now. Anyways, I'd recommend it-languages come easy for me, so I'd like to hear your experience with it. I'd recommend it over spending money for a class, that's for sure.
The most neat-o part is that there is usually someone to chat with at all hours of the day. (Thinks, I guess this is true with most chatting devices). Man, with the internet, we really *aren't* alone!
-Frau Frankay -en-ze-stien-en-ze
PS: blushes at her many tabs...
Bringing a computer to watch Lost and The Office, or any social event in fact creates a magnetic pull of its own. I haven't done this in awhile (but did it to blog), and I was pelted by people asking me to 'look stuff up'. I became in essence a walking computer (or no, maybe it's mac book that takes that title). When any question is asked, there is no room for speculation or surmising, but "well, why don't you look it up", and instant access.
In other news, My friend who has a 10 foot snake that lovingly caresses your entire body like a wool sweater has several kids though out the day (when she brings said snake named Diamond to a park) ask " Is that a REAL snake!?" She very seriously tells them "no", and is annoyed by the question. I tell her it is probably because these children live in a technological age, and that reality may very well now be the first aspect questioned. What's your take? Do you think in 1957 they would ask the same thing?
Anyways, speaking of strange things in the beautiful Northwest, Indie music in Olympia has an element of play in it that produces an open minded release for the musical soul/listener/expeiriencer. One of these examples is the use of xylophones in the local bands they have here. Therefore i wanted to reserach bands that use the beloved childlike colorful instrument. Although, I had no idea they would be so far and in between. Here's a small few that I found; the first is local!
yes, it's sad and small 
Bottom Line: Xylophones are a fun and colorful instrument which should be used more often to cause people to get up and dance!
Remember those old jingles? That's right the ones that made you want to walk out of your 1950's home and go buy some good old American...pie? speaking of pie did you know they make strawberry rhubarb (my fav) ice cream! Reminds me of the old wasabi ice cream they made one year at Cold Stone. I actually had to do this for school: look up old fashioned jingles and it became a really endearing process, watching these old commericals being made. Maybe I have a new love for commericals because I recently took a commercial and marketing class, and I look at them from a different angle. The casting. callback. audition .waiting room. schmooze .rejection .slate. angle. Let's take some of our favorite American brands like Listerine, Colgate, Gillette...and compare them through the decades.
Perhaps it's just that I think I subconsciously belong in the 1950's: the fashion, the gender stereotypes, the big smiles and mashed potatoes, politics. Hm, maybe not. Anyways they are charming. Just how everything in the 50's had to be. Enjoy. And yes, I do do this with my time.
When I lived in London, I passed by this ad on a giant billboard on many red and double decker buses, getting more and more lost each time. It seemed quizzical to me:
"Yours Truly, Angry Mob". 
Knowing little to nothing about pop culture, I thought it was maybe a political statement on something. I didn't think much of it apart from the fact that they could look like a modern day version of the Beatles, and that I was still very far away from getting on the right bus. It wasn't until I arrived back to the states that I'd started listening to them. On a exhausting ride to Phoenix complete with singing through an entire Killer's Album at the top of our lungs, I heard a few song of theirs on someone's ipod. I'd rarely felt more impetus to get up and dance! I bought employment. 
Even though their newest album, Ruby 
was soon to be released that (last) summer. I like employment more in general, but maybe that's just because I haven't given Ruby enough of a chance. Brit Pop? Yes, sort of, maybe like pop-alternative. But I think they're brilliant. I like their serious/playful dynamic in their emotional quality and, just dig their energy in general! The lyrics, the British ness (which I'm usually not a tune to), their fun. "Na na na na na" is my top favorite.
It used to be a bit of a problem remembering their name, as I would always think they were the Kaiser Chefs.
As someone who has had many years of dance experience, I often like to 'throw it all away' and dance like a crazy formless elf. I have signature dance moves of my own like the elbow dance, finger dance, or silly closed eyes dance. All of these couldn't be better paired with the tunes of the Kaiser Chiefs. Go ahead!
Why are they so good?
Ironically, a year later, I live near the corner of Kaiser and French. This intersection seems to be a bit culturally confused, does it not?
I constantly refer to the fact that our lives revolve around technology as surprising. At every increase in technological advancement I am enthralled, as if I didn't see it coming. When I hear about 2nd graders being required to use personal laptops at school, I am entirely taken back, thinking they are so young, and need to be out enjoying playing in dirt. It's as if there was some time in my life that I didn't spend the majority of my day in front of a screen, when in reality-land I started using computer when I was eight, at school. This corresponded with my meeting of a DELL PC, windows '95 at home. I think I was 8. My sister, who is eight years older that I, soon had to come up with a schedule to who's turn it was to get on the gleaming black box so that we didn't fight. She would chat in old style chat rooms, I would go on "kid websites" like games for Christian kids, play that Mr. Earthworm game, practice my typing skills, and create e-mail addresses. At the time I had mollythepurplepenguin@hotmail.com and later obladithegreenpenguin@hotmail.com and even hisometimesIpeemypants@yahoo.com I guess I've always thought I was hilarious. This was before google, and I think most people used yahoo. I remember yahoolagins, which I could never spell. My parents installed safeaccess to protect against the dangers of the outside world, but I don't even remember accidentally stumbling upon....bad material until I was well moved out of the house. But, I wasn't one to seek it out. I soon fell in love with microsoft word, and journaling online. My dad tried to teach me Excell but to little avail. But still, references came from books, not website, and the internet wasn't really used as a tool for research in my experience. As Jr. High came up, my new obsession was MSN instant messenger, and chat rooms with my best girl friend. That was a dumb idea, and I would freak out if I ever saw my 14 year old daughter in a random chat room. That's one thing I've literally spent time thinking about, how I would 'protect' my kids from the internet. The brewing romance in my hormonal system found it's flirting outlet here. HOURS spent chatting with...boys seemed to make my world go round. After this things just started rolling, with GMAIL sophomore year, blogging, forwarded surveys were a huge thing, myspace Junior year, and of course SKYPE saved my life my first year of college. That's when I got my first macbook. I must have been confused because I needed to have a white one, so everyone knew it was a Mac-but had to put a sticker over the apple symbol, so "no one knew it was a mac" ! I've had that one for about a year and a half, and I expect to have it for 4 years before it combusts. If you haven't figured out already, white is a bad choice if cleanliness is at all important to you. It already has a grain sized crack in the screen, but what can you expect for a computer that has braved the rainforest's of Costa Rica?
My point is that it should cease to be surprising, all these advancements and the younger and younger kids are getting with internet exposure. But, it's not.
How would my life have been different without tecnhoman? Well, I've traveled a bit, and have had a few long distance relationships, and I know that those would have been outrageously difficult or not existing at all, so I suppose I'm grateful for that. There's always letters. It has consumed a great deal of my time, though. And I wonder if I'd want that time back.
The bottom line: I act as if there was a time in my life before computers, but there isn't really. As if I lived in the 1970's with my older siblings. Does anyone else have this complex?
Lately I've been feeling really "ADD". Not being able to concentrate or focus on one single thing, especially not finishing a blog. In fact, I've been using the number of drafts and blog topics as my new party trick just because of their sheer massive number. Just kidding. It used to be my claim to fame that I was the only person in my family that doesn't have attention deficit disorder, but maybe that was just a lie they told me so that I could fall asleep at night more easily. In fact, my mother used to make me warm milk with three large tablespoons of sugar....oh how medical knowledge has advanced.
So, instead of fighting what's going on, I'm going to try to work with it. Does medication sound like a good idea? Maybe, but then my mind reverts back to the scene of Charlie Bartlet (big fan) in the dried up swimming pool becoming manic on Ritalin.
When I'm not falling asleep, trying to blog, or becoming one with facebook, I find myself incubating my creative muscles under stage lights. There's nothing like waking up every morning to a stage. I used to tell myself that as long as I was near a stage I'd be happy, imaging a grinning janitor happily sweeping up the remains from the previous show. Although, as I've had several of these experiences by my crusty almost turn of the 2nd decade age, I've realized how I'm just truly happier ON the stage
Musical theatre has turned out to be quite competitive; I'd never thought I'd have to fight just to *study* what I love, let alone do it professionally. Maybe it's not ADD at all, but the fact that I'm exhausted from the rad avant garde, performance theatre type performance we will be putting on later this month, later on in my birthday month where I realize I am not a teenage anymore. Will my entire music taste change like one realizes tomatoes aren't really that bad after 13 years? Who knows. What I am proud of is having written about 8 very raw very terrible songs with absolutely no accompaniment. Funny thing is that I actually don't feel lame about this at all, I feel proud.
Talking to one of my musician friends, I was amused at his comment of "I personally hate portable music devices, without them you realize how much time you have to make your own music, instead of listening to what other people created." Ha. I was just grateful for my 10 minute walk to school and how it provides me with limited yet existing time to actually listen to music!
I have to admit, the other night I stayed up till 3AM creating 20 different greeting cards out of my own photography and wit; I either have a rare talent or a rare insanity. Thank- you iphoto. If I can figure out how to copywright a photo, I will show them to you all.
So, if anyone is interested, here's what we're working on in the medium of living and breathing art. Neo Futurism. Let me introduce you all.
Infamous for being fascists, they tried to revolt against Romanticism. Their archetypal interests were inspired by mechanical mess and onomatopoeia of the loud city environment. Not fairies in flowerbeds; just everything fast and loud.
and 
over
anyways. This theater troupe in Chicago use the same ideas in this millennium and call themselves: The Neo Futurists.
We study what they do. It makes me add and not able to finish blogs. What can I say? I love theatre.
-Frankay, who must admit that she IS an idealist and agrees that the more fairies in flowerbeds, the better! Although, if we can consider Jack Kerouac a beat futurist, I'd be all over that.
Originally Haiku was created to be about nature. So, what else would be the perfect progression for modern day Haikus but to haiku about the new nature: your computer screen. For some of us, the closest we ever get to nature is the generated forrest of our desktop background.
So, how to form the perfect haiku?
Perhaps you should take yourself on a trek, to someplace beautiful, where you can smell the different aromas of freshness in the air. Place yourself in a spot where you've had to physically challenge your mind and body to arrive at, a tall mountain, a jagged rock, or alternatively a quiet river bank. My suggestion would be to climb a few cliffs or boulders on the way. Wait until your thoughts are silent enough to begin, quiet the trafficking of your soul and just breathe in the bird's funky song. Then, pull out your laptop
and begin.
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Here's some for your inspiration/hilarity.
AND Fav's:
Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
And of course Frankay's:
want song when I brush
why isn't my toothbrush an
ipod as well? ug!
My cell phone should come
with a remote control set
to work the T.V.
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Guys love opera. Seriously. The innovative look, the organization of it all. The easy download. That's right, I''m not talking about big voices in Italy, I'm talking about the web browser with a musical name: Opera. Opera will show you how to go from this: 
to this:
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Now, why would I title this post " How to upset a man?" Am I trying to be catchy? Am I living by the philosophy of, sex sells? No. I'm just telling it like it is. Maybe I just have more men look at my computer than women, but when they see how many tabs I have open at a time (usually between 6 and 20) they have a little man-fit that sounds something like
"How do you DEAL with that"
"You're KILLING your computer"
"Your computer is so.....slow!"
" Do you STILL NEED ALL THESE TABS"
(To which my response is: Yes, I can't remember what I was supposed to be doing without them)
"WHY don't you just BOOKMARK THEM"
(To which my response is: I'm far too lazy)
Then they combust.
Seriously, I don't know what it is guys, but I've spent (wasted) many hours with ex's discussing this. You know what they say: little people talk about other people, medium people talk about things, big people talk about ideas, and even bigger people talk about Frankay's tab-ular habits.
I know I have a problem, but I think it's hilarious. Frankly, my favorite button is the "refresh tabs" option after having to shut down firefox with ctl+alt+ delete. Especially when someone has a great you tube video they want to show, I sit and watch as they get more and more frustrated because it's just... not... working and I sit on the other side of the room and make expressions that are supposed to convey " I'm a real person, talk to me like a human being" or plotting ways to hilariously say I'm clinically allergic to you tube.
Anyways......YEARS later one of these conversations actually comes to some avail.
"Do you really need all these--
"Yes. And I don't want to hear it"
"You should really download Opera"
"La La La La La I can't hear you"
"Seriously. It lets you keep your pages open and you can see the front page and you'll never have to leave their side"
" "
-> runs like a roadrunner to download OPERA.
ENJOY
The- oh -so -loved -Frankay.
now, if we could only fix this: 
I've been on over 50 flights. Closer to 70. As this insatiable gnomad looks forward to yet more adventures, I think of the music that has soundtrack-ed my travels, and realize it is sort of ironic to make a hit the road soundtrack, since I can't really remember a time when I sat still. I've even realized now I eat my meals standing up over the sink as to not have to wash any dishes. The question is, what does a traveler desire to listen to while, traveling. Is it songs that remind them of home? Of nothing? A completely new band that can forever mark the beginning of that journey? Songs that talk about traveling? World Music? I've talked to some of my friends about this, and they had the same questions. I love my quirky Idahoan friend's response, just cracks me up:
"Hmm... like songs I like to listen to while traveling? Or songs I've heard while traveling?
Carla Bruni was someone I discovered in Greece, although she's French... oh and you should check out the you tube video for Sakis Rouvas, shake it. That was a good discovery in Greece... also the rapper Nivo.
I listen to my favorites when I'm traveling. Dave Matthews... and Jack Johnson if I want to relax and tune out the world... but if I"m traveling with friends I usually listen to really fun upbeat stuff to stay pumped up... like I believe in a thing called love, stacy's mom, teenage dirtbag, love stinks, two princes, and save a horse ride a cowboy are on one of my favorite playlists for car rides/traveling."
The rest of them were too busy traveling to respond...
I will not be responsible for this playlist spontaneously causing you to get up and change locations entirely. Please add to mine/post your own!! I'd love to expand my collection I think my reasons for choosing these songs will be pretty obvious.
Safety First, Frankay
Also, I couldn't find Motherland in any thing other than a video, which turned out to be pretty ironic since this one is a pretty corny one of the the old' Grand Canyon, an hour away from my hometown. ( A good one to listen to on a return, lest you not bawl your eyes out).
now, we all know that this playlist is short
a. because i'm asleep on planes in 10 seconds flat
b. i always forget to charge my music equpaje!
Who would have thought pressing buttons could be so tiring?
But seriously, is anyone going to back me up on the whole "UG I have to look it UP?" Yes, we have sunk to this level. The internet is now the modern day encyclopedia. Where we moan and groan to have to go ALL the way to the computer and type something in the browser. It's sad, that pressing buttons can take it out of you. With the newly found reverse curve in my 19 year old neck, and the daily doze at the computer, I'm questioning my pre mature dark circles under my eyes and wanting to sue the technological war lords for plastic surgery. (Pause: Increases text size). So, we'll give it a label and call it good: Computer Fatigue Syndrome (is that a good enough reason to stay home from work?).
and, don't forget:
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. As if facebook didn't already take up enough of my time. Nope, 24 hours a day just wasn't good enough for the old miser. They had to create...facebook chat! Weird thing is that it's totally non invasive, but just alluring, appealing, like that apple from afar. In my case, most of the times I just happen to be online at the same time as someone that I just haven't gotten the chance to catch up with for years, and then I see minutes....hours....of my life go down the facebook drain. Should I be upset? That much of my precious time is being spent talking to other human beings through a artificial device? No. Isn't that what life's about? I don't know, but now my entire screen is facebook-i-fied. The toolbar, the page, and now the chat. It's just....too much. Life's hard when people are your favorite thing, sort of.
And then, of course when you're chatting: you need an instant update of how their profile is faring. The omnipresent news feed. Just.
(FRANKAY ADDS FACEBOOK CHAT TO FAVORITE ACTIVITIES)
too much, hilariously so. This leads us to the question, does anybody remember what life was life before the news feed? What occupied those blue and white spaces? Maybe it was just the facebook logo.
I am impressed with the "x" button you can hit on the haunting "People you may know" section. Very handy indeed. Is that new? Or was that always there....?
I mean really, I'm an American who is complaining about how her friends take up too much of her time. God help us all
Frankaykay
Wake your mouth up!
...Because there is
too much life after nowhere