Autonomy Girl (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} icecreamfilling) wrote,@ 2006-12-19 01:13:00 |
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being alive can cause cancer
1) I received one of those chain emails from a co-worker today telling me that drinking milk can cause cancer. I can't tell you why because I junked it right away. I don't want to read about yet another food/health scare.
The other day, someone was telling me, in all earnestness, not to eat chicken wings. When I asked for the reason, he said it's because of the hormones injected into chickens to make them grow faster. But don't hormones, like, travel all over in the bloodstream? Yes, but the wing is where they inject the stuff and supposedly leaves a deadly residue. Moreover, he read it in an email, so it must be true!
I love how people can put so much faith in information that came from unknown, anonymous sources propogated through email. And how every other food is cause for concern because it has been linked with a disease. I mean, even good ol' milk has become an evil food! What next? Will the human race even make it to the 22nd century, surrounded by all this carcinogens????? *wrings hands*
2) I dreamt about Muse last night. Strange. I haven't been thinking a lot about them even though I'll see them in less than a month's time! *spazzes* But the dream got me thinking about them in a nostalgic, walk-down-memory-lane kind of way.
I can't remember when I fell in love with Muse. It was the music, obvs. But if memory serves me right (it seldom does) the moment I crossed into fangirl territory was when I watched Matt's skinny fingers dance across the fretboard of his custom-made, aluminium-clad Manson guitar. It was a video of KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas 2004 and the song was New Born. And then I watched more videos and I became obsessed. Primarily with Matt. A man who can: coax his guitar into doing anything + play piano with dramatic effect + move like a madman across the stage + ramble on about conspiracy theories = SEXAY.
Hmm... I was eagerly anticipating their fourth album. There was much excitement when Debase Masons Grog was released on the Muse boards. (The song went on to become Assassin and part of Knights of Cydonia.) Then I heard Supermassive Black Hole and I was like, wtf is this shit? I liked it. A lot. But this was not Muse! And then the single and the album made them super popular and I could not understand it. No, I'm not a music snob who scoffs all things populist. (This is true because I readily admit to liking the Arctic Monekys and have Clay Aiken listed as an interest.) I just could not get why the one work least characteristic of their sound is gaining them recognition. Actually, I can, because BH&R is their most poppish sounding work. I have to admit, it wasn't love at first listen. It took a few tries before I got into it. It currently ranks as a close #3 behind Origin of Symmetry and Absolution. Ehm... I don't really have a point to to all this rambling, so this here is my abrupt ending.
3) *looks out the window* Monsoon season is upon us again. How lovely.
4) I want to watch Curse of the Golden Flower! I love Zhang Yimou and his pretty movies.
1) I received one of those chain emails from a co-worker today telling me that drinking milk can cause cancer. I can't tell you why because I junked it right away. I don't want to read about yet another food/health scare.
The other day, someone was telling me, in all earnestness, not to eat chicken wings. When I asked for the reason, he said it's because of the hormones injected into chickens to make them grow faster. But don't hormones, like, travel all over in the bloodstream? Yes, but the wing is where they inject the stuff and supposedly leaves a deadly residue. Moreover, he read it in an email, so it must be true!
I love how people can put so much faith in information that came from unknown, anonymous sources propogated through email. And how every other food is cause for concern because it has been linked with a disease. I mean, even good ol' milk has become an evil food! What next? Will the human race even make it to the 22nd century, surrounded by all this carcinogens????? *wrings hands*
2) I dreamt about Muse last night. Strange. I haven't been thinking a lot about them even though I'll see them in less than a month's time! *spazzes* But the dream got me thinking about them in a nostalgic, walk-down-memory-lane kind of way.
I can't remember when I fell in love with Muse. It was the music, obvs. But if memory serves me right (it seldom does) the moment I crossed into fangirl territory was when I watched Matt's skinny fingers dance across the fretboard of his custom-made, aluminium-clad Manson guitar. It was a video of KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas 2004 and the song was New Born. And then I watched more videos and I became obsessed. Primarily with Matt. A man who can: coax his guitar into doing anything + play piano with dramatic effect + move like a madman across the stage + ramble on about conspiracy theories = SEXAY.
Hmm... I was eagerly anticipating their fourth album. There was much excitement when Debase Masons Grog was released on the Muse boards. (The song went on to become Assassin and part of Knights of Cydonia.) Then I heard Supermassive Black Hole and I was like, wtf is this shit? I liked it. A lot. But this was not Muse! And then the single and the album made them super popular and I could not understand it. No, I'm not a music snob who scoffs all things populist. (This is true because I readily admit to liking the Arctic Monekys and have Clay Aiken listed as an interest.) I just could not get why the one work least characteristic of their sound is gaining them recognition. Actually, I can, because BH&R is their most poppish sounding work. I have to admit, it wasn't love at first listen. It took a few tries before I got into it. It currently ranks as a close #3 behind Origin of Symmetry and Absolution. Ehm... I don't really have a point to to all this rambling, so this here is my abrupt ending.
3) *looks out the window* Monsoon season is upon us again. How lovely.
4) I want to watch Curse of the Golden Flower! I love Zhang Yimou and his pretty movies.
