"The Handshake" by MGMT
I just shook the handshake
I just sealed the deal
I'll try not to let them
Take everything they can steal
People always told me
Don't forget your roots
I know I can feel them underneath my leather boots
You toss all the mornings lost to the clouds and you watch it go
Your fairweather friends on a parachute binge get lost when the wind blows
The handshake's stuck on the tip of my tongue
It tastes like death but it looks like fun
I was a loner
I was just waiting by myself
When you, warped temptress
Rose to bring me happiness and wealth
Black tears, black smile, black credit cards and shoes
You can call all the people you want
But it's you who's being used
Under your black eyes, honey
Right beneath your nose
A curse on all creation
Every single thing you know
White smoke, white light, white marble on the floor
It would only take a few seconds of darkness to figure out what's in store
Little girl
You convince yourself that you want it, but you don't know
You keep trying to wash the blood from your hands, but it won't go
We're gonna keep you on the run
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake [x15]
Onward, As one who reads my blog may know, I was never really about the numbers at all, but I was looking over my stats, and today, I beat my previous record set earlier in the week for most unique viewers, I don't know whom to thank, but thanks you all for caring enough about me none-the-less. I appreciate it.
So I happened to stumble across an interesting little tidbit concerning the generation that I was born in. gen-we.com is a social movement and shift, to see past the not-so-successful regimes, practices, and ideologies of our past generations. I've inherited a pretty cruddy world, which is why I support these people. It's no secret that I want my children to live in a world better than the one that was left for me, and I want my lifestyle to reflect that.
You know, I share the opinion of Andrew Vanwyngarden (MGMT), that Lady Gaga was utter crap; But that upon closer investigation, she is getting more and more bizarre, and is spreading that into the mainstream. These are exciting times to be alive. People at large are opening their eyes, and accepting now more than they ever have in the past. Like the stages are denial, tolerance, and eventual widespread acceptance. Social issues, like same-sex marriage, marijuana, the environment, etc, are becoming too important, to be simply shrugged off.
I just realized that today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and if we go back, and think of all the issues that were relevant back then, it only took a single voice, to plea with his fellow lighter skinned brothers that there was most certainly an injustice going on. What he represented was hope. Hope that people of his own kind would be treated equally as their counterpart.
We haven't gone far, newer issues have come up. Some of them re-branded, issues of hatred and bigotry from the past; But I have faith in my generation. That I will witness the dawn of something new. Maybe I am the voice for this new generation, or maybe collectively we all are. This New Civil Rights Movement is no passing fad. My prediction is that history will repeat itself, and that even MORE people will die in the name of an idea.
"A man can be killed,drowned,hanged.....but the idea he bears can be immortal"- V
"Remember, Remember, the 5th of November. The Gunpowder treason, and plot. I know of no reason, The Gunpowder treason, should ever be forgot."- V.
Eventually, we will leave our home here, and venture to other worlds, on other stars, far far away. My hopes are that by then we will have progressed socially to welcome them to the only home most of us have known. Before then we will love one another, and we will see that these social barriers are an illusion. They are here to test us. So that we may overcome them, and yes eventually spread that love across the cosmos.
With love, Luis.
firstpersontetris.com
*Update: One more unique visitor has checked out the blog since I took the snapshot of the stats, so its off by a little bit :)
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Free will is the difference between man and beast. A lion in hot pursuit of an antelope will not suddenly stop in its tracks to consider the moral implications of slaughtering the poor creature. Dinner is dinner.
A human, however, has the power to pause.
Today, discipline yourself. Consider your actions before you act, and your words before you speak.
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