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hello there,
yeah i know he used to teach 7th gr he told us before lol
his poem made me laugh like out loud. i was like LOL. yeah.
his band is weird. i don’t like it. lol.
LOL ok, so in comparison to this weird ska stuff he did earlier (i think this is his band? he told us it was called “the skunks” and i looked up the members… and it included a “steve orders” for vocals. and it’s based in DC, so yeah. actually i even think i asked him about his album “mixed nuts” one time idk. WOW I AM SO CREEPY): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-MsKM8ZMAo
his trystic stuff is stellar
i think it’s his “genre” bad voice too. probably b/c of lack of money, he can’t auto tune it to make it just a bit better. lol sorry teacher, sorry.
lolol yeah that’s true. anyway despite his lulzworthy poetry and odd music.. ORDERS IS SO AWESOME. i hear he’s got like a toaster grill thing in his room now? can you confirm?
and haha there’s another one too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LqdXGi52mw
i downloaded his entire album at one point but it was so crappy that i deleted it rofl
yeah i know he used to teach 7th gr he told us before lol
his poem made me laugh like out loud. i was like LOL. yeah.
his band is weird. i don’t like it. lol.
LOL ok, so in comparison to this weird ska stuff he did earlier (i think this is his band? he told us it was called “the skunks” and i looked up the members… and it included a “steve orders” for vocals. and it’s based in DC, so yeah. actually i even think i asked him about his album “mixed nuts” one time idk. WOW I AM SO CREEPY): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-MsKM8ZMAo
his trystic stuff is stellar
Penelope’s Patience - Steve Orders
LOL HOW DID YOU FIND THAT?
LMAO so i was listening to his band trystic’s music samples at this link my friend sent me http://www.ilike.com/artist/Trystic/most_played_songs
then i was curious to see what else i could find, so googled “trystic steve orders” and that poem was the first link LOL. did you know he used to teach 7th grade? i feel like such a creeper now hahaha
oh rofl i found my english teacher’s poetry too LOL…. not stalking.
Penelope’s Patience - Steve Orders
Perched on the edge of the world,
She grips the rail with slender fingers.
Hardly breathing, she scans the horizon
For some movement to end the waiting.
Humid breezes flirt beneath her dress,
Whispering that nothing hurts like hope.
Years slide away and still she hopes,
Despite the urgings of the rational world.
Each morning she anticipates his gaze while dressing –
How he will explore her with shaking fingers
Hardened by months of waiting,
His mouth held tight as the horizon.
She wakes and sleeps enslaved to that horizon,
Each hour hollowed out and filled with hope.
Honeyed voices ask her why she waits,
Forsaking pleasures of the living world;
Hardly discouraged by her banded finger,
They eye the fragile straps of her red dress.
She clings to his memory: their fervent undressing
In a secret bed, tangled and horizontal,
Nothing but limbs and lips and fingers,
Primal silence and the tension of hope.
This would be the man who changed her world.
The answer to her years of waiting.
She plunged into him, heedless of what might await,
No thought of all the wounds she’d have to dress,
All the months she’d spend breathless in a warrior’s world.
He left her with a kiss, seduced by distant horizons,
Drunk on wanderlust and hope,
Unable to satisfy his restless fingers.
Now she stands, still, caressing concrete with calloused fingers
Worn rough and numb by an oceanful of waiting,
Staving off advances from the hopeless.
She watches the sea, faithful in a fading dress,
As the moon echoes down the horizon
And spills its pallor on the world.
She hears no footsteps, lost to all the world,
But feels the sudden heat of familiar fingers,
And on her neck, a breath that burns with years of waiting.
Trystic
my sophomore english teacher’s band’s music!
it’s actually pretty decent. kind of soothing…. hahahahah. better than the music from his former band… the skunks? lol, it was like ska
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“
We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn’t, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.
But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell’s dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions”. In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.
- Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
my ap lang essay assignment tonight…
Adam Lambert performs “Whataya Want from Me” on Ellen (12/01/09)
that hug adam and ellen shared at the end almost left me in tears :’). so sweet
