Give up; the war is won, the bomb is dropped

I recently read that music and myth are machines which move time; the author meant this only half seriously, but I know he's right. I just brought my little Zip disk up to the computer lab in order to put all my papers from the past three years onto it so that I'd still have them when I leave school in December. All that it had on it was a handful of songs, some live Sebadoh, an emo song (I'm asking for it, aren't I?), and a couple of songs by the rather mediocre band Creeper Lagoon (though the songs all date to their promising-EP-period rather than their disappointing-LP-period). This is an odd period of time to be brought back to; I haven't listened to any of the songs on here since the end of my freshman year.

How I've changed. Jess was a fleeting impression of converse in the mailroom, a glimpse of a red track jacket on the steps near Carter. I thought all philosophy majors were arrogant (perhaps I was right, but its a personal issue now, not an abstract complaint), and that my calling in life was youth ministry -- how many kids straight out of high school youth groups fall into that one? None of the four other Covenanteers I worked in the Ridgeland Student Venture with that semester are even considering youth work anymore, as far as I know. I don't even think any of them completed the youth ministry minor. Ridgeland Student Venture doesn't exist anymore, for that matter. I do, however, still love the Mystery Science Theater episode with Trumpy just as much as I did the first time I saw it that semester (and the second, and the third, and the fourth, fifth, and sixth viewings which took place over the summer) -- I think its called Pod People, and I highly recommend it.

Creed were the absolutely awful rock of choice then; now, we're assaulted everywhere we go by the horrid sounds of Evanescence and that 'beautiful' voice (sounds like the pure, distilled essence of corporate rock banality to me, but that could be just me).

Sebadoh were never very good live, anyways, though "Tree" didn't come out so badly.