Music and guess who

So, as I write this, I'm in the process of working on a school thing and it's an ungodly hour of the morning and I decided I should put on some music to liven up the process. I listened to an assortment of mellowish and depressing songs such as the Fray's "Don't Let Me Go" and OneRepublic's "All We Are" and My Chemical Romance's "Cancer." Then, a song I hadn't listened to in awhile came on and I decided to let it play and then decided to just listen to the rest of the album that the song was on. Said album is from one of, or rather, my most favorite, band Augustana. The album is All the Stars and Boulevards. I listened to some of the songs from it that I hadn't heard in awhile and was reminded of the lovely lyrics of them. One particular lyric that I had kind of forgotten about is "eyes like rainy Tuesdays." Incidentally, today (or rather, yesterday but until I go to sleep it's still technically today to me) happens to be tuesday and it also happened to be rainy. And I was watching eyelashes guy on CNN earlier in the night and admiring his eyeballs and eyelashes. His eyelashes are long and wonderful but his eyeballs are a nice lovely hue as well. And the lyric happens to describe them pretty well. It's just an interesting little thing (to me) that came to mind. 

an ode to eyelashes guy

I am currently right now watching eyelashes guy on CNN! He is commentating on how a white supremecist nazi is going to speak at a university. his eyelsehs are so eyelashy and heis eyes are s watery and gray and lumonnous really the tiel of this post is what is should have titled the last one in retrsopect. he says the nazi supremicist should be allowed to speak to that ther can be a debate about his "horrible bad " unpopular reprhensible speech in the name of free speec. i think i guess ia gree with eyhelasehd buy although on the other had, as he mentoined, we of course need to remmebr that the white supremacists speech is very bad and offensive and all that. so yeah. i type this as i am looking at yeelashed guiy on ccnn on my hpne that i'm spreaming it on that so that's hwy this is quite incomprehensible i hthink ueah oit probably is eyelasehed guy says the white spremiacist is"charming" handsome and doesnt wear a kkk suit so i gues the implication is that he's les... kkk ish or something, more approcahble or mnormal seeming something lik ethat. eyelashes guuy says that the naizis goal is not to intimidate other races byut to make white people be "race conscious" what's that??? i don't really get it i don't really see what he's trying to say there. apparently the naxi guy calls the group "euorpeans" instead of "white peopel". his eyeballs wow so nice so lovelt and the yeelashes too theyr're very nice they grame his eyelasehs so nicely eyeballs wow wo wo@@@ i am really badly obsessed or whatever with eyehalsehe guy's eyelasehs it's ridiculous and i know it i tupe as i stare at hi on cnn ah im pathetic i know. i hjppe eueashes gu nevr read my posts about him that would be really weird and hed be freaked out that's the end of the segment alas no more eyelashed guy to gaze at... 
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^^^ that is my unedited stream of consciousness that I slammed out on the keyboard as I looked at eyelashes guy commentating on CNN. What follows will be an edited version of it to correct the multiple typographical errors and such, so that hopefully my thoughts will be a little more understandable. 

I am currently right now watching eyelashes guy on CNN! He is commentating on how a white supremacist nazi guy is going to speak at a university. his eyelashes are so eyelashy and his eyes are so watery [not as in, he's crying, but as in, the color of them is reminiscent of water] and gray and luminous really the title of this post is what I should have titled the last one in retrospect. he says the nazi supremacist should be allowed to speak so that there can be a debate about his "horrible" and "bad" and "unpopular" and "reprehensible" speech in the name of free speech. I think I guess I agree with eyelashes guy although on the other hand, as he mentioned, we of course need to remember that the white supremacist's speech is very bad and offensive and all that. so yeah. i type this as i am looking at eyelashes guy on cnn on my phone that i'm streaming it on that so that's why this is quite incomprehensible i think yeah it probably is. eyelashes guy says the white supremacist is"charming" and "handsome" and doesn't wear a kkk suit so i guess the implication is that he's less... kkk ish or something, more approachable or normal seeming, something like that. eyelashes guy says that the nazi's goal is not to intimidate other races but to make white people be "race conscious." what's that??? i don't really get it i don't really see what he's trying to say there. apparently the nazi guy calls the group "europeans" instead of "white people". his eyeballs wow so nice so lovely and the eyelashes too they're very nice they frame his eyeballs so nicely eyeballs wow wowo@@@ i am really badly obsessed or whatever with eyelashes guy's eyelashes it's ridiculous and i know it i type as i stare at him on cnn ah i'm pathetic i know. i hope eyelashes guy never reads my posts about him that would be really weird and he'd be freaked out [because it would just be plain weird to discover some random person who has a blog that barely anybody reads and is strangely obsessed with your eyelashes. It would be weird, trust me.]. that's the end of the segment alas no more eyelashes guy to gaze at... 

A very short blog post

Eyelashes guy looks so good on tv. You can really see his eyelashes. The lighting is good and the HD gives a great view of his eyelashes, like when they flutter when he blinks. I wish I saw him on tv more often. His eyelashes are just spectacular. And tonight he said things that I didn't disagree with, so that was nice. I assume they put some makeup on him, to even out his skin tone or something, but the eyelashes are probably all natural since it isn't common for men to wear mascara and I don't think mascara is part of the standard tv makeup routine for men on the news.

Thoughts on The Apprentice

In a... I can't think of a good adjective to put here turn of events, I decided to watch the first episode of Donald Trump's reality game show The Apprentice. I think it was in hopes that it might offer some kind of insights of some sort into how he operates. The first episode was... decent, not horrible, with all the trappings of a reality competition show. The only other show of that type that I'm sort of familiar with would be America's Next Top Model hosted by Tyra Banks. I guess they are kind of similar except ANTM is about modeling and The Apprentice is about business. However, both Tyra and Donald are rather prominent in their industries, at least at the peak of their shows I'd say. 

I can't say I have a ton of insights just after one episode, but I think I may watch more in the future. However, knowing a bit about how reality competition shows work allows me see the inner workings of them a bit - for example, on one season (or rather, cycle) of ANTM there was a particular contestant who was quite obnoxious but in being so, made for 'good television' or in other words, caused (intendedly entertaining) drama with the other contestants. So, it was unlikely that this contestant would be kicked off early in the show because their personality made the show more 'entertaining.' And the same went for this first episode of The Apprentice - I could tell that one person was unlikely to be fired because there had been a bit of a focus on the things they said which happened to be... 'entertaining.' I'm not a huge (or rather, yuge?) fan of reality competition shows, so obviously this is not exactly a show I'd usually watch, but I'm watching it anyways. 

In somewhat related matters, I have come up with yet another idea for a story. One of my longer ones involved Donald Trump getting arrested by the (fictional) detectives from some of the Law and Order shows. This newest idea involves the show The Apprentice, except one of the contestants is Michael Bluth of the show Arrested Development. I think that would be interesting and it would actually kind of fit for him to be a theoretical fictional contestant. I'm not sure if I'll write such a story, but the idea is there. 

Teeth

Here is a quick little post about... teeth, as is mentioned in the title. While we await the publication of my upcoming newest short story, there is this.

Teeth. I was pondering about the band Green Day and thinking how their album American Idiot is a concept album (apparently; I haven't listened to it in full to see what exactly the concept is for myself) like how the My Chemical Romance album The Black Parade is also a concept album (about death). That album, although I haven't listened to it in full, I've heard enough songs off of it to get the general idea that the concept of it is death. Which may seem rather macabre but the songs I know from that album are pretty good. I think it's interesting that they're about death, like how it's interesting that a number of Muse songs are about apocalyptic stuff or dystopian-ish stuff. In any case. Green Day and their concept album led me to think about MCR and their concept album which then made me consider the topic of Green Day vs MCR and which one I think is better/like more. I have considered that in the past but I was considering it again just now and I decided that I like MCR better. At least partly because Gerard (the lead singer, or rather, the former lead singer since they disbanded a few years ago) seems to be a nicer person than Billie Joe. And then I remembered, Gerard has cute little tiny teeth. Which is another reason to like MCR better. Maybe Billie Joe also has laudable teeth, but I haven't paid any particular attention to his teeth so I wouldn't know.

Of course, while talking about teeth, I have to mention that one time I complimented Dan on his teeth. I said "You have nice teeth" right out of the blue. It was after a show, which gives it a little more context because he had been singing which means his mouth was open and his teeth were on full view for a good amount of time, especially for those right in front of the stage like I was. So I happened to be looking at his teeth for a good part of that evening. And they were quite impressive. Very nice and straight and even. So naturally I ended up complimenting him on them.

Also, some more teeth trivia about various other people...
Apparently, Brandon Flowers' current teeth are all fake because they rotted away when he was a kid. So he had to get tooth replacements or something I guess. I read that somewhere within the past couple of years.
Vincent D'Onofrio (ah, here he pops up again) used to have ever so slightly crooked teeth (not really noticeable unless you look carefully) but then got them fixed sometime in 2001 or so. In some of the very first episodes of Law and Order, you can notice his ever so slightly crooked teeth but by the later half of season 1 they had been fixed. Interestingly enough, in one episode before his teeth got fixed, his character mentions getting his teeth fixed while talking to someone he's trying to get information out of. I wonder whose idea that line was and if it was at all influenced by Vincent's own ever so slightly crooked teeth.

Now, onto a particularly loathsome person's teeth. Donald Trump. His teeth are weird. Especially when he talks. You mostly see his bottom teeth. And between sentences, his mouth hangs open and his bottom teeth are just jutting out. It looks so weird. I don't know if it's the shape of his teeth or his mouth or a combination of both. If I leave my mouth open in a natural way, my top teeth show.

And finally, let's finish this with my teeth, in detail. I think they are small. I feel like maybe they should be longer/more rectangular instead of square, particularly the top teeth. They're not abnormally small I guess, but I feel like they're a little small. Also they're kind of crooked but not horribly crooked. It's mostly the bottom ones that are crooked. I should get them fixed. And also get tooth extensions or something. If that's even a thing you can get.

Clearly, I think about teeth a little too much perhaps. Don't even get me started on you know who's eyelashes.

Dreams (and eyelashes guy!)

This post is about a dream I had last night. It was a strange dream. A very strange dream. It involved, somewhat surprisingly although on the other hand, also somewhat unsurprisingly, eyelashes guy. He was in fact the main character. I wonder how weird it is that I dreamed about eyelashes guy. I wonder if other people have ever dreamed about him, other people in the sense that they watched him on CNN and for whatever reason (maybe that reason is that they noticed his spectacular eyelashes) began to pay more attention to him and think about him and read the (sometimes stupid) stuff that he writes columns about or posts on twitter. That is the case for me. Although I mostly just like him because of his eyelashes. But I will say that I think he's intelligent even if I don't agree with all of his political opinions. Anyways, now that that is out of the way even though it is kind of just a repeat of sentiments I've expressed previously. On to what happened in the dream.

Eyelashes guy was in a car accident. The accident caused him injuries and he became paralyzed. So, sometime after the injury, after he gets out of the hospital presumably, he goes to an event of a fake doctor who claims that he can heal people. I'm not exactly sure how he gets himself to this event seeing as he had become paralyzed, but somehow he's there. It takes place somewhere where there is a stage and the event is broadcast live on CNN. The fake doctor lifts eyelashes guy up into a standing position and does the "healing" even though he is just a fake doctor and can't actually heal anyone. So when he lets go of eyelashes guy, eyelashes guy falls to the floor and shouts "help me!!" because he is still paralyzed.
Sometime after this, his wife divorces him because the stress of dealing with his paralysis is too much for her. So, at the end, eyelashes guy is left sad and lonely and on top of that, still paralyzed.

This was a strange dream, no doubt about it. It seems to have taken some inspiration from the Tom Cruise movie Born on the 4th of July where Tom Cruise's character gets shot in the Vietnam War and becomes paralyzed. The other part of the inspiration is watching CNN and paying particular attention to eyelashes guy. On one hand, it would be kind of interesting to tell eyelashes guy about this dream that I had, but on the other hand I think it would also be very weird for eyelashes guy to have knowledge that some random person (to him) has been dreaming about him and in particular, had this dream about him.

Vampires (and Tom Cruise!)

The movie Interview with the Vampire happens to be on tv at the moment. I had already seen it a couple years ago but now that it's on again I'm thinking about it. Stephanie Meyer obviously took a bit of inspiration for her Twilight series from the book this movie was based on. Which makes me wonder, what if Tom Cruise had starred in the Twilight movies as Edward Cullen? Imagine that! It could have been interesting. He was interesting playing a vampire in this movie 22 years ago, which, when you think about it, is quite a bit of time. He was pale and had longish blonde hair in this movie. It took place back in the olden days (1800s?) so he wore outfits with billowy white shirts. Incidentally, the whole combination was kind of hot in a weird way. Brad Pitt was in this movie too, but I didn't find his appearance to be kind of hot in a weird way.
Also, I wonder what it would have been like if he ever guest starred in an episode of one of the Law and Order shows.