The mysterious mansions

Outside my neighborhood, across the road that goes by it, there is a series of mansions. This is kind of odd, seeing as the neighborhood consists of regular sized single family homes and townhouses and some condos. And then, right outside the neighborhood are some mansions. From the road, you can see about 3 of them but I looked on Google maps satellite images and apparently there are 6 more that are father back from the road and therefore can't really be seen. I didn't know there were that many until I looked at Google maps. In any case, I was curious about how much these mansions costed. Apparently, the one that's closest to the road and therefore the easiest to see sold for a little over one million dollars 10 years ago. I assume the other mansions also went for a similar price. In any case, I'm very curious about the people who live in the mansions. I've never seen them, but there are cars parked outside so people do in fact live there. Also their large expanse of lawn grass is always mowed in a pattern like they do for baseball fields or golf courses. Presumably they pay someone to do that. If they were more immediate neighbors maybe I'd have seen them but they aren't so I have never seen these mysterious people. I kind of wish I had an excuse to go knock on their door and ask about what they're like since I'm very curious. People who live in mansions are a bit of a mystery to me intrinsically. I wonder what kinds of jobs they have in order to be able to afford a mansion. Although, they're probably less rich than some because if they were richer they'd have bought a mansion in the rich people neighborhood farther south. There, there are loads and loads of mansions, not just a few stuck across the road from a regular neighborhood. I feel like maybe the people who live in the mansions are kind of lonely and isolated because the majority of other houses within the vicinity are regular ones and therefore maybe the mansion owners feel like they can't relate too well to their not so immediate neighbors. They're too rich to have a regular house, but too poor to live in the rich people neighborhood where there would only be other mansions for miles and miles.
So I wonder about these people, because as it stands I have never ever seen them and know nothing about them. I assume it's a husband and wife who live there and maybe have children, but who knows. Maybe it's a husband and husband who own many cats. I have no idea.

Song review, sort of

So, because of the time of year, my mother has decided that we should listen to a country music radio station (... just realized I typed country. I meant Christmas.) in the car. Eh. I guess there are worse options. And apocalyptic music isn't exactly in the spirit of the holidays. In any case, the other day a song came on that I recognized but was sort of baffled as to why it was considered a Christmas song and therefore on the Christmas music radio station. The song was some version (not sure which one specifically) of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah.' It's oddly catchy for a song that's so overtly about religious stuff, or at least seems to be. Some religious songs are rather pleasing to my ears even though I'm an atheist, which is... I don't know. Maybe it's like a devout Mormon/other denomination of Christianity but I just wanted to name drop Mormonism enjoying a kind of music that's considered subversive/unholy/I can't think of the adjective but I think there is one. So like death metal or something like that. Maybe that isn't the best example but whatever.
In any case, I had heard the song before, most recently when the lady on SNL had performed it after the election, at which time I realized it was a familiar song and that I had heard the song even before that, presumably/probably on Pandora back in the day when I used to listen to Pandora more often. It wouldn't be super surprising that such a song would have showed up; my stations mostly consisted of things based around Coldplay/The Fray/that type of mellow and usually on the depressing side of things music. 

In any case, despite the rather seemingly religious things/themes in the song, I feel like maybe it could be interpreted in a non religious way, or at the very list, a semi religious and also semi non religious way, even though it seems at the beginning to be rather cut and dry that it's a religious song. I haven't given it a ton of thought at the moment but perhaps in the future I'll develop that idea a little more. According to Wikipedia, it was used on House MD which I don't specifically remember but it would make sense; House MD always had interesting music over some of the scenes. One song that particularly stuck with me was "I Still Care For You" in... I don't remember the episode name, alas. It actually is kind of similar. Also, in the episode (which was one of the first that I watched, I think) Both Sides Now, over the last few scenes there is a cover of the song As Tears Go By which also stuck with me in that it was an interesting and nice song. 

Also, while writing this post I was listening to the song and now I think it's going to be stuck in my head. Alas. I'm not sure if it's better or worse than having Last Christmas stuck in my head, which I also heard on this Christmas music radio station. Which, incidentally, I did not know until I looked it up that the guy who sang/wrote that song is the singer George Michael, which is relevant because I have been watching Arrested Development in which the main character's son is named George Michael (Bluth).  

Online dating

At the moment, I just took a sip of orange soda and I FELT it falling down my throat and inside my innards. It was kind of weird; I felt it more acutely than I think I usually feel things when I drink. In any case, that is not the main topic of this post.

The main topic is the online dating website. My pattern of usage has seemed to fall into a cycle of abandoning it for a month or so, then something piques my interest and I use it again for maybe a week or two, and then I abandon it again. And so on. I think, at this point, it's more of a source of entertainment/boredom busting for me rather than an actual way for me to find someone who I would be interested in dating. Basically, it's kind of a slightly more enhanced (in that you can read people's profiles and such rather than just observing a person out in public) online form of people watching with occasional conversations. Which is... not bad, but not the site's intended purpose. But alas, the vast majority of people on there are too ugly and/or boring for me to consider dating. Yes, I understand that makes me shallow. Oh well. At this point, I feel like the chances of me finding someone who is a) not ugly and b) interesting to talk to and someone who I would actually want to spend time with is rather low and is about the same chance that I have of seducing a certain not ugly person who I know of but have basically never spoken to with my knowledge of serial killers, which I will admit is probably zero. Alas. Such is life. At this rate, I think would have better luck jetting off to Europe and learning rudimentary French so that I can attempt to seduce models during fashion week. At least they wouldn't be ugly. 

I wonder if the message "Wow, there are not a lot of people on this website who are as good looking as you are" would be a good one in the occasion that I do find someone who is not ugly and also at least decently interesting. I feel like it might stroke the person's ego too much in a bad way, even if it might happen to be true.

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.