i hate school, it's the worst. i've always hated school as a matter of fact. i suppose that i was born with a natural aversion to school, go fig(ure). i'm a sorta senior in college and i'm really not caring enough to make that extra effort to graduate. until the mysteries of school are revealed to me, i'll be a hater. bring on the gallons of haterade on ice cuz i'm a school system hater, make me a t-shirt. i just don't get it, what's so special about diplomas or regurgitated learning anyway? i mean school has been and is responsible for a significant amount of my miseries, i've always been at the mercy of my very mean peers, my teachers have never been particularly bright or illuminating; hell, i see no reason to go to school. i suppose, on some ole Platonian shit, education for the individual means the betterment of society, but that's a flawed theory and what we see today is not education, it's tortue. in the words of those great poets stic-man and M1 AKA dead prez, "they schools don't teach us shit." i sit in class all day with eyes half-mast as some overzealous geek-ass suburbanites argue heatedly over Henry James' true intent in writing this, that and the other. i mean, what relevance does any of this shit have on the real world? it's not like these philosophical minds are going out in droves to better their surroundings. the majority of us are in school to get jobs and Moliere does not make anyone a more efficient secretary, so there! if this world were perfect, teachers would be knowledgeable, education would be free and assholes wouldn't be around every corner, but alas i am doomed to five more weeks at the U of C and another couple of years in pursuit of a masters. pray for me people.
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Terence Trent D'arby is under-appreciated. so he's a little pretentious and just maybe his accent is fake (dammit we know you grew up in jersey, not england), but i don't care, he can write the hell out of a song. plus, he plays and arranges a mean fill in blank. i'm sure that more than a few of you are unaware of the three albums (four if you include the recently released free album under his new name, sananda maitreya) that followed "the hardline according to.." well believe you me, he's on some ole other. he's been slammed as a prince imitator, which is annoying as hell cuz he isn't prince, nor does it seem that he's trying to be. if i'm wrong, then he does really bad imitations. anyway, go out and purchase "vibrator" or "symphony or damn" or "neither fish nor flesh" (note: i wouldn't recommend starting with the last one, but it's up to you). he can sing like nobody's business (yeah, he does sorta sound like sam cooke), write like nobody's business, and occasionally matches those great lyrics with equally impressive music. he does it all. check "if you go before me," "to know someone deeply" (carl thomas bit the melody for "summer rain" from stevie and terence, but you didn't hear it from me) or "we don't have much time together."