A Smorgasbord...

We watched this movie in my Psych class; optical illusions are super cool. I think the fact that things as sophisticated as our eyes and brains can be so terribly fooled by a little paper cut-out is fascinating. However, there are always some assholes in my class who claim the illusion didn't work on them, and make sure to say so just loud enough so the professor might hear them and consequently single them out so they can explain themselves in front of the entire lecture like the douchebags they are. So annoying.

Another group of people I have found to be extremely irritating are complete strangers that walk straight through a door that you're holding for them. There's a lot of ebb and flow at school, with people coming in and out, resulting in a lot of doors that need to be held. I have no problem opening a door, looking over my shoulder, and holding on to it just enough so the next person can reach it and do the same. But some people don't understand how to work as a team, and they decide to kick their walk into a second gear and breeze through so I end up holding the door entirely for them. Usually these are the people who also find it completely superfluous to say "thanks". In Dostoevsky's Underground Man-like fashion, I have fantasized about tapping one of these morons on the shoulder and saying, "hey, jackass, I hope you know door-holding is a fucking team effort, and you just disrupted the entire system, you freeloader. Go root for Junior Seau". Unfortunately for me, I'm an exponentially greater dick in theory than practice, so they get away with it. For shame, me, for shame.

Finally, I got a bonus track for you guys. After signing up to do a radio show (Sundays 12-2 AM EST, Wonder Mike Radio. www.wmre.fm, you have to download RealPlayer, but you'll get to see my pretty face. Tune in to the debut this weekend, you BZs!!!) for WMRE this semester, I got in touch with the station's magazine and was asked to write an article about Supreeme, a local rap group. They're relatively underground and were "discovered" by Murs, who works with them a lot. Some girl gave me their most recent album, and she's supposed to be getting me their contact info soon, so hopefully I can post that article/interview here. For now, here's a song of their album, "Supremacy":

Supply and Demand feat. Murs - Supreeme

I love Murs' verse (the last one).

Out like Roger the Rocket.