Secret Confessions

secret confession: I am a song skipper....




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Yes it is true.  I almost never listen to a song in its entirety.  To be fair I think this is due to the fact that many songs just repeat the chorus twice at the conclusion...which is basically lame.  


Over the past couple of months I have acquired a few new albums...and guess what?  No song skipping on any of the albums...this is a remarkable feat.  If you think that it is just because I have grown out of it...it isn't true.  I still skip other songs, and other albums...but not these!  So without further ado...here are the three remarkable albums:


1) Noah & the Whale: Last night on Earth 

• Reasons I like them:
1. They use & instead of and
2. They write dates day/month/year instead of month/day/year
3. They are British
4. They are pretty British people (which probably means they aren't that pretty but my brain can't see that because they sound cool). nope...they really are good looking...especially the ones with the spectacles...and beards...and I need help...
5. oh and they are freakishly amazing.
6. This album tops all of their old albums + infinity!  I basically love it.  
7. This song...

2) Adele: 21

• Stop what you are doing and immediately buy this album if you haven't yet...because like it is amazing.  Yep, I love her.  I want to be her, I would kill for her voice.  I know you think I am kidding...but I might not be...it would be like little mermaid octopus witch style...except I would give up the prince for the voice...bad allusion...but let's move on.  Why I love her/this album

1. umm she is amazing
2. As my friend put it...I wish my love life was more sad and depressing so I could relate to all of the songs...and let's face it...who wants more pain?
3. She is fiercely gorgeous.
4. She is super nice
5. and again with the amazingness of the amazing
6. This song...

3) Joshua Radin: The Rock and the Tide

• Reasons I love him:
1. One of the best concerts I have ever been to...he actually sounds like his album...sadly this isn't a characteristic many people have.
2. he was funny at his concert
3. he has supermodel good hair
4. he could be a super model
5. He makes me realize that I might be a titch shallow...maybe more than a titch...
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Peoples........go buy these albums!!!!!!!!!  Immediately!!!  It will change your life...maybe not...but you will own better music...and that is how I judge people, so if you want me to like you...go buy these albums.

exuviae: matter out of place

This Thursday I went to the Anthropology Graduation dinner...as I sat at various tables people were talking about writing that last Buounforte (I have already forgotten how to spell his name) paper and taking that last final.  Others were talking about graduate school and where they were going to live after Thursday.  Others were just talking about the stress of finals...during all of this I felt like one thing: exuviae...which means matter out of place.  

I had the same feeling a couple of weeks ago as I entered the SWKT to watch my ward's untalent show.  The SWKT was my "home base" while in the last year of college.  It is where the TA office for Anthropology was, it was where I had some of the best classes of my life.  Yet, as I entered the building it felt wrong.  As though the person that I am today doesn't belong, or doesn't fit into that building.  

As I have contemplated that feeling that I have had for the past couple of days I realized the ironic nature of it all.    As I was trying to process my feelings I didn't think, "wow I feel weird here" or "I have moved on" no I used the word exuviea...a term I only learned in Anthropology 101 and continued to learn about in every other class that I took.  In my moment of feeling like I had moved past school and maybe anthropology, I used an anthropological term to describe it.  

While I am not planning on going to graduate school in anthropology, and I am not planning on being a professional "anthropologist" I am still an anthropologist.  I think like one, I talk like one, I look at people like one.  Anthropology has made me the person that I am today and I owe it, my professors, my anthropology friends, so much.