so today im spending some time working though my itunes library, and adding some new stuff in. the type of music i listen to varies greatly, but today im looking for one thing, songs to sing loudly to in the car. so i’ve been searching the internet to see what other people like, but their stuff sucks. so rather than to continue looking through lists that include Culture Club and/or Sir Mix Alot, im making my own of what i already have. hopefully it will help other people in my predicament. this list is in no order, it’s just what i put down as they came to me.

99 problems – jay-z

this is one of my favorite Jay-Z songs of all times. so good.

good life – kanye west feat. t-pain

kanye does a lot of stuff to tarnish his name in the media, but he IS good at what he does, and that is what matters. and t-pain can make any song popular.

at last – beyonce

yes, the etta james original, but i prefer beyonce’s updated version from the movie Cadillac Records.

just around the river bend

please don’t make too much fun of me on this one, it’s just something i can sing crazy amounts of loud to and have fun. ignore the first 45 seconds of that video.

crushcrushcrush

i love paramore, period. and this is just a good, loud song.

a favor house atlantic – coheed and cambria

i love coheed and cambria. claudio’s voice is like nothing else.

american boy- estelle and kanye

i love this. of course because of kanye, but estelle’s voice is awesome as well. plus it’s fun.

baby you wouldn’t last a minute on the creek – chiodos

my favorite “new” band is Chiodos. they are amazingggggg. this song is epic.

hey jude- the beatles

you didn’t really think i could make any sort of music list without them, did you? i shouldn’t have to explain why anyone would like this song. it takes care of itself.

lets stay together- al green

i will probably sing this song up to 5 times a week for the rest of my life.

i can’t quit you baby – led zeppelin

like the beatles, i can’t make a music list without some zeppelin peppered in there. this is my favorite song from led zeppelin, probably because it has so much feeling.

get like me – david banner feat. chris brown

this is nice to turn the bass up, roll the windows down, and act G to. hahah. i love it.

roll to me – del amitri

i remember this song being on the radio when i was younger, and i have always liked it.

holy diver- killswitch engage

this song has been a favorite of mine since last summer. the crew of people i was hanging out with were hardcore kids, as was i at the time, and this was a bit of a theme song for us. originally done by Dio.

grounds for divorce- Elbow

i LOVE elbow. all of their songs are great, but this is the first that i ever heard, and i’ve been stuck on it since.

so yeah, those are 15 of the many songs i like to sing in my car. i know that list looks like a crackhead put it together, but i’m really not kidding when i say i like all kinds of music. i hope it was helpful, or at least slightly entertaining.

so John Milton had this idea of “free marketplace of ideas”, right? in this he is saying that if uncensored ideas are put out into the world, given to the public, that eventually the truth will prevail. yeah, i think he’s right. so many news sources feed us the information that they want us to have about the things going on in the world. they tend to tell us how to think or feel about various things, but this isn’t at all good, or healthy, if you ask me. however, if we do as John Milton says, and give the people truth that hasn’t been edited by people at ABC or Fox news, then the public won’t be so damn blinded.

a good way to get this kind of information out there is in fact the internet. there are millions of blogs out there by millions of people who believe that they have the right opinion, and you should hang onto every word that they say. those people in most cases, don’t or won’t have what is really an intelligent way of looking at a scenario, but for every hundred  people that don’t, there are probably 10 that do. if you’re lucky enough to sift through all of these writers and find the truly smart, real thinkers, then you’ve caught onto something. the whole idea of blogging is brilliant, because every man has a voice in this.

in past times, the ways of spreading information to the masses was by television, radio news articles, and books. in this, you always have editors, directors, producers and various other higher ups that are censoring what the anchors or journalists are wanting to say. but in the world of blogging, pretty much anything goes. there is no one saying, “oh no, you can’t write that. that group of people who believe this will never read our newspaper again.” thus it’s a successful way to put the truth out there, whatever it may be.

this to me proves to be so much more effective than  most other forms of the media because of these reasons. i do believe that John Milton was right in the free marketplace of ideas theory. if people know more about any given situation, their minds start to wander and consider many more possibilities, thus becoming much more of a free thinker in the end.

(this is for school. i just needed it to be published for the class. i don’t sit around thinking about the media like so.)

here i am… at college…very bored. i only have classes on tuesday and thursday, and on these days i have two, count them two, hour and fifteen minute long breaks in between classes. if you are familiar with the institute area at all, or with state, you know that this causes problems. why? there is absolutely nothing to do here.

now if you lived here on campus or in the area, you would think nothing of these breaks. you could simply go back to the dorm or to your home and hang out for a while. but for those of us who commute, there is nothing. now granted, you could drive over wonderful goff mountain road and head up to walmart, or one of the restaurants that are in that area, but this takes money. money for gas, money to shop, money to eat. it’s all dollars, and that’s not cool. or maybe you could even go to the union, but all that is really there is taco bell, the bookstore, and downstairs you have the gym. once again, unless you want to eat tacos and be sick all day, or you want to work out and be sweaty for your next couple classes, this is not a good option.

so what do i do in these breaks? for my first break i sit in the courtyard between Ferrell and Wallace. this courtyard has about 7 benches that are shaded by the trees at this time of the day. the rest are out in the blaring sun, where you have to squint to see anything, and your body gets so hot from having no sun protection. thus, you have to run out here to sit and wait. it sucks. here is my next issue, im only going to be able to do this for a few more weeks. why? if you haven’t noticed, west virginia tends to have pretty cold autumns and winters. im going to have to find somewhere else to go, and unless im in a building, sitting at a desk, where the heck am i going to go?

my second break is generally spent in my car, going on a search for food. i don’t even want to talk about the food situation in this area. every bit of it is fast food or completely unhealthy. so i do what i can to find something decent, then sit in my car to eat it. why? it will be the most comfortable place i will be all day. the desks here are so damned uncomfortable that i leave with a backache nearly everyday. but that is another story. lets focus.

so the issue is what to do, what to do? i honestly don’t know. im really scared im going to go on shopping trips on these breaks when it gets colder, and that is not going to make my bank account smile. for as long as i can, im going to sit with my laptop, and be an internet nerd. but how long can that last? tell me what you think about what one should or could do with an hour and fifteen minutes.