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        <title>Stupid New Vox</title>   
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        <p>Okay, so there&#39;s been some weird sort of internet coup.&#160; Vox is suddenly different.&#160; :Gracey looks around with shifty, scared eyes, in a panicked sort of way: In case you didn&#39;t know this, Trey, I have this weird sort of change-phobia, where all things that change kind of send me into a panic for a while.</p>
<p>Like when my mom painted my room while I wasn&#39;t home?&#160; Yeah, the fact that my room was suddenly orange freaked the hell out of me for a while.&#160; Then the paint fumes cleared my system and I got over it.</p>
<p>So, this video.&#160; I swear, I&#39;m planning on doing it tomorrow.&#160; However, there&#39;s the slight issue that my grandmother is coming for her annual three-week January visit, which questions my privacy.&#160; I mean, yeah, it does have the good effect that I have to clean my room, so you&#39;ll see clean space as opposed to miscellaneous crap behind my video self.</p>
<p>But if she&#39;s floating around sketchily, as people in this house are wont to do, I&#39;m not lip-syncing to Britney Spears.&#160; Sorry, buddy. Not happening.</p>
<p>Actually, there&#39;s a long list of things that would cause me to not make that video.&#160; I shall review some of them: my death, if I mysteriously have a date, nuclear armageddon, my house catching on fire, computer crash, worldwide pandemic of TB.&#160; The list goes on and on.</p>
<p>Expect a video tomorrow/Sunday.</p>
<p>Alright.&#160; In light of our agreement/disagreement session, I have several things to comment upon.</p>
<p>First: I&#39;m not sure I believe you about the comics.&#160; Everyone loves comics on some level.&#160; Even me.&#160; And you know how many times I&#39;ve read/seen Pride and Prejudice.&#160; So, I think that underneath it all, you love them just a little.</p>
<p><em>&quot;Russians make the best artists, like Rachmaninoff!&#160; And Ayn Rand!&#160; YAY for ATLAS SHRUGGED&quot;</em></p>
<p>Could you have picked any more unrelated Russians?&#160; I mean, unless you picked LENIN and Ayn Rand.&#160; Also, I&#39;m a fan of The Fountainhead and Anthem.&#160; The latter especially; short but sweet.</p>
<p>I cannot believe that you said the words &quot;I have a rainbow fetish.&quot;&#160; I hope you relize that I didn&#39;t mean it in that way.&#160; I meant it in the utterly embarassing, I&#39;d make even a pathetic six year old girl, please someone drown me sort of way.</p>
<p>Yes, that way.</p>
<p>I can&#39;t believe you&#39;ve never seen Ghost or American Pie.&#160; NEITHER?&#160; REALLY?</p>
<p>I mean, yeah, they&#39;re both the most terrible movies in the history of forever (except maybe The City of Joy, also starring Patrick Swayze, as it turns out), but everone&#39;s heard of them, and most everyone&#39;s seen them.&#160; I will admit, I have not seen Ghost in its entirety, but that could very well be because I had to go and throw up.</p>
<p>So, as for music right now, I&#39;m not actually going to talk about a particular band.&#160; I&#39;m going to break out a megalith of musical wealth.&#160; Use it wisely, people.</p>
<p>Naturally, I refer to the godly Pandora.com.&#160; What Pandora Radio is, is an online radio of sorts, where you can listen to &#39;stations&#39; based entirely off of the kind of music you like to hear.</p>
<p>What you do, is enter the name of a band that you&#39;re listening to.&#160; Then, Pandora&#39;s magic elves will find you songs that are either by said band, or have similar influences to said band, or sound similar to said band.&#160; You can create and save any number of stations (right now I have about five), and edit or delete the stations you already have.&#160; </p>
<p>The only catch is that you have to sign up using an email account, and that you can only skip so many songs per hour.&#160; After that, you have to listen to everything they throw at you, or change stations.&#160; But other than that, it&#39;s quite possibly one of the more excellent things in life.&#160; I&#39;m telling you, people.&#160; This stuff is golden.</p>
<p>You really can&#39;t go wrong with Pandora.com, if you like anything from Vivaldi to Maximo Park, to R.E.M. to Snoop Dog.&#160; </p>
<p>Here&#39;s some conventient linkage:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pandora.com/">Pandora.com</a></p>
<p>Other than that, I have seven exams coming up in less than two weeks, and my brain is slowly atrophying.&#160; Soon I&#39;ll have zero grey matter.&#160; I can only assume that, at that point, my posts will stop.&#160; I&#39;m sure Trey will relay the news of my sad inability to think.</p>
<p>Actually, it probably won&#39;t be that sad for me.&#160; I&#39;ll probably wind up being very stupidly content, and just eat chocolates all day, and not even worry that I&#39;m fat and lazy and stupid, because I&#39;ll be too mindless to ever realize it.</p>
<p>I&#39;m kidding people, kidding.</p>
<p>Mostly.</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>Love,</p>
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