Excellent excellent song. Did not even realize it was a Vampire Weekend cover. Sorry Vampire Weekend, I love you to death, but B.o.B. really did this song justice. I Know this because I heard Vampire Weekend sing it and completely forgot it in an instant. Then I listen to the B.o.B. cover, and listened to it about 10 times in a row. That song would be ironic on the soundtrack of The Kids Are Alright. I am dying to see that. I have had a bit of a wild summer. Wild as in stressful. Life really stares you down the summer before your senior year in college. Medical school applications flood in, take all my money, and make me write bullshit proclamations. Sounds like the rest of my life. I find myself increasingly disappointed with the world around me. Not because of med school apps. I am actually looking forward to med school…especially if I can go in New York. That would be a dream. No, this disappointment comes from realizing the harsh reality of things. I will not get political here, because I find the Flame War video by College Humor quite amusing, and I don’t want to be one of those people. I am speaking more abstractly here. With all this “anti-incumbent” talk, Tea Party people, Prop 8, the Islamic center that is supposed to be built near ground zero, general wars going on everywhere, etc, I just want to scream how much everyone sucks.  I can see how people have become so polarized. When you see people spewing hatred, and turning everything you believe to your core to dust, it really makes you want to be completely radical in the other direction. Damn, I went and got all political. SORRY. But I can’t just become some crazy liberal either. I can’t tote the evils of war, the necessity of religious freedom, the deep racism and homophobia that live in this supposedly equal country. There would be no point. I don’t really know enough about politics to talk smack anyway. But when I see people preaching hatred as some way of protecting this country, it confounds me. How can we live in a world where people are still so prejudiced? Duh, I said to myself, wake up to reality. When I get this way, movies are a deep comfort. Watching a better world makes you believe that it can exist. People create movies because they have a vision of how things could be or should be, or reveal the true face of how things are. The Siege is one great example. This movie predicted the anti-Islam wave that would hit this country after a terrorist attack BEFORE 9/11 even happened. Way to tap into the vein of prejudice. I do not speak to get into politics, or even discuss that Islamic center being built…I am not here to argue anything. I just am deeply saddened and disappointed by people’s reactions. Milk is another excellent example of a movie that reveals something about society. This movie is based on the true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to hold public office. I don’t need to tell you how inspiring this movie was. And it came at an essential time in this country’s history. Seeing what Harvey Milk could do, even at that time, inspired me to want a better world, where citizens of this country of different sexual orientation are given the rights they deserve. In this country, “gay” people (gay is an annoying word, just an observation) are treated like second class citizens. In this day and age, in the words of Margaret Cho, we live in a facist state. But there remains hope for “society”. Prejudice in all forms towards all kinds of differences will eventually be defeated. It just depends on how long it will take. When I have stopped and allowed myself to think about the state of things, it is almost too unbearable to comprehend. It hurts, but it must be comprehended. So, sometimes a rambling, mildly incomprehensible blog post is needed for a cathartic release. Ahhhhhh. That helped. Movies and music next time!!!!