Monday, October 25, 2010

Two Moderately Important Things.

Well, actually, I think they're pretty damn important, but I'm not you, so I don't know how important this post is to you. I hope for moderate, at the very least. Anyway, on to the topics of pertinence.

1. Mumford & Sons



This song has been playing nonstop on my iPod for about a week now. I don't know how much you guys like Folk music, but this is pretty phenomenal nonetheless. Even if you don't like the genre, give this a try. At least marvel at the lead singer's ability to play the guitar, sing, and do percussion at the same time.

I love them! Their album is called "Sigh No More" and it's wonderful. I thought my Musician Friend would like this. Everyone should check her out too. Her link is on the right, called "I Guess This Is Good Stuff." She's just being modest, I swear.

2. “Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again – the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world’s greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding.” ~Saul Williams

Right? I honestly don't think it could have been said any better than that. This man should be knighted. Sir Saul Williams, the man who put kissing into words. I've been trying to do just that for years until I finally gave up, believing it to be an impossible task. Turns out it's not; you just have to be Saul Williams in order to do it properly.

Two food holes. Also, I think they're both female food holes.
Could you imagine life without kisses? First, take a moment to think about the fundamentals of kissing and just how weird it is. You're putting your food hole on someone else's food hole and occasionally exchanging digestive fluids and maybe touching taste buds. Gross, right?


So why does it feel so good? Why does it incite so many different emotions and floods of hormones? Whose idea was it to kiss for the first time? How are some people so much better at it than others?


There are so many unspoken rules and regulations involved in kissing and other such activities that blow my mind. I feel like I should study this instead of MAT 130. Yes, this definitely needs my attention much more than baby math.


As you can see, I've put much thought into this. Please feel free to comment with your answers to these questions.

5 comments:

  1. I have no idea who first started it, it probably was not started as anything sexual or anything like that. I think the reason that it is so inticing and all that is just because of its history. It is all psychological. If rubbing each others feet together was what developed as a sign of affection, then we would feel the same way about that as we do kissing. I don't really think that there is a set rubric for how well you kiss. It just depends on the other persons definition of kissing. And even if everyone's idea of how to kiss was exactly the same, then some people would be better than others because either a.) they practice, or b.) they are born with the ability, just like some people are born tall and some short.

    Hehe,
    Justin O.

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  2. Snap, both you and Justin made me think real hard about this.
    Kissing was never a big deal to me until I started kissing the right people. In fact, I hated it. Yup. I thought it was super gross, in theory and in practice.
    But of course, I started kissing girls/excellent boyfriends and things changed. Now I have kissing experiences like the one Saul talked about.
    Personally, the fact that the mouth is the center of speech and taste and sometimes breath is what makes it all intense for me. It's the novelty, ya know?
    Yup, I'm a weirdo.

    Also, Christa, you're awesome for mentioning me. =]

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  4. I wanted to see Jinja's post!

    :-(

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  5. I know, but he erased it for some reason. I'm curious too, Justin.

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