My work schedule usually doesn't land me in the office until noon, but starting today until a week from Monday, I'm working a morning schedule so I'll be writing these posts from work. If they lack in quality (or increase in quality), then you should start paying me hourly to write on this website so that I can quit my job and dedicate myself to entertaining you with my words. $15/hr will get you "staires! a song every hour!" seven songs a day, five days a week. Any takers?

This is my first official 'repeat' of an artist. I figured waiting three months in between artist repetitions will keep things relatively fresh without making me get super bored wading through the numerous 'one decent song wonders' in my collection.

The Dodos are one of my favorite artists (see my eljay best of 2008) and everyone I know seems to enjoy this song, even people who don't care for the rest of The Dodos' music. It's got a perfect mood to fit the lyrics.

In the past I probably would have written some long diatribe about my struggles with religion but nearly a year ago I realized that the whole believing in God thing seemed kind of foolish and now I try not to dedicate any thought to it because it seems like such a ridiculous waste of brain power.

I'm not going to loop myself in with atheists, because they seem so militant. It's like, even though they don't believe in God, they have to be so ridiculously enthusiastic about it that it's practically a religion to them. I don't want to stereotype atheists, as I'm sure there's probably a lot of non-outspoken atheists out there who don't try to peddle their anti-God shit in the same way jay-dubs try to, well, suck all the love and joy out of your life (and try to kill their babies/children by refusing blood transfusions).

Arguing religion is just pointless. An atheist arguing against god with a Christian are just two morons blowing air at each other. What's there to argue? One believes in something you can't prove (at all, no matter what) and the other believes that the other is a moron (which you can't really prove, either). What is there for debate? How is there even a debate?

Even Isaac Newton believed in invisible fairies that fought against gravity to carry a thrown ball. (But he was already kind of out there, and to be fair this was back when everyone thought alchemy was real science.) It's not wrong to believe the world is full of wonder and things we'll never understand (or see with our own eyes, or eye, for the cyclops in the audience), but to let something like that influence your life is absolutely silly. If you've seen Yes Man (which is funny and I recommend it, though "I Love You, Man" was more 'down to earth'/realistic) then you'll understand this comparison: everyone's got their own book, their own something to believe in. For some, it's the Bible, for others it's The God Delusion, for some (like me, I guess) it's the Principia Discordia. It's just such a shame when people take these things too seriously, unless it's the Principia Discordia, which you can never take too seriously. The Principia demands seriousness, as well as koala blood and the forcibly removed clitorises of African women, fnord.

Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!