So I recently fell in love with this "band" but it's more like one guy apparently, called The Mountain Goats. Anyone heard of 'em? I guess they're from Portland, and very indie, because I can't find any of their CDs over here!! I could buy it on iTunes, but I just really like having the CD itself, ya know? Ok, just wanted to vent. And make it known, that if some kind soul wants to buy and ship it over here...I might just pay you back....
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Oh yeah, and today we read this really funny (yet slightly disturbing) article for my German class in Der Spiegel, which is the most respected magazine in Germany, and probably a lot of Europe too. The article was printed right after "Arnie" got elected governor, and it was basically saying that his election was proof that California was going downhill. There was literally nothing good said about our state! The article started out with this long analogy of the Golden Gate Bridge, and how it used to represent so much and be so admired, but how today the paint is cracking off, and people are committing suicide by jumping off it, and people are forced to ask tourists for money to support its upkeep....

Then they had these pictures of a collapsed freeway in Oakland right after the earthquake in '89, as if that's the way all of our freeways look now! They also had a picture of a "latino gang" drinking beer out of a truck and looking really dangerous, saying that most of the immigrants today in California are illegal. And that part might be true, but still!

It was all pretty amusing, because the article just made it look like everyone should be getting out of California as fast as their legs can carry them!