Get off our ~*interwebz*~!

So, my mother has a Twitter. And a Facebook. And a MySpace. 

As does my stepfather, my aunt, and various other members of my family. 

And recently my old church sent out an e-mail encouraging members to create Facebook accounts in order to "keep in touch" with their children, and to "monitor illicit internet activities". Excellent alliteration aside, I'm having a serious problem with the whole idea of anyone over the age of 30 on any of these sites. Or at least interacting with their children on them.

Facebook in particular is meant to be a social networking site, not the latest in a series of parental spy networks. And while it's perfectly fine for parents to use them as a means for social communication, it's really unacceptable for them to be monitoring their children via Facebook. 

Because everything is centered around the internet nowadays, sites like facebook provide a fairly safe and easy way for us to interact with our friends and to have ~internet time and space~ that is ours and not easily accessible by parental units. 

The reason I'm ranting about this here and not on facebook itself is because (you guessed it) I'm friends with various family members and didn't want to offend any of them. Also my computer is being really annoying and slow so I'm going to end this now and write more on a different subject later. 

Dedicated to my friends whom I love very much

I love my friends!

Seriously, individually and as a group, they love me and I love them for the very fact that they are the people who will laugh themselves hysterical over a youtube video that starts out "DEAR LOSER (CHRIS)". I mean, yeah, they make me laugh and they're trustworthy and amazing people, yadda yadda ya, but the main thing is that they laugh with me over completely stupid things like that. 

Aaaand I love them. They make me happy. 

Okay, and since I basically use this blog as a glorified soapbox wherein I get up and rant about whatever is annoying me lately, I'm going to talk about...sex. 

And no, this is not inspired by the recent Uni opinion thing on sex before marriage. I don't think that the question of whether or not to engage in premarital sex should even be debated because it's really nobody's business but the two people involved. And frankly, when people assume that they have any sort of right to ask that of ANYONE, regardless of their social status or celebrity or what have you, it really pisses me off. You can whine about premarital sex as the denigration of modern society all you want, but the fact of the matter is that people have been having premarital sex for hundreds of years and will continue to do so for hundreds more. In fact, in the English countryside that so many of our nation's Puritanical founders hailed from, it was considered highly stupid to get married if your bride-to-be wasn't pregnant...because why would you get married if you knew your fiance couldn't have children? So dismissing someone as morally bankrupt for their decision as to what to do with their body based on a religious judgement system or a supposedly ~ideal~ societal model is not only stupid, it's dangerous. 

The same argument goes, however, for those who choose to remain virgins until marriage. They should not have their decisions questioned by those around them, because it is their right as citizens of the United States to do whatever the hell they want with their various openings and appendages, so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. So when various people act really high and mighty because a friend or whatever is perhaps not as sexually experienced as they are, it's an act of blatant cowardice that quite frankly speaks only to their own insecurity and shallowness as people. And mocking people for a religious decision that they make adhering to their personal set of values is blatant stupidity. Everyone has the right to do whatever they want without being criticized for it, except when it interferes with others rights. Which is where I tend to get touchy with religious extremists. But that's me. 

All that having been said, I'm going through a pretty confusing time myself right now. Sometimes things don't work out the way you want them to, sometimes you don't know what you want and you wish you did, sometimes you do things that you regret or wish you had done more of when you had the chance...it's all very complicated. Sex is such a loaded issue that it's really hard to even talk about it as it pertains to specific people without feeling extremely exposed. Much better to stick to obscure generalizations. 

In any case, I have to say I'm feeling sextremely....oh god, that was a typo but I'm going to leave it in because it's very appropriate, I'm feeling extremely, there we go, annoyed at people who butt into my business whether or not they're wanted. 

Also, I compiled my playlist of favorite songs. Which I will transcribe here, because I just know that I'm going to lose it on my ipod. Keeping in mind that most of these are vastly different in terms of how much I love them, etc. Some are only the favorites of the moment, some I've loved my entire life. Aaaaand here:

She's Lost Control- Joy Division

Title and Registration- Death Cab

Crazy- Gnarls Barkley 

Return to Cocoon Lagoon- Big Digits

Neon Bible- Arcade Fire

Tiny Vessels- Death Cab

Acidentl Deth- Rilo Kiley

Your Ex-Lover is Dead- Stars

Ageless Beauty- Stars

Red Dirt Girl- Emmylou Harris

Joan of Arc- Jennifer Warnes/Leonard Cohen

Save Me From Myself- Christina Aguilera

Come Together- Beatles

Rehab- Amy Winehouse 

Back to Black- Amy Winehouse

Bird on a Wire- Jennifer Warnes

Blue Eyes- Cary Brothers

Low- R.E.M.

Caring is Creepy- The Shins

Carolina- Ben Gibbard/Andrew Kenny

Cannonball- Damien Rice

Photobooth- Death Cab

Cool- Gwen Stefani

Desert Rose- Sting

Does He Love You? - Rilo Kiley

Don't Panic- Coldplay

Fair- Remy Zero

Famous Blue Raincoat- Jennifer Warnes

Happiness is a Warm Gun- Beatles

Hey Jude- Beatles

I Want it All- Queen

Into the Ocean- Blue October 

I Will Follow You Into the Dark- Death Cab

Take Me or Leave Me- RENT

Lady Marmalade- Christina Aguilera/Pink/Maya/Lil' Kim

Let Go- Frou Frou

Let it Die- Feist

When I Was a Young Girl- Feist

Losing My Religion- R.E.M.

My Antonia- Emmylou Harris

My Baby Needs a Shepherd- Emmylou Harris

Paper Planes- M.I.A.

Bucky Done Gun- M.I.A.

Radio Song- R.E.M.

Set the Fire to the Third Bar- Snow Patrol

Secret Heart- Feist

Soul Singer in a Session Band- Bright Eyes

Soul Meets Body- Death Cab

Such Great Heights- The Postal Service

Summertime- Scarlett Johansson

Under Pressure- Queen

Urge for Going- Joni Mitchell

We Looked Like Giants- Death Cab

Goodbye Love- RENT

Wraith Pinned to the Mist- Of Montreal

Disconnect the Dots- Of Montreal

It's a Hit- Rilo Kiley

A Man/Me/Then Jim- Rilo Kiley

Woman Like a Man- Damien Rice

Linger- The Cranberries

Dreams- The Cranberries

Beast- Angus and Julia Stone

Stress- Justice