Get Off Of My Cloud.

Today I was talking with my mom on the phone on the third floor of the JSB when a girl looked up from her reading and asked me to keep it down.

Oh sure, darlin'. I'll do that for ya. Cause this is the library, where I am compelled to be quiet. Wait...

Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!

It's no problem, I'm just developing an eternal relationship with my mother. Carry on. Hope you get a lot of reading done.

Just cause you feel so good, do you have to drive me out of my head?

This is not a venomous overreaction. I have heard this same girl make requests of others to keep it down on several other occasions. It's time for her to find another study spot. She should get her own cloud.

Don't hang around cause two's a crowd on my cloud, baby.

Talkin Bout My Generation

After a particularly difficult class period as I came up the JFSB basement stairs I pulled out my iPod. This week calls for some serious rock and roll. I insert my beloved skull candy and begin scrolling for the perfect song.

Out of nowhere a girl texting on her phone with one hand and holding her iPod with the other practically collides with me. I look up from my iPod just in time to dodge out of the way. She glances up at me and that's when I realize--it's Katy! I almost ran headlong into my cousin.

How small my world has become. It can be compacted into 160 GB of space on a minicomputer that fits in the palm of my hand. As a member of Generation Y, I have to hand it to myself and those me age. We are so invested in technology that sometimes we miss what is right in front of our faces.

I'm certainly not badmouthing technology. My iPod is still my lifeline and I could not make it through the day without looking at my phone. And if Mark Zuckerburg can make 13 Billion dollars off of a website, more power to him (I've discovered the answer to all my financial woes: drop out. It worked for Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerburg). But every once in a while I'm not going to utilize those ear buds and just enjoy the sounds of outside while I walk. But I'll do that later...

On the train back from Scotland Beno and I took pictures of our most prized possessions. Only Generation Y would take this over the Scottish Countryside.

Maybe I'm Amazed

On 11 March 1997 Queen Elizabeth II knighted Sir Paul McCartney for "services to music." That's an understatement.

Here's to the left-handed Beatle. It's thanks to him we have songs such as I Will, Blackbird, I'm Looking Through You, All My Loving, P. S. I Love You, Hey Jude, Back in the U. S. S. R., Another Girl, The Long and Winding Road, The Night Before, I've Just Seen a Face, Honey Pie, Yesterday, Hello Goodbye, Good Day Sunshine, Get Back, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band, Helter Skelter, Carry That Weight, And I Love Her... And those are just the Beatles songs. He's also responsible for Maybe I'm Amazed, Band on the Run, Silly Love Songs and others with Wings. He even composed Liverpool Oratio, a classical piece of music for the Liverpool Cathedral.

Paul McCartney's Childhood Home in Liverpool

Paul's Bedroom Window, Over 100 Songs Written Here

Wall Outside Original Cavern Club

Cheers, Paul. Thanks for always saying what I'm feeling in a song, so I don't have to put into words myself. I just blast the music.

"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music." --Paul McCartney