Brand Names @ MindSay

today was one for the memories. it was so much fun. i got a flower. but back to the fun. oh the movie sucked, it was awful. well not awful. but it did suck, maybe because i wanted to see something else instead. i guess if i had wanted to see it, it would have been better. but i didn't so it wasn't great. but afterwards was a ton of fun. we just wandered around the mall and did all this stuff, okay not so funny when i tell it but i was laughing so hard. like jor was hula-hooping and this guy, i'd say about 40, just kept staring at her. pediaphilic (if that's a word)? i don't know. but funny. oh quite funny. and tomorrow i'm going to be doing nothing but homework and being lazy in the morning. then at night relatives and whatnot are coming over so i get some more birthday stuff and a nice dinner. though some of the company is annoying... but i can deal with it. then monday is finishing all my homework, watching some TV maybe and going on MSN until about 8:30 or 9 when i head down to the beach, to meet jors and seb and watch some fireworks. always good fun. usually i meet up with gemma, nat and colin. but i havn't talked to them it a while, that's okay i guess since i see them every new year's and canada day anyway.

i guess i'll wander over into the next room and see what's on TV. or if anybody wants to beat my ass in halo. or for me to beat there ass. depends....

{listening: guernica - brand new}

i was so tired today. i felt like just saying i was sick and not going to school at all. well, i would have, but then i wouldn't be able to go out all weekend. it took me all my energy to move my arm and turn on my light this morning. and walking up and down all those stairs at school didn't help. i hate moving from the bottom floor to the top for class. takes to much out of me.

i'm on this brand new streak. i love the music so much, i just do. don't know why. especially jaws theme swimming. and tomorrow i'm going to try and buy your favourite weapon, because listening to it off the computer isn't as fun or as good sound quality. and of course, because i love brand new.

i'm so glad that it's a long weekend. because tomorrow i'm going out and on sunday relatives are coming over, so i would have no time for homework. but then i remembered, "right, victoria day. good." so i'm happy. aaaaand i just realized why my room's so cold, my window's open, excellent.

ahhhh brand new. brand new. brand new. brand new. brand new. brand new. brand new. brand new. i always get like this a while after i discover a band. like, i've known about them since right before they released deja entendu. i liked them, but wasn't into it as much. i am now.

i just noticed that i'm not wearing my livestrong. can't find it either. maybe i left it upstairs, i took it off when i was cleaning. i rarely take it off. i pretty much wear it "religiously".

well my fingers are sore from typing, MSN and mindsay at the same time. i don't know, i think i'm more tired because of my exhaustion.

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Hey all. Time for a little Easter rant.

Over Spring Break, I've headed out a few times to do a little shopping, but I never end up buying anything because of these ridiculous prices on everything (that and I'm considerably broke.) But, I've noticed that if something has a corporate logo on it, it's price is considerably higher than that of something without a brand name sprawled all over. Of course, this much more expensive item must be of a much higher quality than that cheap, no-name product right?

Uh, no. Too bad for that thought. Although in some cases the brand is worth the product, not often enough we're paying too much for something we can get for much cheaper (and a somewhat better quality). For example, looking around for a new jacket, I find that if it's got the name "american eagle" or "nike" sprawled all over it, it's gonna cost you 50 bucks more than buying a jacket at Wal-Mart with the same quality and style for a much more affordable $20.

Why? Cuz you're just buying the name. Just so people can look at you and say, "hey, he/she's wearing (insert brand name here). She/he's so cool!!!" To use the brand as some sort of status symbol. To show that you can afford it. Bullshit. It's just an example of corporate brainwashing propaganda targeted at consumers to earn money for the company. Yeah, that's right.

And yet, as I rant and rave, I sit here wearing nike and addidas, with whatever other brands sitting in my closet. I admit, as much as I hate it, I still notice when someone's wearing Ecko over Exco. But I am so not the kind of person to waste $70 dollars on something when I know that I can get the same thing for much less, minus the all too familiar brand name. It's like the common cold: no one is immune.

What I also want to talke about is how the media advertises brands. But hey, it's those money-hungry corporate bastards creating all this filth and paying off the media to shovel it into our heads. It seems that you can go nowhere without running into an ad for Gucci or listening to a commercial for Gap. This world is not run by politicians, it's run by the media and the corporations that fund them. The world is controlled by mass propaganda and crazy ideals. It would be no surprise if someday Bill Gates becomes king of the world.

Anyways, that's life: just another over-priced product manufactured in a 3rd world country and thrown at us by money-hungry corporate bastards, some of which I have no doubt I'm gonna be forced to work for. Just another step to world domination. I'm out.