1. Promise lots of drugs and alcohol
2. Tell them how good the faculty are
3. Prove what wonderful human beings we are

And to scare them away if we don’t like them:

1. Threaten them with rape
2. Threaten them with flickknives
3. Make them watch Antichrist
4. Take on the characters of Hannibal Lecter and various others
5. Have them wake up to us staring intently at them, possibly lying next to them

Fun!

On another note – I saw De La Soul and Van Jones! (I LOVED them both – they were both hilarious). They came as part of FutureFest, which was the thing the fashion show was part of. I’ll upload pictures of the show as soon as I get them from our photographer.

http://www.sustainablefashionshow.com/

So this is sort of strange… A good way to earn money at Stanford (which is immediately requisitioned by the thieving overpriced bookstore) is to be a participant in people’s experiments in the Psychology department or at the Business school. I do this quite a lot since I have yet to find permanent employment of any kind (although I have an interview in about an hour for a job as a Search Engine Marketing Analyst, which I believe has something to do with the ads from Google) and it pays pretty well. So I was doing one on Friday, and I was a little surprised because usually these things are pretty dull and involve looking at dots on a screen, or filling out endless surveys about ‘How anxious do you feel right now? How fuzzy do you feel right now? How salty do you feel right now?’ This one on the other hand, involved hiding under a desk in a room of toppled filing cabinets and pretending to be an earthquake victim. After about 3 minutes of lying in silence, there’s the sound of gears, and a robot that looks almost exactly like the one pictured above drives towards me, asking

‘Are you injured?’

‘No.’

‘Please stay still while I scan you for injuries. Bzzz. Bzzz. Bzzz. Scan complete. The rescuers will be coming for you soon. I am very sorry you are in any discomfort.’

And then it drove off again. Pretty good way to earn 15 dollars.

This song makes me totally in love with life and Spring and lots of other things too   But the question remains – who the fuck are Two Door Cinema Club and how did they materialise from nothing so quickly?

http://hypem.com/#/track/1078624/Two+Door+Cinema+Club+-+Something+Good+Can+Work+Ted+Francis+Remix+

Apparently they come in 3s:

1. The Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Movie (http://www.scottpilgrimthemovie.com/) – I LOVE the graphic novels and weirdly enough the final instalment is coming out the day after my birthday! (Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour – July 20th)
2. Which includes on its soundtrack a new song by Metric (Black Sheep), which isn’t really all that new since it has been on live sets for a couple of years now but who cares?
3. Both of which can be found on this super-cute blog! (http://sugarpopsugarpop.blogspot.com/2010/03/listen-to-metrics-song-on-michael-cera.html)

Yay!

http://www.rcrdlbl.com/artists/Princeton/music

Anyway, so they were really good, and then we found out the drummer was the guy who’s in something like every 4th ad on the American Apparel website (example link at the bottom) and my hipster friend Kevin who has a total obsession with Aa got to scared to talk to him even though his girlfriend/my best friend Armine went and talked to him a few times and he gave her one of his drumsticks. Crazy shit, …eh? (Ohhhh Canada.)

http://www.americanapparel.com/pq412.html?cid=138

1. Sasha Don’t Sleep – The Dance Party

2. I Think I Need a New Heart – The Magnetic Fields

3. Float On – Modest Mouse

4. Times New Viking vs. Yo La Tengo – Times New Viking

5. The Holiday Song – The Pixies

6. All For Swinging You Around – The New Pornographers

Brazilian Girls – Internacional

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktkd4vAX2JI

Phoenix – Lasso

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okbDmEGrCZ8

And the queen of polyrhythmic harping…

Joanna Newsom – Sawdust & Diamonds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCvPdYDaiPo