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Well, I've used this track a couple of times for titles and it seems to be a good theme for where I'm at in my life. For those who don't know, 'Nowhere Fast' is on Incubus' existentialist-themed and appropriately titled hit album, 1999's Make Yourself. Being that the album is their true mainstream-crossover-breakthrough, you've probably heard at least some of it in fragmented form through the pretty successful single outings ("Pardon Me", "Stellar", and "Drive") - I'd reccomend digging to the rest of the album tracks before deciding one way or the other on the band. They are pretty rewarding in regardsto understand the conceptual element of it.

Anyway, the lyrics which are rather significant:

Will I ever get to where it is that I am going?
Will I ever follow through with what I, what I had planned?
I guess it's possible that I have been a bit distracted
and the directions for me are a lot less in demand.

Will I ever get to where I'm going?
If I do, will I know when I'm there?
If the wind blew me in the right direction would I even care?

This is the way I sort of feel right now about my life. I'm come to realize I'm fairly passive/lazy by nature, so this feeling of drifting is something I can relate to. I would've quoted the whole song, but I figured that would be too blog-cliché.

Anyway, for those thinking I've gone nuts, I've slipped up a bit at midterms and its driven home my need for focus. Both my poor outings came as a result of understudying, and I have to say I haven't felt that bad coming out of tests since my high school slacker days. It wasn't nice...so hopefully that'll serve as a chilling reminder and motivator when I endure my last round of university finals (as I actually have exams this term...bummer, but probably for the best for my workload right now).

So now that I've probably bummed everyone out, here's the picker-upper I've distracted myself with over the last hour: Flight of the Conchords. Although they have an official site, I'd reccomend the one linked to in the name. I could go on about background info, but all you really need to know is that they refer to themselves as "New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo". On Sunday, I saw a rerun of their 2004 set at Just For Laughs, and had the chorus from 'Business Time' in my head for the next two days. Turns out, I dropped the ball back in the fall, 'cause they were on Conan and I missed it. Anyway, you can see it! If you browse around the media section of the page there's some mp3's for your consumption. Personal reccomendations: "Business Time", "Bowie", "Frodo" and "Think About It, Think Think About It".

Hmm, some whining about school/life and a media reccomendation, sounds like a completed j blog to me! 'Till next time...