DeMizio's Journal

"The world shines, as I cross the Macon County Line..."

On Saturday night Atom played a version of a song that I fell in love with, "Going to Georgia." Its a cover from a group called the Mountain Goats. The original version is an incredible song; I admit I probably don't understand the story behind it, but the emotion in the vocals is incredible, and the contast to just the acoustic guitar is fantastic... I'd like to find a copy of this album, although it is out of print. They have a couple of live versions of their songs on the website which are equally as awesome.

No class today. I've said it before, and will wind up saying it again, 4 day weekends rock: schedule them as you can. Sat in Backstage, then hung out with Fala (who has done an incredible job with the DSA site @ lasalle.edu.)

I got a hug from Dean Cicala today...pretty random. Also had a really long conversation with my father on the phone, which was great.

I've realized that over the past couple of months I've begun to start acknowldging and acting according to the philosophies that I've thought to have made logical sense. I'm talking thoughts like

• Occam's Razor - that the simplest solution is usually the right one


• Hanlon's Razor - "never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity"


• Magrogan's philosophy of choice - that is, after my Senior year English Teacher's thoughts that since we have free will, that anything that is bad in our lives is put there by a conscious choice, and just by exercising another conscious choice, we can excise these bad elements. Theres more to it than that, but I forget right now

The result, from my persepective has been a distancing of a lot of negative feelings in my life. I kinda like it, and hope that it will continue... a couple of people seem to have noticed it, and seem to be looking into the concepts too.

I don't know completely yet...

I'm having lunch with Steve on Tuesday, which I've been meaning to do for an incredibly long time...we've been out of touch for too long.

Posted by Matthew at February 4, 2003 02:42 AM