Amandoo’s Handle of Realitumtum

I saw a lot of 10 this or thats on popurls.com tonight and decided to do a list of 10 random 10 lists.

1) Top 10 songs of the week- found out here about this week’s set including Soulja Boy, Alicia Keys, and guess who- Fergie- twice!

2) 10 Creepiest Old Ads- what a mix of creepy, foreshadowy, perverse, and just wrong old ads. Cute! Advertising has gotten even more sick and clever these days, right?!

3) 10 Best Quotes in 2007- “Don’t Tase Me Bro!” takes the cake, followed closely by Miss South Carolina’s infamous speech, and other fun times in political abomination.

4) (ode to my mother!) Top 10 birding memories of 2007- cute birdwatcher blogger recounts some exciting happenings in birdland.

5) 10 foods to eat and 10 foods not to eat: I really like this because it has colored pictures, a clear and to-the-point layout, and I agree with most of them. Juicing kale (and other veggies) is probably the best healthy feeling I can get when I feel gross-fooded-out.

6) I kind of wanted something about cars or sports to show that I have an interest in these sorts of things, and I found a random guy’s blog who has to do with sports car testing: Arthur St. Antoine’s Top 10 Personal Memories of 2007. He talks about some important new car stuff. I love a nice car, but am sad right now that mine broke a little and cost me the rest of my money I barely had.

7) While looking for more “10 lists” I stumbled on Time’s 50 top 10’s of 2007 categorized by News, Arts & Entertainment, Science, Business Tech & Sports, and Pop Culture. Check out the ones you will, or won’t admit to, but want to anyway.

8 ) Top 10 News Stories of 2007- I did this one from the many Time’s lists because they do a pretty decent job of representing some important, and global stories, not just one-sided sensationalized booshoo. (I also really liked the Top 10 oddball stories as well!)

9) And Time’s Top 10 Campaign Gaffes was a good list too. There’s a quote about lying taking much more time and energy than telling the truth, you have to remember your stories. If these politicians were like Ron Paul, they’d know how to stick to their values and wouldn’t end up in awkward lies.

10) Top 10 CDs of 2007 by Bob Boilen- don’t know the guy, but a few of the ones he says I would agree with, and usually if it isn’t quality underground hip-hop, I’m not too interested. But of course, Radiohead is genius as always, and I unexpectedly became a big enough fan of Of Montreal to go to their concert. This inspires me to come up with an Amandoo’s top 10 cds of 2007 (whether they came out in 2007 or not). keep your fingers crossed that i’ll do it soon!

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That was fun, inspired mostly by popurls’ lists, but also by the fact that 2007 recently ended and 10 is a common number and so are end-of-year compilation lists. I must make my own- mostly about music.

Watch this if you have not heard of madness:

Missouri Cop Gone Ballistic Shows Everyone Clearly Where the World, Society, and Cops Have Gone Oh SO WRONG.

Favorite quotes: (the quotes are all too good, I couldn’t put them all for time/length reasons)(keep in mind the arrested says very little to cop and cop keeps picking at him. well. until the tables turn and he realizes he’s on tape)

“I’m gonna ruin your f#$%in night…Do you want to try me tonight young boy? Do you want to go to jail for some f#$%in reason….my experience compared to your young a*s?”

“I show you what a cop does. You understand me?” (the guy is saying nothing to insight him, and even says “no i don’t want [to ‘try you’]”

“Give me some more lip.” And after the guy pulled over says nothing. “Come on boy!” (police officer is purposefully instigating this poor guy- the guy even politely says “I don’t want any problems officer”)

“You want me to lock you up and show you that I’m right and you’re wrong? You want me to show you the f$%^ing law?”

“we have people trying to commit ’suicide’ here” (you mean accidental police brutality deaths?)

“I guarantee you I could come up with nine things [implying: to megalomaniacally make up as reasons for your arrest]”

HE ALSO NOTICES THE GUY HAS A CAMERA, DOES A COMPLETE 180 (realizing, or (shudder) not realizing his irate and inhumane as#iness(more like becomes worried of getting in trouble)) BUT STILL KEEPS BARKING IRRATIONALLY AWFUL PHRASES.

“you failed to comply with my orders…my lawful orders”

“i don’t know what you were doing, but i got it on tape” (oh the retrospective irony pangs Officer Meany will feel!)

“i think i’m just gonna take you to jail”

“you gonna give me an attitude, i’m gonna give you an attitude- a lot harder, okay?”

Cop: “You ever been in trouble before?”
Assault victim: “Yep”
Cop: “Okay. Tell me(muffled?).”
Assault victim: “I was assaulted by a police officer and a Grand Jury dismissed all the charges. And the city of St. Louis paid me not to sue.”
Cop: …”Okay……you have a problem, then. Was it your attitude that night? Probably?”
Assault victim: “No.” (goes on to describe situation sounding similar to the same one occuring, just before getting beat by a police officer)

Least favorite:

poor kid that got pulled over - (in his text description): “I truly thought if I didn’t suck up, I would be beaten and maybe killed.” (people get beaten, on video, all the time, and rarely do the cops get in trouble for their irate cruelty).

I am literally physically ill from the massive volume of videos, personal stories, and reports of RAMPANT CORRUPTION in law enforcement, and the govvuhhhhh mentos.

too many stories. and from people I KNOW. messed up!

hard not to be negative, but the only thing you can do is share knowledge, empowerment through peaceful assertion of personal rights and liberties, and join Downsize D.C..

i know this may seem harsh or not upbeat, but i think people need to know more about this kind of sick thing, and to know their rights, and to talk about it all so we can change it. i get so upset that it’s counterproductive (dwelling and brooding inactively instead of upward and onward)

Keep aware of violations of rights and ‘power’, and spread more knowledge and personal self-empowerment.

oh i should have titled this ’something gross’. what i really want to know is, what does “it’s cold as balls” mean? what balls? and why are they so cold? i’m afraid i’ve missed the ship on that one.

but i think it’s cold as bales of hay out there.

and creepy.

so once upon a time, when i was really really crazy, i stayed up all night with my crazy-in-a-different-way-but-still-pretty-crazy-cousin and we just stood on the street by my house, and we talked every once in a while. it was a very interesting night, i thought it would somehow be the answer to everything unanswered in question, staying up and not taking my medication (at that time- bad medication that is), and figuring out the meaning of life.

well, it was good, full of meaning and nothingness at the same time, i have emotions about it, but the point is this- in the early morning 3/4/5am (my new bedtimes now), three different cars drove by, and they all had incredibly weird passengers/things in them. i was just paranoid in general too so i was scared of them.

one was a man who looked a lot like Jesus, but also a little Santa- his long, flowy beard was puffy, and white, and his interior car light was on. why. why! it’s not a question. there is no answer.

i can’t explain the terror chord that struck inside me- he went down this small street at like 25/30milesperhour, and then back again more rapidly, and it was frightful. i tried to tell myself ‘maybe he delivers newspapers’, or ‘maybe he has the light on to stay awake’, but his expressionless face was the scariest part.

now wait, listen, the best part is still coming.

last night it was really snowy/icy and my car sort of stopped working. i was driving with two humans, and we see a car in the distance. as it approached, my nervousness increased. and it was HIM! creepy-like-nothing-else, still-had-the-interior-light-on-speeding-in-the-icy-snow-streets-man!!! and the WORST PART?!?!?

——–he got to a stop sign behind us as i was freaking out and trying to explain and make them see him, and he JUST OPENED HIS DOOR AND GOT OUT OF THE CAR SLOWLY (why?). i was too scared to keep watching.—————-

who is he and what was he doing? where did he come from? most importantly- WHY ARE WE CONNECTED?!?!?!?!??!

now i can’t sleep right.

batdoo. sometimes you find good stuff, sometimes you don’t know how you feel about life.

well i will put aside my personal angstew and tell you this: snoop is so gangsta he don’t even let the airports get to him. it makes me really happy that he would do that.

way to go India for legally granting women the right to not be raped by their husbands! wow. i just don’t know about some of the stuff in that article.

i am wearing pants way too big for me right now. i work at starbucks and feel personally responsible for it. not this, but for working there.

(malachite is my favorite gem/rock if you are interested in wooing or pursuing me)

well the good thing about not expecting too much of myself is that it prevents breakdowns. or something. i expect much more from this damned blog though.

i’ve heard that three for tea is a good book. i do want to read that. i shall go play music now in the hopes to practice the old cello that i never play but love in the sideways of my minds.

well, at least i dreamt i was in France last night. it’s always disappointing to wake up the next day though.

tis all for now: Jayden James Federline is born, i can rest.

this weekend (among other crazy things- stay tuned for updates!!!) i got to go the hatboro car show. my favorite car looked something like this minus red plus black:

the sickly sweet little BMW 2002tii at the show was pimp. it was black and the hood opened up backwards which i loved for no practical reason. at the time i was in love but later upon looking at the old pic of my beamer (see below) i realized the 524 is best. and even though my sweet little whitey should have been running and shining there at that show, i still had a decent time surrounded by all the glory and splendor of finely waxed and maintained automobiles i will never get rides in (maybe i’ll dress up really nicely soon and go test-driving). someday, possibly, i could get a car to put in a car show- someday and maybe.

and to close that night off some car hit the porch of somebody’s house.

it never occurred to me that i liked cars that much, until i got one that i had dreamed of, and had to learn about it as it broke before my eyes. the saga with the 524 is nowhere near finished.

until then…maybe i’ll buy this lil guy (but no joke i love these things)

UPDATE- (2007)- yeah, my BMW, and mrak’s same car color, year, make, and model but with over 150,000 fewer miles on it were for sale, and an awesome lady who helps make car parts manuals bought both of them so she can convert it to veggie oil! go lady! and go 524’s go!!!

yeah my car was not such a good pup on the way home. my water broke- that is my water pump belty thing and i had to get towedcetera and it still be in the shop and it’ll be costin too mucho dinero. what can you do? she’s old! the cat will jump up on the window of the door like 6 feet up, that’s what we’ll do. i almost got shot at school too (practically) when they found the guy who shot the cop hiding in the place right next to my school. yay!

Long time no write! I finally got it, my dream come true, I got a BMW! It’s a 1986 524td diesel with many a mile on it, but I’m in love with it and it has a sun roof!
It only needs a little work. So I had an interview with Starbucks but haven’t heard back from them yet. I hope to soon because I can’t go on waking up so early all the time. Life is good because I have a car oh yeah!! And Mark got a puppy recently, Bella Indigo Sasquatch and she is the cutest!!! Pictures necessary as well…