Wasting time...again

I don't feel like doing any more school work tonight. Even though I should. I have a group presentation in my political science class on Friday that I should be working on. I hate this project. I have had to keep my mouth shut about gigantic holes in our project. I tried to be the voice of reason during our first group meeting and I just kept getting shut down by the other starry-eyed pie-in-the-sky members of my group. I'm at least 15 years older than the next oldest member and it shows. Plus we each have to get up and make a 5 minute presentation on our specific parts of the project. I'm not looking forward to that. I should have already turned in my bullet points to the guy who is doing the group's powerpoint presentation, but I still have until tomorrow night and will probably procrastinate as long as possible. I shouldn't, but I just can't get motivated to work on this stuff. It's not like I don't know the material. I think I probably know a lot more about it than the other group members. I just don't feel inspired and am not looking forward to it. It would be smart just to dive in and get it done, but I don't feel like doing the smart thing. I just want it to be over.

So, in the spirit of wasting time, here is a list of some of the music I'm listening to tonight.

• Swan Dive - Hed PE (one of my all time favorite songs. Some might wonder why this is)
• Take Me to the River - Al Green (smooooooth)
• Beautiful Disaster - 311 (there is something about the harmonics of this song that I really like. This song really isn't all that good, but it speaks to me if I don't listen to the lyrics)
• Try Again - Aaliyah (died too young. I would have liked to hear more from her.)
• Love and Happiness - Al Green again (like butter)
• Back to Black - Amy Winehouse (she's a complete disaster. Wacked out druggy and alky. A total skank. But I LOVE her voice.)
• Rehab - more Amy Winehouse (if you know anything about Amy Winehouse this song is totally ironic and kind of funny in a sad way. This is the first of her songs I ever heard and thought it was something from the 60's. I rate her voice right up there with Patsy Cline)
• Use Me - Bill Withers (I've been getting into more late 60's and early 70's R&B/soul and this is a classic)
• 13 Years of Grief - Black Label Society (not much into heavy metal anymore, but these guys have several songs that I really like)
• Will It Go Round in Circles - Billy Preston (more R&B goodness)
• Tell Me Something Good - Chaka Khan & Rufus (this song makes me feel good. I think that's the point.)
• Shining Star - Earth, Wind, and Fire (this is a great 70's R&B classic. But I almost puked in my mouth when I found out it has been covered by Stryper and by some stupid band I never heard of that was on a Hannah Montana album. I'm very disappointed. I hope I can just forget these ugly facts.)
• My Baby's Got Sauce - G. Love & Special Sauce (alternative hip hop/bluesy/R&B mixture. A little different than most of the stuff I listen to)
• Jungle Boogie - Kool & the Gang (how can you not like this song?)
• Cisco Kid - Method Man and Redman (sort of a hip hop remake of the classic War song)
• Crash - Methods of Mayhem (I really wanted to hate this song after I found out that Tommy Lee founded this group. Reminds me of "the good old days" and makes me want to ride my motorcycle.)
• Cowboys From Hell - Pantera (I still love these guys. I'm not too old!)
• I Just Want to Celebrate - Rare Earth (even more R&B goodness)
• Hold On! I'm Comin' - Sam and Dave (I first found out about these guy from "The Blues Brothers" which is the greatest movie ever made!)
• I Wish / Superstition / Uptight / Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder (all masterpieces from the Master)
• For the Love of Money - The O'Jays (why not?)
• Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo (kind of a wacky mix of new wave synthesizers and a spaghetti western soundtrack. Fun stuff.)
• When Worlds Collide - Powerman 5000 (science fiction power rock! The album this song is from is  "Tonight the Stars Revolt!" and has a bunch of great stuff on it.)