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Good morning, afternoon, or evening my lovelies, whichever you prefer. As we enter the wee hours of the night my mind has a tendency to slip off the cycle of sanity and splash into the boiling bubbling pit of madness down below. Leave now, or forever hold your peace.

As we live in a completely flawed capitalist society, we are subject to its problems relating to the economy at all times. For one to be able to find a job at this current point in time is near impossible for anybody, including all those poor college students or recent graduates who're spending four years of their life, maybe more, to try to infiltrate an already over-saturated job market but the jobs simply aren't there. According to some sources only one in four college students is able to get a job pertaining to their field of study after graduation. The upper end of the job spectrum is overflowing due to an abundance of college graduates (the numbers have been increasing in multiples the past few years) and massive decrease of job availability. As a result graduates are unable to find a job in any market. The same is true for the lower end of the spectrum. With the recent massive influx of immigrants taking over the low-class jobs, nearly half the citizens, both uneducated and those with degrees, are forced to sit idly by without a steady income of any sort. We need to get this train back on its tracks but how? I myself haven't been able to think of anything that WE the people can do to help the situation. I mean we could cite FDR and all the reforms of that era that created millions of jobs and balanced out the national debt that sure as shit ain't going to work this time. OK sorry for all this bullshit ranting, like i said, my mind descends further into insanity as the night wears on.

Tonight's movie is Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth. I'm sure that everyone here has heard of it at some point or another, and most have watched it.

Pan's Labyrinth is a beautiful film delving into our childish roots and the fantastical nature of dream, in the setting of World War II era Italy. The protagonist Ofelia is taken to her stepfather's house/villa to live in safety while the rest of the country is hard at war. Being isolated in the middle of nowhere and having nothing to do because of her step-father's hatred towards her, she starts making up her own friends and adventures as if it were some sort of lucid waking-dream state in a whole new world she imagines stays hidden form the rest of the adults. Her meeting with Pan, the legendary faun, leads her to discover that in this world she's created, she is the queen and that she must complete a few tasks before being able to return from the above-ground world and claim her throne. It sounds dull and boring but the film is so impassioned and sweet and shows the pure innocence of youth with Ofelia and the closed-minded corrupted fucked-uppedness of adulthood and war and politics through her stepfather and the setting of "real" world. Ofelia embarks on a number of quests to complete her goal, and on the way try to save her pregnant dying mother. In the end, things wrap in one of the saddest scenes that you'll ever see that depicts the terrible end of youth and childhood and how terrible everything else is. Rambling on again. Rent it, watch it online, whatever. You probably have already.

Tonight's musical album is Tommy by The Who

This is a revolutionary rock and roll album by one of the greatest musical groups of all time. The album is not a traditional record style program, it is a rock opera which means each song is a chapter in the overall story of the album. Tommy is about a young boy... Tommy... who suffers a tragedy at early childhood and ends up deaf, dumb and blind as a result. There is no way for me to describe what all this album gets into, but it's an interesting story but the best parts are the sound and the message portrayed through the music. Keith Moon's bombastic drumming smashing and hammering away at your head while Entwhistle eases you into the groove before suddenly busting out into a wild solo and shredding your face. The songs Tommy, Pinball Wizard, Sparks, and Underture are my particular favorites, and can be heard at sadsteve.com Though I will recommend that you listen to the whole album in its correct order to feel the full impact of what's going on. Do yourself a favor and listen to this epic album.

I'll be skipping the rest tonight folks, I'm just hellishly exhausted and today was already a fail. But stay tuned, there's gonna be some good shit tomorrow. Peace