Old... But, I've been meaning to post it for a while.

Isalam

Isalammu alaykum

Wa alaykum salaam

Yo where you from god?

when I be dropp'n the bomb

And I pay for em everyday with my good shirt on

Social security stealing my money

and they say it's for good

selling rap to the babies growing up in the hood

injecting em with Christianity

as you say they'll be free

but none of that shit got any.. humanity

So, umph... what a good time to be a tamu. I did nothing but relax the first half of the summer and now i'm working full time so i'm rolling in the dough(classes be damned). Then, to top it off i'm actually in love, which shouldn't be all that strange, but i really haven't so much as looked at a female for the past few years while i pathetically got over my first love affair. oh how women scare me.. they have way too much power. I am ever so glad they're too busy with self-esteem issues to realize that they could control the universe if they ever decided to. during the first half of the summer I just hung around while watching movies(Sun-Tzu's The Art of War was my favorite), going through complete television series in single sittings(veronice mars, the animated x-men, boston legal, etc.) and while not inside on my bed/in my chair I played tennis. I was generally playing tennis twice a day. What a great sport, I really love it because its this huge personal battle between control and power. You can hit it as fast as you want... but than you'll have no aim. Or you could hit it exactly where you want, but, then it will be slow and easily returnable. I got pretty good at it. and when i played constantly it was generally once by myself in the morning, then again with one or a few of my fellow RAs in the afternoon. that's when i go t to know my lady-friend. we played tennis quite a bit, then hung out, started hitting it off. but to throw a (little, tiny, insignificant) wrench into our love machine... she kinda had a boyfriend when i met her. but, it's not like i'm a horrible person. I didn't know. we started off all Innocent because we work together and playing tennis is a public affair. Anywaz, I'm finally in love. That being said, life is sweet. In the past few weeks I've jumped out of a plane, trekked through the 15th century, read a good book and filled a residence hall with impressionable minds. Plus, I've started my first co-op, here at the Irish Immigration Center. And I kid you not about those activities... Tamu's keep busy this time of year. First, jumping out of the plane. This was something I've wanted to do for a while but hadn't due to cost and the annoyance of planning the logistics with friends. Luckily, my friend Zac called me last week and asked what i'd be doing on Wed the 30th... I said 'going to work' he countered with 'why not go skydiving?' I replied 'sounds good, I didn't need a job any ways' Fortunately, my boss gave me the day off and I didn't have to quit my job in order to fulfill my dream. And it was awesome! I got a dvd and everything. Let's just condense the adventure into the phrase "You've never known real fear, until your rushing blind through a cloud, at 120 mph, and realize... you don't have a parachute on your back." hmmm.... lot's o' fun. and to be fair, although i didn't personally have a parachute the guy who was strapped to my back did... so it's not as if i was about to die it was more the anxiety of being so far removed from control... plus the sensory deprivation involved in being in the center of a grey cloud... plus really getting to understand gravity for the first time... awesome, truly awesome.. Second, I went the a renaissance fair down near the cape. It was my friends 21st birthday and what better way to celebrate then watch knights stab each other, while the warlocks around you debate the unique merits of their staffs. There isn't a lot to say about the festival, just that it was a lot better than any of the other fairs i've been to... there was just so much going on. Anywhere you sat, there were at least two stages with performances going. Also, 1 out of 5 people were dressed in costume so the atmosphere was really alive and all the little kiddies were stabbing each other with wood swords by the end of the day. Oh and one more thing... i've never been around a crowd of more sexual people... i got the feeling that every night after the fairgrounds closed and the attendants left, the entire staff would gather 'round for an orgy of epic proportions... just imagine a scene of debauchery where pirates and fairies frolic together. What was the third one? In the past month or so i've really gotten into comic books. Normally i read nothing but, non-fiction, but i guess i just got bored. Anyways, last week I bought one called Lucifer(a 200 page jaunt through the worlds of demons and angles). And it was sooooooo good. Great story - great artwork - lots of twist - a philosophical debate where Yahweh contemplates whether or not to destroy all of creation - it had it all. I highly recommend the series. You'd probably like it a lot. Very deep, very gory. Oh and the whole impressionable-minds-thing, isn't all that fun.. really just my way of saying school is back in session and i had all my freshman move-in to the building. Saddly, having freshman move in means RAs had to go through two weeks of mind numbing training. Every. Single. Day. I wanted to kill myself(well not me, persay, because i rock. but, i wanted to kill someone to get the soul crushing weights off my chest). Anywho, i survived through all that to tell the tale. Plus, the freshman have been fun. Last night I got to stick my finger up someone's nose. I frosh came down to our RA office and said she was having trouble switching her nose rings. I made a quick retort about her level of comfort when it comes to strangers sticking foreign objects in her nostrils... a few jokes, some story-telling and ice-cream pints later, the surgery was successful and we all went home. well, that's all for now. hope your classes are treating you well. and yes, while i do take a long time to write emails... i try to make them worth the wait. peace out, tamu

I never could play the guitar...

never said i plaaay the piano
that is one thing i do not know

i never could wail on a drum set
if i could i would have my dreams met

never said i plaay the guita-a-ar
cause if i could i would be a star

all i have is this little voice on me
if you listen closely then you'll see

i have this mu-usic in me-e-ee
i cannot rest till i set it fre-eeee

fre-eeee freeeee fre-eeee-e-e-ee-eeeeeee

ma, ma. ma, ma. ma, ma - make your own way.

hard rap is like a smooth wine.. ya gotta sip it
these words are just a fondu... ya gotta dip it
if you ever try to over do.. ya soon regret it
it'll fall all onto to you... your gonna get it

now normally i'm a mellow guy.. and I admit it
but on this little track of mine... i'm gonna spit it
i gots a lot of things to say.. so here they come
i gots a lot of things to explain... and you is dumb

so let's start it off from the top.. yeah i'm a hippy
but, i'm as angry as fuck, man... ya get me?
they say the world's fallen apart.. but that's shit
all that craps been hittin the fan... for a bit

goes back to the dawn of time.. now that's legit
nothing's ever gonna change... and that is it
but brothers who stand for nothing.. fall for it all
so i'ma stand up today... in front of ya'll

ya'll ignant nigaz piss me off.. i've had enough
"but life is so hard for blacks"... yeah (beat drop) life is tuff
but, stop blaming other people... ya hardly know
you can never reep a harvest that... you did not sow

suck it up and try to understand.. that ya'lls is pussies
what, you afraid of failure?... man, ya'll is wussies
it is not that hard to be a man.. your just for show
when your knockin everybody else... you'll never grow
stop actin all hard wit that gansta swagger
stop being such a fucking fool, wit all that lagger
come on bro, lighten up.. life is good
fuck the proprietary order... of the hood


ma, ma. ma, ma. ma, ma.
make you own way

I admit it... I'm weird

Why would i want to be normal?
bathe in the stentch of mediocracy
become another pawn in this
money talks, oligarchical theocracy
i perfer to think

-tamu schwoeffermann