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We were talking about how the first human popped out in Africa and how light eyes and fair skin are recesive genes and how must likely, the first human was black, because it's, genetically, the stronger race. And then someone brought God into the equation. And how He created us in his image. And we started thinking.

Koala: ... So that means God is black?
All of us: .... OMG TOTALLY.
Me: He's probably just rainbow-colored!
Kozty: ... OMG HE'S GAY?
Aidee: Well he did make Adam first! *all of us burst out laughing*
Juan Pablo: But He doesn't have sex!
All of us: ... *thinking of the implications in the worst way possible*
All of us: OMG HE'S SO HAVING SEX.
Me: *thinking* OMG I'M SO GOING TO HELL.

And then we played Risk and got our Machiavellic groove going on and we watched Kill Bill Vol.1 and we went to a comic store and I got Fables vol. 3 and 4 and Death Note vol. 4 and stuffed ourselves with pizza. Good times.

Today, though, The Pippettes played in town in this huge indie rock festival. And I didn't go. After weeks of trying to decide whether I should or should not to. It was from 3PM to 3AM, though, and it was outside the city in the middle of NOWHERE and I didn't know where it was or how to get there or how to get back. *sigh* But I kinda really wanted to go and a friend had been prodding me for weeks to convince me to go. But Placebo's playing in a few weeks and I better much rather going to see them. Boo.

There are two kinds of labels I hate: 'Foreign' in movies, and 'Latin' in music. Foreign because HELLO, most of the world's population don't live in the US. And all of American fils are foreign to me, and to a whole lot more people, and it just seems rude to have this blanket label to call everything that's not filmed in the US. I certainly don't go around calling movies 'foreign', I just say oh, it's German, or Spanish, or Australian or WHATEVER, say it like it is.

And in music, I so so so hate it when they call everything that comes from south the US border 'Latin'. Sure, there are tons of music that was born in Latin America, but they have a name, like, say; samba, tango, salsa, son, banda, etc, etc. Again, it has a name - use it. But other than that, I hate it whenever I open iTunes and I see Zoé labled as 'Latin', because God forbid people could actually think a Mexican band can play alternative electro rock. There is a reason why we have all kinds of names for musical genres, and just because it wasn't made in an English-speaking contry doesn't mean it can't belong to them - there must be HUNDREDS of death metal bands in China, which I'm sure don't fit under 'traditional chinese music'. 'Latin' is not even a proper way of calling Samba and Danzon, because they sure as hell are nothing alike. I just really dislike the assumption that everything can be called the same, just by merit of its location.