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Dacula started its history as the town of Chinquapin Grove. However, the name was changed at founding, due in part to the fact that no chinquapin trees actually existed in the city. The city of Dacula has a storied and colorful history dating back to a shocking murder in the early 1920s of a father and son. Dacula is now more known for its large Memorial Day parade, professional and collegiate athletes, and Little Mulberry Park[citation needed]
Dacula's name comes from letters in Decatur and Atlanta,[5] two nearby cities that were already prospering at the time of Dacula's founding. The name "Dacula" is properly pronounced da-CUE-la (duh-Q-luh).
The city was once home to a train station on a CSX line through Northeast Georgia, although the station closed back in the mid 1950's. The city has experienced immense growth from a small, one light town in the early to late 80's, to now having nearly 10 public schools both from the Dacula and Mill Creek clusters of Gwinnett County Public Schools. It is also home to one of the largest Southern Baptist churches in the Southeast United States, Hebron Baptist Church, which recently finished construction of a 3,850 seat auditorium.
Linebacker Michael Boley of the Atlanta Falcons lives in Dacula.
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Aug 30, 2010
como "Hard Knock Life"
tween(girl)-beloved sample/quotation
—BILLY JOEL—
—ORPHAN ANNIE—
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So, Katy Perry finally released another single off Teenage Dream, the title track, "Teenage Dream."
I downloaded it last Thursday after watching the Official Lyric Video (which presumably sneak peeks the for reals video) twice through, talking to Pillow about it.
But I did wake up humming the chorus. Catching is no trifle; creating a simple, original melody that sticks, is communion with the WHOLE HISTORY OF COMMUNE-ICATION, with a kind of miraculous set of habits, rituals, dreams.
This happens with Perry and Gaga, who I have (and I'll get to this) realized are quite similar (and, of course, dissimilar too); I become upset with their lyrical shortcomings and their inauthentic (and, of course, authentic too) surface peddling, but cannot cannot shake their choruses, bridges sometimes, little nuggets of sure POP, dance breaks, anthem pieces, good melodies (and deliveries).
The coming success of "Teenage Dream," as such, as a catchy radio item is settled (factual), thanks in part to co-writer and producer, very important person Max Martin. It's exactly him—big, clean with some rocks. Whatever criticism follows here is sort of peripheral, you know?—not wholly pertinent to the object (like, thingness) of the track, which is potent and persistent, flash, obstinate, as intended.
The lyrics are sloppy (see all previous Perry tracks).
First (first), the line "You think I'm pretty without any make-up on" lays down a grey film of common-ness.....I find that "pretty" people are "pretty" without make-up, as a rule. People who only look "pretty" with make-up on (getting dicey here) are not actually "pretty" people. Is she saying, "You think I'm pretty even though I'm not...or, even though I think I'm not unless I'm wearing make-up..."? LOL whatever. I hate the word "pretty." And the line's parallel to this numbing Youtubes entry (aria of generic-ness), which made the rickety rounds last month.
Then, "Before you met me I was alright, but things were kinda heavy./ You brought me back to life./Now, every February you'll be my valentine." She is saying absolutely NADA with "I was alright but things were kinda heavy." And because of the inexpressive thud of that line, I arrive resentful at the mentions of "lifelessness-to-life" and Valentine's Day that follow.
Then, the chorus: "Let's go all the way tonight./No regrets, just love./We can dance until we die./You and I we'll be young forever./YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE I'M LIVING A TEENAGE DREAM, THE WAY YOU TURN ME ON./I CAN'T SLEEP./LET'S RUN AWAY AND DON'T EVER LOOK BACK, DON'T EVER LOOK BACK/MY HEART STOPS WHEN YOU LOOK AT ME./JUST ONE TOUCH, NOW BABY I BELIEVE THIS IS REAL./SO TAKE A CHANCE AND DON'T EVER LOOK BACK, DON'T EVER LOOK BACK."
I had a waiter at an irritating Carroll Gardens restaurant (you know the one) with tiny tables and chairs and no reservations and cash only and vodka from Long Island. He had a tattoo on his forearm that read, "NEVER EXPLAIN. NEVER APOLOGIZE." A girl at our table asked him about it; he explained that the phrases (demands?) were advice from his Grandma. And I was (am still) appalled. Everyone ought to "EXPLAIN" and "APOLOGIZE" when called upon. How else could we possibly carry on relationships, be citizens, family members? Perry's directive, "No regrets, just love." seems similar to me. How are "lacking regrets" and "loving" held as opposites? Perhaps she means to be speaking in a teen voice here, or just describing how teens haven't regrets because they haven't experience? But experience only helps to conduct one's regret-channel (the source of which runs back to first cognition). My regrets felt more fluttering and immediate when I was a teen (not long, lyrical, flattening like now). But they were constant....like weren't there always enormous missed opportunities to be hysterical about, a party you couldn't go to, an awkward encounter in the halls, a rumor, a total inability to talk to someone about something or anything, nothing. And this notion: love eating your conscience? Love displacing regret? Maybe. I don't know. In my experience, regret is perpetual. And teenage dreams and teenage loves are spun through and through with it.
Also the chant, "DON'T EVER LOOK BACK" is bad news. We need histories, Katy Perry! Explanations! (Apologies!)
Also this: "JUST ONE TOUCH, NOW BABY I BELIEVE THIS IS REAL," is disingenuous to me (to me).
Then, "We drove to Cali and got drunk on the beach./Got a motel room, and built a fort out of sheets./I finally found you, my missing puzzle piece./I'm complete."—(I have said it before and I will say it again) LOL whatever.
I like the last(ish) dance refrain, "I might get your heart racing in my skin-tight jeans/be your teenage dream tonight./Let you put your hands on me in my skin-tight jeans/be your teenage dream tonight." It addresses the demi-concept of the eponymous demi-concept album: Katy Perry on yr bedroom wall, a pin-up, all styling and permissions (YES NO YES NO). And, as a teen, my jeans were stupid tight (and flared!....whiskered!). And "put your hands on me" hints violence (an idea of violence, or violation), which is interesting. And I like the breathy delivery, some of her more strident tones withheld....in the grocery store Sunday morning, I began to wonder why I'm so down on Perry's and Gaga's lyrics, and not Britney's. Britney uses dumb words all the time, and I LOVE it. I'm not ready to sort this out; I just thought it was worth mentioning...
There's this video, an interview with Perry about the writing and recording of "Teenage Dream." Oy.
It's a surprise that the song was recorded in her hometown, Santa Barbara. It's so anonymous, ungrounded, impersonal. "Teenage Dream" is hermetically sealed, and must needs come from a vacuum (**space emergency**!). Even with the tabloid iconography—red carpet costumes and PREPARATIONS FOR BIG IMPENDING IMPORTANT FAMOUS MARRIAGE (is Rihanna really gonna be the maid of honor?), visits to the gym—and all kinds of biography, interviews (this crazy thorough Wikipedia entry)—I get no sense of who Katy Perry is (like, humanly) in any of her songs, and, because the rest is so much hype/smoke/mirrors, I continue to be perplexed and put off by her, in general. This is not a matter of the songwriting process or heavy electronics; many people who sound and work as Perry does totally inhabit their songs, never come off all replaceable like her ("way harsh Tai") on the track.
In that Wiki (I think) she mentions swoons over Leo of Romeo+Juliet in '97 as a light reference point for "Teenage Dream," which is funny because the first song I thought of as a proper foil for "Teenage Dream," an example of a spot-on teenage dream song was the Garbage jam off that (MAJOR) soundtrack, "#1 Crush." (And "Lovefool" which is all sugar-sounding but klarly darkdarkness-----Perry mentions (in talk and print) the 70s-then-90s Swede trifecta [ABBA--Ace of Base--The Cardigans] in relation to her new album, and I hear those influences in the production, but she doesn't bring it right, doesn't churn out the cleverness +regret-pangs...)
There must be pathos in a teenage dream, right?
what about debbie harry?!--she just WORE songs, a mannequin---brilliant (gigi sequwnce)
litterally==="come on over"==childrens song====brutal, ANIMAL
wrapped in sugar
jersey shore
infinite realness (served up)
primal ron/ron ron juice-----darkness brothersjersey shore
infinite realness (served up)
primal ron/ron ron juice-----darkness brothers
Jul 30, 2010
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Jul 26, 2010
Summer Jams, cont'd...
My energist pointed out a few months ago that summer and winter are seasons in which you can't really do real "work", you just have to let the powers that be glide you through them. And so I think it's important that a summer jam is easy and breezy and just kind of there. Shit you don't have to think about too much. This one does deliver.
Jul 23, 2010
Jul 22, 2010

This is newly minted 16-yr-old Gossip Girl star turned touring tarty C. Love tribute act, Taylor "TMommzz" Momsen (we like how her band, The Pretty Reckless, sounds). And she's got a pack of Marlboro Lights tucked in her garter belt, a pair of 7-inch shake-junt' stilettos held limply by her side. Perhaps (Perhaps...) there's no more appropriate age at which to full-on stripper-junky-glamour it up (on the Warped Tour!!)--Go TMommzz! The real story here is the newly minted ban on the cigarette descriptor "Light." I imagine many pre-ban packs are still out there, in stock, purchasable. I have yet to see new packaging/marketing solutions...will they simply dissolve the products? Presumably, the endgame for anti-smoking evangelists is a snuffing out of all unique, branded cigarettes, or a cigarette company's ability to control advertising and package design. Like, one day all you'll get are government-issued packs with black lungs and dead fetuses emblazoned across, maybe just skulls and crossbones. Such a pack would look right in the garter belt of a TMommzz. But it's crazy (what we've seen the very last of). There is so much about Marlboro Lights. About all brands and sub-brands of brands of cigs. I no longer smoke, but I remember every single sort (and the particular phase of the package design) I smoked when and where, for what reason (I changed it up frequently---it was soo many styles!). I remember what other people smoked, and why, what each thing might mean, how that changed or remained the same. I didn't have to try to remember this stuff; I just did, because it was that notable.
Jul 21, 2010
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Southern Plastic Surgery Blog
Forget Underwire! Laser Bra Surgery offers “built in” push up for breasts
Over the years, women have tried everything to make their breasts look more lifted– from push up bras, to insertable pads to cosmetic surgery. However, a new laser technique called “Laser Bra Surgery” uses laser technology to give the breasts more permanent lift and support.