somethin' gotta give, parents or the kids, it won't be the kids.

Holla.  Day after Thanksgiving, I'm back at school after spending the holiday with Kim's family in Queens.  We saw Twilight.  Twilight was pretty special.  It was like a TV movie with really bad make-up and acting.  In addition to, of course, being a vampire movie that completely lacked in scares (except the bad relationship kind) - but I've already written about how much it bothers me when vampires or whatever are romanticized (here they're virtually invulnerable) and humans are depicted as being stupid and weak and only attractive because they're so fragile.  Also, I don't think I was previously aware of how classist Twilight is.  Get this: she gets to choose between a) the vampire, who drives a fancy sports car, lives in a glass mansion, listens to classical music, whose vampire!father is a doctor, and is obviously very white, and b) the werewolf, who doesn't seem to have his own car but whose disabled father drives an old pick-up, lives on a reservation, and is Native American.  Guess who she chooses.  By the last book she has her own sports car.  And is a vampire.  WHAT IS THIS. 

This song has been my obsession lately. I heard it at the end of an AMV and it's like... been the last twenty songs I've listened to.

"Children of the Korn" - Korn (feat. Ice Cube)

Pretty crazy, right?  But for one, I associate it with Nebraska, and for two... I don't know.  I'm really into Korn right now?  It's so strange, because I first became aware of them in middle school, but only as a favorite band of a certain guy someone on my friends' list was into... he got so uncool later, dating the head cheerleader and all.  I always thought Korn was too "heavy metal" for me.  

Actually, the other thing is that Ilium is turning into a very anti-elders manifesto.  Ironically my own parents were amazing parents.

Nebraska 40, Colorado 31

We won that game because of spirit.  Because the players never gave up and Coach Pelini never gave up and I bet the fans at Memorial Stadium never gave up either.  I guarantee that under Callahan last season, we would have lost this game.  We would have given up.  But Pelini, you know, he fucking knows Nebraska football, he knows what it means, and he found a way to pull it out.  This is why I love the Huskers.  This is why I love college football.  Pure pathos, pure pathos all the way. 

I didn't actually catch the 57-yard field goal, a school record - I caught the immediate aftermath.  Our kicker Alex Henery (the one in the middle in the picture above) got the Player of the Game, as he rightly should have, because it put us in front 33-31 with 1:43 left.  57 yards.  Think about that.  That's more than half a football field.  Apparently it just barely got in, but it was a school fucking record.  He's a great kicker.  Not such a great faker, but a great kicker.  

I called my mother at like a minute left, when Colorado was trying to drive back up the field for a gamewinning field goal.  On the very next play, while I was on the phone with her, SUH intercepted a pass and ran it back for a touchdown.  It was amazing.  We were screaming together.  It was like 2000 all over again: me digging my nails into my mother's arm and hiding behind the dishwasher watching to see if Josh Brown would nail the gamewinning field goal (which he did). 

Colorado games are always like this - no offense to anybody who lives in or loves Colorado, but when Oklahoma State played at Colorado this year some asshole Colorado fan shone a laser in the OSU quarterback's eye.  Then of course there's the time they beat Nebraska in Boulder and not only memorialized the score on team rings (who does that??) but chanted "No more Heisman!" to our quarterback (who won the Heisman anyway, SUCK IT COLORADO).  So yeah.  It's a very, very bitter rivalry, it always comes down to the wire, it often determines our bowls, and in many ways, the Colorado game makes or breaks the season.  It is, after all, the last home game for the seniors, the last regular-season game.  The players know its significance: one senior, Peterson, apparently had a dream the night before where the Huskers lost 40-4.   It would have indeed been awful if we had ended this great, dawn-of-the-new-era season with a loss.  And ending it with a win, and a win with so much spirit, is really the best Christmas present Coach Pelini could have given the Husker faithful. 

All you can really say is alhamdulillah.  We're 8-4 and bound for a good bowl game in Bo Pelini's first year, after finishing last season 5-7.  And it feels so damn good.  

Apparently when ESPN2 showed the clip of Suh's final interception, they said, "My name is Suh!  How are you!  Now you gonna die!"  That's a modification of "A Boy Named Sue", by the way - one of my favorite Johnny Cash songs.

( more picspam, because I cannot stop myself. )