I spent 4th of July 'getting fucking hammered'--drinking beer, chilling by a man made lake in my 'rich friend's' lake house, and looking at girls' 'sweet racks' in bikinis. We rode jetskis, and other 'mad absurd shit' like that. Eventually I put on the album Strawberry Jam by ANCO just so that we could hear the song 'Fireworks.'

I stared into the bonfire that we started, and thought about life. Not just in the way that I start to think about life when I listen to conceptualcore music, but more about just all of the opportunities I have. Not just because my parents are wealthy, but just the opportunity to have this lifestyle. I'm really grateful 4 being an American. I feel different from 'my generation' because I 'get' that America is 'bad ass', instead of just being one of those people who 'pretends America sucks' just to seem liberal.

Photo via the big picture

Feels weird that my generation was 'defined by 9/11.' I feel like that was more of something that I felt 'entitled to be affected by' as opposed to something that 'lit a fire under my ass/inspired me to unite for the greater good of my country.' Feel like maybe I might have been different if I was 'drafted' to fight in Vietnam/WWII/etc. Might 'appreciate my country more.' Sometimes I just wish I had 'something 2 fight for.'

Sorta wish I lived in Iran, or possibly a 'shitty South American country' where some sort of revolution/Civil War was happening. Feels like I would have 'a real reason' 2 use twitter, like to organize people for protests.

Feels weird that America is 'in the shitter' and China is better than us at everything now, and our 'dollar' doesn't 'mean' as much as it used to, but I still feel 'better than ever.' Feel like I 'take everything 4 granted. I just want to fight in a war, and kill a foreigner. I want to take control of my life, and prove to this land that I was born in that I deserve to be a part of it. I don't want to stand around indie rock festivals for the rest of my life. I think my life could be more meaningful if I saw the world, and also fought for the lives' of millions of people.

This 4th of July, I realized that I want America to go to war soon, so that I am not part of a generation defined by the internet + 9/11 + 'social networks.' I want 2 die fighting in the Final_War_of_Mankind. This will be our legacy.

'We can be heros...just 1 day...'
-Jakob Dylan, The Wallflowers

God has Blessed America.

'I would die 4 u.'
-Prince

This is the last chance our generation has to 'rebrand' itself. We must goto war before 2011.