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About Me

"Memory is a form of forgetting, not its opposite."
-Richard Powers
"Words are merely an attempt to enculturate meaning into syllables."
-Clay Duda
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
-JFK
"I hope you got a big trunk, because I'm going to put my bike in it."
-The Forty Year Old Virgin (but it should be a C-lay quote)
"Just be yourself. Music is not about image. It's about taking mathematics and turning it into emotion."
- Ryan Miracle
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."
- Yogi Berra
"If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement."
-Jimmy Carter
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
-Emma Goldman
http://clayduda.blogspot.com
I know I love my family, blood and extended. They are my life. Without them I wouldn't have made it this far, not to mention what the future holds. We all run our own lives and have our own aspirations that very well may take us to opposite sides of the globe. Just remember who you are, who your family is, and that we're always closer than you think.

My Blog

Framing the future?

   The truth is I still question everything. And I mean everything. If you look back through the digital piles of blog entries, before myspace, even before Xanga (hell, there are scraps of tattered ...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:52:00 GMT

Living the Dream

Sometime you just need to ramble, and what a perfect time during Perspectives class. Notably, I feel this need much less now days then in my younger years. Hell Im only 23. Maybe this is a reflec...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:49:00 GMT

50% in the making.

You know, it recently occurred to me, pretty much in correlation with the latest development in the saga, that I have been in a fight with every single one of my best friends. Or, I should say, my bes...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:09:00 GMT

The top 10 songs of 2008 are finally here!!!

Before we jump right into this thing here's a little lead up to build the suspense (drum roll please). This is, or is soon to be, the best 10 songs list of 2008. Well, that might be a little biased. T...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:39:00 GMT

My fruit bat theology, inspired by Sanchez.

I think I'm the re-incarnate of a fruit bat. If I could live my life eating nothing but fruit and drinking its bi-products I'd be all the happier. Not that my life is so bad - I mean life in general s...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:08:00 GMT

Super Duper Stoketacular!

Voodoo Glow Skulls, Less Than Jake, Mustard Plug, and Rancid shows all within 1 freakin' week! June 16:Voodoo Glow Skulls, 50:50 Shot, Whole Wheat Bread, Knock Out$12 June 20:Less Than Jake, Mustard ...
Posted by on Fri, 23 May 2008 13:18:00 GMT

Pennywise?

Ten years ago Pennywise was singing about "our generation." Five years ago Pennywise was singing about fucking authority and skipping school. Today they're singing about "us" as the next generation......
Posted by on Thu, 22 May 2008 20:26:00 GMT

9 minute ramble (excuses)

I know that I have a tendency to hold onto things too long. Maybe it's genetic and addictive personalities run in my blood, but when it comes down to it all that is is another excuse. And I'm tired of...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:42:00 GMT

A brief and vague Hoodwink chronology

It's true. We were all hoodwinks coming up. Most of us had no clue about what to do or why. Some of us still don't. Some of us chose not to conform to 'society' and others just didn't care enough...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:45:00 GMT

PROJECT CENSORED 2008: If this wont do it, nothing will

..> I've been reading the Project Censored endeavors for a few years now (they've been putting them out for something like 31 years) and I'm always amazed at the amount of news that the mainstrea...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:42:00 GMT