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[Oct. 2nd, 2009|05:19 pm] |
Ever ask yourself, "Why am I such a fuckup?"
Unlike most of you, I got an answer. |
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| A thought |
[Jul. 23rd, 2009|10:56 pm] |
I just read a short section about the fritillary butterfly of asia, and that the males of the species quit chasing the females when presented with a model that exaggerates the female qualities beyond what is considered normal. But then the article did a funny thing.
It drew a parallel to human men. Why, it asked, has the ideally beautiful female face (as given to us by scientific tests) not been selected for? It also supplied the information that very few human females have these proportions. I'll tell you freaking why. Because a lot of the time, men can't have the blue ribbon broad and gotta settle for the girl who works at Wendy's--you know the one, with the eyepatch and carbuncles.
So I exaggerate, but E.O. Wilson should know that there's more than just "every dude wants to bone her" going on. At the very least, a girl with, say, 90% on the hotness scale provided by our scientist buddies, won't be like that for long, especially after she has four or five kids. Besides, wouldn't some XYY super dude kidnap her and tie her down in a cave? You know, with vines and shit, for concubinal purposes. Again, I exaggerate, but otherwise it wouldn't e fun to read.
Not that I'm advocating any of that. Not without full consent, anyhow. |
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| this is far too pretentious to put anywhere else |
[Jul. 16th, 2009|11:37 am] |
Given that the quantitative and qualitative theories of the brain would leave us, for all intents and purposes, in the same place, whichever is more correct (I have a feeling it's both), it's occuring to me that the processes that are hard wired into us aren't an accident, especially the compulsion to figure things out. It's obvious that curiosity, experimentation, and just plain asking "why" would be selected for. Groups of people who figured out how to grow crops, domesticate animals, use tools, cure illnesses, etc, would be more reproductively successful than those who were still foraging and hunting.
Also given that, as far as we know, we're exploring every hard science that we know how, it's natural for us to ask why about ourselves too. Like the navel and whiteness of bone, examining our own purpose is a byproduct of evolution. The answer, should it ever be found, is not necessarily going to be practical, but it will be a byproduct. Navels are because of umbilical cords; bones are white from calcium. People wonder why we're here because it's hard wired into us. Whether the answer matters is something else.
Can we ever know the noumena of ourselves?
P.S. Kant owns Rousseau. |
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| how's this for being vague about my personal life? |
[Apr. 28th, 2009|09:12 am] |
don't grab the wheel. this is quantum physics. you don't want to be your own observer effects, do you? of course not. you're in brownian motion, but you could probably bump yourself off course. if you tried hard enough.
the tires are in ruts, it seems. you can't tell. the road is taking you somewhere, but it might as well be a parking lot.
sustained metaphor does an allegory well. just don't fuck it up. could you bump yourself a different direction during your random walk? maybe it doesn't make a difference. except for the one step, and a few after, odds are you'll end up in the same spot. or maybe not.
practice zen. what is god? ummon: a dried shit stick! ...a head monk gathers all the other monks at his monestary and told them a new monestary was being built. a jug of water sits in front of him. whoever can say what the jug is will be the head of the new monestary. a monk says: the jug is not a shoe. the cook walks by and kicks the jug over. the cook became the head monk of the new monestary. now learn a lesson, take and apply on affected areas. |
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| border patrol |
[Dec. 29th, 2008|05:52 pm] |
"These premises are monitored by closed circuit television."
premises. for ONE piece of land. doesn't it sound like more than one premise, more than one piece of land? i'd rather read "This premise is monitored..." makes a bit more sense, don't you think? but maybe they're premises because they're counting the sides of the piece of property, assuming they're all straight enough lines, anyway. but what if the premises are circular? then there's only one side. and we're back to one premise.
and why's it a premise anyway? isn't a premise just an idea? that's all a "piece" of land is anyway, an idea. nobody really owns the land, we just draw imaginary lines. it's all in our heads. so maybe the sign should be a little more truthful and read "This land bordered by imaginary lines is monitored by a fat guy halfway through his second six pack who lazily scans the area for people having sex in their cars." |
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| not to be posty mcpostalot today, but... |
[Dec. 8th, 2008|11:34 pm] |
this just came to my attention. i actually have no problem with this. if it floats your boat, then may it bring you to many profitable days at sea. but i have a few observations:
obviously this just begs for other skins like "whitewash," the skin for white yuppie assholes, "musk," the skin for men, "devo," the skin for hat enthusiasts, etc. fill in your own cleverness.
but here's what caught my attention:
Blackbird was developed on the simple proposition that we, as the African American community, can make the Internet experience better for ourselves and, in doing so, make it better for everyone.
sure, they can make it better for themselves. that's all fine and dandy. but that word everyone. everyone. you. me. the bum on the subway getting a hardon while he fondles a slightly dismembered barbie doll. even an inuit man whose greatest challenge in life is taking wet leather pants off a woman in sub zero temperatures. just by making the internet better for blacks. but how can they be sure all blacks? surely colin powell isn't listening to the latest t.i. album.
well it all sounds pretty presumptuous of the blackbird developers, but it's a noble and admirable idea, and i sure hope it works.
last thing. when i see bloggers and cyber-savvy news folk posting on it, they refer to it as "skinned" firefox. personally, in this country i'd be wary about using the word skinned while referring to black anything. |
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| because it wasn't bad enough before |
[Dec. 8th, 2008|05:18 pm] |
i've done the language a favor and come up with euphemisms for things that don't come up enough in day to day conversation for english speakers to have done this yet. so let's get started.
alcoholic: liver castigation expert
bestiality: interspecies orgasm promoter
rape victim: unwilling sperm recipient
rapist: consent initiator
loin slapping sounds during sex: pelvis percussion
suicide jumper: high velocity impact enthusiast
bank robbery: armed withdrawl
bukakke: focused protein treatment
ass to mouth: digestive reiteration
guys who like fat chicks: more whore
that's enough for now. |
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[Dec. 3rd, 2008|03:44 pm] |
this is the fifth start to this post. nothing else was coming out right, so i'll just say i'm still alive. if you want something more specific, i guess i could tell you i had an extended post sunrise period of physically intensive duties with which to enhance my personal pecuniary position. allegedly, a lot of alliteration, but bollocks to that baloney, brothers.
and now i'll do my part to maintain whatever minimal expectations people have for my lj with a list of things that have been on my mind.
medical doctors start with the dead and move on to the living. shouldn't lawyers do it the same way?
i'm the product of the two cheap and easy ethnic franchises here in boston: a McWOP. you should try my special sauce.
two girls one cup: did they really have to keep their shirts on? surely after all that, we deserve to see some titty.
real men wipe with sandpaper.
if a woman says to a man with an ugly face and an attractive body, "i want to have sex with you, but only if you wear a brown lunch bag over your head," that's STILL an offer he can't refuse.
you know you're a nerd when:
you laugh hard, really hard, at jokes about the doppler effect.
ontological empiricism and statistical random samples "just pop up" in conversation.
you learn that nicholas cage's son was named for superman before he came to earth and you think to yourself, "i wish i had thought of that."
new ad for mcdonalds, appealing to both ends of the digestive tract:
come in for a number two, leave with a number three!
and if those weren't bad enough, i was in traffic yesterday and considering impatient potential hijackers in an airport and the real purpose of airport security.
"hey habib, this security line is taking forever."
"i know. i have to take a dump. i don't want to get to paradise and tell my virgins to wait while i drop a camel."
"i could use a coffee. do you want to get out of here?"
"we're supposed to blow up a plane and all the heathens inside."
"c'mon, we'll still get to paradise! and it's not like we won't get ramadan presents."
"do we get presents for ramadan?"
"i'm not sure. i'm just in this for the virgins."
"me too."
terrorist fist bump.
"heeeey jihad-dot-bomb says starbucks is a symbol of capitalism, isn't it?"
"it is indeed my friend."
"then we can get there for the rush and take out at least twenty people guaranteed to be perpetuating the current christian socioeconomic system that keeps down us and our true religion."
"is it the true religion? i heard--"
"of course it is! in christianity you get rewarded by getting to 'heaven,' and nobody knows what happens when you get there. you could have to shave yaks all day."
"how terrible! i'd be so bad at it. we've never been allowed to shave anything. i don't know what things look like shaved."
"it's odd. my wife shaves between her legs. looks like a llama's upper lip. if i fed it a carrot, do you think it would eat it?"
"of course, llamas love carrots. it's too bad she's not a christian. she'd be good at shaving yaks."
"exactly. virgins over yaks."
"okay, starbucks it is. what kind of coffee do you want? i'm buying."
"i'm good, thanks. i don't want coffee breath for my virgins."
"oh come on, we don't know if they have coffee there. just virgins."
"vanilla nonfat latte, extra shot. don't make it too sweet. gotta go do my behind-the-tent-business now."
"okay, see you there. don't forget the explosives. actually, one more thing. why don't more americans become muslims? you get to paradise and you get virgins. why wouldn't people want that? you don't get virgins on earth." |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 23rd, 2008|06:02 pm] |
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Glenn's "Hey, I've Got Nothing Better to Do" Survey
1.) What's one subject or topic that you wish you knew more about?
Pickling tits.
2.) What's the best piece of mail you've received recently?
I got a "package" with "wood." I guess you could call it mail genitalia.
3.) If you were to lose the ability to see all colors but one -- meaning that the rest of the world was in shades of gray, but one color could stand out in all its shades and variations -- what color would you choose?
Green. Trees, grass, boogers. Oh yeah, gotta love a nice iridescent green booger. Especially after snorting the contents glow sticks.
4.) If you could make your own constellation, what shape would it take?
A hand flipping off the universe. Just to make everyone feel at home.
5.) What are three foreign languages you wish you could speak? Would you rather be able to snap your fingers and know them instantly, or go through the process of learning them?
German, Russian, Arabic.
6.) When was the last time you felt genuine wonder?
Last time I listened to Aenima the whole way through.
7.) You are given the power to see the solution of one of history's "unsolved mysteries." What secret would you choose to uncover?
Either the JFK asassination, or what killed the dinosaurs.
8.) You meet someone who was unable to taste anything up until this point in time. What are the first three foods you would have them taste?
Chicory stout, lobster, and swordfish sushi.
9.) What's your favorite way to spend an entire weekend?
Playing gigs if the band weren't on hiatus, and spending time with my lovely lady.
10.) If you could have three words (adjectives, nouns, verbs, exclamations, whatever) become synonymous with your name and who you are, what three words would you choose?
Intelligent, funny, riffing.
11.) What are three things about you that make you feel special?
My smartassness, being good with languages, and rocking odd time signatures.
12.) When you're outside, do you prefer day or night? In either case, what usually catches your eye first? The sky, plants, animals, water, light, something else?
Night. The feel and smell of the air is what usually catches me first.
13.) You get to be a higher power, deity, or god for 13 and a half minutes. What would you do?
Cure cancer and aids. Make all cats have rainbow colored fur. Get everybody thinking that chocolate dipped moose balls are a delicacy.
14.) What was the last situation in which you settled something by flipping a coin or doing rock-paper-scissors?
Don't recall.
15.) If you appeared in an article on the cover of the Weekly World News, what sort of bizarre story would accompany your picture?
"Frustrated musician kills both people who really do, deep down, like Linkin Park."
16.) If the statement, 'You are what you eat' was true, I would be (a) _______.
Doesn't matter. I'm a fat kid.
17.) If you had to join the circus, what would you join as?
That guy who hangs glowing 50 lb weights from his testicles and rave dances.
18.) What's your favorite axiom that you find to be true, despite its cliche status?
Instead of that, I'll write a cliche and tell you who I think it's always true for.
Another cliche another dollar. (Hollywood) What's cliche got to do with it? (Ike Turner) Never put off till tomorrow what you can cliche today. (I'll figure that one out later.) A good cliche is hard to find. (Gay men.) Let the cliche out of the bag. (Schrodinger) Heard it through the cliche-vine. (Tabloids)
And now, a special on death cliches! Pick cliche, pick victim, apply liberally.
Pushing up the cliches. Kicked the cliche. Gave up the cliche. Cliche or die. Bite the cliche. Bought the cliche. Bite the cliche.
19.) What are three experiences you want to have in the next year?
Get a band back together. Move in with my lovely lady. Eat a sandwich.
20.) We've done lots of question-asking, but in your opinion, what is the most significant question? Depending on your answer to this, you may be able to answer these follow up questions: What is your answer? What do you want the answer to be if you ask it?
My question: What's your strongest quality?
My answer: Giving flippant answers to perfectly straightforward questions. |
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| sometimes i can't fucking believe things |
[Jul. 13th, 2008|11:31 pm] |
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my good friend alex had an interesting thing to relate to me tonight. her class president, a very smart young woman, was on the mic at graduation and leading the school in the pledge of allegience. she omitted the phrase "under god," and promptly received a few boos. there was also the following letter of complaint, among others, which were all published in the town newspaper.
"I cannot believe what happened at my son's graduation ceremony. a selfish, uneducated senior, who unfortunately had privelege to the microphone, ruined a beautiful and happy time. She purposely omitted the phrase 'Under God' during the pledge of allegiance.
Something is very wrong here!! 'God' has been acknowledged throughout united states history. The founding fathers implored god for courage and guidance. Our currency and our courthouses reflect our trust in god. Abraham lincoln used the phrase 'Under God' in his Gettysburg address. Our country needs God.
I am appalled at the conduct of our school system, and the ignorance of what occurred. I believe an apology is due from everyone involved. To quote our great president, Dwight Eisenhower (the one who added "under god" in the first place!), the words 'Under God' remind Americans that despite our great physical strength we must remain humble. They will help us to keep constantly in our minds and hearts the spiritual and moral principles that alone gave dignity to man, and upon which our way of life is founded. God bless America!!!"
now, who's to say if what she did was appropriate or uncalled for, but i applaud her for it. |
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[Jul. 8th, 2008|05:35 pm] |
scott sent me this one, from time magazine. 1923 to present. i got 29, which isn't bad. it's a fair selection of modern authors, but it leaves out some giants like joyce, oe, and mailer. i'm still happy to see burroughs on there, though. and roth/pynchon/mccarthy/delillo, the fantastic "ain't dead yet!" four.
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra
John O'Hara
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
The Assistant
Bernard Malamud
At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The Berlin Stories
Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
Call It Sleep
Henry Roth
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
bout time we saw some pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
A Death in the Family
James Agee
The Death of the Heart
Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance
James Dickey
Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone
Falconer
John Cheever
The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
Read the Original Review
Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene
Herzog
Saul Bellow
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr. Biswas
V.S. Naipaul
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Light in August
William Faulkner
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Loving
Henry Green
Read the Original Review
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Money
Martin Amis
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch
William Burroughs
Native Son
Richard Wright
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
1984
George Orwell
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
Possession
A.S. Byatt
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
this book is a MONSTER. to be fair, i only read 2/3rds of it.
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
The Sportswriter
Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
John le Carre
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
Watchmen
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
White Noise
Don DeLillo
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
fuck zadie smith.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 2nd, 2008|07:08 pm] |
just cuz scott did it, and i want to see how many i read. (29.) i'm very disappointed brothers karamazov wasn't on here.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read only six and force books upon them.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (New and Old Testament, King James ed.)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (Haaaaaaated)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ---not really all of them... more like half.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl ---I prefered the BFG
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| worst quotidian experience in the world |
[Jun. 27th, 2008|02:30 pm] |
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when your shirt gets wet, and i mean soaking wet from a rainstorm or sweat, when you get home and it takes two agonizing, flailing, grumbling minutes to peel the fucking thing off your back. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 23rd, 2008|09:47 am] |
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| | george carlin - free floating hostility | ] |
george carlin dies on my birthday. but i got a really nice dartboard. |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 20th, 2008|08:43 pm] |
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| | pantera - the great southern trendkill | ] |
i knocked this out with some 3/4 maple and maple plywood left over from the last furniture job. i done good. :) just wait till i finish the bed, which i'm thinking of doing in tiger maple. grrr. |
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| life update |
[May. 15th, 2008|10:15 am] |
a journal-like post? weird.
no work this week. three kitchens and some side jobs coming up. gonna be busier than an alabama hooker having a 4th of july sale.
my finger is healed and i'm playing guitar again. not sure why, though. the band is on indefinite hiatus. i should probably call rj and hogg and see if they're up for jamming on some of my stuff. i think i'm more addicted to music than i ever knew. the longer it's been since my last gig, the more depressed and antsy i get--mostly when listening to music.
built a little tv stand with scraps from the art cabinet. it makes me realize a few things:
1. i need a thickness planer, jointer, drill press, band saw, and compound miter saw.
2. i need a truck. badly. but i don't think i'll be able to finance the whole thing since my credit's on the low side of mediocre. i'll probably need a down payment of what, 2500 for something new? looks like i'm in bad shape for a while to come. and i'm gonna stay away from used stuff, cuz god knows how much i'll spend fixing shit in the first couple months.
3. i'm a pretty good carpenter and furniture maker.
i miss hanging out with my friends. people are pretty busy these days, or many thousands of miles away. it makes me feel like an old man already, the hanging on to all the old friends and acquaintances and my seeming inability to really form new friendships even when opportunities abound. my social inhibitions are never apparent when i'm around people--because i don't know boundaries around people, which is probably apparent if you've ever held a ten minute conversation with me--but when i'm alone and it comes down to making contact with someone, it's hard because i don't really know what to say. it's better than it used to be, at least.
also, has anybody heard from jim russell? |
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[May. 1st, 2008|07:40 pm] |
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| | faith no more - stripsearch | ] |
finally, congress does something right. scott, analysis? i know you're good for it.
if in my meager life i earn enough money to afford to be able to keep myself alive, they won't be able to deny me coverage because of my problems which, for years, i've been trying to blame on genes anyway. |
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[Apr. 23rd, 2008|05:38 pm] |
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table saw tried to eat my finger. ascertained that i wasn't missing anything of my person. strongly considering career change, but can't suffer a pay cut--can't suffer nasty finger cuts either. also kept the offending piece of wood. plans to torture and transform said piece into pile of carbon. |
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