Proficient piano players frighten me ( Read more... )

So I haven't checked this site in quite some time and was pleasantly surprised to see an offer from Live Journal to give LiveJournal Plus (beta) a try. It looked great; I'd get extra space for uploading photos, the ability to update and send pictures from my phone and lot's of other bells and whistles. I did it, being particularly careful to choose ( Read more... )

This entry is long, but I thought that being thurough was the only way to approach the issue ( Read more... )

I just saw the film, "An Inconvenient Truth" last Friday, and I strongly encourage everyone I know to see this film. It's a documentary of Al Gore's lectures on Global Warming. PLEASE DON'T STOP READING HERE. This is not the robot-like Al Gore of 7 years ago, and more importantly, this is not a propaganda piece with a political message (a la ( Read more... )

I got my first rejection, form letter today. Thank god that's over with. Now I'm done with waiting and I have my first submission-attempt and rejection under my belt. It'll be a lot easier to submit poetry now ( Read more... )

This is rather silly, I know, but I'm re-posting some poems here that I've done some revising on since I first posted them on LJ. The last 2 are the ones I submitted to the Berkeley Poetry Review, which I've STILL yet to hear from. I'm starting to wonder if they never received my works. Oh well, what can I do but wait?

( On Emotions in a Cold April, Sunset Triptych and Vignette: April 18th, 1906 )

Waiting for the rejection/acceptance letter for the 2 poems I submitted to the Berkeley Poetry Review is killing me. I think it's mainly just that I've never submitted anything before and that it's been 5 weeks now since I gave them revised copies of "Sunset Triptych" and "Vignette: April 18, 1906." It's sort of been stifling my drive to write ( Read more... )

KALX in 7 hours. I need sleep, but if you're doing the Thursday-night partying thing, call me up, (510) 642-KALX between 3:30 and 6 tomorrow morning.

I see Belle and Sebastian in San Francisco in 5 hours. Right now I'm listening to them doing a live concert on the radio. Oh so excited! I guess I am sort of getting to do the quintessential college thing, and it's damned good!

I was feeling guilty about a week or two ago about how much time I let elapse between my poems. I was starting to really beat myself up over it; then I forgot. And go figure, but over the course of last weekend out jumps another poem without my thinking twice. Oh, and I highly reccommend using a typewriter on BART at least once ( Read more... )