"unchained melody" is maybe the best song ever written by man or woman.
i want it played at my wedding, and my funeral. but mostly the former.
"god speeed your loooove to-oo-oo-oo-oo me-ee-ee-ee-ee!"


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i buzzed my hair again and i kind of wish i hadn't.
i just got tired of how thick it is when it grows out.
oh well. it'll grow back.

i spent nearly all of today cleaning and going through all of
the shit in my room & and finally getting some bookshelves.
it's nice to see my books and CDs on shelves rather than
strewn all over the floor.

something of a weird birthday, but a good one regardless.
i got a typewriter and the Watchmen trade paperback, among some other nice things.
now i want to write typewritten letters to everyone i know.

i'm making $8.50/hr to herd lil' chilluns 'round,
give 'em food, and tell 'em not to hit each other
(or eat yarn).
it's a pretty cushy gig; i like

some joker keeps calling the home phone and doing old lady voices and leaving messages like ( Read more... )

slint
july 19
cat's cradle--carrboro, NC

go with me?

I dream of being ten twelve! feet tall, with arms long enough to shake the hand of everyone I see as I pass them on my leg-stilts, not fully stopping for anybody, not laying eyes on them for even a second, they salute me, or hang their mouths open, stupefied, and when there is wind it invariably comes from behind me, moves with me, egging me on in ( Read more... )

i got a banjo for graduation!

i went to mcalister's today and between the paper they put my food on and the plate-thing there was this half-dead bug, something like a small roach. i almost booted. they didn't even offer to give me my money back.

watch this:

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"from the top of the hill, it's not much of a view. actually it's more that at present i am not much of a viewer. i can see for a ways but it's all overcast. i don't know what to do with it. looks like it might all break and pour down wet soured heaven flooding the streets and ruining homes. this has happened before. it doesn't now ( Read more... )

all i want is a four track recorder.
and a haircut.