Hey there, guys. I'm blowing the dust off of this livejournal. I may spruce it up more as time goes by, but I think I can use this as a launch pad for my various writings and clips and such. Maybe I'll post some Eleven Hours from Ordinary stuff here as well.

Well, other than that...
hi...
How's LJ these days?

testing, testing.
1, 2, 3.

not much to report. If you know me, you know my life.

oh, but the new They Might Be Giants album--"The Else" is absolutely incredible--download it on iTunes now.

This is the sound of a family falling apart ( Read more... )

Things are looking up, for once ( Read more... )

It's almost...odd. I haven't posted in this thing for so long. Sometimes I feel that journals in general have let me down, and I stand by the fact that nobody's really interested in reading about my life, or anybody else's. People have made the general trend of shifting toward facebook for their social needs, and trends will do as trends will do ( Read more... )

about a month late, I bring you a poem by Billy Collins, from his first collection, The Apple that Astonished Paris, enititled:

On Closing Anna Karenina

I must have started reading this monster
a decade before Tolstoy was born
but the vodka and suicides are behind me now,
all the winter farms, ice-skating and horsemanship.

It consumed so many evenings ( Read more... )

quoted for truth:
Nobody needs me to remind them here what today is. Nor do I think it particularly necessary to again publicly express my feelings or memories of that day five years ago.

I do, however, find myself today thinking about what was going on in this country on December 6, 1946. On the five-year anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, ( Read more... )

wow...just...wow.
I think that's all I can say about this.
http://www.digitalirony.com/blog/2006/07/obadiah-parker-hey-ya.html

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