oh my! eventfulness ( Read more... )

today was way sweet ( Read more... )

I had a pretty good week, if I do say so myself ( Read more... )

"Any way of life that's based on the use of resources won't last because a resource is something there to be used and .. there's a great line by a Canadian lumberman that says "When I see trees, I see dollar bills." And if when I look at trees I see dollar bills, I'm gonna treat them one way. I'm gonna convert them into dollar bills. If when I look ( Read more... )

We all have things about ourselves we want to change or improve. For me it's my fitness, my neurosis, my musical talent, my recording skills, and my unemployment (I hate employment too, but even Bartolomeo Vanzetti had a job sometimes). What are they for you? I think that any day we don't do anything about the things we want to see change in ( Read more... )

How appropriate that 3 days after Vonnegut died, my dad, a direct descendent of KV, got a publishing contract for his novel.

Twice Upon a Time by Philip A. Nero. In stores everywhere.. I dunno.. soon?

(I'm so proud of him!)

Conor Oberst was so drunk that he couldn't finish his encore. At one point he broke down when he forgot the words to Road to Joy and covered his face with his hands for a good minute or so while he remembered. He climbed onto the risers his string section was on and fell backwards onto his cellist. He fucked up chord changes and lyrics. I'm angry. ( Read more... )

I'm going to see Utah Phillips with my dad.

"Everything was beautiful. Nothing hurt."


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Whenever I'm in a terrible mood and things just aren't going my way, I peel an orange and eat it while I begin picking up the clutter in my room, uncovering artifacts I'd completely forgotten. When my room is neat and my head is clear, I ride my bicycle. I exercise my right to a full lane, trying hard to keep up with traffic, self-satisfiedly ( Read more... )