I know I'm waaaaaaaay overdue for updating, and I've been spot-checking-up on everyone, so sorry I'm out of the loop and I miss seeing how everyone is. Sorry. Sorry. I hope everyone is well ( Read more... )

Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||||||||||||||| 76% Stability |||||||||||||||| 63% Orderliness |||||||||| 40% Accommodation |||||||||||||||| 63% Interdependence |||||||||||||||||||| 90% Intellectual |||||||||||||||| 70% Mystical |||||||||||||| 56% Artistic |||||||||||||||||||| 90% Religious |||||| 30 ( Read more... )

Chicago’s first major snow blew into today, 6 inches or more, starting around 2:30 p.m., and still going strong at the current midnight hour. I worked late tonight, so didn’t leave until the afternoon, gleeful about the first flurries. This is my calling card. Winter is my Wisconsin heritage ( Read more... )

Hey, I forgot to talk about the book. "Of Human Bondage" follows the story of a young Brit in search of himself. He travels to Germany and Paris, learns to be an "artist," tries a few different career tactics, and eventually falls in love with a terrible woman who practically undoes him ( Read more... )

MR. YOUNG, I'm going to see CONVERGE on November 9th. I'm really fucking excited. I listened to SLAYER last night and we rocked the car on the way to SWEARING AT MOTORISTS. We yelled nasty things at hipsters. I screamed to one guy in a flared suit coat. Nasty things. Un-PC things ( Read more... )

Nope.

LJ Interests meme results

1. blues:
   I like Chicago blues, but old Chicago blues. Not this new bullshit.
2. dandy warhols:
   Increasingly liking the Brian Jonestown Massacre instead. New Dandys is so overrated.
3. dylan:
   Want to see the new PBS film
4. heathers:
   I love the movie. Love girls by the same name MORE.
5. miles davis:
   Wow wow wow...dig the Davis so hard ( Read more... )

I'm currently hooked on this version of Itzhak Perlman and Oscar Peterson doing "Blue Skies." It's so coffee-house-in-NYC-on-a-rainy-romantic-version-of-an-Autumn-Sunday-afternoon that it makes me feel like writing beat poetry or something. Dig. Non of this Carrie Bradshaw NY malarky. "Sex and the City" has the opposite effect on me than I ( Read more... )

A shadowy conception of power that by much persuasion can be induced to refrain from inflicting harm, is the shape most easily taken by the sense of the Invisible in the minds of men who have always been pressed close by primitive wants, and to whom a life of hard toil has never been illuminated by any enthusiastic religious faith. To them pain and ( Read more... )