I hate these type of entries. You know, those entries that are drenched in angsty, prepubescent, self-pity... entries where the author writes in a stream-of-consciousness style, clause-ridden, submerged in phrases, and half-thoughts. Needless to say, I feel as though I have reached the end of the threshold (and), to the point where I have to make ( Read more... )

Back to school and the schedule changes were fun. If a student did not make it to his or her new 1st period class by the time the bell rings, an electric surge from the door should have shocked them unconscious. That would have been hilarious. We're going to be reading the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn this six weeks. I don't really fancy Mark ( Read more... )

So I opened a can of worms and a little fly somehow got stuck in with the pack. I saved his life. Hooray. And so in return for the humane gestrue, he told me a little secret: "Talk is _______. Talk. What's on your mind? Come on now, let's talk. Feeling any better? I do hope so. Talk. Talk is. Talk is cheap. That's why we can always afford a good ( Read more... )

"THESE WORDS I WRITE KEEP ME FROM TOTAL MADNESS."
-Charles Bukowski

'If God takes life, then he must be an indian giver.'

["Bukowski's Post-Absurdist, Post-Hemingway, Post-Porn stories are required reading for drunks, dropouts, writers, would-bes and has-beens."]
-Quoth some site I found on Charles Bukowski.

Taken from an interview with Bukowski by ( Read more... )

[anticipation&anxiety: CRADLE OF FILTH is set to release the special edition of 'Nymphetamine' on 21st February, 2005. The deluxe new package will feature new artwork and six extra tracks, including two brand new ones: 'Prey' and 'Soft White Throat.' a new version of the album's title track (Deva-Fix version) featuring backing vocalist Sarah ( Read more... )

I really should work on these books that I spent an exhorbitant amount of money on:

1. the Poisonwood Bible (43. 3333 % complete)
2. the Romantic Manifesto (3 % complete) 
3. Fountainhead (reread!)
4. Atlas Shrugged (10% complete)
5. Jude the Obscure (reread!)
6. Paradise Lost (Pity, I really should start reading this one)
7. the Biography of the Marquis ( Read more... )

Norma Jean is working on a new album due March 1st, 2005. My birthday is on the Ides of March (March 15th for you clueless people out there). If anyone out there is reading this, you know what I want for my birthday.

2/16/2005 Houston, TX @ THE MERIDIAN w/ Atreyu, Unearth, Norma Jean. Too bad that it's on a Wednesday...
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Revolving in oval loops of solar speed,
Couched in cauls of clay as in holy robes,
Dead men render love and war no heed,
Lulled in the ample womb of the full-tilt globe.

The Lord is my shepherd, I stray from the flock. The Lord is my weapon, God bless the cold steel bullet. Woman is a devil for Eve bit from the forbidden fruit. Was it an apple, an ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas.

So it's that time of the year again where I dress up all nice and spiffy and don a masque to hide my true self behind, where I put up a little pangeant for my family. It's that time again where I pretend to be something I'm not around a group of pretentious nimwits who feign compassion and understanding for me, the proverbial 'lost ( Read more... )

T'was the night before Christmas, and all in this house but one creature was stirring...

Flurries are gathering outside. And although I grew up in the tropics, there is something quite nostalgic about this scene. A Gift from the Faeries. Long nights spent at Jessica's house come to mind. Waking up one day to see her whole backyard covered with a ( Read more... )