I first heard my least favorite song in 1992 when I was 8 years old. My mother often had the clock radio in the kitchen tuned to good old 101.5 WJRZ, a station that specialized in playing boring songs that catered to aging baby boomers (this type of station would later be categorized as soft rock--the best of the 70s, 80s, 90s, and today!). It's ( Read more... )

Brian has bullied me into doing this 30 songs in 30 days list. But I figure that this gives me a nice opportunity to write something about something I love and maybe influence a few other people into feeling the same way about it too ( Read more... )

If my life were titled like an issue of Scott Pilgrim, the current volume would be called Gets His Head Out of His Ass. My last post was definitely a needless exercise in overwhelming anxiety. Thanks to those that commented because it really helped me put stuff into perspective. I just have to remember that my life will continue to go on, and I ( Read more... )

It was another Saturday of working OT this past weekend. As usual, I couldn't fall asleep on Friday night, so I ended up with something like 4 hours of sleep before having to get up at 8. Saturday morning at about 8:30 was beautiful. Because it was probably mid-50s and very sunny, I decided to ride my bike into work--something I haven't done ( Read more... )

Two weekends ago (3/27), the Paper Jets took a field trip into Philadelphia in order to go see 58 Fury play at the Trocadero. Angela and Juils joined us. We decided to go down a little early so that we could hang out in the city and do some things like eat dinner. I went over to Angela's to pick her up and Scottie met up with us there. The ( Read more... )

I had a really good weekend this weekend, despite having someone threaten to punch me in the face ( Read more... )

So the Paper Jets had their keyboardist, Kristen, quit. It wasn't too much of a surprise. All the signs were there. And, in the end, it's not that big of a deal. I'm sure Brian will miss the harmony vocals, but as an instrument, Kristen's keyboard style didn't really add too much to the overall sound of the Paper Jets. Don't get me wrong: she ( Read more... )

Yesterday I woke up feeling like I never wanted to get out of bed again. Today I woke up, felt ready to get out of bed, but wanted to go nowhere near work. Unfortunately, I had to get up both days, and, on both days, I had to go into work. As soon as I stepped outside today, because it was so nice, I wanted to just forget about work and all ( Read more... )

It's amazing how people can think so similarly in so many ways, including right down to the thought process itself. You would think we would all be slightly different, right? I mean, there must be billions of ways for neurons to be arranged in the brain. And then there must be a countless amount of possibilities in the way each one fires into ( Read more... )

So I wrote this ginormous entry. It starts off pretty bland, but then it gets pretty deep and kind of dark. I decided to spare you all and put it under a cut (my first ever!). If you really feel like you need to delve well deep into my psyche (including glimpses of young Billy and some crappy stuff that happened around him), I invite you to go ( Read more... )