thanks, nefas, for the survey...

What was the first record you owned?
ok, i'm gonna go with the first tape i owned, b/c i don't remember the first record...my first tape i purchased with my own $ was the beach boys...i forget the name of the album but it had "make it big" on it, and the cover was red.

Is there a song that reminds you most of your ( Read more... )

my friend charlyn complimented the poem i posted the other day, and i spent all my time on the metro today reading through my latest journal trying to decide if anything i've written in it is worth sharing with others. i came to the conclusion that, to my surprise, a lot of it is actually pretty cool, and maybe i just don't give myself enough ( Read more... )

i am a hungover, underslept waste of human life today. last night, a drunken me fell asleep at my friend's place accidentally after munching on her snack food, which consisted of parrano cheese, poppy seed crackers, and almonds. then i woke up 2 hours later...i somehow slept that long while tilted over on a futon with my chin resting in the palm of ( Read more... )

MojoMarla (10:18:56 PM): my sister in law (alex) might be deployed ( Read more... )

israa, 2 years old, pretends
the american bombs are
music,

leaps around the room,
deeply attuned to
irresistable rhythms of
annihilation-

falls asleep when
they most heavily
pummel her iraqi town,
ashes settling on her drooping
eyelids,

prefers upbeat dirges
over glum lullabies-
newsweek says, "the children have ( Read more... )

wheeeew. deep exhaling going on. i just finished IM'ing with this girl that i had this...intimate, intimate...involvement with for around eight or so months of last year. a long-distance involvement. we were generally either 800 miles apart (central virginia to southern florida) or 1,000 miles apart (philly to southern florida). her name is heather ( Read more... )

ok, so i used to have a journal, but i deleted it and have decided to begin anew. so, *ahem*...is this thing on? i'm just a ... girl ... living near d.c., looking for a full-time job, being a barfly, working part-time for the Man... is that sufficient for an introduction? i guess my profile specifies some of my interests. although i'm not sure what ( Read more... )