I arrived at college and made friends on my floor. I like living in the Writers' Learning Community; I can have a really good conversation with everyone on the floor except the bitchy gay kid that has sex in the room next to me all the time. There is one kid from Kentucky named Jimmy that I drink Wild Turkey with on a regular basis, and there are ( Read more... )

Summer's gone fast. It's been consumed mostly by work, which is sad. As is usually the case, fantastic plans of spontaneous road trips and wacky Gonzo misadventures fall by the wayside in favor of the endless pursuit of wealth at $7.00 per hour and the squandering of said wealth on the abuse of drugs and alcohol ( Read more... )

I got a radio show on Kure 88.5 ( Read more... )

Top 5 Songs That I've Been Listening to Compulsively That Are More Than 15 Years Old ( Read more... )

As I rode my bike to the P.E. makeup this morning, I noticed that the clouds looked like billowing smoke. It was sort of like when you go on Google and it's all decorated for a holiday, only this was on much more of a cosmic level. Happy Holidays, ya'll ( Read more... )

1. The Mexican sequence at the end of On the Road. Amazing, amazing language. It makes you go into a trance. Some of Kerouac's stuff, and a lot of Beat stuff in general, is just typing (to paraphrase Truman Capote) but every once in a while, the writer's sheer power of psyche succeeds in hitting just the right combination of synapses with their ( Read more... )

Man, my life has become so much more interesting lately, but that also means a lot of stress and such. I've adjusted to the general change in pace in my life fairly well, but some interesting clusterfucks have developed, only very few of which it would seem polite or relevant to discuss here ( Read more... )

5 Albums You May Have Overlooked ( Read more... )

It's been an interesting week. It included a 40-hour period where I was awake, only fully coherent for the first part of it. The sleepless marathon was spurred by the realization that I had a test for which I was not prepared the next morning. This realization is not as uncommon as I'd like, but was made much worse by the fact that it was 1:00 a.m ( Read more... )

Cuba lost to Japan in the final of the World Baseball Classic yesterday, 10-6. I was pretty bummed out, partially because I'm a fan of Cuba in general, despite the rampant human rights violations and senile, corrupt leadership. It's in my nature to root for the underdog, especially when the underdog was the only socialist nation in the Western ( Read more... )