tonite riding in the rain felt like april. some early spring evening when the fog just invokes something ethereal and colored and the street shines and so do your tires. it's not cold but it is wet and your hands bear the weight of it so that after a while they shake from drowning and holding on. and for some reason i felt as though i should be ( Read more... )

this has a been a good last two weeks. november is beating october. even in weather. though october was good nonetheless. fall is always the season that i expect the least yet ask the most from and somehow i don't get what i want but i get what i need and am surprised everyday ( Read more... )

i got lost in the hot white desert where i choked on the hot white air i was looking for something that was nowhere near. i'm not disappointed i'm just thirsty and still wanting with my eyes closed never having enough to drink. and i came across a poet, a drunk who appeared quite wise and i asked him not for a cup but for a couple pieces of advice ( Read more... )

ah yes. so. i develop crushes all the time. and it is fun and innocent and secret. and full of small victories and triumphs and little defeats. i told a friend that i was going to write a song that was about crushes and i could just keep changing the names and situations but keep the same basic pattern along so it would evolve as my crushes revolve ( Read more... )

from philly to allentown to bethlehem to allentown to philly to brooklyn to philly. i had a wonderful time and am so far behind on my schoolwork but it really doesn't matter.

"i got rid of this town and now i must rid you from me and you and me have been lovers for too long we fell in love when i was much too young so long years later if we met the people we are now we'd never get together and looking back on when we built the shack that turned and burned into the ground it used to be a castle but it had a dirty well ( Read more... )

the faint show was ridiculous. too.much.dancing. never enough sweat. bicycle rides at nite when exhausted already while wearing a nice button up shirt and tie because it's the only dry thing to wear are wonderful. as is finding a beanie on the street ( Read more... )

this was a wonderful weekend. i got to see many people. do many things. now i am in philadelphia writing a paper. tomorrow is mirah. hopefully wednesday i can record the second song for my side of the seven inch and finally send everything in which i worked a great deal on this weekend.

the weather is beautiful.
go outside.

PS. it's great to always know that when you're kind of feeling down and it's time for bed and all that but you don't want to fall asleep with that feeling stuck in your heart that you can just read some of your friends' journals and remember that there are nice people out there and just listen to gorilla biscuits constantly until you feel good ( Read more... )

i'm excited for october.

real fall weather. leaves turning. lots of nice, wholesome shows. lots of danceable shows. recording soon. bike rides for sure. critical massquerade. hopefully world inferno for halloween. costume madness. seeing people that i like to see. plenty of other reasons. general good things in the future.