It's amazing how I watch people around me go through the same cycles of behavior. It makes me wonder whether anyone pays any attention to what's going on outside their own lives. It begs questions like "Weren't you watching when so-and-so did this same sort of thing? It didn't turn out so well then and it won't turn out so well for you either ( Read more... )

So I now have a brother who is engaged. This is a somewhat bizarre feeling. For all the planning and expectation that's been involved in my life over the past few years, I'm not sure if this "being grown up" thing has started to feel normal yet.

This sort of cop bashing pisses me off so freaking much.

So, The Mars Volta's Frances the Mute was an album that disappointed me more than any album I can think of. They had such promise and skill and then they went and got overly ambitious and artsy and stuck a bunch of nonsense in their second album that made much of it intolerable and unlistenable. The tracks are either too long or there should have ( Read more... )

Not hear? When noise was everywhere! it tolled ( Read more... )

So. I am now a member of the church board. It's a weird feeling that the majority of these (old) people I've known all my life don't think of me as a kid anymore.

The Flying Saucer is a little slice of heaven. Also, I can now say that I have been to the end of the universe.

I remain a firm believer, that I will never find out anything new about a person that I feel I know well or am friends with that will make me think more highly of them as a person.

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