My online behavior is being monitored (by myself). I have to stop myself from lurking online due to the fact that everybody can see how long I'm on and what I am doing (being online). But what I've done to curb the impression that I am in lurk mode is I sometimes leave myself signed on to a site "accidentally" so that when I am lurking, you can't ( Read more... )

What's with all this hype about the Where the Wild Things Are movie coming out. Do you people even remember the book? Nothing happened. This was probably the first book that I felt disappointed with after reading. Judging by the cover, this should have been the greatest book ever. Its friggin' cool! And yeah, maybe the illustrations ( Read more... )

Last Night I went to the Phoenix show at the Wiltern. It was awesome. The bass player used a weird little synth for the bass sometimes, they had somehow set up the singer so that he almost always sounded double tracked ( Read more... )

I realize that livejournal is somewhat a hipster event. It exalts the opinions of the educated, the lives of the literate, and the ponderings of the pensive, and thus, it can make mass culture read as nothing more than a garish backdrop . Yet, I feel the need to use this forum to defend something that the cultural elite often rejects as ( Read more... )

Two weeks ago The Shade played at Mr. T's Bowl, which should have brought back memories, excepting that I don't really remember too much about it. I really wasn't paying attention to my surroundings back in the fictions days ( Read more... )

I was given the privilege of reading to Scott Sakamoto's class last Friday. As the theme was Science, Scott and I chose to read some of the descriptive excerpts from C.S. Lewis' Perelandra, which is actually science fiction, but we figured the kids would enjoy it. The material was pretty dense and had some vocabulary that nobody knew, but they ( Read more... )

so two fridays ago miss black and i met a suburban. He, disregarding his stop sign to make a left. Me, unable to rarify my velocity fast enough to avoid him. Me, with the only thought in my head a failed psychic message to him, telling him not to do it ( Read more... )

WELP, I've finally learned how to swim right, and now I can do the full 800 meters required for the triathlon. For all of you guys who enjoyed participating with me in the marathon here is a chance to continue the fight against human traffickingIn other news I have mastered the art of the chinese buffet. I used to feel gross like every time I ( Read more... )

i get these flashes of flavor memory, and i suddenly have a persisting desire for that flavor. right now it's... bleu cheese dressing.

It had been a day of general meaninglessness. Things seemed repetitive and lacked meaning. Relationships seemed inconsistent and unbalanced ( Read more... )