For those of you who don't have facebook (it's okay, I understand. I'm not judging you.) my new blog is located at http://erhebungwithoutmotion.blogspot.com/ - (read T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets to understand why.) Don't expect too much yet, though. I'm, as has previously been mentioned, busy.

Thank you all for reading.

 I don't have any.

Until I learn to use the time I do have wisely. Sorry to those of you who keep checking this and weeping because I haven't posted in three weeks, but I've been really busy playing Dungeons & Dragons and getting lost for five hours on the opposite side of Chicago and swing dancing and wearing ridiculously large earrings and reading ( Read more... )

I have six days until I leave for college. The calm before the storm, as it were, or perhaps the eye of the hurricane. I didn’t post last week because I was busy last week. Without going too much into personal details, my best friend (female) spent the week with my family. It was mostly good, stressful, and educational.

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Okay, so this could be construed as being late (by the way, if you didn’t already know, I tend to post Saturdays) but I posted last Monday, so you got last week’s SIX DAYS EARLY. Or, yeah, this is late. Sorry.

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 So this conversation occurs all the time everywhere.
            Woman: “...yeah, right, because I’m totally that skinny [note: heavy sarcasm]”

Hapless Bystander: “What? No, you’re thin and beautiful.”

Woman: “Yeah, whatever. You’re just saying that, blah blah blah blah...”

People, shut the hell up. I have never heard anyone ( Read more... )

The week in review: two more going-away parties for friends (one’s going to an art school in Kansas City, the other one’s going to spend a year in Germany) and three CDs from Amazon: Gravenhurst’s EP Black Holes in the Sand (paranoid indie folk experimental), Andromeda’s Extension of the Wish (Swedish prog metal debut album - at some point these ( Read more... )

I finally finished Hemingway’s Islands in the Stream. Very good. Long, for Hemingway. Also been reading Ursula K. Le Guin and H. P. Lovecraft, and enjoy both.

Had a going-away party Thursday night, despite the fact that I’m not leaving for another month. We managed to hook a 360 up to the projector and speakers in my church building, and played ( Read more... )

So I found these guys a few days back, which means I have about four more CDs I need to get now. Gravenhurst is, I guess, labelled “Indie”, but they sound more like a particularly reserved, paranoid folk band with some sonic experimentation, lots of feedback. I guess that’s Indie. But yes, listen to the songs, especially “Black Holes in the Sand ( Read more... )

This would have been up earlier, but things kept happening this weekend. Things like ten consecutive episodes (or sessions) of Cowboy Bebop. Which is a great show - the only anime I’ve really watched, very reminiscent of Hemingway

in terms of gritty reality, terse, manly dialogue, and lots of fishing boats on the ocean (except it’s the oceans of ( Read more... )

So I got my ears pierced today. And apparently that’s a spectator sport.

Saw The Dark Knight. The hype is true.

I’ve been reading Hemingway lately (when I haven’t been wasting my entire afternoon on manga. I need to fix that problem; it’s such a drain.) I’m in the middle of Islands in the Stream, and I purchased The Sun Also Rises, which is one of ( Read more... )