I have been memory wandering high school yearbooks all morning. It’s peculiar … there are so many people I would have completely forgotten even existed if not for the aid of photographic proof. I was a bit introverted in high school. But before that, that is to say in elementary and middle school, I was actually fairly extroverted, happy, etc. but ( Read more... )

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I was dressed in embarassment
I was dressed in white
If you have a part of me
Will you take your time?
Even if I come back,
Even if I die
Is there some idea
To replace my life?

i am thoroughly convinced that a single breath from the right girl at the right moment could shatter me completely ( Read more... )

so, it's been a while since a song has made me tear up on a first listening, or tear up period for that matter. i really connect with these lyrics and it caught me off-guard:

Sunset Rubdown - shut up I am dreaming of places where lovers have wingsYou're on the distant shore ( Read more... )

The cinematic disasterpiece Grease 2 is currently playing on the Family Channel; that a single person can sit through this film is objectionable, but the suggestion of an entire family being subjected to it is terrifying ( Read more... )

something i wrote on the beach. it's short, and i'm not very attached to it, but livejournal has become my personal emotional junkyard, so ( Read more... )

i've gotten a late start, but so far i've read camus's the stranger and ray bradbury's fahrenheit 451. both were excellent. i think i'm going to start nabakov's pale fire soon, and after that maybe Updike's Rabbit series, which was recommended to me a while back.

i really want to read portrait of an artist as a young man as well; i've only read ( Read more... )

despite the general tourist congestion. i went with my family (mom, dad, sister, brother, niece, brother-in-law, grandparents) and also my dad's best friend's daughter (candice), her best friend (amy), and her son donovan ( Read more... )

i went for a walk in the woods with my camera. then i sat down in a field of high grass. overall it was kind of nice.

( here a few pictures of a tree. )

i was just watching some late tv and they were advertising "Gone Wild" videos, only now it's with guys. i kid you not, this was the name of one of said videos:

Guys Gone Wild: Dude Where's My Clothes?question: will they use hip bisexualism to advertise to women as well? because i'm not sure the appeal works both ways. judging by this commerical, ( Read more... )