maybe i'll start writing in this shit again, or maybe not. previously i could never bring myself to keep it up, i simply continued writing here & there in the approximately 20 or so notebooks i have ( Read more... )

I was driving over the Tappan Zee Bridge this morning, in the snow & slush, and some dude in a white two-door lost control of the automobile for about 60 seconds and almost cause a pile-up accident, in which I would have been in the middle of. But I only seriously felt afraid or even concerned that this might happen for about a fraction of a ( Read more... )

According to recent figures (from NPR), in Manhattan the average income of a white person is $86K, of a black person about $20; in Queens the average black person makes about $52K, while the average white person makes about $51K.

has the amazing ability, when addressing our nation, to sound as if he has practiced his speech a hundred times so as to get every syllable, each vowel and consonant  pronounced clearly and correctly, and yet SIMULTANEOUSLY appear to be reading the words for the very first time and to be finding them . . . somewhat interesting . . .  perhaps even ( Read more... )

I was seriously shocked last night to learn the details of Lee Harvey Oswald's adult life in the years prior to the Kennedy Assasination.   First, he was in the U.S. Marines, where he was a highly rated shot with a rifle.  He was then based in Japan as a radio controller for the Marines.  After leaving the Marines (where his activities included ( Read more... )

"As of June 26, 2006, the band has finished its recording in Oxford, MS at Sweet Tea Dennis Herring and has returned to Portland, OR to finish overdubs and mixing. Johnny Marr is a confirmed member of the band, co-writing songs for the new album with Isaac Brock. According to Brock himself, Marr is now "a full blown member of the band," and he ( Read more... )

I just remembered, and was listening to, this particular Kinks song that I really like from the Lola LP, which is a not very well-known or listened to album as far as I can tell (aside from the song "Lola," which is the one Kinks song that has become ubiquitous on radio aside from various cover-versions of "You Really Got Me") but which has some ( Read more... )

These are lyrics I just finished to a new song, which I am putting up here for lack of anything else at the moment (and since I'm trying to figure out exactly what I do and do not want to do with this journal). I'm slightly worried about some two-bit jerkoff stealing something from me, but then again I'm pretty sure that this LJ is obscure enough ( Read more... )

"list seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. post these instructions in your livejournal along with your seven songs. then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to ( Read more... )

So - - - the "re-issue" of Bengal Lights is now available through Unpopular Records - yours 2 pounds in the UK & Europe, 2 and half pounds for the rest of globe. Needless to say, the name of the record label is not indicative of the music's actual status with the music-loving masses. Unpopular is also releasing a CD of Sarianna's, just as soon as ( Read more... )