I'm realizing why I don't really make an effort to post on lptj on days when I don't really have time to dick around on the internet. Now if only I never had time to dick around on the internet....

Hi! I'm still here. How are you?

I was looking for a passage in Infinite Jest, so I flipped it open, and out of the 1079 pages I managed to land on exactly the right one. Creepy, eh?

The passage in question was more just a Latin quote: Te occidere possunt sed te edere non possunt nefas est.

The other day I listened to Surfer Rosa because, I dunno, I felt compelled to. Today, thanks to LPTJ, had me thinking about what an awesome album it is, and now I'm listening to it again. I guess I'm kind of past the point where I have a favorite album because I've found that every time I pick one I find another one I like better a month later. But ( Read more... )

'Get your urine here!' Pemulis and Trevor Axford become quarterly urine vendors; they wear those papery oval caps ballpark-vendors wear; they spend three months collecting and stashing the urine of sub-ten-year-old players, warm pale innocent childish urine that's produced in needly little streams and the only G/M scan it couldn't pass would be ( Read more... )

Meme from reject. Go to wikipedia and click on random article. This is your band name. Click it again, and that's the album name. Click it again for song titles. I agree with Jeb that 11 is the perfect number, though 10 and 12 are also acceptable.

Mule, Norway Cecil F. White1 953 Painleva ( Read more... )

The "recent entries" button should be "recent entrées" instead.

Today was my first day of real work. Monday and Tuesday I had orientation and paperwork and safety bullshit. Today I worked all they. They started me off doing brakes. Woo ( Read more... )

I have been away from the internets ( Read more... )

Three years ago I never would have thought William Faulkner would be one of my favorite authors. His name was one I avoided out of principle, without even knowing what he was all about. I have fucked up principles.

Reading Absalom, Absalom! in Professor Wyatt's class turned me around on Faulkner, to the point where, when I was in New Orleans in ( Read more... )

"We fulfill the demands of nature in a much better way than do you Roman women; for we consort openly with the best men, whereas you let yourselves be debauched in secret by the vilest."

-the wife of Argentocoxus to Livia Augusta