So i got a new apartment. I move in tomorrow. It is in barceloneta, right next to placa barceloneta. there is a sweet square there with a big fountain and i giant statue of an angel looking down. the angel has a sword and its pretty metal ( Read more... )

so i am sitting in my room writing angry letters to the government (as is my custom on thursday afternoons) and listening to the sounds of spring out my window - trans-block hollering, septa bus announcements, the ice cream man (hello!), and the sound of a weed wacker cutting weeds. 'Man,' i thought, 'for a second there i thought that was a big ( Read more... )

someone stole my winter coat from joe idell's party. i want it back.

christmas was civil enough. no big fights, excluding the one about my dad buying the Anne Coulter book "how to talk to a liberal." i took a 5 hour nap in the middle of the day to avoid being trapped in my house. i got a lot of stuff i wanted, including a dell pocket dj (a dell ipod) which kicks an indescribable amount of ass, the new GTA, Metal ( Read more... )

being home is kind of strange. i still dont feel like im home. i've been squatting between various residences living out of my backpack. i feel like a guest everywhere i am. its a feeling ive grown accostumed(sp?) to over the past few months, but its not one im used to within the context of friends and family. the couches have been nice but i just ( Read more... )

so im back ( Read more... )

here iam in some club in rome. isnt that radical that they have the internet for free? i have had a bit to drink and i discovered a computer in the corner, hence the random post. dan eng got almost pickpocketed (we got the wallet back, no cash was missing) and i have to say that i hate those goddamn gypsies. its no joke. gypsiesare a serious ( Read more... )

I think i can safely say that i had never carried my grandfather's corpse before. it was really strange, to know that inside this tastefully mournful mohagony box resides the shell that once held 25% of my genetic makeup. the same man that looked a bit like yoda and talked in a thick german accent and poked nurses with his cane is gone in every ( Read more... )

in a bizarre twist of fate, i will be in the philadelphia area this sunday night. my grandfather died this afternoon at the age of 92. i was in a coffee shop here in amsterdam when my sister broke the news via cell phone. we had just escaped a hail storm ( Read more... )

Spent most of this week recovering from the weekend and preparing myself for the awesomeness that is bound tp ensue in amsterdam. i leave for there in 9 hours, and i'm already giddy. in other news, modest mouse is playing tonight and i hope that they dont suck live as i have been told a thousand times before ( Read more... )