I just lost about forty minutes of writing on my parents' computer and now have to sloppily reconfigure my year in review.  I'm pretty frustrated and pissed off about it.  I thought it was going pretty well... guess I'll just have suck it up like a man and try again.  Why is the new blogging/youtube/internet 2.0 world we're in often such a huge ( Read more... )

I was pretty upset to hear about the passing of the godfather of soul, James Brown tonight. He was one of the greats, and an inspiration for a lyric from my favorite song, Genius of Love ( Read more... )

Thanks for all the well-wishes, everyone. I'm very sad but so grateful to have known my Grandfather as both a child and adult. Here is the eulogy I gave for my Zaida on Sunday ( Read more... )

It's been a surreal few days. I got word Friday afternoon that my grandfather had died. He was in the hospital for a month and we were trying to figure out what was wrong with him when he had a blood clot, which shut down his bowles and killed him. My dad, uncle and Bubby were all there as he died. My mother sat with his body as the funeral home ( Read more... )

I dreamed I was Richard Pryor
Running on fire down the Sunset Strip
As the flames burned brighter
My head grew lighter
As I watched the flesh fall from my finger tips

Ashes to ashes
Trust to dust
I don't know what it means
To be burned by something that you love so much
I think I must be living the dream
I think that I am living the dream-Chris ( Read more... )

Hey livejournal, it's been so long.

This entry will probably not be very good because I'll be trying to re-cap and synthesize too much with it. So much of it is easy though. Old hat. Just writing about rock and roll, one of my favorite and most effortless things to write about. Saw X tonight with Ale and ran into Ezra there. I had a hell of ( Read more... )