You are nuerotic and depressed, it doesn't mean that you are sad.
1. take five books off your bookshelf.
2. book #1 -- first sentence.
3. book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty.
4. book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred.
5. book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty.
6. book #5 -- final sentence of the book.
7. make the five sentences into a paragraph.
To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. For me there was just Bruce -- and the Clash, the Who, the Jam, the Sex Pistols, all of those punk bands talking about toppling the system in the U.K., which had nothing to do with being so lonesome you could die in the U.S.A. I said I wasn't blaming Jesus or anything. Stone monkeys frisked among scrolls and seashells and bamboo. Tonight, for the first time ever, I can kind of see how it's done
book#1 -- Ordinary People
book#2 -- Prozac Nation
book#3 -- The Catcher in the Rye
book#4 -- Slaughterhouse 5
book#5 -- High Fidelity
Open your mp3 player, set it on random, and type a favorite line from 30 of your favorite songs. Then have your friends guess what the songs are.
30 was a LOT so I only did 15.
1. "Every single night they pick a fight with me, but when we fight it's kind of like sibling rivalry."
2. "Shut out what they say, 'cause your friends are fucked up anyway and when they come around, some how they feel up and you feel down."
3. "Ever since you have been gone, it's all caffine-free faux punk fatigue."
4. "I'm 33 for a moment, still the man - but see, I'm a they, a kid on the way, a family on my mind."
5. "My kind's your kind, I'll stay the same."
6. "Say when you're alone it's better 'cause nobody knows you. When no one's your friend it's better 'cause nobody leaves you. So you turned your back on a world that you could never have 'cause your heart's been cracked and everyone else is going mad."
7." Stop before you fall into the hole that I have dug here. Rest even as you are starting to feel the way I used to. I don’t need a better thing just to sound confused. Don’t talk about everyone, I am not amused by you."
8."Why am I dealing with this feeling? I'm maxed out like a credit card. I'll continue to be my worst enemy. It's easy but it seems so hard. You're near but you seem so far."
9. "He said you're really an ugly girl, but I like the way you play, and I died, but I thanked him."
10. "I could just pretend that you love me, the night would lose all sense of fear. But why do I need you to love me, when you can't hold what I hold dear?"
11. "I don't come and go like a pop song that you can play incessantly, and then forget when it's gone. You can't write me off and you don't turn me on."
12. "Imagine you're a girl just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they'd prefer you were dirty and smiling."
13. "I heard those stupid people talk about you again, I just have to laugh to keep from hurting bad. Their simple minds just cannot seem to understand you are neurotic and depressed it doesn’t mean that you’re sad."
14. "I'm gonna do another detour, unpave my path and if you wanna make sense whatcha looking at me for? I'm no good at math."
15. "I'm full of regret for all things that I've done and said, and I don't know if it'll ever be ok to show my face around here. Sometimes I wonder if I disappear, would you ever turn your head and look, see if I'm gone."
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Joan of Arcadia was pretty good tonight. Though I kind of didn't understand Joan's freak-out of the week. Normally I think they're pretty well based but the whole time I was going "What?" -- I guess I understood what she was saying, I just think she over reacted a tad. In the end when Adam brought over all of those movies was awesome though. Liked seeing Kimberly McCullough, I hope they have her on again.
Friends on Thursday. Sad but good. I liked how it ended with them all together, but with Joey the spin-off it's going to mess that all up. Too bad we can't see Monica and Chandler trying to handle raising two babies though, because that'd be hilarious. Wish I had been able to Catch the Leno special, from what I hear it was verra funny.
Went to the bookstore tonight, got Slaughterhouse 5 (vonnegut) & High Fildelity (hornby), and then made a mental note of about 10 other books that looked interesting. I wish I was rich, until then there's the library.
I have enrollment for college June 25th. How cool is that? We get to figure out our schedules and get our student ID's that day. That makes it so much more real, it's all very cool.