A waiter! Which is sad, since I'm not even that yet (damn outback, with your false promises).

Anyway, I felt the urge to write tonight for the first time in a while. Since I'm rusty, I'm posting the piece on LJ instead of Facebook, since I figure fewer ppl will read it here:

( Christmas Cloves )

These are two songs I'm working on for the ECR project:

"Buckle" (chorus paraphrased from Gerard Manley Hopkins)

You have heard the calling of a keening bell
And you have known its shattering all too well
So you’ve locked yourself in this chapel
And you keep on pulling the rope
You keep glancing up at the steeple
Still holding on to your hope

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This is based on a true story, and regardless what I may have turned it into, the source material's pretty damn interesting. I'd highly recommend reading the articles I quote from in the collage. The Rolling Stone one (surprisingly) is especially well-written. What's really cool, though, is how each article has a different take on the facts of ( Read more... )

so, for all the english geeks on here ( Read more... )

so, I'm done with what I'll call my "first draft" of music (i.e. simple, acoustic-driven songs). I just went and counted through the various myspaces I have my "first drafts" up on, and found out that those "first drafts" have been listened to about 5000 times (w/o any promotion, so, you know, could be worse). I've recorded enough to give anyone ( Read more... )

. . . if you're bored and stumble across it, I've deleted what used to be here and posted the version of the story I submitted to class. enjoy.

( A Short Story )

i should be coming home tomorrow, just as a btw

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I'm updating from the ATT Oasis tent at LOLLAPALOOZA ( Read more... )