" "Down in the Valley," he added, "is about the lack of a spiritual center, the lack of authenticity, and about a person needing a fantasy to escape the banality of modern existence. It's about a person saying, 'The way we live is so inauthentic, the spirit of things is gone.' It's the desire to escape the constraints of modern pavement ( Read more... )

i was drinking some fresh squeezed lemonade today at lunch and i realized that after eating two hotdogs with mustard, ketchup, and onions that my breath might be kind of unpleasant so i popped a piece of cinnamon gum. it is my belief that more research needs to be done in the "lemon-mint" area with regards to chewing gum (or just the general lemon ( Read more... )

i have:

the sun
eleven days
two cases of beer
one half bottle of whiskey
a very large pile of literary fiction

i am:

happy
elated
ecstatic
overjoyed
fucking over the moon

one reason i like my teacher is that in the middle of a discussion of french philosophy he gives a full synopsis of an episode of friends (the one where rachel buys the apocethary table at Pottery Barn ( Read more... )

- there's a really good essay about chinese tang in the new york times magazine ( Read more... )

here is my end of the year post, which is just a little late. i'm sorry i haven't been posting but i was so busy at school and at home i get busy with my television schedule so. my new years resolution is to not be such an asshole, but i never quite manage to make that one ( Read more... )

oh i know i'm overwhelming you but two really good quotes ( Read more... )

1. Reply with your name and I'll respond with something random about you ( Read more... )

Gene Simmons: I will contend, and you try to disprove it, that the most important thing as we know it on this planet, in this plane, is, in fact, money. Want me to prove it ( Read more... )

the saxophone man is playing in the other room, which i always really like. it beats the hell out of my tuneless singing and slightly more melodic gittar playin', i'll tell you that much. he's always doing this neat little downward scalar thing that reminds me of a jingle in some commercial because i don't know anything about jazz except that i ( Read more... )