I knew this day needed something to perk it up a little. Every day requires at least one bright spot you can look back on when you ask yourself at the end of the day if anything notable was accomplished - if that day was really necessary, as the popular t-shirt put it. Thus, in between my two classes, I traveled to the one place I knew would be a ( Read more... )

I like sitting on the top deck of the train; I think it's because I like looking down on people. Sitting directly below me was a biracial couple with a crying 3-year old daughter. The white mother was talking on her cell phone and the black father told the daughter she was nasty. I don't know how that was supposed to make her stop crying. It ( Read more... )

"England no longer existed. He'd got that - somehow he'd got it. He tried again. America, he thought, has gone. He couldn't grasp it. He decided to start smaller again. New York has gone. No reaction. He'd never seriously believed it existed anyway. The dollar, he thought, had sunk for ever. Slight tremor there. Every Bogart movie has been wiped, ( Read more... )

"I'm not even supposed to be here today!" - Dante Hicks, ClerksThis Monday, I debated whether or not I should even go to school. My professors tell me that, since we only meet once a week, every class is vital, and we should try and make it there come hell or high water. Still, I had my doubts about my ability to withstand that particular day ( Read more... )

For my "Rock and Soul on the Radio" class, we were asked to write an obligatory "tell us something about yourself" paper. I think I took the assignment too seriously... I am posting it here just to prove a point or two about how one can be a writer just as much as a musician. Or something like that.As I sit in my bedroom typing this, I glance at ( Read more... )

It's hard to talk about your understanding of and identification with an artist without sounding elitist. Calling yourself "the only one who understands David Hasselhoff" is not just presumptuous and self-centered (I'm pretty sure the Germans have a greater understanding of the works of Mr. Hasselhoff than you, douchebag), but it also has the ( Read more... )

I don't believe in many drugs. All the miracle effects that people purport to obtain from smoking, drinking, snorting, injecting, or absorbing their substance of choice simply aren't there for me. Every time I've consumed substantial amounts of alcohol, it's never succeeded in impairing my reason, judgment, or speech. I smoked pot and didn't ( Read more... )

Fact #1: Every artist creates a genre unto himself ( Read more... )

Ahh, LiveJournal, how I have missed you ( Read more... )

So last Thursday Jesus was sitting in the bathroom in his suite at the Ritz Hotel in New York City. he was in the big apple because he just got tickets to see Weezer at Madison Square Garden even though he didn't like their newest album because he felt loyalty to them because Pinkerton had gotten him through some tough times in grad school. He also ( Read more... )