Archive for June, 2008
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
in apparent contradiction
to what i was saying yesterday about being unable to pick up my guitar, i’ve decided to start trolling for gigs. i’m hoping that as long as i:
a) am not trying to write anything
b) avoid those songs that make me want to sob until my eyeballs wash away
c) do not invite disaster (or certain people) [...]
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
i’m 0 for 4 so far this week
i went to the library on monday and picked out like 8 books. so far, all of them have sucked.
admittedly, some of my reasoning wasn’t fabulous in terms of selection criteria; i put far too much weight on the cover of a book sometimes, but i usually have a better record than this. i just [...]
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
i might splode
i guess when i think about what qualities define me, i’d be reluctant to admit that “creative” ranks up there pretty high, but it seems to be true. i say this because i know when i’m not playing music, pasting things as my own weenie attempts at art, taking (poor) photographs, or something in that [...]
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
today’s humiliating admission: i don’t know what i want to be when i grow up
whenever that might be.
i used to know. i was pretty damn sure for a really long time. i was going to deliver babies and that was going to rule. i even had a plan: once i had my credentials, i was going to open a LUXURY BIRTHING SPA where families could come and have a [...]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Tuesday Thingers: Uniquely Yours
Last week I asked what was the most popular book in your library- this week I’m going to ask about the most unpopular books you own. Do you have any unique books in your library- books only you have on LT? How many? Did you find cataloging information on your unique books, or did you [...]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
mep
i have only been intermittently successful with the not crying.
it hurts knowing i am only a memory
No Comments » - Posted in Being Humbled, Pain and/or Suffering by autumnrouse
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl
I can bestow on this book the highest compliment I have: I want to own it so I can write all over it. I borrowed it from friend Lyza after reading her review and inhaled it. At 500 pages, it was well under 24 hours in my hands.
Written from the [...]
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Fraud
By david rakoff.
This collection of essays are the offering of a compatriot of the laudable “this American life” crew. After hearing him read on the show a few weeks ago I felt it likely worth my while to grab his book if he was anywhere near as thoughtful and entertaining as his fellows david [...]
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By Mark Twain
generally a fan of Twain, i didn’t really enjoy this one as much as i expected to. i had read selected excerpts of this book as a child in a book of short stories and remembered enjoying them, but as an adult i have a vantage that makes the hyjinx of this [...]
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
you wanna make something of it?
i realize that most people probably have strange or irrational fears. i mean, you can only watch your friend assiduously avoid coming too close to the pool filter so many times before it becomes apparent this is no coincidence, and wonder to yourself “what the hell am i doing hanging around with someone who’s afraid [...]