dannydmc

u havent updated in a while.....
FYI lol
also you are always on late and are in the nocturnal group
you should come into psw chat sometime*
it will feed your bad sleeping habit!



*sometime as in when i am actually in there, which sadly just passed by.

im pretty peachy but thats a given with me most days

yes yes come into chat late nights it always a rather amusing time just make sure you go to the PSW room tab because main chat is down right icky

Happy Birthday!

I saw that it was your birthday over in the kitties group, so I thought I'd stop by and wish you a happy one

{I see my old Principle (a woman who was a mentor to me in real life)

{{Eventually all of the teachers and staff are together and we decide to make War(!!!!!) on another village}}

This immediatly reminded me of the dream you had of the woman who gave you a book on a bus. It was a dream that stood out in my mind. I do not think the principal is the bus girl but I saw a connection. Maybe this is a key showing you the woman you want will also be a mentor??? you should not disreagrd what she says??
She will have this quality?

Now that other dream....I do not think it had anything to do with a war, but it felt as if it were around a war setting.
I do not know why. Please disregard anything if this is silly.


and....I am doing really well thank you!

First...for the polka.... Thank you for the great music and the good hearty laugh. I needed that!

Second...quiting smoking is going to be extremely tough...and you know that. So what, you fell of the wagon...it's not like you can't get back on I know you can do it in the long run!

For the dream?...wow.... I know mine tend to be weird Seriously though....it is pretty amazing how our brains take day to day info and find ways to percolate and de-stress through warping it somehow... But really! Roads in the bush? With Stop Signs??

I prefer Cannibal! The Musical to O Brother when it comes to a modern retelling of the Odyssey.

I understand the notion of it "not being someone's time" to read something. The first time I read Camus' The Plague I fucking hated it. A good friend of mine claimed it was the best book ever. I felt bad for hating it. A few years later I gave it another shot and realized what he was talking about. I don't consider it the best book ever, but it's definitely up there. If enough people with opinions that I respect tell me it's worth it, I'll usually give it another try. I'm even tempted to re-read Ulysses. I finally finished it on my fourth try and I hated it with a fiery passion. That was many years ago and I have read a ridiculous amount of books since then and it's mostly been stuff that Joyce would have read. I'm hoping all of that will help me to appreciate Ulysses more.

I got in to mythology when I was little too. The Greeks and Romans did it for me. I've been hooked since. Thankfully I also developed a love for epic poetry.....Virgil, Homer, Ovid, Hesiod...I love them all. Fast forward a bit and throw Dante, Milton and Byron into the pot as well. I realize you seem to have a bit of a hard on for Joe Campbell. I've never read him, so I don't know if that's a good thing or not. I seem to get some similar ideas from Plato and Aristotle. Like I said last night, much of my time reading non-fiction is spent paying attention to how and why they are saying something. Plato referenced Homer constantly. Back then the poems were looked on more as guidebooks for right living than they were simply stories. I suppose that's where my belief that great literature should teach comes from.

I didn't get into the Scandinavians until much later. I've still never really sat down and read their myths. It would be nice if they had something along the lines of Ovid's Metamorphoses or Hesiod's Theogony. About seven or eight years ago I was in line at school buying my books. The bastards snaked the line through the English Dept. So, I always ended up buying something I didn't need, for a class I didn't have, just because it looked interesting. I picked up a copy of Njal's Saga and made everyone I like read it after I finished it. I went on to read Egil's Saga and pick up some compilations of Warrior-Poets and other sagas and all that. I love the shit. It's been awhile since I have sat down and read any of it though.

Currently I am working my way through the complete plays of George Bernard Shaw. I am also working on Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (not an updated version, so it's slow going) and then I toss a novel in here and there, right now I am reading Virginia Woolf's The Years. Reading is what I do. That's especially true during baseball season. I love to sit and listen to games on the radio and read. I majored in philosophy and literature. It was a double major....a double helping of worthless degree. I should probably go back and do grad school at some point, but I am just sick of going to class. I'm sick of being told what to read and when. It cuts in to my personal reading. I get more read and get more out of what I read when it's me deciding the pace, timing and selection.

Another good example of it being the right time to read a book. I loved Catcher in the Rye when I was fifteen. I liked it when I was about seventeen. It was ok when I was twenty. I disliked it when I was twenty-two. I won't read it anymore. I identify with Holden less and less as the years pass. It's been almost ten years since the last time I read it. I probably will never read it again. I don't want to hate it. I cannot help but think of him as a whiny little bitch now.

You will be pleased to know I turned it into the apple store with the promise that if there was no registered user they would send it to the police.

Wow. I'm so glad you posted your Epic Poem in your journal. I truly believe people should read it.

Have you considered one of the online publishing companies. I've seen people I know actually make money (even if they did only earn enough for a few beers). But it does offer you some exposure, and if you have wingnuts like me amons\g your friends, you'll have at least one person who'd love to link his webpages, emails, etc to your EP to give you even MORE exposure.

Something to think about. If you're interested at all, or haven't done it already, Id be happy to help out in any way: get you info on the publishers who are on the up and up, proofread, illustrate, and even FINALLY START THAT REVIEW I'VE BEEN GOING TO WRITE FOR YOU SINCE . . . WELL . . .SINCE THE VERY TIME OF DISCORDIA.

Hell, I'd put it to music an perform excerpts onstage even.

BTW, love your drunken post in my journal! sometimes, ya just gotta.

And it entertained me immensely, my friend.

Im oretty whiny too when im sick.

Sorry about the cat dude. I absolutely love my cat to death, even though he's quite the stupid cat.
The kitten however...is really starting to piss me off. Haha.
She doesn't realize that my legs...are attached to me...and that using them as leverage to climb me with her CLAWS...causes me pain.

god do i love the mythology!
did you ever hear the norse myth about the origin of mead? it's pretty fascinating and relates to the production of what's called the Mead of Inspiration. something you might look into if you really want to let loose.
i almost killed myself one new years. i guess that's a roundabout way of saying that i totally empathize with having shitty new years sometimes.
the last two have been pretty good for me, though. maybe this year was a warm up for next year. hell, at least there was alcohol and people for this one. next time it'll be the lupercalia you're envisioning.

How's the tooth doing?

Merry Christmas!

BTW _ Rereading Treesplitters this weekend so I can finally write tht review for you!

i have the same problem. i find is so hard sharing those heart wrenching things that happen in my life, the times when i couldn't use a friend more, i find it almost impossible to tell my friends or the people close to me. i'm glad your dad is there for you.
i wish you the best of luck with your school situation.

So what ever happened with school?

Merry X-Mas!

hey I have a dream for you to ponder.

gosh D, I have had 3 more. Now I need to think which one I wanted you to ponder.