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Intentional discouragement can prove quite motivational...

Quite fittingly, I saw Tom Waits while sweating off an absinthe hangover in an unairconditioned warehouse on a sultry Dallas summer Monday night.

Lucinda
Way down in the hole
Anywhere I lay my head
November
Chocolate Jesus
Frank's wild years
Singapore
Hoist that rag
Get behind the mule
Such a scream
Eyeball kid
Lucky day
Invitation to the blues
Lost in the harbor
Innocent when...
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Small Change got rained on with his own thirty-eight,
And nobody flinched down by the arcade
And the marquees weren't weeping, they went stark-raving mad,
And the cabbies were the only ones that really had it made
And his cold trousers were twisted, and the sirens high and shrill,
And crumpled in his fist was a five-dollar bill
And the naked mannequins with their Cheshire...
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101degrees today... That's about 38 for you you metric folk. So, basically it's fuckin hot outside. I've blown off work today to try and sleep off a hangover under the covers with the AC blasting - feels nice to be self-indulgent and wasteful.
I used to spend quite a bit of time in a little bar outside of town called Poodie's. The owner, Poodie...
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A healthy dinner of shit-on-a-shingle with a sangiovese and Tom Waits, alone on a Saturday night, avoiding society and any invitation to the drunken debauchery of fellow douche-bags with whom I have already been inebriated twice this week, and I still haven't even finished a sentence here. "Let me put the cut back in your strut and the glide back in your stride. Now, climb...
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Yo,

Hmmph... Somebody needs to entertain me. Come on, satisfy my overblown sense of entitlement! Now!!!

Long time readers will already know that I am a complete douche when it comes to all things relationship. Obsessing over the uninterested or manipulative and ignoring the affection offered by those that actually are interested... In that same general swing of things, I am completely crazy about a girl who has pretty much made it clear that she wants nothing to do with me...
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Ah Good Friday... On this day of Lent, the forty-day liturgical season of fasting and prayer in recognition of Jebus ' trials in the desert, local tradition (more so than religious doctrine) dictates that those hoping for salvation refrain from the consumption of cattle and foul. (Because, apparently, a fish is not an animal...) The attempted justification for that is briefly explained in this fascinating...
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Oh so fun... Highly motivated at 2am, when I have to be up at 6:00. Someone please entertain me with random commentary about my inability to maintain focus and direction in my life. ...And, watch "The Amateurs" with Jeff Bridges. Surprisingly entertaining.

...Stupid St. Paddy. ...Tomorrow's gonna suck.