I want to be a better person.
I just got Brick and I need to watch it.
I haven't had time for much lately because I'm always running around doing a million things and planning a million more. I shall make a sit down plan very soon.
When vsiting peple go home and school starts again I should (hopefully) be a lot less busy and tired and on the verge of insane....
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I haven't had time for much lately because I'm always running around doing a million things and planning a million more. I shall make a sit down plan very soon.
When vsiting peple go home and school starts again I should (hopefully) be a lot less busy and tired and on the verge of insane....
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My bike is a big deal now. I haven't been able to ride lately but that'll change after this weekend.
I need to get to Seattle for the Mountain Goats in-store that's happening on Monday night. I won't actually make it because of a lack of funds. That's sad because it's their only show in the NW and I have yet to see them.
I'm...
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I need to get to Seattle for the Mountain Goats in-store that's happening on Monday night. I won't actually make it because of a lack of funds. That's sad because it's their only show in the NW and I have yet to see them.
I'm...
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This place continues to amaze me.
I will never understand flakiness or saying you'll be somewhere at a certain time and then showing up an hour later and thinking it's cool. I think it's rude and chances are if you do this often I will begin to hate you. We all have phones and I don't think it's that diffcult to at least warn people...
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I will never understand flakiness or saying you'll be somewhere at a certain time and then showing up an hour later and thinking it's cool. I think it's rude and chances are if you do this often I will begin to hate you. We all have phones and I don't think it's that diffcult to at least warn people...
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freckle:
the xiu xiu poster is by eleanor grosch aka pushmepullyoudesigns. there is more info about it in the swap meet group
maxx:
you are correct. they played their last 2 shows there this weekend. and i went up for it.
well...i went up for that and because i actually GET portland. such a lovely place.
well...i went up for that and because i actually GET portland. such a lovely place.
I hate my neighbors. Their 17 children mostly. I slept horribly for the 127th time in a row and I have so much to do today. I might start drinking wine after my shower.
It really is quite pointless to get into TV shows these days. It seems like most people think I'm weird because I wait for a season to end and then I either download it or buy it on DVD, but almost everytime I get really into a show and I watch it while it's on, it ends up being cancelled. Like Arrested Development and Carnivale....
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I've finally reached the point where I have to look for work again. This is my least favorite part of life.
This and moving.
And awkward encounters.
This and moving.
And awkward encounters.
criticaloversite:
I also am trying to find a job in my area, with little success. Michigan is not friendly to the unemployed unless they aren't actually looking for work, it seems. That is, if I'm to use our easily exploitable Unemployment Benefits Program by any measure. It's almost like they reward the people who are simply lazy while the people who get laid off or actually lose a job and wish to find more work get punished.
At any rate, I wanted to discuss Palaniuk. I read his books, and I sort of gave up on him. Like Stephen King, he's far too formulatic for me. The structure, the inherant bones, if you will, of his stories, are nearly identical and that sort of bothers me when a writer does that. I also dislike his constant reliance upon angst and how he treats it as actual pain in his characters. Angst is not pain, it is the expectation of pain. What I feel he usually ends up with is a bunch of high school characters running around in what appears to be a gritty and dirty episode of Curb Your Enthusiam. The only pain these people are experiencing is imaginary, and doesn't exist yet. I say if you're going to write books that are emotionally and psychologically charged, you need to locate the proper source, first. Fight Club was wonderful, but he should have stopped there and moved on to a different style of story-telling to keep his ideas fresh. I recall he attempted a sort of "travel guide" which I flipped through a bit, but nothing really grabbed me about it.
But that's just my opinion on his writing, heh. I've actually met the man, and he's a truely nice guy. Even took the time, after reading to us a few of his favorite parts, to field a massive amount of questions. He seems like someone, if I ever got the chance to sit down and have a coffee with him, we'd have a lot to talk about.
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At any rate, I wanted to discuss Palaniuk. I read his books, and I sort of gave up on him. Like Stephen King, he's far too formulatic for me. The structure, the inherant bones, if you will, of his stories, are nearly identical and that sort of bothers me when a writer does that. I also dislike his constant reliance upon angst and how he treats it as actual pain in his characters. Angst is not pain, it is the expectation of pain. What I feel he usually ends up with is a bunch of high school characters running around in what appears to be a gritty and dirty episode of Curb Your Enthusiam. The only pain these people are experiencing is imaginary, and doesn't exist yet. I say if you're going to write books that are emotionally and psychologically charged, you need to locate the proper source, first. Fight Club was wonderful, but he should have stopped there and moved on to a different style of story-telling to keep his ideas fresh. I recall he attempted a sort of "travel guide" which I flipped through a bit, but nothing really grabbed me about it.
But that's just my opinion on his writing, heh. I've actually met the man, and he's a truely nice guy. Even took the time, after reading to us a few of his favorite parts, to field a massive amount of questions. He seems like someone, if I ever got the chance to sit down and have a coffee with him, we'd have a lot to talk about.
[Edited on May 16, 2006 8:57AM]
I just had to fight an overwhelming urge to type "scarecrow".
I don't know why.
It turns out one of my favorite people who I didn't know well enough in high school is in love with me as well. Now we live close to each other and the fun can begin.
I don't know why.
It turns out one of my favorite people who I didn't know well enough in high school is in love with me as well. Now we live close to each other and the fun can begin.
criticaloversite:
I have read that book, and it's a wild one. In fact, I'm in the process of tracking down who I loaned it to, along with my copy of Zen and the Art of Archery and a book about Einstein. My friends are book theives 
i am catlike. in that, i don't like change.
alyssum:
Walking seem to be what was involved in most of my activities there... and fried food. Huge, horrible amounts of fried food.
and if trust is a trap i think i've got it bad.
bridgetwnpeddler:
Thinking of trust as a trap (which it can feel like in the short term) probably only leads to not trusting which is a much worse place to be over the long term.
the distance is quite simply much too far for me to row
it seems farther than ever before
i need you so much closer
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bridgetwnpeddler:
Wandering around and thought I would say hello. Always like to say hi to the people I run across from P-Town...
read some past journals... I work for UPS want me to work on getting them to come by when you are home?
read some past journals... I work for UPS want me to work on getting them to come by when you are home?
bridgetwnpeddler:
hehe.. I cannot really effect that stuff at UPS... I barely even know what they do and have never seen one of the delivery trucks up close except when it is delivering to my place!
Funny working there and having never seen a truck.
Funny working there and having never seen a truck.
I think the black tunnel is just ahead.
criticaloversite:
I always forget that Wiki is out there. I don't think I've ever actually used it for anything, but that's mostly because I'm super old-fashioned and prefer paper books for research over the internet any day, heh. Thank you. That was a pretty thought provoking one. 