johnnyfive

go hang a salami i'm a lasagna hog.

spell it backwards!

i put in the recently purchused "big fish" soundtrack and skip to the danny elfman tracks (i can't believe tim burton put pearl jam on one of his soundtracks) and wander out into my backyard. the stars have a black velvet sky as relief and the night is vividly pinpricked. i stare at orion, my hero in the winter night , prancing above the cold...
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this journal entry is written to a soundtrack consisting of saint-saens' "danse macabre" and boo! the cat in the apex of being in heat. the strong strings movement in the piece is backed up by thumping kettle drums and boo! the cat letting out a promiscuous purr every now and then. so here i am typing these words as if they could transfer any understanding...
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what a fantastic day. i always fear fantastic days because something really horrible has always occured recently afterwards. it's like god setting me up for a huge gut punch with a jolt of joy.
i had excellent indian food with a bright and fun girl and my mom came in town and brought me a bunch of crazy shit including a video camera. toby did...
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it's snowing like god's dandruff, coating each house in my town like the frosting on a gingerbread house. did you know that no two pieces of god's dandruff look alike? that's what i thought as i held out my warm palm to the sky and caught some of snow crystals in my hand. they glimmer like tiny clusters of stars for a jiffy (did you...
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with the new year waxing like the full moon that rests under the cover of daylight come new beginnings; the turning of a new leaf. with all of the leaves abandoning their hosts, leaving them bare and stretching out to the winter sky with their veiny limbs, it's hard to find a leaf that is unturned. this is the story of a leaf that i...
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yesterday seemed like it was going to be okay. i had a long skate session and worked hard for nine plus hours. i went to the burger joint down the street when i got off around midnight to have a few drinks and flirt with the video trivia machine. this is an okay place for me to be johnnyfive. i like it; minimal socializing and...
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when the drudgery of one's daily life becomes an onus instead of a ecclesiasical gift; when one's occupation becomes less vocation and pecuniary obligation and more of a source of self-identity, when would-be feminist viragoes become the passive mates of mindless dones that form delussional opinons from expurgated television news programs; when you see our government being run by political puppets and public icons, oh...
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i got a kickbox (for skateboarding) free from some old redneck that used it for a stage for his buddies bands when he threw parties. i had to drive out to the boonies and latch this huge monstrosity to a tiny truck and haul it through a precarious, sinuous, barely-beaten path. then drive it through campus and downtown to get to my place, but alas...
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