I know this is a recurring theme in my journal as of late, but I've been feeling old lately.
Case in point: I was invited to go to a college party tonight. Not only did it not sound interesting, but I decided to work out and do my taxes.
The friend that invited me to the soire is also 27 and has a penchant for flirting with sixteen-year-olds. When I was 19, that was cool. Now it's just creepy, not to mention a touch illegal (though he SWEARS the age of consent is 16 in Michigan, but that's beside the point). Short story short, I decided to stay in.
Is there something wrong with staying in on a weekend and reading? Working out? Playing the piano? Having just a couple drinks to enjoy the drink itself? To just smoke the herb for the pleasure, taste, and still stay relatively sober?
Is there a bar that plays soft, groovy jazz anymore?? That facilitates discussion?? Where you can actually MEET and TALK to people, rather than using sign language and shouting directly into one's ear?? Where, if it happens to be loud and dark, the music really matters/is good??
That's what I want to do on a Saturday night! Where are all the intellectuals?
I think Grand Rapids has finally reached my end. There are no intellectuals here. There are no real hipsters, no real artists. Where is the life?
It's probably due to the fact that I haven't seen blue sky in nearly 10 weeks. That, my friends, needs to change.
I've been looking for years, and all I've found is a vanilla city made of homogenized 2% milk.
It cannot get any lamer. I must leave. I must find gainful employment elsewhere in this country. I must leave this boring, boorish part of the country.
It's a damn rotten shame that the countryside here is so beautiful. I love living on the water and being so nearby woods. But none of my so-called friends have anything to live for except the next drink. It's sad. I feel ashamed to live here. I want CULTURE, dammit!
And as for all of you from GR that I know here.. You do not apply. But then again, you knew that.
So the search for a new location begins...
Anybody have any ideas (beyond the usual New York/LA cliches)?
Case in point: I was invited to go to a college party tonight. Not only did it not sound interesting, but I decided to work out and do my taxes.
The friend that invited me to the soire is also 27 and has a penchant for flirting with sixteen-year-olds. When I was 19, that was cool. Now it's just creepy, not to mention a touch illegal (though he SWEARS the age of consent is 16 in Michigan, but that's beside the point). Short story short, I decided to stay in.
Is there something wrong with staying in on a weekend and reading? Working out? Playing the piano? Having just a couple drinks to enjoy the drink itself? To just smoke the herb for the pleasure, taste, and still stay relatively sober?
Is there a bar that plays soft, groovy jazz anymore?? That facilitates discussion?? Where you can actually MEET and TALK to people, rather than using sign language and shouting directly into one's ear?? Where, if it happens to be loud and dark, the music really matters/is good??
That's what I want to do on a Saturday night! Where are all the intellectuals?
I think Grand Rapids has finally reached my end. There are no intellectuals here. There are no real hipsters, no real artists. Where is the life?
It's probably due to the fact that I haven't seen blue sky in nearly 10 weeks. That, my friends, needs to change.
I've been looking for years, and all I've found is a vanilla city made of homogenized 2% milk.
It cannot get any lamer. I must leave. I must find gainful employment elsewhere in this country. I must leave this boring, boorish part of the country.
It's a damn rotten shame that the countryside here is so beautiful. I love living on the water and being so nearby woods. But none of my so-called friends have anything to live for except the next drink. It's sad. I feel ashamed to live here. I want CULTURE, dammit!
And as for all of you from GR that I know here.. You do not apply. But then again, you knew that.
So the search for a new location begins...
Anybody have any ideas (beyond the usual New York/LA cliches)?
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Interesting historical note regarding that poem. He was ex-communicated from the Catholic church for writing it and alledgedly questioning the 'Will of God', one of only three people in the 1900's to have that dubious honour!
I reckon you move here, mate. Plenty of quiet bars full of [psuedo] intellectual types. v78 @_@