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| Sunday, May 10th, 2009 | | 3:26 pm |
Books I own and mean to read: A Personal Matter - Kenzoburo Oe The Heart of the Matter, Our Man in Havana, The End of the Affair - Graham Greene City of God - E.L. Doctorow I, Claudius - Robert Graves Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami Vineland - Thomas Pynchon The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace Right Ho, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence Histories - Herodotus Libra - Don DeLillo The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov Tripmaster Monkey - Maxine Hong Kingston Plus I plan to reread: Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami Another Country - James Baldwin The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner So of course I go to the library and get: Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway What is the What - Dave Eggers In Dubious Battle, The Moon is Down - John Steinbeck The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow Just Above My Head - James Baldwin No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy Fool's Errand - Robin Hobb The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri I have a problem. | | Sunday, April 26th, 2009 | | 3:55 am |
I recently told a joke with a friend of mine. The two of us have been habitually unhappy in love. Recently the both of us have, for some reason, had an upswing in our lives. He has a girlfriend that, as far as I can tell, is great for him. I've started dating a girl that, as far as I can tell, is pretty fantastic. She's pretty, funny, and way smarter than I am. Which is definitely my type. Granted it's not hard to find someone smarter than me, but you know. Today, I went to a party for two of my friends who got married today. They're both awesome and completely deserve each other for better or worse. He's goofy and she's sweet. At the party, I met a bunch of old friends and had a grand old time. "Something must be wrong," I remarked to my friend. "We're both dating pretty sane girls and we're both happy. There's got to be a catch somewhere. Somewhere, an orphanage is burning down to even out the karma out there." I look back on my education at UGA with fondness. Dr. Fran Teague was my faculty advisor when I was going through the English program. She's a genius and has the greatest sense of humor. She taught me Shakespeare. Her husband, along with two others, was shot and killed yesterday. All I can say is that, as dumb and useless as they are, my prayers are with Dr. Teague, her family, and the families of the other victims. | | Saturday, February 14th, 2009 | | 4:01 pm |
attn parkviewites
Alison and I were trying to remember what they made us read in English freshman year: -------------- Great Expectations To Kill a Mockingbird The Odyssey Romeo + Juliet sophomore year: -------------- Lord of the Flies A Separate Peace Julius Caesar ??? (some classes might have read Merchant of Venice??) junior year: -------------- The Scarlet Letter The Crucible (maybe) The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Huck Finn The Great Gatsby senior year (lots - this was AP for me at least): --------------- Paradise Lost A Lesson Before Dying Macbeth Hamlet Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Heart of Darkness Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Am I missing anything boys and girls??? Current Music: Tom Waits - Downtown Train | | Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 | | 2:40 pm |
murder ballads own
I’m surrounded, each doorway covered by at least twenty men And they’re going to take me and throw me in prison. I ain’t coming back again When I was younger, handsomer and stronger, I felt like I could do anything But all of these people making all these faces didn’t seem like my kith and kin Colin Kincaid from the twelfth grade, I guess you could say he was my best friend He lived in a big tall house out on Westfall where we would hide when the rain rolled in We went out one night and took a flashlight out with these two girls Colin knew from Kenwood Christian One was named Laurie, that’s what the story said next week in the Guardian... And when I killed her it was so easy that I wanted to kill her again I got down on both of my knees and she ain’t coming back again. Now, with all these cameras focused on my face, you’d think they could see it through my skin They’re looking for evil, thinking they can trace it, but evil don’t look like anything Current Music: Okkervil River - Westfall | | Monday, January 26th, 2009 | | 8:46 pm |
courtesy of jacob
what would come next in this series of letters: C N O I Z E C E H I _ _ _ _ _ | | Friday, January 23rd, 2009 | | 12:02 am |
i blame alison
She did the 25 things first 1. I am 25 years old. 2. I am deathly afraid of the candiru fish. 3. I like reading a lot. I also enjoy watching television and movies, but reading is what it generally comes back to. I'm trying to read 52 books this year. 4. I often find myself thinking that I should slow down, but I never do. 5. I'm fairly content with where I am right now and what I'm doing. I shouldn't be. 6. My diet is terrible, but at least I'm exercising regularly, and I'm starting to like what I see in the mirror. At least a little bit. 7. I'm a little bit of a slob. (He says, looking at his desk which has one book, two speakers, about 5 dollars in change, one empty water bottle, a checkbook, a tin of shoe polish, four opened envelopes, and three receipts) 8. I am a huuuuge nerd about the Oscars. My family has a contest each year to see who can predict them the best. I like watching movies that get nominated, and I sort of like the ceremonies. 9. I'm fairly sure that if I don't get a girlfriend soon, I'll end up as one of those creepy dudes running a website that posts pictures of women from the Food Network. 10. If I do end up doing that, I'll post Giada pictures, not Paula Deen pictures. 11. Oh god I'm practically halfway there 12. I need new shoes. 13. I wish I could play the kazoo as well as my nephew can. 14. I kind of want to relocate somewhere that's not Georgia, but not quite Japan either. What's keeping me here? Strong attachments to friends, stronger attachment to family, and a great deal of apathy as well. 15. I like listening to music a lot. Sometimes, though, I wonder if I'm even listening to any of it at all, or if I just need a soundtrack. 16. This is the funniest thing I've seen in a while: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypycpKQxXR0&feature=related17. I still don't feel that I know how to do things most adults should be able to do. 18. She's still the only one in every room she's ever in. 19. I support the Steelers. 20. I feel like I don't live an interesting enough life, and I'm not sure what I have to do to change that. 21. I wish I was half as creative as some of my friends. 22. I feel like I have something really great inside of me, I'm just not sure how to express it. 23. I have been all over the world and can't say I've learned too much from it. 24. I really enjoy my coworkers' company. Which is a good thing. 25. I am straight up tired, peace out folks | | Sunday, December 28th, 2008 | | 6:17 pm |
was out walking last night w/ friends
I saw a small house in Decatur with a good deal of christmas lights on a bush outside. the lights were reflected in the window and all of a sudden i had a nostalgic rush for my grandfather's house in tampa. it wasn't a big house but it was cozy. i had a lot of good memories of that house, though i don't know if i was ever there when they had a christmas tree up. i was there after the holidays a lot, though - sometimes my grandfather and his daughter/my aunt would come up and take us down with them for the week afterwards. i don't miss them - i'm especially dumbfounded at how they decided to estrange themselves from us because my sister who was currently in middle or early high school sent them some silly chain email - but i do miss that house. it had a dock out back. oscar movie record: just cause everyone loves to know what i've seen in my quest to dethrone Chris Gordon, current Oscar champ Curious Case of Benjamin Button - very good, old-fashioned long movie. the cg was a little uncanny valley at some times, but the makeup was good. solid acting by brad and cate. lightning guy was best. very forrest gump-esque, though not quite AS schmaltzy. worth a watch, but maybe not a contender for best pic. props for using "my body is a cage" in the ads! Milk - very well-done, excellent acting from pretty much everyone. wouldn't be surprised if sean penn got another best actor oscar for this one, i could never see him as sean penn, just harvey milk. good work at interspersing actual footage from the era with stuff filmed for the movie. near the end the theater got really dusty and something got in my eye THAT'S MY STORY AND I'M STICKING TO IT. also worth watching if: you like dudes making out. that's right paul, a movie for you. | | Thursday, December 25th, 2008 | | 9:17 pm |
| | Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 | | 9:27 am |
i was going to say i was living under a rock b/c i didn't know that one of TI's new songs sampled that fucking fat kid o-zone song but then i realized there is no possible place or time where i could have heard it. clubs? yeah i go to those the radio? since when did atlanta have a good radio station the real world? i avoid it like the plague | | Monday, November 24th, 2008 | | 9:10 am |
nights
Saturday night: -delicious food -hella Rock Band 2 (The Middle, Man in the Box, and Livin on a Prayer = highlights) Sunday night: -glorious return of Robbie -beer trong -oh my god Brian shaved his head -LIAN AND DELIA OUT OF NOWHERE. plus I finally met the man with the name Hawk. tonight: -????? | | Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 | | 4:04 pm |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_NoidIn 1989, Kenneth Lamar Noid, a mentally ill customer who thought the ads were a personal attack on him, held two employees of an Atlanta, Georgia Domino's restaurant hostage for over five hours. After forcing them to make him a pizza and making demands for $100,000, getaway transportation, and a copy of The Widow's Son, Noid surrendered to the police.[1] Noid was charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, extortion, and possession of a firearm during a crime. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity. lollin' | | 7:57 am |
dream journal~
I had a dream that I was over at my parent's house and there were all these cute animals like bunnies and kittens that were getting into our house somehow and turning up dead and we were like what the hell then we found out that there was a velociraptor loose in our house and we were like "oh well that explains that." Current Music: Deerhunter - Microcastle | | Friday, October 17th, 2008 | | 10:46 am |
| | Saturday, September 27th, 2008 | | 7:05 pm |
Writer's Block: R.E.A.D. in America Day
Haven't written an entry in a while, this might be good. Since reading is pretty much one of the main things I do (outside working, and listening to music, and playing videogames) I think it's pretty important. It is a way that I can sort of forget about things I don't like about life and just enjoy a good story for a while. I'm currently reading "A Soldier in the Great War" by Mark Helprin, which is something I'd recommend to almost anyone who has patience and a love of language. The way Helprin writes is amazingly gorgeous, it's like a feast for the senses just through words. He does a great job of creating an image of pre-WWI Europe and making you feel as if you were there. I'm assuming he'll recreate the Great War just as vividly, which is going to be... interesting. (I'd also recommend the last book I read by him, Winter's Tale. It's a weird magic realism book set in an ever-snowy New York and it's as beautiful a book as anyone could ask for.) Helprin is wordy, though - Winter's Tale is around 600-700 pages, and Soldier in the Great War is 800. I'm also reading "The Power and the Glory" by Graham Greene, mostly because I decided I needed to read Graham Greene. It's very well-written and suspenseful, though I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of it just yet. I bet once I finish it'll come together. Another major project of mine is Jorge Luis Borges' Collected Fictions. Lots of tricky and twisty short stories about labyrinths, knife fighters, and tigers, among other things. I've been reading this since May, reading a few short stories at a time. I can't say I understand all of them, but I do enjoy most of them. And of course I have a huge backlog of books I want to read and reread... one of the big tasks when I moved into my apartment was getting my books over here. Luckily we found an apartment with built-in shelves. Niiiice, right? Actual update coming sooner or later. | | Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 | | 8:56 am |
updates
Hey everyone. Been a little while. I have sometimes been busy, sometimes not, but I have left this alone for a while, so I'll update it. -Still working with C2, I like it alright. There was a possibility of working in South Korea, but I think I'll pass on that. Looks like I might have an apartment in Decatur starting the end of this month so you know what that means. (parties??? k, maybe not) -reading Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. I started out hating it but now that I'm almost done I think it's pretty amazing. The most interesting parts have been about this horrible whorish slut that ruins the main character's life. Given that Maugham was gay, I'm kind of surprised that he writes women so well. -the new Of Montreal kinda sucks. The new TV on the Radio rules way too hard. -I'm catching up on a lot of shows but yeah TV rules for the most part. Looking forward to Pushing Daisies, 30 Rock, and The Office coming back. | | Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 | | 2:24 am |
Hmm. I haven't said anything in a while. Job's pretty good. Will change soon now that school is starting up again. Maybe for the better, maybe for the worse, who knows? I got a set of Steinbeck books from Amazon. They look very nice and I'm reading Cannery Row right now. I have been reading a whole lot these days and I don't really see this trend stopping any time soon. I think the lack of reading material in Japan drove me a little nuts so maybe I am overcompensating after returning. My recommendation right now would be Jose Saramago's "Blindness" which is a really interesting book that I am still mulling over. Pondering might be the word. I would really like to move out - not that I don't like it at my parents' house but yeah, dialup? Not so much. Problem is, any place I look at is going to be about half my salary (before utilities) and I doubt anyone else really wants to get a place in Duluth/John's Creek. Bleh. Watching Venture Brothers, Mad Men and The Wire right now. Liked The Dark Knight a lot. Looking forward to Pineapple Express. My life in a nutshell, ladies and gents. Current Music: okkervil river | | Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 | | 9:30 pm |
and i wonder
when i sing along with you IF EVERYTHING WILL EVER FEEL THIS REAL FOREVER IF ANYTHING WILL EVER BE THIS GOOD AGAIN (the answer, of course, was no) Current Music: everlong | | Friday, July 11th, 2008 | | 10:01 pm |
i need to have an operation or something. something to take the douchebag part of me out. like a douchebagectomy. so i can stop being a fucking douchebag. that'd be nice. | | Monday, June 30th, 2008 | | 6:33 pm |
wall-e is the best i want to clean up the earth with wall-e him and i just best frinds | | Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 | | 9:42 pm |
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