"Sex and money seem much more important when you don’t have them." - Bukowski

Como Se Escribe Haiku

1)Primero, se siénta en un escrito.

2)Segundo, se contemplan las ideas, cualquier cosa.

3)Tercero, se escribe la primera línea

4)Entonces, se asegura que sea solamente de cinco silabas

5)Luego, se piensa en la segundo línea

6)Después, escribe la segundo línea

7)Luego, se usan solamente de siete silabas

8)Entonces, se escribe la línea final

9)Luego, se buscan solamente cinco silabas también. Se cuenta las silabas correcta.

10)Finalmente, se sonríe y se lee en voz alto





Que te celebran?
Celebramos Tiempo
Es todo que hay

Gentle, Man.

I haven't written anything in a long time. It makes this thing seem rather pointless.

It's all great in 2008. Seriously.

As I was walking to class a couple weeks ago I approached a glass door the same time as some girl. Since we arrived at the door at the same time, I stepped forward to open it for her. Not because she was attractive (trust me, she wasn't) and not because I was being a nice guy (I'm not). I opened the door for her because that is what you do, right?

You open the door for people. You say your Please's and Thank You's. You eat with proper manners. You do these things because that is what you do. It's what your parents taught you.

So.

Back to me opening the door for this girl. This chick. Me, being a guy, or Dude, opened the door for this chick, and she hesitated, watched her step, looked at me and froze. Then just as quickly as she stopped moving she put her head down to her toes, looking past the ground, and mumbled "thank you." Or at least I think she did.

She scurried through the next set of doors, not looking back at me, and hurried down the stairz, not letting her eyes leave the ground.

I just grinned with one side of my mouth and shook my head slighty. Weird.

I think I once heard someone say chivalry died with the feminist movement. Maybe, but probably not. I think Chivalry died when men, or boys, guys, dudes, whatever, weren't allowed to be gentlemen anymore. Okay, allowed is not the right word. Maybe looked at as gentlemen.

I don't know though. It's just the game we play I guess. Always evolving, always changing. Not much though.



"I'll letcha be in my dreams if I can be in yours. I said that." - Bob Dylan

"When We Met It Wasn't Pretty At All" or "I Meant Every Word I Said."

1) The Faint - How Could I Forget

2) Against Me! - New Wave

We can control the medium. We can control the context of presentation. We can be the bands we want to hear. We Can Define Our Own Generation. We can eclipse all that came before us.
3) Bear Vs Shark - CaliforniaHotseat
You never see yourself as you're passing through my eyes.
4) Dropkick Murphys - Famous For Nothing
Yeah, thank God it's Saturday and half my problems go away. Sure, the big ones on the way, but I know how to handle them.
5) Modest Mouse - Invisible
6) Bear Vs Shark - June 7th
If you don't listen to Bear Vs Shark and have open ears, listen to them now. They are one of the most important bands to come out of whatever scene you want to ascribe them to.
7) Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
It was good to be alive.
8) Pinback - From Nothing to Nowhere
9) Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Noise Brigade
A dime for a dozen if that's what you're after. A moment of silence, a lifetime of laughter. On the brighter side and on a happier note the noise, well it's just love that gets caught in my throat. The end of the line's not the end of a rope, just a salesman selling a bucket of hope.
10) Less Than Jake - Nervous In The Alley
With all I've got to say, I wonder what I'd fight for.
11) Piebald - American Hearts
12) You Me & Everyone We Know - Do It Again (You're Not Making Me Want to Touch You)
I've excepted that we're just chemicals.
13) Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Rascal King
14) Mike Doughty - Looking at the World From the Bottom of a Well
15) The Ghost - The Exhibition
We've got good minds in bad health
I think you know that
All our friends like us more than we like ourselves.
Drinking in style like the laughing stock
We sing in the key to this door but we still knock
Set the clocks back and set my thoughts ahead
We could rewrite this old book
Stepping through these chapters half dead
Someone said it before and I'll say it again
It's not how play it's how you're listening
A head in the ground/Feet in the sky
You fell when no one watched as you learned how to fly
It's the simple things that have all gone wrong
When you stop to catch your breath you'll be moving on
Graffiti like the calender/July ice now it's melting there
16) Chin Up Chin Up - Virginia, Don't Drown
Chicago flavored punk-indie rock...
17) Pinback - Walters
18) Modest Mouse - Parting of the Sensory
There's no work in walking and it fueled the talk.
19) Broken Social scene Presents Kevin Drew - Lucky Ones
20) Mike Doughty - Madeline and Nine
21) imadethismistake - College or a Broken Nose
'Cause you mean a lot to me. BEST FRIENDS FOREVER!
Yeah, you mean a lot to me. WE BOTH GO DOWN TOGETHER!
22) Defiance, Ohio - Lullabies
Just as quick as you can fall asleep

"This is so obnoxious," muttered the writer under his breath.
"One day though," whispered an omnipresent voice, "you'll have nothing to say at all."

And so
The writer wrote

Until one day his pen ran dry and his fingers ached to a degree beyond ignoring.

"Finally," he thought to himself, "I can close my eyes."

And a moment passed. The same sun was rising. He opened his eyes and there were no words. Only images. Images he had imagined when his eyes closed.

Each story becoming his life.

And so
He followed the pattern
Of justification

Each night, when his pen ran dry, he had nothing left to do. But wait. Wait for his eyes to close and his pen to rest. Wait for his dream to rise and fall with each breath. It was and still is a constant battle of waiting for the story to become the life.

And so
The writer waits
Just like the rest of us

Leisure Suite

Minus The Bear - Burying Luck
Ted Leo/Phamacists - Biomusicology
Pinback - Good To Sea
Andrew Bird - Skin Is, My
Kaki King - Magazine
Andy McKee - A Sphere
Leot Kottke & Mike Gordon - Car Carrier Blues
Andy Mckee - All Laid Back and Stuff
Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew - Safety Bricks
Dntel - To A Fault (Ft Grizzly Bear)
The Go Find - Sky Window
The Notwist - This Room
Stars - This Charming Man
Ted Leo/Phamacists - Me and Mia
St Vincent - Now Now
Pinback - Kylie
Ris Paul Ric - The Sleeparound
Kaki King - Doing The Wrong Thing
Califone - Burned by the Christians
Stars - Personal
Feist - Leisure Suite
Dntel - Rock My Boat (Ft Mia Doi Todd)
The Prize Fighter Inferno - Accidents
Broken Social Scene - Pacific Theme
Dismemberment Plan - Spider in the Snow
Modest Mouse - You're the Good Things
Irradio - Relapse
The Go Find - Over The Edge
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Thievery Corporation - Universal Highness
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime

HWJD?

Someone put a button on me without my knowledge. It said "Vote Pro-Choice". A woman came up to me in a bar and asked why I was pro-choice. I thought this was a random drunk woman with a random question for a random person, and I had no intention of getting into a political discussion at this time of the evening, especially after having a couple drinks. So I responded, "because I like loose bitches." She walked away and didn't look happy. So I thought of a new button I need to make: "I vote pro-choice because I like loose women." It may miss the point, but Momma alwaysa said honesty is the best policy.


I also thought of a wristband I should market. Remember those "WWJD" bracelets, What Would Jesus Do? I want to make a bracelet with the letters "HWJD." How Would Jesus Dance?