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About Me

A few stanzas from Self Portait at 28 by David Berman . . .If you were cool in high school you didn't ask too many questions. You could tell who'd been to last night's big metal concert by the new t-shirts in the hallway. You didn't have to ask and that's what cool was: the ability to deduct to know without asking. And the pressure to simulate coolness means not asking when you don't know, which is why kids grow ever more stupid.A yearbook's endpages, filled with promises to stay in touch, stand as proof of the uselessness of a teenager's promise. Not like I'm dying for a letter from the class stoner ten years on but...Do you remember the way the girls would call out "love you!" conveniently leaving out the "I" as if they didn't want to commit to their own declarations.I agree that the "I" is a pretty heavy concept and hope you won't get uncomfortable if I should go into some deeper stuff here... .. .. .. ..

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Londoners.

My Blog

One shitty song and another shitty band

Has anyone noticed that the oft covered song, Barbara Ann, is one of the worst songs of all time? Like, spectacularly bad, yet you hear it all the time on oldies radio. Why?And . . . Manfred Mann are ...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:18:00 GMT

An excerpt from my thesis/novella

This is an excerpt from a novella that I'm working on for my thesis. The piece is titled "The Life, The Novel and The Film Adaptation of Herman Prescott." The story is told in three forms: the first i...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:40:00 GMT

Taking a mile

If someone were to give you an inch and you took a mile, well that would supposidly mean that you were taking advantage of their good natured charity. But if what you really needed was a mile, doesn't...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:39:00 GMT

somebody tell me

How the fuck does having your cake and eating it make any sense? Seriously, why else would I have a cake? For decorative purposes?
Posted by on Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:02:00 GMT