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Obadiah Elihue

there won't be any crows to cry with you there

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

y'all

Music:

the homeville circle (eh, i liked the band before i joined, so i think that it's legit), neutral milk hotel, the band, counting crows, bill monroe, bob dylan, castanets, songs: ohia, chris bathgate, elf power, the shins, the pixies, weezer, nirvana, flatt and scruggs, the dillenger escape plan, frontier ruckus, glassjaw, stone temple pilots, head automatica, the meat puppets, jwc, king wilkie, the diskettes, everytime i die, modest mouse, of montreal, the child readers, etc......

Movies:

simplified version:
if wes anderson and the cohen brothers made movies in some mystical time warp that allowed them access to both bill murray and young audrey hepburn i would be a really happy movie watching fool.

Television:

HOUSE and the history channel

Books:

as i lay dying, winesburg ohio, old man and the sea, everything that rises must converge, light in august, ecstacy club, the things they carried, waiting for gadot, johnny got his gun, cold mountain, angela's ashes

Heroes:

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My Blog

happy late birthday

These church bell mornings Keep me pressed cold against my pillow Where the dim lights of America town Dare not thread themselves through my window shade,there is something almost holy about this kind...
Posted by Obadiah Elihue on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:51:00 PST

scribbled at the market

my childhood has turned to dust,the world was unyieldingand all of the seasons sinceare dollar store van goghsnostolgia is the devil's handshakethe rearview mirrior on the road out of edenwhere my mot...
Posted by Obadiah Elihue on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:19:00 PST

yes. no.

it is a deep heaving sorrowshaking me; violenti tremble in bed for hourssnot bearded (honesty is never a pretty picture)there is no transmission periodlaughter to anger to weepingand i'm keeping it al...
Posted by Obadiah Elihue on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:13:00 PST

i’m going back to east virginia

my niece turned two today, we had cake and ice cream. it made me miss my mother, then again most things do anymore. i guess i'm not moving to toledo right now. someday. i've had some sort of arthritus...
Posted by Obadiah Elihue on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:26:00 PST

lately

i'm drawing a blank.i am an empty drawerslamming all night longin an empty roomall echo, dust, and remembering.
Posted by Obadiah Elihue on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:12:00 PST

Alf, I’m on the telephone

i feel asleep behind the wheel tonight, driving down memory lane. i dreamed of you and of me and of happiness. before heartache, cancer, and every other cross that the humidity brought for me to bare....
Posted by Obadiah Elihue on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:05:00 PST

gonna leave this brokedown palace

tonight was the night i've needed since may.   it was nice to see so many people at the show, it's been a hard summer for local music in general, so to see a huge turnout was uplifting. homevill...
Posted by Obadiah Elihue on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:52:00 PST

this sums up everything i want to say tonight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Q_fYuMZdA but i know you won't even listen to it...
Posted by Obadiah Elihue on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:11:00 PST

i would swim across lake michigan...

but i know there ain't no point. i've been drifting all day in and out of fever dreams, sweat sheets and a burning throat, dry lips, labored breathing, and a locomotave tring to break out of my head. ...
Posted by Obadiah Elihue on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:36:00 PST

there is a cello in your house now

i just want to sleep, and should it get cold i'll burn every instrument in my home to keep me warm. last night filled with spirits (ghost and liquid) i climbed to the roof of college town parking towe...
Posted by Obadiah Elihue on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:54:00 PST