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About Me

Intense, slightly dull, never really bored, reserved mixed with a touch of melancholy and a splash of brilliance. Altogether a complicated combination that refuses to be smooth. An aquired taste, if you will (which is likely the case).I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

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My Interests

Walking in 21 degree windy weather down Cabot St., Listening to people talk, talking a bit myself, monologuing, reading and generally trying to understand what the hell this existence thing is all about.

I'd like to meet:

Other boring people such as myself so that we can look at the exciting world around us and raise our noses, drink our gin and not bother ourselves with the goings on of other people. That sounds pleasant.

Music:

I recently realized that "Clarity" by Jimmy Eat World is my favorite album. Everyone should listen to it from beginning to end. That is all. (Well not quite all, the Great Lake Swimmers self-titled album kicks ass too.)

Movies:

The Last Days of Disco, The Royal Tennenbaums, Amelie, Children of Men, Chariots of Fire, Brideshead Revisited (BBC), Pan's Labarynth, The Hunt for Red October...(more to come soon...)

Television:

Sopranos, The Red Sox, Family Guy, Flight of the Conchords, 30-Rock, The Office, Squid-Billies, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Venture Brothers, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, History Channel...etc.

Books:

The Bible (complicated authorship), The Book of Common Prayer, Brideshead Revisited and A Hand Full of Dust (Waugh), A Burnt Out Case (Greene), Survivor and Fight Club (Palahniuk), Life After God (Coupland), Ethics and Life Together (Bonhoeffer), Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments and Trainging in Christianity (Kierkegaard), The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway), The Winter of Our Discontent and East of Eden (Steinbeck), The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters (And everything Salinger), On Being a Theologian of the Cross (Forde), The Bondage of the Will (Luther), Witness (Chambers), On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs (Fr. Schall), Slaughterhouse Five and Timequake (Vonnegut), Redeeming the Time and The Politics of Prudence (Kirk), Short Stories by John Updike and Raymond Carver, The Brothers K (David James Duncan). This is just a sampling, I enjoy a great deal more and have often been convinced that reading is the only thing that I do really well. Who knows?

Heroes:

My Father, Thomas Cranmer, Martin Luther, St. Athenasius, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Karl Barth, Soren Kierkegaard, Steven Jones etc.

My Blog

Sunday Evening Thoughts

I'm sitting in my living room, a little tired, a little reflective. Bon Iver's Flume is playing and next to me on the couch is the handbook for discernment for the Diocese of Eastern Massachusetts. As...
Posted by CLEVE on Mon, 12 May 2008 06:17:00 PST

These Days

So events being what they are, there have been some really great things going on. The weddings of Aaron to Abigail and George to Anna with the upcoming wedding of a friend from college to the on...
Posted by CLEVE on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:58:00 PST

Change is in Air We Breathe

There are moments that people talk about in the course of life that are definitive, life changing. It seems that we spend our time, the boredom of the office, sitting at the bar, doing laundry lookin...
Posted by CLEVE on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:55:00 PST

Back Only To Leave

So I moved back to Beverly last night for a short stint. I have enough time to get my things in order, pack and move to Somerville. Still, last night and tonight have been funny or, at least, I've b...
Posted by CLEVE on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:21:00 PST

The Past is Past

I've often wondered what my life would be like if I were a bit more genuinely outgoing or if I had decided differently. And though there is no real point to living in the past and even less regrettin...
Posted by CLEVE on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:58:00 PST

Life and Moving Forward

I don't know how to start this blog just like there any number of conversations that almost happen but never do because I somehow fail to think of the place to start. So the beginning seems to be in ...
Posted by CLEVE on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:28:00 PST

I Don't Know

I stepped off the train tonight (this morning) at 12:45ish and was listening to "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" by the Postal Service. I am tired. I spent two and half hours in interviews yesterda...
Posted by CLEVE on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:30:00 PST

Something Absurd

This week has been full of stress and other things that weeks have a tendency to be full of...better stress than shit, I suppose. I've had enough of having to deal with things being full of plebian f...
Posted by CLEVE on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:47:00 PST

Notes, Asides and Other Minutia

This whole going for a walk before going to bed thing is a great idea...and I need to enjoy living within walking distance of the ocean while I still do...I went to a Polo match after church yesterday...
Posted by CLEVE on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:40:00 PST

Interview and all that...

So it is nearing 2am and I am hopelessly awake and listening to the Great Lake Swimmers. It isn't for a lack of being tired, I am very, but I had coffee at 4 and 6:30. Not a good idea. I am of the ...
Posted by CLEVE on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:00:00 PST