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About Me

"we are frail, we are fearfully and wonderfully made. forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of selfish rage, and with these our hells and our heavens so few inches apart, we must be awfully small and not as strong as we think we are"...rich mullins

meWithoutYOU - January 1979

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My Interests

Musik. Books. the pianer. Most things that beg a question, or atleast taste good.

Music:

i can't express my thoughts within the confines of this pixelated space.first off, go listen to circleslide. secondly...loudermilk, mew, gosling, sleeping at last, the mars volta, as cities burn, coheed & cambria, lovedrug, mewithoutyou, muse, the smiths, the beatles, keith green, jump little children, rich mullins, vigilantes of love, muse, F. Chopin, F. Schubert, J.S. Bach, A. Schoenberg. . .

Movies:

princess bride, seven brides for seven brothers, it's a wonderful life

Books:

"the brothers karamazov" by dostoevsky

Heroes:

the son of man. anyone who can make some semblance of beauty out of a mangled human race is amazing.

My Blog

regarding further blogdom

blogging on myspace temporarily suspended www.xanga.com/mailboxbeacon
Posted by gloria on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:07:00 PST

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

--leo tolstoy. (another long one...just consider delayed gratification.) let that soak in.  let it simmer, let all the flavors cook out of it. so, in a timely fashion, my biannual crisis of mater...
Posted by gloria on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:58:00 PST

Ballin' Hendersonville style with the Tuttles

I've lived on the coast for the past 10 years or so, and I probably couldn't care less.  I definitely am partial to the mountains.  6/7 of the Spillers went up to Hendersonville to visit the...
Posted by gloria on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:46:00 PST

venting on the limitations of "wordly" communication, and what i would desire in its place

[not intended to have a strict rhyme scheme. or "flow" in a pervasively satisfying way.]Ask me to tell you my favorite things."Fully, explicitly." Inquire of me.All under the sun is banality,and thi...
Posted by gloria on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 05:53:00 PST

i don't care if showbread is your mom. *operation subleminal message

men are just men. aaron weiss is just a man. chris let me toot martin is just a man. your boyfriend is just a man. your girlfriend is just a man.er...wait.fashion is nice. music fart is nice. guys wea...
Posted by gloria on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:24:00 PST

what is love? baby don't hurt me.

A lady on my way out of the the library today said "Excuse me, you're skirt is up in the back."  Dangit.  It was only a little bit.  It was still G-rated, but it just looked funny. ...
Posted by gloria on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:29:00 PST

double unhappiness and the world's conception

Mr. Kierkegaard points out that life in Christ makes man doubly unhappy, "...first, by not satisfying his inclinations and, second, by reaping as reward the world's ridicule." Hit the nail on the head...
Posted by gloria on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:06:00 PST

send off

this is my send off blog.  tommorow i relocate to w-town (finally!) and my life will once again be steeped in academics.  and fun. sooooo.......one last reflection from the county of brunswi...
Posted by gloria on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:30:00 PST

The Epigone Wild

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Posted by gloria on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:28:00 PST

may the Fall rush in

Bodily addictions can be controlled to an extent, but mental fixations are harder to break. (I read a few days ago in Augustine's Confessions, "The mind commands, and the body is prompt to respon...
Posted by gloria on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 05:53:00 PST