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The Plaid

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I find that every time I try to lead a largely ordinary life, the extraordinary tends to happen.

My Interests

vintage british motorcycles, cigarettes, the way a garage smells, smoky dive bars with great jukeboxes, This American Life with Ira Glass, snow coming down at angles under street lights

I'd like to meet:

I dare you to break my heart.

Music:

Current playlist: Either/Or, This American Life, Strange Geometry, The sound of my Royaluxe Portable, Set Yourself on Fire

Movies:

Possible by way of a phenomenon called "Persistence of Vision".

Television:

Everytime you turn around it's there.....trying to sell you something....

Books:

Interesting Haircuts and Fantastic Pants: An Historical Perspective of Interesting Haircuts and Fantastic Pants - By Logan Blake; Like Brothers Apart - by J.Glen Fetters; Little Things Under Stones - by J.Glen Fetters;

Heroes:

Time Travelers, Falconers, Tom Waits

My Blog

Can't write for shit....

Brain's all tied in knotsHeart's treading waterHands won't respondWhere is my muse?
Posted by The Plaid on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:23:00 PST

What is it about timing?

What is it about timing,That simple, necessary juggernautCondition of love?Where moments are milesAnd happenstance is the Great designer of hope.Where the patterns of attractionAre at once the minions...
Posted by The Plaid on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:59:00 PST

An eyelash could be the beginning of the prologue (to tragedy) (pardon the redundancy)

When I meet you on the streetI smileI wipe an eyelash off your pretty faceAnd when we meet days laterIn the barI revel in the fleeting momentThe small taste of the intimateThe little eyelashSo huge in...
Posted by The Plaid on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:37:00 PST

Love

Fickle, fleeting, temporaryKnowing that I only break my own heartEach time
Posted by The Plaid on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:03:00 PST

Is it too much?

It's 2:30 amI'm most of the way through a bottle of wineSearching for some inspirationIs it too much to ask to have everything?To have a museTo write with convictionTo understand the wordsLike breathi...
Posted by The Plaid on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:29:00 PST

The silence of a songbird

The silence of a songbird Fills my house Rings in my ears I pulled the disc from my windshield There among the bits and pieces of bugs Like the bits and pieces of Whatever it was we had A message Silv...
Posted by The Plaid on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:49:00 PST

And jukebox light

It's all cheery In the haze of cigarette smoke And jukebox light Romantic with whiskey and cheap beer And for a moment I am a hero When everyone starts to sing the song I just played It is at once bea...
Posted by The Plaid on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:27:00 PST

I dont have forever

In your kitchen In the dark We come together My lips make promises to yours My fingers touch your face Your hair What I whisper in your ear Is true today and forever But I don't have forever To wait ...
Posted by The Plaid on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:47:00 PST

Potential is the prologue to tragedy

I've been to warWith myself, with time, with fateSleeping in hospitals and airportsHanging in limboWhen, upon my returnThere is nothingI just walkI step away from the longingStep back to see the bigge...
Posted by The Plaid on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:19:00 PST

Put some quarters on the jukebox

Honey will you get me another beer? There's ice on the ground And I don't want to go home I'll take a pack of smokes too Put some quarters on the jukebox So I can hear Townes Van Zandt Sit here besid...
Posted by The Plaid on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:52:00 PST