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will

...I am just a man who knows how to feel... I'm not friend! I'm not your lover! I'm not your family!

About Me

I'm kind of shy... So... yeah....

My Interests

I've been reading a lot lately. Apparently there's a lot of good books out there?

I'd like to meet:

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not - André Gide

I'd be happy with some tape to stand on

Music:

Chris Staples, Elliott Smith, Brand New, Mogwai, Damien Rice, Muse, Beirut, Radiohead...

Movies:

Wicker Park, Identity, Fight Club, Se7en, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and all of the Hitchcock and Vincent Price movies.

Television:

The Office, Scrubs, Family Guy, Twilight Zone, The Original Star Trek (I know, whatever.)

Books:

Washington Irving, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Homer, H. G. Wells, George MacDonald, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, John Milton, Robert Frost, Daniel Defoe, Herman Melville, Jonathan Swift, Dante Alighieri. I love to read.

Heroes:

The little engine that could

My Blog

una salus victis nullam sperare salutem

"The one safety for the vanquished is to abandon hope of safety knowing there is no hope can give one the courage to fight and win" ~Virgil's AeneidSo I haven't written a blog in quite a while. I kind...
Posted by will on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:29:00 PST

Abyssus abyssum invocat

Things used to have meaning, time used to make sense. I used to make a conscious choice between right and wrong, now I'm not sure which is which.Even when I would have doubts I always believed that ev...
Posted by will on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:04:00 PST

What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

"I think there is a God, I think we all know that, There is a loving God, We just haven't learned to love Him back" -Chris StaplesMost of my struggles have been because I didn't want to let go. Becaus...
Posted by will on Tue, 01 May 2007 12:48:00 PST

Let the wars begin

In this world of news, I've found nothing newI've found nothing pureMaybe I'm just idealistic to assume that truthCould be fact and formThat love could be a verbMaybe I'm just a little misinformedAs t...
Posted by will on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:49:00 PST

This Side of Paradise

I could tell you exactly how much it would cost to buy a plane ticket out of here... I guess part of me believes that if I run away from it all than I could sleep at night. I take walks at three in t...
Posted by will on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:19:00 PST

An Ode to St. Valentine's Day (5 am)

Valentines day sucks!I remember when I was about nine there was a girl that went to my church. I thought that she was pretty special. Somehow my sister found out about it and told me that I should giv...
Posted by will on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:57:00 PST

The Clown was faking

"Fall down seven times,Stand up eight." ~ a japanese proverbHaha! that lasted long... I didn't even make it a month without posting a depressing blog.I've really been doing pretty well lately. Depress...
Posted by will on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:43:00 PST

...the hero killed the clown.

I'm not sure anybody actually reads these but if you do you've realized that I have head issues. The truth is the way things are going I probably wont ever get over them, but that doesn't mean that I ...
Posted by will on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:32:00 PST

A storm is coming, a storm is coming in...

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh...
Posted by will on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:11:00 PST

Contemplations of a tired mind.

Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-springsang under my tongue, its drifting fragranceclimbed up through my conscious mindas if suddenly the roots I had left behindcried out to me, the ...
Posted by will on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:21:00 PST