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About Me

the story of me: i am living in a mennonite paradise... oh no - i am not physically living in chicago anymore. no no no - what i did, see, was i moved FROM chicago TO lincoln ne-fucking-braska. why exactly? was it the lower cost of living? a clinically recommended escapade to avoid impending neurosis? a secret love of bovine?
kind of, no it's actually getting worse, and maybe. the reasons are vague and, when interrogated, mumble under their respective breaths while scuffling their shoes, changing the subject and scurrying into the closest dark corner. i set traps for them in futility.
regardless, i consider chicago my spiritual home. and also i like prague and want to go to europe again and live there someday maybe. and the pacific northwest too. as well as somewhere tropical for a while.

Newsflash! Newsflash! Breaking Event: Here in "not chicago" in a recent email sent to me by the head of the grad school english department at creighton university in omaha, it would seem that i have successfully duped them into letting me into their creative writing m.a. for the upcoming fall semester! fuck yeah, bitches! since it has been rated for the past few years as the best college in the surrounding states, i think i will consent to academic bliss. massive school debt for the rest of my life? - pssh. an MA for a degree that will be extremely rewarding in many ways EXCEPT financially? - bring it on.

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My Interests

I like "stuff"

I'd like to meet:

Quagmire (from family guy).

Music:

Sufjan Stevens. Led Zeppelin. Abe Quiggley. Definitely. And after those, who else is there?
I suppose there's always: Yann Tierson, Counting Crows, Kings of Convenience, Death Cab for Cutie, Tahiti 180, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Rogue Wave, Umphree's McGee, Railroad Earth, the String Cheese Incident, Ojee Walk Upright, Gary Jules, Ben Folds, Jolie Holland, Norah Jones, Jerry Garcia, Damien Jurado, Damien Rice, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, U2, the shins, the killers, the streets, the doors, the ramones, the who, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground, Paul Simon, Mammas & the Papas, Tom Petty, America, Creedence, Blue Oyster Cult, James Taylor, Jim Morrison, Louie Armstrong, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Pink Floyd. And his wall.

...but what I want to hear more than anything else in this life is NO John Denver. Ever. Ever again. May his phoney name and memory be erased.

Movies:

Royal Tenenbaums. Amelie. Joyeux Noel. The Prestige. Saved. Garden State. Art School Confidential. Out Cold. Napoleon Dynamite. Nacho Libre. Little Miss Sunshine. Yellow Submarine. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Everything is Illuminated. Big Fish, Batman Begins. The Lord of the Rings. X-men. About Schmidt.
Directors:
Wes Anderson, Tim Burton.
I also enjoy the Dark Side of Oz (where you sinc up Dark Side of the Moon with the Wizard of Oz. Good times.)

Television:

Family Guy. House.

Books:

The Lord of the Rings. Harry Potter. Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry (by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison). The Tender Bar. Some of Nietsche's stuff. Holy the Firm (by Annie Dillard). Howl (Allen Ginsberg). Metamorphoses (Ovid). Ecclesiastes (Bible). The Little Prince. The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall (3 by Albert Camus). The Idiot's Guide to Sex. Nobel Lecture (Solzhenitzyn). Reading Lolita in Tehran.

Authors:
Billy Collins, Louise Gluck, Chuck Palahniuk, Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy, Ovid, Anthony Hawley, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Ashbery, Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl, and Wyslawa Szymborska.
I used to like C. S. Lewis, but not so much any more. Except for Till We Have Faces.

And walking too near self-help books -- you know, the armchair psychoanalysis ones, the watered-down-hack-job-of-a-brilliant-mind rip-off kind -- makes me want to light them on fire. Mom.
Currently Reading:
Dante, Ashbery, the "Laurus" literary journal, and tons of online literary journals such as thediagram.com and theBrewmag.com

Heroes:

Peter Griffin. Chuck Norris.

My Blog

I am Pollster

So I work at Gallup. Contrary to backwoods Tennessee wise-ass attempts at humor, this has nothing to do with the noble equestrian race. No, the National Gallup Poll is the oldest polling o...
Posted by the Travii on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:54:00 PST

flower (flou'-ur): common ingredient in beer (hops), poetry and perfume

5. Time is an alcoholic and a raging drunk, a genius and a bucolic hick who flunked all of his classes. Gently failed by the flask, a drop of whiskey frosts the glass. He picks up a pho...
Posted by the Travii on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:41:00 PST

A change of direction

This is just to announce what I guess you could call a "life decision"... Unemployment in Nebraska and a continually draining bank account have led me to make a defining decision for my life. Th...
Posted by the Travii on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 10:50:00 PST

A Fall Letter

Dear Jo, Happy Autumn Everything is fine Today the sky is blue Everything is fine, today the sky is blue. Hope my letter reaches you. I count the days in pen A nervous tick...
Posted by the Travii on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:31:00 PST

Winter Movements

1 In the end after life and death are accounted for all we have is the earth, the body, and the words we have made of it. Say what you want, the heart is moved as it a...
Posted by the Travii on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:30:00 PST

prothalamium

This poem has been running through my mind for a few weeks now. Maybe it's just one of those things that you have to share in order to get rid of. Like STDs. A pr...
Posted by the Travii on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:19:00 PST

No more blogs. Poetry.

I think I'm going to post an occassional poem on here. No blogs. Just mostly harmless, hopefully enjoyable stuff. All wholesome, non-dairy, non-diary, literary supplements in small doses. Such as ...
Posted by the Travii on Mon, 08 May 2006 11:22:00 PST

I am a cyber slut

Let's get it started in here! Let's get retarded in here! All right, this is my first blog, yay for me, I swore to myself I would never do this and here I am, blogging. Just the name...
Posted by the Travii on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:17:00 PST