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Ransom Murphy

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About Me

i'm on the road

My Interests

New York City traffic

I'd like to meet:

Carl Jung, Linda Lovelace, Herman Melville, Eddie Murphy, and Fred Rogers

Music:

anything that breaks through the walls of logic and thought and meaning and goes straight to the gut. anything that makes me feel like dancing. anything i can't explain.

Movies:

XXX

Television:

kill your TV.

Books:

none lately

Heroes:

Mick Jagger

My Blog

eye of the hurricane

I'm at the YMCA again. They have a very speedy internet here, and a sauna, which makes it one of the best places in town. Nevermind that the organization is commited to Christian values... I don't ...
Posted by Ransom Murphy on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:30:00 PST

what is the meaning of this?

I am once again in our nations capitol, (the perverts spell it with an O sometimes) and I'm preparing to drive, in a matter of hours, 374 miles through the Shenandoah Mountains. Preparing is not the ...
Posted by Ransom Murphy on Wed, 09 May 2007 01:12:00 PST

high fidelity earplugs

what happened to the spirit of april fool's day? of course there is some measure of general bullshitting, such as, "man, you've got a huge mustard stain on your shirt," followed by the raunchily cha...
Posted by Ransom Murphy on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:54:00 PST

i never came up with the answers

Then a year ago you woke up, but you didn't know who you were.   So that's when I decided to raise you here as my daughter.  Nevermind that... it was coming from cartoons on the televison.&n...
Posted by Ransom Murphy on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:09:00 PST

Mario Kart

I thought many profound thoughts tonight while I was out socializing. the problem was, I was drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon. Much insight was lost to the beermonster. My brain works so clearly, sometim...
Posted by Ransom Murphy on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:00:00 PST

evolution is the new black

the packaging from the new shiny year is thrown away and now the excitement of some-assembly-required has waned, we are left with some abstract spacetime looking not unlike last year or the one before...
Posted by Ransom Murphy on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:32:00 PST

blog

i have shaved my face 2 days in a row for the first time since i began to grow facial hair. i like to listen to joanna newsom as much as possible. four or three times in a day isn't too much. it's c...
Posted by Ransom Murphy on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:59:00 PST

the sound of a brown jug on armageddon eve...

i was going to write this blog while listening to billie holiday in my bedroom at my parents' house in Columbus. OH, except that the visual logic board on my 4 year old iBook crapped out for the third...
Posted by Ransom Murphy on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:00:00 PST

equinox aesthetics

this dumb machine sounds nowhere as good as the typewriter, except for that it plays MP3's. that is why this is all you get right now. it's on shuffle. happy equinox everybody. did you know john c...
Posted by Ransom Murphy on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:36:00 PST

down below the ocean

i just heard the song Atlantis, by Donovan, which made me think that somewhere over the ocean over that lost city it is dawn. Here in the middle-west there are a few hours to go. A Croatian man in F...
Posted by Ransom Murphy on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:16:00 PST