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The Canyon Behind Her

The World Is SickSICK; (So Kiss Me Quick)!

About Me

I am what I am.
"Now I spend my days in ever-increasingly complicated ways: convincing myself of the rightness of each word I say."
"I'll burn every bridge that I cross and find some beautiful place to get lost."
"I waited for a bus to separate the both of us
And take me off far away from you.
Because my feelings never change a bit
I always feel like shit;
I don't know why, I guess that I 'just do.'"
"Tell me one last thing. Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?"
"Of course it is happening inside your head, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"

"Allow me to introduce to you Zach Beck, the smartest bastard I have ever had the displeasure to come across." -Roshan Patel
'On a bus ride into town, I wondered out loud, "Why am I going to town?"
As I looked around at the billboards and the stores,
I thought, "Why do I look around?"
And I kissed the filthy ground...the first dry spot I found...
I didn't have to wonder why I was laying down.
Before long I was too cold...took a bus back to the station,
I found a letter left by a pay phone with no return contact
And it read like a horn blown by some sad angel,
"Bunny, it was me...it was me who let you down"
It was the shyest attempt I'd ever seen at conversation.
But if I didn't have You as my guide, I'd still wander lost in Sinai,
Counting the plates of cars from out-of-state,
How I could jump in their path as they hurry along!
And You surround me, You're pretty but You're all I can see
Like a thick fog...
If there was no way into God,
I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long.
And St. Cyril's fair always came through the first week of September
But it's already the 19th...and there's no sign of it...
Yet I have a hard time remembering all the things I should remember
And a hard time forgetting all the things that I was supposed to forget.
And, Christ, when You're ready to come back,
Then I think I'm ready for You to come back;
But if You want to stay wherever exactly it is You are,
That's okay, too...it's, it's really none of my business.
And if I didn't have You as my guide, I'd still wander lost in Sinai
Or down by the tracks watching trains go by
To remind me: there are places that aren't here.
And I had a well but all the water left,
So I'll go ask Your forgiveness with every breath,
And if there was no way into God,
I would never have laid in this grave of a body...so long, dear.'
You Are Edward From "Edward Scissorhands."
You are very shy and often misunderstood. Innocent, sweet, and artistic, you like to pass your days by daydreaming and expressing yourself through the arts. You are a truly unique individual. Unfortunately, you are quite lonely, and few people truly understand you.
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My Interests

I enjoy:
most diet beverages, correcting grammatical mistakes, pretty music, literature, acting, questioning modern ideas / ethics / actions, etc., asking questions that cannot be answered, and changing the perceptions of others.

I believe:
that all beliefs are based on material / observations that is quite difficult, if not impossible to verify / certify, yet is considered to be true because of majorities; that thoughts are tangible matter capable of being shared / felt; that all modern inventions will eventually crack, that the technological world will fold, and that the human race will resort back to living formerly demonstrated in previous eras; that nothing can be proven; and that the world must be changed (see 'Who I'd like to meet').

I'd like to meet:

Elliott Smith,

"We've never lectured or insisted that everyone should believe the same things that we do; instead we've pleaded and pleaded and pleaded -- we've thrown these records into the ocean like so many hopeless transmissions, praying and hoping that some people would get the point, the simple simple simple point; that the world we live in is lost, violent, and obscene; that the relations we have with each other and ourselves are mostly alienated, that together we need to begin figuring out how to fix ourselves, our communities, our world." - Godspeed You! Black Emperor,

Music:

A Silver Mt. Zion + At the Drive-In + Bright Eyes + Coheed and Cambria + Convalesce + Cursive + Dashboard Confessional + Desaparecidos + Die Cellist + Do Make Say Think + Dredg + Elliott Smith + Engine Down + Explosions in the Sky + Fly Pan Am + Further Seems Forever + Godspeed You! Black Emperor + the Good Life + Interpol + Justin Beck + Low + the Mars Volta + Mates of State + Merica + mewithoutYou + Mogwai + Murder by Death + Park Avenue Music + the Postal Service + Radiohead + Rilo Kiley + Saves the Day + the Smiths + Thrice + Thursday

Books:

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart + Lance Armstrong: It's Not About the Bike + Albert Camus: The Stranger + F.Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby + Aldous Huxley: Brave New World + Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest + John Knowles: A Separate Peace + Floyd Landis: Positively False J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter Series + J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye + J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy + John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces + Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse

Heroes:

Lance Armstrong + Brittany + Justin + Johnny Depp + Elliott Smith + Linda Stansfield + Aaron Weiss

My Blog

As of 4/5, I am...

... Listening to the following:13 Blues for Thirteen Moons- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La BandAlbum of the Year- The Good LifeBurst and Bloom- CursiveEither/Or- Elliott Smith...
Posted by The Canyon Behind Her on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:58:00 PST

An Honest Assessment

    At this point in my life, after eighteen-plus years of living, after experiencing some ups and downs, after over twelve years of schooling, after everything I've learned and forgott...
Posted by The Canyon Behind Her on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:25:00 PST

As of 11/4, I am...

...Listening to the following:Famous Women of the Western World- MericaFrom a Basement on the Hill- Elliott SmithHe Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms- A Sil...
Posted by The Canyon Behind Her on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:52:00 PST

As of 6/6, I am...

... Listening to the following: Catch For Us The Foxes- mewithoutYouDomestica- CursiveEl Cielo- DredgFamous Women of the Western World- MericaHappy Hollow- Cursive...
Posted by The Canyon Behind Her on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:18:00 PST

As of 5/11, I am...

...Listening to the following: Album of the Year- The Good LifeBorn Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward- The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La BandYanqui U.X.O.- Godspeed You! Black...
Posted by The Canyon Behind Her on Sat, 12 May 2007 09:06:00 PST

As of 4/4, I am...

... Listening to the following: [A-->B] Life- mewithoutYouCatch For Us The Foxes- mewithoutYouEl Cielo- Dredg"Babylon Was Built On Fire"- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band"G...
Posted by The Canyon Behind Her on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:51:00 PST

As of 3/2, I am...

...Listening to the following: Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward- The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La BandHappy Hollow- CursiveLift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven...
Posted by The Canyon Behind Her on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:44:00 PST

As of 2/6, I am...

... Listening to the following: Album of the Year- The Good LifeBorn Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward- The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La BandSingles- The Smiths"I Just Want t...
Posted by The Canyon Behind Her on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:17:00 PST

As of 1/9, I am...

...Listening to the following: He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms- A Silver Mt. ZionFamous Women of the Western World- Merica   'It's nobler to never...
Posted by The Canyon Behind Her on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:16:00 PST

'06: In Review!

As I waved 'good-bye' to the year 2006, I thought about the matters that occurred in the previous year. I came to the conclusion that 2006 was a year marked by bad news, and one of the least...
Posted by The Canyon Behind Her on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:26:00 PST