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Carl

did you just 'raise the roof'? ... but with one hand?

About Me

i'd like to think that the movie "lost weekend" pretty much sums up me, except i think that don birnam had been publlished... so yeah, i drink too much and don't write enough...except lately, i don't drink enough and yet still don't write enough...also...if "in the land of the blind, the man with one eye is king", then i say, "in the land of the assholes, the man with toilet paper is king"... i want to be that man with toilet paper

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

the man who invented sleep

Music:

Jawbreaker, Weakerthans, Screeching Weasel, Mr T Experience, Gunmoll, Billy Bragg, Johnny Cash, Descendents, Fugazi, Bikini Kill, Lucero, Hank Williams Sr., Hot Water Music, Slint, Braid, Pegboy, Lifetime, j page, Cap'n Jazz, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Replacements, Dead Milkmen, Archers of Loaf, Superchunk, Avail, Mountain Goats, Deadwood Divine, Discount, Texas Is the Reason, Promise Ring, Action Patrol, I Hate Myself, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, the Lillingtons, Hellbender, Engine Down, Devo, Elvis Costello, the scaries, sean na na, smoking popes (christ, just be glad i'm not doing this alphabetically, we'd be here all night)

Movies:

movies are like women writers, the majority of them are just fucking awful

Television:

shasta mcnasty, the secret diary of desmond pfiefer, manimal

Books:

Vonnegut Salinger Bukowski Palahniuk Kerouac Updike Faulkner Roth Tabb Cometbus

Heroes:

(see above)

My Blog

when i get old...

so i was just rubbing my beard in the mirror, as i always do when i'm debating whether or not i should trim it, and lo and behold... i found another gray hair.i don't understand it.  i'm not...
Posted by Carl on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:36:00 PST

woke up with this song in my head this morning...

for whatever reason, i've been thinking about the grand soundtrack to life a lot lately.  i don't know, maybe it's just a total bastardization of the "autobiographically organized record collecti...
Posted by Carl on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:11:00 PST

best friends, strangers now...

so maggie and i have broken up.it was wonderful and i don't regret a thing, but yeah...how am i doing?  thank you for asking, i've been better.what happened?  well we agreed it's because i m...
Posted by Carl on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:11:00 PST

the highwayman is on the road again...

so i just finished reading cormac mccarthy's "the road" and i'm still trying to figure out how i feel about it.  the story is basically  a father and son walking to "the coast" in a post-apo...
Posted by Carl on Wed, 16 May 2007 04:03:00 PST

go go scooter boy yeah...

woke up this morning to a wonderful hangover, had my coffee, revised my paper, did a couple stupid things around the house, and headed to wilmington.i was a little early to hand in my paper, so i figu...
Posted by Carl on Wed, 09 May 2007 09:01:00 PST

i hate republicans, i hate democrats, i hate liberals too...

(why am i not writing/editing/researching any of my papers?)i'm pretty sure that by now i have made it abundantly clear that i despise george bush.  if there is any doubt as to the matter, let me...
Posted by Carl on Wed, 02 May 2007 09:25:00 PST

special holiday, only for me...

alright so as per usual, i'm not exactly in the best mood, courtesy of my birthday.but fortunatly, i have found some damned entertaining things as of late...birthday shopping for myself netted me firs...
Posted by Carl on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:16:00 PST

so it goes

this week i've been meaning to write about kerouac and "on the road" and shift the focus onto the idea of art vs. artist and the way tastes change as you grow up and experience things, but then i wake...
Posted by Carl on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:10:00 PST

"goin' against your mind"

anyone who has been around me for any longer then ten or fifteen minutes knows by now that i have a tendency to say really stupid shit.it's not really my fault, i think there's just an occasional disc...
Posted by Carl on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 05:52:00 PST

do you realize...

i keep having all these random ideas for blurbs, but i never get around to writing them.  in all fairness, i blame school.  books and papers (and booze) take up most of my time these days.&n...
Posted by Carl on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:32:00 PST