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paul

my life was misspent, don't let me be misunderstood......

About Me

It's your world I just work here. -----------I am nobody; he who speaks loud and says nothing. I am the severed worm who forgives the plow. a mass of conflicting impulses. I think I'm a dramaqueen. And a dork. Life for me is pretty fun.

My Interests

Being awake or being asleep. Dreaming or doing actuall stuff. Jammin' with The Old Ground Band. reading and writing. looking at cool stuff like the ocean or the sky or the highway strip; long drives and adventures. movies and music. hangin' out with good friends.

I'd like to meet:

i don't care

Music:

Ryan Adams / Whiskeytown - My Morning Jacket - Old 97's - Willard Grant Conspiracy - ...The Bad Seeds - Magnetic Fields - Drive By Truckers - Jay Farrar - Ghost Child - Alpha Blondie - the Scorpions - Neko Case - Samhain - Johnny Cash - Bargain Town - Lonely Trojans - the BOSS - Wire - Love Spit Love - ABBA - 23 More Minutes - Iron and Wine - 60 Cycle Hum - Journey - Joy Division - My Bloody Valentine - Jets To Brazil - AC/DC - The Devil's Own - Dinosaur Jr. - Gillian Welch - The Cramps - Violent Femmes - Prince - the Cure - Alejandro Escovedo -and a very long list of etc...

Movies:

Stranger Than Fiction - The Life Aquatic (is my favorite movie in the world right now!) ...- Wings of Desire / Far Away, So Close - Elf - Punch-Drunk Love (All P.T. Anderson movies) - the Indian Runner - Shane - River's Edge - Bottle Rocket (All Wes Anderson movies) - Lost in Translation - Dead Man - Ghost Dog - Starsky & Hutch - Blade Runner - Buffalo '66 - the Eternal Sunshine... - Smoke - Jump Tomorrow - My Best Fiend - Tender Mercies - Gun Crazy (the original) - Donnie Darko -

Television:

King of the Hill - Reno 911 - Tough Crowd

Books:

The Bluest Eye (all Toni Morrison) - Ernest Hemingway -Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Ghassan Kanafani - Samuel Beckett - Sherman Alexie - Raymond Carver - In Watermelon Sugar by R. Brautigan - Illusions - Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus and The Last Man by M. Shelley - Feeding the Animals (all Jodi Johnson) - Possessing the Secret of Joy - Sherwood Anderson - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - What's Eating Gilbert Grape - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (all W. Blake) - Slaughterhouse Five - The Outsiders (all S.E. Hinton) - Trickster Makes this World by Lewis Hyde -

Heroes:

- Calvin Johnson -

My Blog

...in the sun

In the last ten years you have done nothing but wait. You have needed ten big hungry years to be convinced that you have lost your trees, your house, your youth, and your whole village. People have be...
Posted by paul on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:28:00 PST

Hollow...

Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o'clock in the morning.   Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Fa...
Posted by paul on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:32:00 PST

The Sun Also Rises...

I went back upstairs and from the window watched Brett walk up the street to the big limousine drawn up to thr curb under the arc-light. She got in and  started off. I turned around. On...
Posted by paul on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:19:00 PST

the future is a serious matter...

    I would to heaven that I were so much clay,      As I am blood, bone, marrow, passion, feeling-- Because at least the past were pass'd away--     ...
Posted by paul on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:49:00 PST

Bad Luck Card...

Cause you don't love me Is awful, awful hard. Gypsy done showed me My bad luck card. There ain't  no good left In this world left for me. Gypsy  done tole me-- Unlucky as can be. I don't kno...
Posted by paul on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:03:00 PST

happy endings..

So much for endings. Beginings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said...
Posted by paul on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:35:00 PST

the night is not the same as the day

I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exsist, and the night can be ...
Posted by paul on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 06:47:00 PST

If only...

"If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was just a little bit softer." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, He cries to the moon, "If only, if only." -Sachar...
Posted by paul on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:11:00 PST

If an angel out of heaven...

If an angel out of heaven Gives you something else to drink, Thank her for her kind intentions; Go and pour them down the sink.
Posted by paul on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 02:24:00 PST

The room went red as I fell...

The room went red as I fell. It was a dream fall, my body languid and fastidious as to where to land, until the floor became impatient and smashed up to meet me. -R. Ellison  ...
Posted by paul on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:30:00 PST