what im listening to: juana molina – segundo (2003): i really like this stuff. its nice, quiet, real subtle. i dont know why I hadn’t heard of her before. pavement – crooked rain, crooked rain (1994): listened to this in high school and just got it again for nostalgia’s sake. not as good as i [...]

The car is stuck, sighed, and resigned. Its engine trapped helplessly on a bank, the tires sprawling without contact. I was trying to turn around. Later, skin soft and covered with dust, quiet footsteps down the silent dirt road, Laura and I came to a homely wooden shack. Pitbulls outside, junkyard outside, overweight youngsters outside. [...]

Despite Woojay joining the campaign we’re not making any progress here.

Let me explain my living situation to you. I live in a giant loft with two other roomates. There is an upstairs deck-like “mezzanine” level that I live on while the other two guys split the bottom floor. None of us have a 4-wall room of our own, but I have more privacy than the [...]

Laura and I just got back from Los Coyotes Indian Reservation where we were camping and hiking and in general getting the hell out of civilization. I wrote a ridiculous amount in my journal while we were out there and I will punish you all by putting up every single word sometime tomorrow. In the [...]

i seen me some fucked up movies lately. Exotica by Atom Egoyan. Altho Egoyan is commonly compared to Kubrick, this was more like Twin Peaks: they both fucked with me noggin and pushed me closer to that final destination I call “celibacy.” Can’t wait to get there. Then I saw me dirty pretty things. this [...]

A couple weeks ago I posted a recent link saying how surprised I was that MSN owned Slate Magazine was telling its viewers to stop using Internet Explorer. Now, Slashdot tells us, “that Microsoft is in early discussions with five or six media companies over a potential sale of MSN’s online magazine Slate. This comes [...]

I’m listening to de stijl and trying to get tired. Its going to be hard to fall asleep after sleeping thru much of the day. I take David Sedaris’ approach that sleeping is the best way to save money. We got more shows coming up, one on Thursday. We’ve been trying to get ready but [...]

Last week, I think it was Tuesday, Dave and Will and I met up at Mission Gorge to do some rock climbing; my first time out in more than a year. Climbing used to be life itself. There is something about youth, about budding self-realization and defining one’s identity, that can easily create a sorta [...]

No improvement. Still looking for more green.