Yes, I am.
My time at the University of Kentucky ended and my self-discovery by personal definition by occupation journey faked to fake completion, I am a college-degreed waiter.
My emotions surrounding this situation vary by the day, if not the hour. It’s a job. It’s only rarely a bad job. Last Saturday (10/11), a double [...]
I took the day off work in preparation for the vacation the Sims family leaves on tomorrow morning (laundry, etc.).
Well I did something this morning that isn’t really something I’d usually do, and that would be to turn on Joe Scarborough’s morning show on MSNBC. Well Joe’s absent today, with a man and woman [...]
Driving back from Target today (I bought a super-hippie-style soy wax Eucalyptus/Patchouli candle), I popped in Mike Doughty’s newest record Golden Delicious, which, incidentally, I can bring myself neither to love nor to completely write off.
And one of the main reasons I can’t write it off is the album’s opening track, Fort Hood, a tear-jerking [...]
I can’t seem to get what I want to say into concise lyrics right now. And I have a lot I want to say.
And then there’s the fact that I’m writing better guitar parts than I may have ever written. It’s almost certain that I’m trying too hard. This tends to happen. A great deal [...]
Jeff Tweedy sang:
I shake like a toothache
When I hear myself sing
Though I’m not totally sure how toothaches shake, I’m giving Jeff artistic license here. He’s spot-on. It’s incredibly tough to see one’s own work. I’m not really ever fully satisfied with the words I write, be it in my journal, on this blog, or in [...]
It initially seems redundant (and perhaps pretentious) for me to write about my writing.
But maybe it isn’t when I write about my lack of writing.
The band Widespread Panic just bores me to fountains of tears, but John Bell had it right when he penned the line:
Inspiration
Oh she barely waits a moment
I’ve had a [...]
So I’m in a really strange spot right now. I don’t know how to articulate it. Lots of nerves, lots of excitement, lots of regret.
Ever since I’ve been back from Europe, I’ve been mostly bored to tears. There’s so much interesting about not knowing. Not knowing where to go or really how to get [...]
Some people, they say, can’t see the forest for the trees.
Lately, I haven’t seen the trees for the power lines.
And the power lines have me in a rigid state of maddening writer’s block. So here’s me trying to break it with (likely highly edited by its eventual posting) stream-of-consciousness writing/ranting/whatever.
So these power lines. [...]
First things first. Eddie Money was the purveyor of multiple glorious pop hits from the late 70’s through the early 90’s. God Bless ya Eddie, for keeping it so real and showing (in your name no less!) that you were fully about the bread, even in the 80’s when said skrilla was not [...]
Sometimes, “Hot damn!” is about the only phrase that really describes the situation correctly. It conspicuously makes no logical sense. All discussion of a literally burning Hell aside, nothing about “damn” is hot and nothing about “hot” damn. It is an incomplete sentence, there is neither a subject nor an object. [...]