Tuesday, January 31, 2006

English major's be damned

You now know a contributer of the english language


http://greatie.urbanup.com/1607669

Interrim

I think im going to save every little poem I write down in my notebook during classes/breaks. Some people doodle? I write poetry. Weird? maybe.

It's becoming increasingly evident that pyschology is painfully close minded. I have and always will believed that some things just cant be decided by some study.


Today we discussed a study regarding healing involving prayer, and this 19 year old kid ( I can say that now) mouth's off about how every study involving prayer must be sponsered by a christian conglomerate, and he doesnt see why alternative medicene should even be practiced. I quickly ripped into him. I almost felt bad doing it because it was so damn easy. But then I was thinking. Is this going to be the majority of my classes? Is psychology full of close minded individuals who believe nothing but studies stamped signed and delivered?

Annoying. during break I went to the lunch area and just wrote until I felt a little bit less human. felt better. then had some water.

more later.

Sunday, January 29, 2006

I feel like being incredibly sarcastic,

this happens when im incredibly happy, and im not being sarcastic about that.

So what can I be sarcastic about. I knew I needed a subject. Something that couldnt possibly offend anyone, regardless of race, creed,sex, or preference. Something that could shake the grounds of humanity as we know it and end tyranny worldwide! SOMETHING SPECTULAR! something politically correct... I need to slam something both hated and non hated by all.

I got it.

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Tofu.

First of all, if your eating tofu, you might as well be eating air blown out of a midget. this stuff tastes like nothing. literally. it is nothing. its unflavored beans. Your eating white snot. If anyone tells me they like tofu, I assume they also like limbo, because consuming it is about as accomplishing as being stuck between heaven and hell. Or maybe catscans. you like those too? I was in one once. you know what it tasted like? NOTHING.

If you like general chao's bean curd? you like the sauce they use. you dont like the bean curd. HOW CAN YOU LIKE SOMETHING THAT TASTES LIKE NOTHING! DO I SAY I LIKE WATER? NO! EVERYONE NEEDS WATER! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP LYING TO YOURSELF.

ahem. better. I feel better. dont you?

tofu is the spam of the protein world. and yes, spam is in the protein world. but I give spam more respect, because at least it physically has a taste. you dont give a gold star to the kid in crutch's that couldnt volunteer, you give it to the one that did the 100 meter dash and went two meters, then stopped because he realized the physics behind holding your finger under a straw filled with water. he may have spent the rest of his life writing a book about it, but at least he tried to make it look like a run!

I cant give silence a grammy. so dont give tofu a taste award. got it? If tofu were a person, it would be a mime, because i could flavor it with anything, and thats what it would taste like. do you like eating mimes? sick bastards.

Onto Gilbert Godfreed.

He's not a comic. He's a guy who talks funny and complains. I suspect aliens implanted permenant hemmroids on him at the age of 12, and his voice adjusted itself.
If you say Gilbert Godfreed is a comic, then you need a parachute, because im going to kick you off Mt. Everest. Theres a reason the man could never be a main character. BECAUSE HE HAS NO CHARACTER.

Onto Bowling and Poker

Not a sport. A hobby. again, not a sport. If I see this on ESPN2 one more time im going to assume the producer is a monkey with down syndrome. If you recieve an injury bowling, you etiher stubbed your toe, or found out you have clemedia. either way, its not a real injury. and its not a real sport. stop acting like its one,world. same goes for poker. if I wanted to watch a bunch of men tense for hours over small pieces of paper, i'd watch congress in session, or a bunch of fat guys trying to make out whether there realy is a girl's phone number on their dollar bill. Whoever wins poker matches must have let gas as a kid, because the key skill in poker is not showing any emotion whatsoever, no matter how smelly your hand gets. Hah, yeah, I made a funny. STOP SHOWING IT ESPN!

Oprah

Shut up. you endorsed the wrong book, and then had an hour show about endorsing the wrong book. your like Nike without class. Then you blamed everyone but you for a good half an hour, for something you endorsed. good call. next time eat a twinkie during the show. then at least i'll know your genuinely doing something out of stress.


Second hand smoke.

Get out of the way.

Bush lovers

oh now your just being stubborn.

Chingy

thurr is not a word. neither are half the things you say, whether or not you intend them on being words in the first place, but still.

Myspace fights

heres a shovel. take it to the real world.

Simple Plan

................. I'd say something, but then youd respond and my mirrors would shatter.

Any music I cant hear the lyrics to

No.

Lindsay Lohan

You were cute, then you forgot how to eat.


Hopefully I have subdued my sarcastic side with this list.

hopefully.

and this is the shining example of love


This is an advertisement for a matchmaking site


I'm glad america hasnt descended into the recessive vain pit that it..oh wait. it has.
apparently finding love now requires red panties and a 'be mine' removable top. And here I thought it required butterflies and a connection. man , whenever i think I know the goings down of my heart, im always reminded how some things really are.

Randomness

I think my journal would make any self respecting pyschologist send me straight to the looney bin. And I love that.

Low -key saturdays are not that bad. Especially when your nursing a hangover and a half. It was nice to get a full nights sleep. part of me wants to continue sleeping all day , waking up to some nice music, but maybe I'll do something constructive like read a book or write a poem. I dunno. I have infinite possibilities today, and I love that :)

I'm still on a high from yesterday. Which beats any normal high you can get. Trust me. ive tried. I feel sad sometimes when someone has absolutely no idea how great they are. I just want to scream in their face 'HEY, GREATIE! COME OVER HERE'.

I have yet to write the poem of the century, but im trying. the mood is building, im just trying to find the right words. the perfect words.

I feel a visit from uconn is inevitable over the next couple months, mainly because I genuinely miss the people. There are some greaties over there that need to be schooled. Once i finish schooling myself, that is. In the meantime though, nothing beats a crunkfest at westconn. I dont try to leave at 6 AM either when my key arent on me, which is an improvement.

Saturday, January 28, 2006

So wrong, yet so right

Poetry

I feel a good one coming on. just need some time to organize my thoughts in the middle of a hangover.

You know, looking through the archives of /simonsays, my poetry really is all over the place. The craziest events inspire me to write. I dont know. I hope it stays that way. I guess it makes sense, I mean I've been all over the place the last two years as well. My eyes are starting to focus though. and i'm liking the higher resolution.

Friday, January 27, 2006

Hours

Vanilla so rock's out chocolate's face.

So, last night I had quite the experience. Got stared down by three women walking down my road while I was outside in my boxer's, rummaging through my trunk for a spare keyboard after I spilled water on both my old keyboard and my pants. (Editers note: DONT DO THIS IN JANUARY) Who walks around in 20 degree weather at 11:30 at night? Furthermore, who goes outside in their boxers to get something from their car at the same time.

10 pm on = no pants time. This formula is unbeatable. Figure this. anyone around you from that time on either wants you to be without clothes anyway, or wouldnt mind you walking around in underwear.

I watched The Office last night. hilarious. I like how their late night show's all are in widescreen. definitely enhances the experience. Then watched American Beauty. such a good movie. Stayed up till ...4? woke up at 9.. five hours of sleep, huzah.

Sigh.

see above.

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Life deprived ~

okay so the following post might be a little sad, so before we do this.



kittens









It's an.. interesting feeling when you almost die. What they say about everything and everyone important to you flashing before your eyes? True. Wishing you could utter every compliment and positive four letter word youve ever wanted to say to someone?
True

Since 15. I've "almosted" three times. Once in sophmore year of high school when I had an allergic reaction to god knows what combined with a major asthma attack. According to my doctor "barely made it" had to spend a week in the hospital.

Second time shortly after graduation. I had an air pocket in my lungs, which they originally mistreated until the point where I literally couldnt breathe beyond a fraction of a normal breath. Luckily my doctor had the insight to do another x-ray. another week in the hospital.

Third time was my fault, completely. had a massive anxiety attack with an asthma attack, and for a good two weeks kept on feeling just... not alive. it's hard to define this without giving someone the sensations, which I would never want to do.

Maybe this is why whenever I have the urge to say something to someone, I do it. No more regrets. This is why I look people in the eyes when I speak to them. I will no longer be reserved. I cant be. I cant waste my time on people, places, or things that wont benefit myself or at least not be sacrificial. This is why I got inked without a second thought.

I need to make this whole life thing meaningful. Maybe this just occurs to me more than other people. But I dont care. I want to be intense in every situation im in. I want to give butterflies or impact someone, in any way possible...

I wasnt visited very often while I had these hospital stays. But I prefer it that way. I dont like someone seeing me weak and attached to tubes and all ..bleh. the first time, my mom stayed with me the entire week, and stayed on the couch. Second time around, I had a super NES sent to my room and just played donkey kong when i wasnt passed out. Third time? well it was mostly at home, but I spent the majority of my one day stay listening to music. St. Vincents in bridgeport,CT now has ipod's to give their patients. how cool of an idea is that?




What if you give someone your all, and it still isnt enough. that is such a scary thought. Does it mean your not capable of providing sufficient attention and affection, or does it mean the other person just wants too much from you. I'm not sure. I want to say that I'll be able to provide for the person I eventually spend my life with, both emotionally,financiallly, romantically, and spiritually, but the thought of coming up short in any of those area's scares the hell out of me. I believe my correct belief in this is "if someone doesnt think what I give them is enough, then they can go bleep! themselves" its just a matter of adopting that policy.

just a thought, or several. lost count





for good measure

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

On a lighter note

Gwen Stacey is going to be in the new Spiderman movie

of course it figures as soon as he gets the girl, hollywood wants to throw in another for the dreaded love triangle effect.

100nth post - classtime!

one hundred posts. jeeze. time sure has flown.


The best part about life is knowing that you can do anything with anyone at any time of the day, and not owe a single ounce of explanation to anyone but yourself. there are two exceptions to this

- Relationships
- Death

We're such an open ended species but we constrict ourselves for other people and limit our true potential for worry about what others think. I dont know or even believe that it's ever going to change. But for once I can say, that other people can fuck themselves (no offense to any 'other people' reading this :) ). A message to anyone who comes across this post, never , ever sacrifice time, energy, or yourself for another unless you absolutely know that it's worth it, or you want to. I'm a big believer in having faith, and even doing something selflessly, but as long as it doesnt limit yourself as a person or in growing spiritually or individually.

Theres only one rule in life. Always be at peace with what you do. Having doubt is the catalyst that causes so much guilt and regret when neither feeling is ever necessary.

Great stars dont need to advertise. Thats why they have so many others around them.

Sipping Amaretto

Today has been a rough day, for absolutely no reason. I had a great day until I got home, but afterwards its like everything that causes me stress just occured. I need to get this degree so I can move the fuck out and experience what you 20 somethings call "freedom".

To quote A little show called "mr. show with bob and dave"

"You just dont understand me man. We're from totally different generations! Your from the late 70's, I'm from the mid 70's! Stop oppressing me!"

or something like that. thats close enough.

In other news. ive discovered all of my pants now fall down if I dont have a belt. hot. guess we're replacing 35 inch with 33 or 34. go go gadget not eating late. two more inches and im done. I dont want to be stick man :P

My flaws are so subtle, and thats not me being egotistical. I feel like everything I do wrong, or everything about me thats flawed, is something no one finds out about until much later, and then they want to either fix me or are dissappointed. I cant whistle. I stumble sometimes. I spill things occasionally. I multi task to the point where i lose track of what im doing. And I say what im feeling or what I did to someone at the spur of the moment, and then if I change my mind or do the opposite, they assume im lying. In a fight today, someone im really close to said "your totally the guy that would cheat on his girlfriend", and I think thats the farthest imaginable from the truth. The fact of the matter is, I would rather inflict pain on myself than do such a thing. It's happened to me in both relationships ive been in (even the two week one, dunno, guess they dont like to waste time). It's the worst insult ive ever been handed to me. im trying not to let it get to me, but its just one of those things said that you dont forget.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

New Blog title

I like. you like? I like.

EVER!

So I was minding my own buisness in the cafeteria when I hear a girls voice

"DC totally sucks. Marvill has obviously better comic books"

My interest is peaked. I continue reading. Couple minutes go by, I then hear

"I really wanted to go to the final fantasy musical concert back in may"

My ears twitch. I take a swig of my powerade. Continue on minding my own buisness

"I guess im kinda a nerd for roleplaying, but its pretty fun. My boyfriend and I do it online sometimes"

Twitch. Swig. Knee tapping.

"It's not that bad working at gamestop. And it gives me time to draw some more anime"

I jump up in the middle of the cafeteria, and face this chick and I pretty much shout

YOU ARE THE COOLEST GIRL EVER!

It just so happens she's next to one of my friends, so I try to adjust from the entire school body in a 50 ft radius staring at me and pull up a seat. And during the next half an hour I indulge in the dorkiest conversation imaginable. It was so refreshing to just talk nerd. I dont get many chances to, well without eyes being rolled at me.

and her boyfriend looks like frodo baggins, height exclusive. I'm talking near legal midget proportions. Irony rocks. Anyway, I get a 15 percent discount from now on when I shop for video games, so I consider that a fairly sweet deal. as well as the occasional freelance nerd talk now and then. She looks like an elf too, so I get the added bonus of pretending princess zelda is keeping me company. GOD, I am a nerd.

Oh, class was okay. :P If I have to bear witness to one more syllabus explanation im going to bang my head against the wall, repeatedly.

I think video games are my weakness. My maturity level drops about 80 points whenever im in the vicinity of them being mentioned,played or sold. Of course that could be summed up in "dude, you got a tattoo of one on your back"

Meh. nap, then enjoying the rest of my day. maybe a run mixed in. throw in any nerd stories you can think of, so I dont feel so .....dorky.

Morning Thoughts

Kill the messenger.

Sunshine hits her, in the way only Clark Gable could accurately describe. The moonlight accents the slopes of her cheeks and every square inch i've imagined my lips visiting. The vacancy sign is there for me to find, until then im stuck with my instincts. How can I trust such a trite concept as my own feelings. They've betrayed me, like Benedict Arnold, except they burned the ship and fled long ago. For everytime ive been hurt, and sometimes just because they could. I need to fill out one of those contractual obligations to not get fucked with again, so what ive been keeping inside can now be let out without worry. No one violates a contract.

It's morning, and im waking up without a warm body to clasp onto. 98.6 degrees less to thermally warm these hollow sheets. It's going to be that way for a while, I think. Oh but how much I would give for a night without such cold, where sweat reigns and desheveled hair shares the throne. It's said that everyone has an obstacle in life, why does mine include finding someone to share my life with. I'm so young with visions of grandeur and desires equally as lavish... But it cant just be anyone though.

No, I cant comprimise. And i'll be sending the rain your way. Because its time for me to shine. And we cant all have our dreams come true. Then they wouldnt be dreams, but just another checklist to fulfill on our way to get gas. Why couldnt my visions be full of something like a balloon, those are easy to find. Instead im slipping into you, quickly and with reckless abandon. I cant control the flood, and I really dont want to. With every water droplet reflecting your eyes so crisp like the summer and the wind echoing your scent so sweet like autumn afternoons. I think I'll take the rain back my way. And learn to deal.

Its what we all have to do in the end, anyway.

Monday, January 23, 2006

The way the light hits her makes me smile

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Sunday, January 22, 2006

Sunday Mornings

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Friday, January 20, 2006

Like usual

like usual I have to follow up a meaningful post with something generally either sarcastic or trite. that being said.

- There was a peer bong championship, and the two winners recieved 50,000 dollars. ...
too bad the IRS cant audit the gene pool.

- Activists are worried of the plutonium being shipped on the largest (biggest waste) of a mission to pluto by nasa. so first your worried about where atomic waste is being stored. now you care its being shipped 10,000,000,000 light years away? read a book, go out, drink cyanide, because they obviously have nothing to do with themselves.

- Pornstar rates. I know the majority of people who read this are women, but sometimes I have to post a 'guy' thing, and even though recently ive stopped watching porn, but heres some facts that make you go "hmmm"

- women get paid more than men, their rates go from 500-2500 a day for basic stuff, but other "factor's" raise the rate (la casting rates)
1. girl swallowing is an extra 500-1000 depending on the amount of guys involved and the experience of the girl
2. anal. extra thousand. (who woulda figured)
3. DV (if you dont know what it is, put two and two together) = 1500 a shot
4. DVDA (which apparently does exist) a clean 5 G's

- something interesting. men often get their start in gay porn, and move onto straight action after a year of experience (ouch?) And often they have a contractual obligation to get 'clipped'. Women are offered a signing bonus for getting their tubes tied.
- Most adult film corporations do not pay first time actor's . It's only if you are in a sucessful film are you offered a contract. must suck huh? ba -zing
- 50,000 men a year try out to be in porn, compared to a mere 8,000 women (USA figures)
- an estimated 90,000 home movies are made a year, according to an FHM survey. ladies, watch those stuffed animals in the room.
- Jenna Jameson holds the record for amount of men she's had sex with at an astounding 2,200. This, according to her biography, includes off the air numbers.
- Peter North comes in second at 1700 ish women he's banged. this of course does not include his 3 years in the gay porn industry (um ouch?)

okay, thats enough of that

- Average age people in america lose their virginity, 17. britain? 15. Africa. 12.

- I represent 2.33333 percent of the 21 year old virgin population around the globe . 1.4 percent of those are women. so in actuality I'm more like .9 percent of the population. im a rarity ladies!

onto another topic

• 0.3 percent of all road accidents in Canada involve a moose.
• 13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.
• 40 per cent of women have hurled footwear at a man.
• 90 per cent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
• You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
• The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic lights to change.
• Approximately 97.3978271128 per cent of all statistics are made up.
• Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40,320 ways to rearrange the other eight reindeer.
• The average 4-year-old asks over 100 questions a day. (including why?)
- 5%-10% of StarTrek fans may be addicted to the show and suffer withdrawl symptoms if they miss an episode.
- Most toilets flush in E flat
- It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a tootsie pop
- It it illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California
- there are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a chess game.
- The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
- More people die annually from donkeys than plane crashes
- Only 6 people in the whole world have died from moshing
-If everyone China lined up infront of you and you started walking past, you would never see the end due to their reproductive rate.
- All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
> More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
>> Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
- so does reading this list

Thursday, January 19, 2006

This goes out to the ones..

To "my father wanted me to major in physics"

That was one of the most beautiful pieces of writing I have ever gazed upon


Blink with me
Sullen nights given a new light
Magnificence may betray
But starting your own life may leave behind
A trail of stardust in your way


I chose pyschology because I would be involved with helping people. I was originally an english lit major, but, I found that boring and uninvolved, with myself often losing focus or interest. I wouldnt appreciate it for what it is. I love open ended avenues, and while poetry is one of my foremost loves, teaching someone how to properly use periods and vowels isnt for me, it must be wonderful for some people, but i just am too ansy and impatient. I want to be out there on the front lines, helping everyone with everything. To explain why.. well. I could throw out that I love making people smile, or I think happiness is one of the most underrated and underachieved emotions in our society. But mostly, I want to say I made a difference in someones life.

You are absolutely right, college will never prepare me for the choices I'm going to have to make before its all said and done. Its a template, a start for me to forge my own destiny. what im doing ten years from now will probably in no way be anything like I imagine it in my current state of being. And that makes me happy. Because I feel like theres a point in your life when you must abandon any piece of advice ever given to you, any sugggestion, any logical resolution, and just find out from experience what makes you happy. Not your friends, not your family, but you and you alone. Damn the day that I waste months of myself on another person again. I cant, and I wont. I'm too young to believe in what's fed to me in a corporate spoon. I want my immature nights of dreaming and always wanting more. I'm terrified of settling. I want halo and poetry and self accomplishment without masochism. I want less givens and more hopeful's. I cant be a stargazer for the rest of my life, eventually im going to have to choose the right constellation to create here on earth.
But god be damned
Let me be the last one on the field, with his blanket and binochular's, and let me find the most wonderful shooting star, while everyone else has gone inside to their beds and much more than security blankets. Maybe then I can walk back home, kicking stones and grinning, knowing exactly what I want in life. And never being able to sleep it off.


But why?
Well why not?

This post ..

this post was about halo, but im keeping it for the comment stefanie wrote :P

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Here's to the nights ????????

have you ever thought back to high school and how constrained you were? I think if I was to make a time machine and attend a class, the first time I was told to raise my hand before speaking or to have to ask to go to the bathroom, I'd promptly tell the teacher to go fuck themselves. I can hardly take told what to do now by family, let alone some stranger. I'm sure the role reversal will be interesting when I begin subsitute teaching. Maybe then I'll have sympathy for the faculty that had to deal with me....... naaaaaaaah. I still remember this one teacher, who actually called me one day " a lost soul", and that will always stick in my mind, not because it hurt, but because I just stared at this man, in his mid sixties, nursing a bad back, in the same job for 45 years, telling me im the one lost. I just grinned back and went back to reading whatever book it was at the time that was under my binder.

An ode' to a certain someones journal mentioning of quantum mechanics. The greatest thing about it? Probably one of the most open ended sciences. According to quantum mechanics in the most basic of forms

- Nothing is real
- The world around you is completely manipulative (see point 4)
- Objects will only exist on this plane of reality because you want them to
- Manipulation is sardonically easy.
- Has very similar ties with daoism and yoga

The worst thing about it? If you choose to believe in this science, then pretty much 60-70 percent of what you learned in high school is moot and obsolete.

I think philosophy majors should be able to become official fillabusters for the US congress. I just finished reading a book that took the line 'there is no spoon' from the matrix and turned it into a 300 page analysis of the human perception. This is not to make fun of the most "the paper this diploma was written on is worth more than the actual diploma" major, I in fact love reading about philosophy. I just would never devote my life to it.

Qualifications for me wasting my time on something

- It makes me laugh
- It makes me happy
- It gets me somewhere in life
- I can turn it into a living
- It gets me laid (obviously not a very sucessful point being as im a virgin)
- it enriches my life
- seemingly I like to help people as well, so theres one

I think philosophy would qualify for.. .. well only the last point. Its always interesting to read about abstract viewpoints of the human pysche. I just would rather spend my time learning how to fix a mind rather than figuring out if a tree can produce noise to birds when a human isnt around to hear it.

Oh, and a special challenge for Verity

"How old are you, my pretty little miss,
How old are you, my honey?"
She answered to him with a lovin' smile
"I'll be sixteen come Sunday,
Be sixteen come Sunday."

"Come and go with me, my pretty little miss,
Come and go with me, my honey.
Take you where the grass grows green,
You never will want for money,
You never will want for money.

"Pull off, pull off them high-heeled shoes
All made of Spanish leather.
Get behind me on my horse
And we'll ride off together,
We'll both go off together."

Well, she pulled off them high-heeled shoes
Made of Spanish leather.
Got behind him on his horse
And they rode off together,
They both rode off together.


Name thy song!!

Oh, the gentlemen are talking and the midnight moon is on the riverside,
They're drinking up and walking and it is time for me to slide.
I live in another world where life and death are memorized,
Where the earth is strung with lovers' pearls and all I see are dark eyes.

A cock is crowing far away and another soldier's deep in prayer,
Some mother's child has gone astray, she can't find him anywhere.
But I can hear another drum beating for the dead that rise,
Whom nature's beast fears as they come and all I see are dark eyes.

bonus points for this one :P

Brought to you by the letter H

So I ordered 10 dollars worth of chinese food today.. damn. forty dollars short

Someone add a Ba zing for me

I thought today how amazingly consistant chinese restaurants are at keeping their employee's 100 percent asian. Almost every other ethnic restaurant ive been to has had someone not specific of that culture working. And then I thought of something else. Ive never seen a mexican work at Taco Bell. Not once. Not even on a fluke. I think I have a better chance of seeing big bird in a porn than seeing a mexican making my grilled stuff burrito.

It's raining outside again. special props to the 2005-06 winter for being spectacularly bipolar.

I want this shirt.





God, im a dork.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Its great to learn (because knowledge is power!)

I used to only read fiction, then I loved comedy, then philosophy, now?

pretty much everything. I refuse to quit reading because then I feel like my IQ is going to drop to around 75 and you'll be seeing me with a box of chocolates at the bus station.

Next book on my list : Earthbound. self titled an erotic ghost story. but much deeper than that. Written by Richard Matheson, same guy who did "what dreams may come".

After that I think a reread of hitchhikers guide is due. Then I have to finish off Catch 22. Anyone got a good book to suggest?

Monday, January 16, 2006

Wonderful lyrics

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw you face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.
You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
There must be an angel with a smile on her face,
When she thought up that I should be with you.
But it's time to face the truth,
I will never be with you.


- beautiful. james blunt.

awesome lyrics, just something about this song gets me. selfless love declaration? I dont know.


something else that bothers me. There was a guy on the news today that believes martin luther king day should be removed as a national holiday. To prove this, he lists four or five affairs that the man had while he was venturing out during the civil rights movement. He also (this was proven a while ago) cites examples of him plagerizing while he was working for his doctorate. To which I have to say? Who cares. I can name at least two flaws in every hero in existance, down to legends. Why do people like to drudge up pointless shit. Just because the man had flaws doesnt take away from any of his accomplishments.

Yay

So my poetry site is now linked from poetry.com. I feel pretty good about that, but all it took was me emailing them my blog and them determining its suitable for all ages... guess they skipped over the erotic poem, oh well. I'd like to thank everyone whose left comments on that journal , makes me feel pretty good whenever I read one.


that movie "if only" was very sweet, though you could tell they were aiming for the tear jerker moments. still, I was impressed for a made for tv flick.

I'm finding myself listening to certain songs on repeat, and finding inspiration within when I write. I dont mean copying the lyrics, but just picturing the mindset whoever wrote the song was in.

Anyways, just another manic monday. I technically have a lot of shit to do today. Well, not a lot. get my glasses fixed and go to the gym. maybe do some writing and clean up this room which has gotten very messy during break. I also need to buy some school books. and I consider this a lot. Its times like this when I wonder if im ever going to be ready for the real world, a job 6 days a week with 10-12 hour shifts. and if I do end up working at a hospital, im sure I'll end up being mega busy. I guess its all in the perspective your in.

This morning I woke up at 7 and watched "jersey girl" which I enjoyed. I wish they had more character development for liv tyler, but I guess the story was more about ben afleck and his daughter. Then I caught the tail end of "only you" which I didnt like as much as I used to.


I have no clue where this poem is going. and im not even sure it has continuity. "shrugs" oh well. gotta work on it tomorrow or something.

Sunday, January 15, 2006

hm

Watching "If only" this movie on ABC family. It's one of those "Appreciate the things you have in life before its too late", or ideally taking one of my favorite movies "the family man" and making them single and ten years younger. But its been a while since ive seen a good romantic movie, so hoppefully it'll pull through.

things ive done this weekend

- Have mother nature prove me a jackass. On friday, I said "remember when it used to snow on christmas" , now that the roads are shitty as hell, I definitely remember. thanks irony.
- Patch things up with a friend. yay team.
- Read in bed all day while listening to most of the songs on the "awww" list.
- Patch together a bed in the middle of a snowstorm.

It's been a good weekend. And this movie is slowly becoming very cool.

Saturday, January 14, 2006

"awww list revamped!"

Official count. added in from Megan's/Luisa's journal. Contributions from Ti, both stephanies. 250 dead even. I counted repeats, just means you should get the wrong and take both hints :P (though i think i only counted about 5 repeats) Addin's from a couple random emails and my friend brittany.

taking more... jesus. we all listen to some awwwww music.

edit: now 350

by the way, this is just for everyone on MSN. If I didnt add you on my contacts list, dont take offense, I'm used to AIM where you dont need to do that to talk to someone. Also, I kind of leave msn on sometimes and just go out, again, because AIM has an idle timer and customized away messages, so im much more keen on that program than MSN. until now. your all added....suckers :P



1) All Cried Out- Allure
2) Somewhere Only We Know- Keane
3) Always Be My Baby- Mariah Carey
4) I Dreamed A Dream- ‘Fantine’ Les Miserables
5) Jesse- Janis Ian
6) You Can Still Be Free- Savage Garden
7) All I Know- Art Garfunkle
8) Baby Don’t You Break My Heart Slow- Vonda Sheppard
9) Streets Of Philadelphia- Bruce Springstein
10) Teenager Of The Year- LoTel
11) Bright Eyes- Simon Garfunkle
12) Home Again- Hootie and the Blowfish
13) Don’t Speak- No Doubt
14) Unlovable- Darren Hayes
15) Hello- Evanescence
16) House of Cards- The Seekers
171) I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song- Jim Croce
18) Lost Without You- Delta Goodrem
19) If I Were You- Kasey Chambers
20) Late Night Grande Hotel- Nanci Griffith
21) Like Toy Soldiers- Eminem
22) Lions Teeth- The Mountain Goats
23) Losing My Religion- REM
24) Make Heaven Wait- Guy Sebastian
25) When The War Is Over- Cold Chisel
26) Magic- Ben Folds Five
27) No Bravery-James Blunt
28) There You’ll Be- Faith Hill
29) Nobody’s Home- Avril Lavign
30) Of A Broken Heart- Zwan
31) Sad Lisa- Cat Stevens
32) On My Own- ‘Epponine’ Les Miserbales
33) Not For All The Love In The World- The Thrills
34) Letters To God- Box Car Racer
35) Rinse- Vanessa Carlton
36) Wasn’t It Good- Tina Arena
37) Secretly- Skunk Anansie
38) Silence- Delerium/Sarah McLachlan
39) Untitled (how could this happen to me?)-Simple Plan
40) Special Two- Missy Higgins
41) Round Here- Counting Crowes
42) Smoke- Natalie Imbruglia
43) Run For Cover- Sugababes
44) Someday, Someday- Thirsty Merc
45) Stay Together For The Kids- Blink 182
46) Stole- Kelly Rowland
47) Two Beds And a Coffee Machine- Savage Garden
48) You Were Meant For Me- Jewel
49) Viva Forever- Spice Girls
50) Wires- Athlete
51) Stay With Me" by Josh Gracin
52) Everything" by Lifehouse
53) Home" by Michael Buble
54) Cupid by 112
55) Not a Day Goes By Lonestar
56) You're Beautiful by James Blunt
57) More Than Words by Extreme
58) I Wanna Be With You by Mandy Moore
59) The Dance by Garth Brooks
60) Heaven by Bryan Adams
61) (Everything I Do) I Do it For You by Bryan Adams
62) When You Love Someone" by Bryan Adams
63) Broken" by Seether (either version - with or without - Amy Lee)
64) Falling Into You" by Celine Dion
65) Dreaming of You" by Celine Dion
66) I Love You" by Celine Dion
67) Runaway" by The Corrs
68) I Belong To You" by Lenny Kravitz
69) Hanging by a Thread" by Nickel Creek
70) Promise of You" by Edwin McCain
71) Could Not Ask For More" by Edwin McCain
72) I'll Be" by Edwin McCain
73) Run" by Snow Patrol
74) Love Will Keep Us Alive" by The Eagles
75) Kiss From a Rose" by Seal (dude!)
76) I Wanna Know" by Joe
77) Inseperable Lovers" by Az yet
78) Hands Down" by Dashboard Confessional
79) Insatiable" by Darren Hayes
80) Everytime I Close My Eyes" by Babyface
81) She's Always a Woman" by Billy Joel
82) She's Got a Way" by Billy Joel
83) Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)" by Billy Joel
84) No Lies, Just Love" by Bright Eyes
85) Existentialism on Prom Night" by Straylight Run
86) Secret" by Maroon Five
87) Sunday Morning" by Maroon Five
88) Waltz With Me" by Tonic
89) Sugar" by Tonic (have I already mentioned I love these guys?)
90) My Immortal" by Evanescence (does this one fit?)
91) What a Fool Believes" by the Doobie Brothers (man I can't believe I'm admitting)
92) Sister Golden Hair" by America
93) Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd
94) Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd (cause it holds memories of someone who passed)
95) One Moment More" by Mindy Smith (sad but still awwwww worthy)
96) Summertime" by The Sundays
97) Wild Horses" the remake by The Sundays
98)Have you really ever loved a woman - Bryan Adams
99) On and On - The Longpigs

100) Love You Madly
- Cake
101)Majesty - Madrugada*

102)The Diver
- Gravenhurst*
103) Joy - The Reindeer Section
104) El Scorcho - Weezer
105) I do - Jude
106) Hands - Jewel
107) always you - Sophie Zelmani
108)
I'll remember you
- Sophie Zelmani
109) Falling Free - David Gray
110)
Kiss the rain
- Billy Myers
111)
She's always a woman to me
- Billy Joel
112)Change the World - Eric Clapton
113)
Secret Garden
- Bruce Springsteen
114)Shine - David Gray
115) Freak me out - Weezer
116)Always be my baby - Mariah Carey
117)
Valentine
- The Getup Kids
118)Suteki De ne - Nubou Uematsu
119) Collide - Howie Day
120)
Here without you
- Three doors down
121)That i would be good - Alanis Morrisette
121) Sympathy - Goo Goo dolls
122) Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
123) You and Me - Lifehouse
124)
Nobody knows it but me
- Babyface
125)Time after Time - Cindy Lauper
126) Girlfriend - Eve 6
127)
Sparrows over Birmingham
(good entry!)- Josh Rouse
128)
Everything
- Lifehouse
129) Book of love - Peter Gabriel
130) Staind - Zoe Jane
131) Staind - Right here

132) On fire - Switchfoot

133) I'll take your breath away - Sarah Mclaughlan
134) Building a Mystery - Sarah Mclaughlan
135) Only one - Yellowcard
136) Inflatable - Bush
137) Isn't She Lovely - Stevie Wonder.
138) Always- Blink 182
139) Baby, Dont You Break My Heart Slow- Vonda Shepard
140) Crying- Roy Orbison/Don McLean
141)
Streets of Philadelphia
- Bruce Springstein
142) Home Again- Hootie & The Blowfish
143) Love Song - 311 or Anberlin
144) Melt With You -Modern English
145) 500 miles - The Proclaimers
146) With or Without You -U2
147)
When You Say Nothing At All
- Allison Krauss+Union Station
148)
Promise of You
- Edwin McCain
149) More Than Anyone - Gavin DeGraw
150)
Helplessly, Hopelessly
- Jessica Andrew
151) Open Arm - Journey
152)
COOL SHIRT MARTY SUCKS FUCK THAT BAND
- John
153) Buckets of Rain Bob Dylan
154) Thank You Led Zeppelin
255) Clsose Enough to Perfect Alabama-
156) Baby It's You
157) The Shirelles - awwwwww
158) The Blues Man Hank Jr.
159) Handy Man James Taylor
160) Forever In Blue Jeans Neil Diamond
161) Luna Smashing Pumpkins
162) Green Eyes Coldplay

163) I Believe In You
Don Williams
164) Song For the Life Alan Jackson -
165) Our House Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
166) All Through the Night Cyndi Lauper
167) The Chair George Strait
168) Eyes On Me - Faye Wong
169) What My Heart Says Monica
170) Little Jeannie Elton John
171) Everly Brothers - Dream dream dream
172) Most of the time - Bob Dylan
173) Make you feel my love - Bob Dylan
174) Tiny Dancer - Elton John
175) Dave Mathews Band - Crash
176) Baby chickens - God
177) Luckiest - Ben Fold's
178) No seat belt song - Brand New
179) Asleep in the sun - cool shirt marty
180 The ghost of a good thing - Dashboard Confessional
181) Have a little faith in me - John Hiatt
182) I will follow you into the dark - Death Cab for Cutie
183) Baby Tigers - God
184) Adult tiger who attacked Roy from Siegried and Roy - Irony
185)
A hole in the world
- Thursday
186) brand new - the no seatbelt song
187) Something corporate - konstantine
188) Something corporate - Fall
189) Something corporate - globes and maps
190-215?) Dashboard...too long to list.
216) Further seems forever - Monchetti
217) Death Cab for Cutie - I will follow you into the dark
218) Further seems forever - Just until sundown
219) The getup kids - Valentine
220) Getup kids - mass pike
221) Jimmy Eat world - Hear you me
222) Letter Kills - hold my heart (1%2)
223) Mae - Sun
224) Matchbook Romance - The greatest fall
225) The Postal Service - Clark Gable
226) Saves the day - Freakish
227) Silverstein - The idles of march
228) Straylight Run - the perfect ending
229) Taking back sunday - Your own disaster (in a bittersweet way)
230) Yellowcard(kinda) Only One
231) A small Victory - Farewell to Capeside
232) Peter Yorn - Just another Girl
233) Fix you - Coldplay
234) Eric Clapton - If I could change the world
235) Eric Clapton - Wonderful tonight
236) Follow through - Gavin Degraw
237) Time after time -Eva Cassidy Cover
238) NiN - Something I can never have
239) Paul Simon - Father and Daughter
240) Pieces - Sum 41
241) The used - all that ive got
242) David Gray - Falling Free
243) David Gray - Shine
244) David Gray - White ladder
245) U2- One
246) U2- Walk on
248) Norah Jones - Dont know why
249) Norah Jones - I've got to see you again
250) Norah Jones - The nearness of you
251) Incubus - Wish you were here
252) Incubus - I miss you
253) Incubus - Warning
254) Aerosmith - Dont wanna miss a thing
255) Aerosmith - Dream on
256) I knew I Loved You -- Savage Garden
257) Angels -- Robbie Williams
258) The Reason --Celine Dion
259) There Is -- Blink 182
260) Just Like Heaven -- Goldfinger (I will mosh to this at my wedding oh yes oh yes)
261) Waiting For You-- Richard Marks
262) I Loved You All Along -- Our Lady Of Peace
263) These Words -- Natasha Beddingfeild
264) **My Everything -- Cauterize**
265) Born To Make You Happy --Manson vs. Britney Spears Mix
266) You Are The Only One -- Maria Mena
267) More Then Life It Self -- Kelly Osbourne
268) Beautiful --H.I.M
269) Right Here In My Arms -- H.I.M
270) Letters To You --Finch
271) I Only Wanna Be With You --Hootie and The Blowfish
272) The Reason -- Hoobastank
273) Bury Me Deep Inside Your Heart --HIM
274) We're In Heaven -Dj Sammy Candle Light Remix
275) Heavens Above (HTID)--Dj Hixxy (This Song Is Orgasmic)
276) Listen To Your Heart --DHT REMIX
277) *Dangerously In Love -- Beyonce *
278) Tell Him --Barbara Striesand and Celine Dion
279) Halo Theme Song (this one makes me cry)
280) Sonic Bloom - Tripping Daisy
281) I Got A Girl - Tripping Daisy
282) Yellow Butterfly - Tahiti 80
283) Tenderly - Ella Fitzgerald
284) Stormy Weather - Billie Holiday
285) Say Yes - Elliott Smith
286) Question - The Old 97s
287) Indefinitely - The Old 97s
288) Tell Her This - Del Amitri
289) Walking On The Spot - Crowded House
290) He Said, She Said - Hue & Cry
291) Stickshifts & Safetybelts - Cake
292) Blood, Milk & Sky - White Zombie
293) So - Salt
294) Gee Angel - Sugar
295) Divine Hammer - The Breeders
296) To The End - Blur
297) Someday We'll Be Together - The Supremes
298) Praise You - Fat Boy Slim
299) Dreaming My Dreams - The Cranberries
300) Buy You A Ring - Huffamoose
301) DND - Semisonic
302) Under You - Better Than Ezra
303) Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode
304) Ask - The Smiths
305) Just Like Heaven - The Cure
306) Trapt - Stories
307) Trapt - Made of glass
308) James Taylor - Fire and Rain
309) Guns and roses - November Rain
310) Sheryl Crow - First cut is the deepest
311) Sarah Mclachlan - I love you
312) Chantel Krevizek - Green Apples
313) sWt HuNnI 487 (12:52:52 AM): empty apartment-yellowcard
314) sWt HuNnI 487 (12:52:58 AM): with or without you-U2
315) sWt HuNnI 487 (12:53:17 AM): wonderful tonight-eric clapton
316) sWt HuNnI 487 (12:56:08 AM): melt- Rascall Flatts
317) sWt HuNnI 487 (12:56:18 AM): bless the broken road- rascall Flatts
318) sWt HuNnI 487 (12:56:29 AM): love to love you out loud - Rascall Flatts
319) Coldplay - Till Kingdom Come
320) Coldplay - See you soon
321) P.J. Olsen - Ready for a fall
322) I wish I wasnt - Heather Headley (debated)
323) Even Angels Fall - (I have no clue who actually does this)
324) Joni Mitchell - Both sides now
325) Jojo - never say goodbye
326) Matchbox 20 - Bright lights
327) Rob Thomas - Lonely no more
328) Rob Thomas - Ever the same
329) Ruben Studdard.... Sorry 2004... goddamnit technicalities
330) Ryan Cabrerra - She's
331) Ryan Cabrerra - On my down
332) Straylight Run - Mistakes
333) Switchfoot - Concrete Girl
334) Vertical Horizon - Everything you want
335) Sarah Mclachlan - Answer
336) Chicago - Hard to say I'm sorry
337) Chicago - Fight for your honor
338) Howie Day -She says
339) The Police - Every breath you take
340) Wierd al Yankovic - You dont love me anymore (listen.. I need wierd al on this)
341) Heroine - Something Corporate
342) Something Corporate - I want to save you
343) Mae - Giving it away
344) Oasis - Wonderwall!
345) Oasis - She's electric!
346) Remy Zero - Perfect Memory
347) Staind - Everything changes
348) Temptations - My girl
349) Temptations - Lean on me
350) Three doors down - Behind those eyes

Songs

some new songs ive discovered


"farewell capeside" - A Small Victory. Homage to dawson's creek. and pretty well done too. Side note. if you watch the entire series from the first episode to the last, like I did one week last year during break, it really is a very bittersweet show. Probably one of the only shows where I favored the sarcastic secretly sweet jerk over the soulmate probable.

Shine/Falling Free/white ladder(album and song) -David Gray . You gotta love a brogue tottin irishmen singing romantic jingles.

Just another - Peter Yorn Good song. kinda shows the battle to dumb down your crush, only to realize no matter how you look at them, you are crazy about em.

Analyze This - The warming Hope . Indie song. good for one line that i could listen to forever. you'll know which one im talking about.

Forever Yours - Journey . To silence the "you dont appreciate 80's music" club. again, pretty good lyrics. Though im not on the "road" often so its hard to empathize. still, I can appreciate it.




So, I figured I'd ramble about old mike for a moment. Never, ever, EVER, like someone from an online game. You can take it from my experience. I could describe this in more detail, and I will just a tiddle, but its possibly one of the worst moves you can make. Following reasons
1. It's fake. You see them as (insert character model here) when in reality they probably arent ugly, but they arent the image you see at all. In fact, the better looking character they have in game, it usually fares the opposite IRL. Now, dont get me wrong, that doesnt apply to everyone. And im not even one to say that looks should play as big a part as they should, but thats how it is.
2. Its often long distance. Big no no. I'm down for the sweet "love can happen anywhere with anyone",which I still believe. but its possibly one of the most stressful and unneeded fustrations in someones life. And anytime server stability determines whether you see each other , theres a problem.
3. They could be lying. This is a huge one. It's so easy to talk about yourself on a game in ways that are only well, exxagerated. And putting blind faith in someone like that is highly highly unadvised by your fair Simon.
4. The girl/guy down at the coffee bar are much more easily had.

how can I talk about this? spending 15-19 pining over girls in this online game I used to play. Then finally I woke up one day and realized how much wasted time I spent on it. And it wasnt even technically pining. I just put so much faith in people that I didnt even know and got hurt by it. I guess this advice goes for chat rooms as well. just a generic warning. I'm sure if your in a situation like this, and reading what I just said, you will think im full of shit and are the exception, but trust me, its more pain than love in the end. And you cant cuddle with pixels. No matter how hard you try.


Anyone just stare at someone, be it a crush, infatuation, someone you like, someone you just cant have, and for a moment or two, imagine yourself kissing them? Or more, or something less physical. I often times find that happening. Or at least thinking about it.



and lastly. just a personal thought. I always think my poems start off with such crap, and end beautifuly. maybe im just a strong finisher. I dunno.

Friday, January 13, 2006

An experience

So, Thursday afternoon I get all spiffed out, in dress pants and a dress shirt with black t-shirt. I walk right up to the Express manager, and say " so are we going to do this or not, because I really want this job and im not a very patient guy". Of course my steam was killed over because she replied with "well the hiring manager isnt in until monday" but I made my point clear, which is important. And it felt good walking in like I own the place. And on another note, I saw someone from high school, a particular girl I used to have a crush on. and I got a double take! literally, like a "...wait.. . i know that kid..oh wait!!" It probably helped that it was one of the rare times I looked spiffy, but hey. I'll take em where I can get em.

Another major "hey lets piss off simon". In march I met this girl who went to school with me. And we became really good friends. The problem was, I started liking her and she had a boyfriend so I kinda peaced out on the situation. She contacted me again in November, and we have been talking on and on. So last night, I finally decide to explain why exactly I distanced myself from her and the fact that I did like her. Was probably about a five minute voice mail. And what do I get as a response

A text message, at 7 am "you really shouldnt call me that late" .......................................................................................................

now, maybe I was expecting something more, like, words, or maybe a sentence. But I think something like that warrants a little more than advice on when to call the girl.

Ah well.


p.s.
until openshutter gets working, the link to this blog is brokenandbranded.com/mike

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Longest Halo Game.. Ever

Arranged Game
01/12/2006 1:18 AM
Game Length: 02:29:50


Kills Assists Deaths
EctoCooler 103 33 91
Oh Bollochs 91 33 85
DeadlyBeretta 92 31 81
IvIagNific3Nt 84 21 70
dorbin 128 34 119
TDogg20 44 19 102





Insane. thats all I have to say.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Drama (continued)

as I posted in Megan's journal. I would love to kiss someone in the snow. Not in the middle of like a snowbank, but maybe during the first snowfall of the season. That complete silence right before the flakes start to fall. Maybe just to feel that for one second you are in the center of the universe, and all eyes are on whats happening. I'd love to just see the persons face as little crystals of ice fall around them. Maybe im just incredibly romanticizing this, but I just think it would be utterly amazing. Ive always thought the most romantic scenes in movies occured during a snowfall

( Love actually, the slide show the guy made )
( Serendipity, when they meet again on the icerink)

just to name a couple. I'll still say that the most romantic thing someone can say is



That may never happen in real life, but, well, it should damnit. We need more "awww' moments and less sad occurances in life.

I was asked last night if I knew, without a doubt, that I could accomplish one goal in my lifetime, before I die, with the full knowledge that it would be done, at the expense of myself. (thank you mr. szabo for the question). I thought about it, and I have one response. I would like to write the most romantic or passionate poem of our time. Thats kinda it. I want to be successful at work but at least right now, that feels like a given. I want a good marriage and I want to help people, but I also feel like those are things that are just going to happen during my lifetime. But THAT good of a poem? just something id like to do. show everyone that romance still exists and sex isnt just about "backing that ass up"

Steep

I hate drama.


Does that ever need elaborating?

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Whenever I want you, all I have to do is ....

I'm always really careful how I word things because, well.. thats just how ive always been. Sometimes I come off as witty, but most of the time its just because I cant just say how I feel. its like this cryptic rolling of the toungue where I kind of say it, without directly spelling it out. And I hate that. More on this in a sec

Applied to express, old navy, FYE, and inquired at a bunch of other places. I will work in retail if it kills me :P I just came to the conclusion that I want money bad so I can do things with my time and not just spend every night over (insert names here)'s house drinking or watching a movie, or whatever.

Quote of the night is from John

"you are an abstinence bitch

"I hope the smoke detecters in your house fail"


May drunken halo never die

Some things ive been thinking about...

Porn. Yeah, I watch it. But lately afterwards ive been getting this really intense feeling where I just know no one in it really WANTS to be there. I'm sure somewhere you'll find an interview where they say "I just really like sex and bla bla bla", but the truth of the matter is, no woman, even if she was the biggest sexaholic on earth, would appreciate being demeaned to the level of having millions of men buy tapes of them getting it up the ass. Do you have any idea how impossible it would be for some of these "Stars" to have a normal life, at all, in any way shape or form. Men or women, forget having a family. And someone understanding the nature of your buisness??? forget being married to anyone outside the porn industry. Sometimes you can just look at their faces, and you just see.. disingenuine..sadness. i cant even place it. like a hollow face planted on a mostly fake body. And now that im reading what I just wrote, I took the plunge. All my porn = gone.

Vanity. Anyone remember a quote from Al Pacino in "The devils advocate?"

Vanity . My favorite Sin.

how true. I had a dream tonight where I went through everything I wanted to this spring, looked a lot like I've always desired, and everyone in my life started treating me so drastically different. When I initially lost weight after high school, I noticed it a little bit, but never to any earthshaking levels. I guess its just really...sad how much stock we put into someones looks. I have both seen, and been a part of situation s where an asshole (or a bitch in the right circumstance) gets the upper hand because they are hot, or good looking, or however you want to call it. thats fucked up. What about people that are good natured, or well intentioned, or even just genuinely nice. what happens to them? Am I just at a stage when the world starts looking so painfully flawed, and I have to either accept these universal truth's or forever be in denial?

Poetry - Lately I feel like ive been settling with what ive been writing. I mean, ive never been one to work on a poem for more than an hour or two. It doesnt take me wrong to bust out ten stanza's, and often times they are at least decent. Earlier in life I was a tad self righteous with my writing but that faded a while ago. My point is, if I can write something so quickly, what if I took my time? I just keep thinking im producing at 10 or 20 percent of my talent. And thats very unsettling.


On a different note, lately ive been feeling like I could give my all to someone, and that still wouldnt be enough. Like no matter what I do or how I act, it just isnt enough. It might never be. I feel like I have glimpses of being this great guy, and then the mode will break and ill be left dissappointing people for not continuing being that great. I get overwhelmed so easily emotionally. Maybe I just wish I had faith that my "all" was satisfactory. Over the last couple weeks ive been slowly incorporating the sensitive side of me that has been absent up until late. And im almost afraid that if I give someone that side of me , totally and unquestionably like I was always so inclined to do, it will be destroyed. So I keep this wall up where I rarely admit how I really feel, what I really want, etc etc. I know I have to break this wall down I just cant help but feel apprehensive about doing so.

If something is meant to be, than it will be. I will never stop believing in that quote. but sometimes, late at night, when something I want feels just so unreachable and impossible, that fortune cookie voice of wisdom gets harder and harder to swallow.

I know I'm going to do well in school, and I know that I'm going to accomplish my goals. Thats not the hard part. It's still believing that one day I'll be fortunate enough to have my dreams come true.

I miss the feeling of warmth from another person. A lot. And thats something my sarcasm cannot compensate for. Ive been really fortunate that lately the "making myself happy" part of me has been in charge, but sometimes I just really miss making someone else happy.

Monday, January 09, 2006

Transformers

I have a gripe.

Has anyone ever had a nostalgic moment when they have to bust out an old cartoon just for the sake of watching it, and you have all these memories of the show rocking your face off on saturday mornings, or even on weekdays?

Yeah. No more of that. I downloaded a couple episodes of Ghostbusters and Transformers just for the hell of it. ....I must have been retarded as a child or something. I will refer in particular to the boogey man chronicled in the ghostbuster cartoons. When I watched these as a kid, I was terrified by him. Now? He's a really badly animated goat.
Transformers will always have optimus prime, which I think will never be outdone, but the animation on that show is just completely terrible. I watched a few Aeon Flux episodes, which at the time on MTV involved amazing animation. now? looked so outdated. These same gripes go for old video games. I cant even play a first person shooter now if it isnt halo, thank you frame rate advancement!

The same goes for old movies (pre 1990 it seems), but to a lesser extent. I'll always appreciate old comedies, and of course the classics. I just hate that everything I used to watch now feels like its been butchered by my own mind. in ten years am I going to watch an episode of family guy and feel the same way? In the words of , mostly anyone at different points of their life "time flies ".

This is why books are awesome. your imagination can never be outdated or replaced.

A bloggers privacy

its hard sometimes to remember how personal some of these blogs can be. Even though theres a choice when you make the blog, often people will choose to make it public because they would just like to see if anyone relates to them, or maybe to feel a little less alone in the world. But underneath it all, a journal is for personal and private thoughts and emotions. Its to say all the things you cant just talk about in passing or to just anyone. Whether it be a lifestyle or just a personal opinion, you post freely because you know the people that read will not judge you nor attack how you feel.

If I have a problem with someone in my daily life, I will post how I feel about them, or a certain group of people on here without a second thought. And if they happen to read that specific post. they have no right to attack how you feel on your own fucking blog. They want to bring it up to me in person? fine. its worth a discuss. but in your wildest dreams will I ever grant an apology for something I felt, or how I feel. If I went through your pen and paper journal back in the day, and found an entry about how annoying I was one day, would I have ANY right to personally attack you about it? most likely not.

A debate? sure, fine. but a full out attack is meant for the real world, where personal thoughts are not always privvy to exposure. the words " this isnt about you, its about me" apply to everyones journal ,and it would do well to remember that.

Sunday, January 08, 2006

Sigh's all around

the most important part of the pizza is the topping. A good topping can change the texture of the cheese, tomato sauce, and even the dough.

favorite toppings

broccoli
meatball
bacon
peppers
chicken

least favorite toppings

onions

thats it. I hate onions with such a passion. raw onions are especially ick. I cant explain why exactly but i just cant eat them often. now, if their cooked and mixed with other foods, sometimes I can deal, but other than that, their mostly a no no.

I keep getting especially angry for no reason. I'll be sitting at the computer, or even working out, and something will pop into my head, even the trivialest of problems. now, when I'm working out this is beneficial because I can at least focus it to something. but when im just sitting around, its a big no no. I end up just sitting around thinking, and eventually the feeling passes. One of the latest causes for the "simon eruption" is:

One sided shit. I hate it when your the one initiating every ounce of social interaction with someone. You'd think I'd just give up on some people, but when school starts hopefully I will involuntarily just fall out of some peoples lives due to being busy. This is the one period of time (october - now) when I can honestly say I've never passed up going out, or just having fun. And maybe its only me but I realize the people in my life now, maybe 20 percent of them will still be around two- three years from now. and thats an optimistic number. It's funny how I changed one area of my life ; quit smoking weed, and because of that I see some people a ton less. who knew. It's like they cant take the fact that theres someone who can deal with daily life without being mentally paralyzed for 4 hours a day, and who wants to hang out with someone who makes sense :(. This doesnt apply to everyone I know who smokes, just some people whom ive genuinely lost contact with. kinda sucks. The funniest thing about this is :

When I first got sick in august, it was due, 90 percent to the diet pills. the other 10 percent was just mixing them with depressents. My neurologist, who was indian, explained to me how when depressents are done alone and in moderation, sometimes they can be beneficial. But when mixed with a body that was so used to a stimulant for so long, it produces, well me. That being said. No one really told me to stop smoking. No one said I couldnt. I was sent to a pyschologist because of the fact that I admitted to a doctor I smoked, which at the time I didnt understand , but now I do. It's such a fucking waste. But I admit, early on I was tempted. So an idea popped in my head. If I tell people I just medically cant, I wont be bothered by temptation. And sure enough, it worked. And now, I just dont miss it at all, I think the final piece of the puzzle entered in recently, but still, the fact of the matter is im still off it, and for good.

Saturday, January 07, 2006

Milestone number 1

in my continuing effort to get fit again, I hit another milestone today. this comes with some backstory. In highschool, when I was a fatass, I never ran. In fact, I just couldnt. when your overweight combined with asthma cardiovascular shit is rare. then when I graduated I might it a point to run my ass off. and one of the major milestones is the three miles in thirty minutes mark.

hit that today again :) booyah! I'm back bitches!

To anyone that has an opportunity, thanks to a mr. john bogannam, ive discovered the google customizable start page. amazing. you can add RSS feeds to different peoples blogs, daily cartoons, news, sports, weather, etc etc all to your start page. simply amazing. plus you get a gmail account, but between hotmail and yahoo I think im set in that department.

thinking last night, i made a goal in my head, that come my birthday ( may 18nth), I'm going to be one sexy bitch.

goals =

(currently 181lbs) 160 ish by may, realistic.
replacing my jeans with express mens/gap clothing.
tanning , not majorly but enough to give a healthy look
at some point darkening my hair, and letting it grow out

With this comes a lot of preparation, obviously, physically and mentally. but I think it can be done. This is during school and everything so im going to be one busy bee.

this just in

poetry journal has been moved to
http://openshutter.net/simonsays/


gotta love staying up till 6 writing. have the song 'I'll fix you" by coldplay on repeat, been like that for six or so hours.

Friday, January 06, 2006

Your revolution is a joke

So I spent last night between one of my favorite Chinese places in New Haven (ivy noode.. mmm) and a bar in West Haven named Duffies. It's one of those classicly irish bars; I definitely felt at home. Got a couple rounds on the house and just talked, it was pretty fun. Then watched the 40 year old virgin again, which wasnt quite as funny the second time around, but still provided quite more than a few laughs. Passing out on the couch, it was just nice to do something other than the norm. Spending time with anyone from uconn is nice, when I dont have to drive a fucking hour to see them.

Much like john said, it only took six days for me to want to get done up from alcohol. I guess we really are creatures of habit. If only we could pick and choose those habits eh?

I'm a little restless, like I want to run 80 miles but know I can probably only do 4, but you know what I really love? corned beef hash and eggs. the stuff may look like crap, but it tastes amazing. but hmph, none of that. ketchup and eggs is quite tasty
:)

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Wakeup !

number one album to wakeup to

Panic! at the Disco = A fever you just cant shake

Anyone else have messed up sleeping patterns? I'm consistantly up until 5:15-5:30 AM doing absolutely nothing but surfing the web and sometimes on the phone. I added around 10 more songs to the "awww" list, its getting quite long. I think its going to become a playlist on my itunes :P, speaking of which..I need an Ipod. Running at the gym is hella boring when all you have is fox news to stare at.

Did you know the average new years resolution lasts one day? Thats it! just one. Fuck that. I hope mine last till next new years, when I can make resolutions to let loose because ive been so hardcore this year.

The holidays went by way too fast this year. I dont think I really had a chance to enjoy the holiday season. And wondering why I didnt really get into the christmas spirit, I have one answer. this is the first year I didnt go to the mall at all. Maybe it was being around so many holiday decorations and gifts and everyone buying that puts you into the "spirit" . That kinda angers me, because I would like to have the spirit on my own, and not by having to rely on my VISA card to supply it.

And since im sure by now everyones heard of the miner incident. I only have one thing to say, why does the media demand to find out whose responsible? So they dont feel like assholes for reporting the wrong information way too soon? People make mistakes. Thats the one thing our society sucks balls for. It seems whenever something goes wrong, its always "who did it". What ever happened to coming together and fixing problems? Blaming someone does nothing but satisfy the guilty. Example being 9/11. A special board was put together to find out exactly "whom" was to blame. how about those motherfuckers who were piloting the plane? Am I supposed to want to hang some CIA agent because he didnt give the right information to exactly the right person at exactly the right time. We're so one track minded it makes me sick. None of us give a damn that more soldiers will lose their lives over in Iraq than people that died in the WTC before this has ended. Two wrongs dont make a right. MAYBE if we were going after, you know, the people who did it, and not an "Evil regime", I'd perhaps think it was for a good cause. It's not our responsibility to govern other nations. WHO CARES if Saddam was a dictator. It's not our responsibility to police the world. You wanna do that? how about fixing all our fucking problems first.

Poverty
Crime
Lack of jobs
Gilbert Godfreed
Settling Church vs. State
Our HUGE deficit (thanks bush!)


But I guess transforming an area of the world into democracy is more important. How about making us a democracy? More people voted in the last Iraqi election under horrible conditions than americans in the last election. How about fixing us? SELF MAITENANCE for once? how about that.

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

things that make you go awww

okay, so I added all your song listings to the now official "awww" list, if you have any more you can think of, add them in to the comments to the post. lets see how many we can get!

just finished "advertising" this on a couple of blogs. We'll see how it goes. :)

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

awwwwwwwwwww

Have you really ever loved a woman - Bryan Adams

awww

On and On - The Longpigs

Love You Madly
- Cake

Majesty - Madrugada*

The Diver
- Gravenhurst*

Joy - The Reindeer Section

El Scorcho - Weezer

I do - Jude

awwww


Hands - Jewel

awwwww

always you - Sophie Zelmani

awwwww


I'll remember you
- Sophie Zelmani

awwwww



Falling Free - David Gray

awwwww


Kiss the rain
- Billy Myers

awwwww

She's always a woman to me
- Billy Joel

awwwwww

Change the World - Eric Clapton

awwwwww

Secret Garden
- Bruce Springsteen

awwwwww

Shine - David Gray

awwwww
Freak me out - Weezer

awwwww
Always be my baby - Mariah Carey

awwwwww

Valentine
- The Getup Kids

awwwww

Suteki De ne - Nubou Uematsu

awwww

Collide - Howie Day

awwwww

Here without you
- Three doors down

awwwwww

That i would be good - Alanis Morrisette

awwwww

Sympathy - Goo Goo dolls

awwww

Iris - Goo Goo Dolls

awwwwww

You and Me - Lifehouse

awwwww

Nobody knows it but me
- Babyface

awwwww

Time after Time - Cindy Lauper

awwwww

Girlfriend - Eve 6

awwwwww

Sparrows over Birmingham
(good entry!)- Josh Rouse

awwwwww

Everything
- Lifehouse

awwwwww

Book of love - Peter Gabriel

awwwwww

Staind - Zoe Jane

awwwww

Staind - Right here

awwwwww

On fire - Switchfoot


I'll take your breath away - Sarah Mclaughlan

awwwww

Building a Mystery - Sarah Mclaughlan

awwwwww

Only one - Yellowcard

awwwwww

Inflatable - Bush

awwwww


Isn't She Lovely - Stevie Wonder.

awwwwwww

Always- Blink 182

awwwww

Baby, Dont You Break My Heart Slow- Vonda Shepard

awwww


Crying- Roy Orbison/Don McLean

awwwww


Streets of Philadelphia
- Bruce Springstein

awwwwww

Home Again- Hootie & The Blowfish

awwwww

Love Song - 311 or Anberlin

awwwwwwwww

Melt With You -Modern English

awwwwwww


500 miles
- The Proclaimers

awwwwww

With or Without You -U2

awwwww

When You Say Nothing At All
- Allison Krauss+Union Station

awwwww

Promise of You
- Edwin McCain

awwwww


More Than Anyone - Gavin DeGraw

awwwww

Helplessly, Hopelessly
- Jessica Andrew

awwwww


Open Arm
- Journey

awwwwww

COOL SHIRT MARTY SUCKS FUCK THAT BAND
- John

awwwwwwwww

Buckets of Rain

Bob Dylan - awwwwwww

Thank You
Led Zeppelin - awwwwwwwwwww


Clsose Enough to Perfect

Alabama- awwwwwww

Baby It's You

The Shirelles - awwwwww

The Blues Man

Hank Jr. - awwwww

Handy Man
James Taylor - awwww

Forever In Blue Jeans

Neil Diamond - awwwwww


Luna

Smashing Pumpkins - awww

Green Eyes

Coldplay - awwwww

I Believe In You

Don Williams - awwwwww

Song For the Life

Alan Jackson - awwwwwwww

Our House

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - awwwww

All Through the Night

Cyndi Lauper - awwwww

The Chair
- awwwww
George Strait

Eyes On Me - awwwwww (ff8!)
Faye Wong

What My Heart Says

Monica - awwwwww

Little Jeannie

Elton John - awwwww


Everly Brothers
- Dream dream dream

awwwww

Most of the time - Bob Dylan

awwwwww (ta-hah! another one!)

Make you feel my love
-pretty much any artist that does it

awwwwwww


Tiny Dancer
- Elton John

awwww

Dave Mathews Band - Crash

awwwww

Baby chickens - God

awwwwwwww

Luckiest
- Ben Fold's

awwwwwwww

No seat belt song
- Brand New

awwwwwwww

Asleep in the sun
- cool shirt marty

awwwwwwww

The ghost of a good thing
- Dashboard Confessional

awwwwwww


Have a little faith in me
- John Hiatt

awwwwww

I will follow you into the dark - Death Cab for Cutie

awwwwww

Baby Tigers - God

awwwww

Adult tiger who attacked Roy from Siegried and Roy
- Irony

AWWWWWW

A hole in the world
- Thursday

awwwwwwww



this concludes my AWWWW post. please feel free to add some awww's in there.
im pretty much doing this because this past year has been kinda rough on a lot of people, and i'd like to start it off with some songs to listen to, well for nothing else, to make you go awwwwwww and maybe smile a little bit.. have at it!

Ways sweat pants are hot

okay, so a lot of you doubted my "Sweat pants are hot on girls " theory. must I list everything?!

- if a girl is wearing nothing but sweat pants. very hot. similarly if a girl is wearing a thong and the top of the thong is sticking out, also very hot
- if a girl has an ass and their not wearing super baggy sweats they often complement their backside.
- girl wearing wife beater + sweat pants = hot

It should be noted that a girl would look good in rags, so dont be so shocked when I come out with a "girls look hot in this". thats what I find so funny about you all. you try so hard to look so cute when in reality a girl can look good in 95 percent of what she wears.

jeans + hoodie = cute as hell
jeans + t-shirt = hot
boxers + anything = hot
girl in suit = strangely hot
girl in nothing = hot

your seeing a trend here.

may I interject with the picture of the hour



zoom in closely on the man behind the middle of the girls, on the stairs.
and we have our new years eve. A john bogannam giving the bird with alcohol in his hand, and a girl on his shoulder. Let freedom ring!

Monday, January 02, 2006

Eh,

started a workout journal. in blog format because seemingly im addicted to this site :P
Hope it helps me keep to my new years resolution. How is it that sweat pants are incredibly sexy on girls but an anti fashion trend for guys? I think I wore like a thousand layers today when I went running, which worked out well because I'm now drenched in sweat. Yay team!!!!

Me and szabo commerated the end of 2005 last night officially by Ordering 2 large pizza's, and devouring them. I'm also going to get my glasses fixed tomorrow, thank you John for the tackle on new years :P

Things ive just been thinking

What if the stars in the sky were there for people to dream. Science tells us that stars are nothing more than balls of gas in the sky that provide warmth to our planet. But what about all the other stars. What if each one represented a dream that one of us has. What if they were placed so whenever one of us is down, or feeling hopeless, we could just look up and see that the universe is full of infinite possibilities, and that makes every one of our desires that much more attainable.

What if there really WAS an overwhelming sensation you get from one person, what if soulmates did exist. And what if when you found this person, everything just clicked into place for your life, like a key that fits just one person. and youd never have to worry about being hurt by them, or keeping your guard up so you dont get mistreated and not have your back turned.

what if class or money or race didnt matter. What if everyone really WAS equally beautiful, and you could see someones inner beauty as easy as the outer. What if the outer was more important, for once, and if someone was genuinely nice and genuinely sweet, if they really cared so much, life would just be more fair to them.

what if love songs were written out of just that, love. and not out of heartbreak or losing someone close to you. What if it didnt take a massive meltdown in a relationship to realize how great you had it. What if regret was just a six letter word in the dictionary. i'd let it replace the definition for hamburger if I had to.

What if I could pull out a guitar, know how to play it, and have some amazing singing voice. And really show someone who they are and have them believe it, through their insecurities and doubts. What if for only a day, everything mean said just disappeared, and all their reprussions were removed. What if everyone thought they were a sexy bitch. And the most beautiful girls didnt think they were fat or stupid or any less than they really are.


What if these werent eye rolling wants but the truth
What if these werent what if's.
ever wonder?