oh the lols

last night, election eve, amidst a well-meaning group of cocaine socialists, i expressed a degree of ambivalence regarding the possible change of government today. the prevailing opinion of this cohort seemed to be howard equals evil. evil which manifested itself in a litany of charges (the northern territory intervention, the children overboard controversy, the wars in iraq and afghanistan, the IR reforms, the refusal to ratify kyoto, the GST on sanitary pads, breathing). my poorly framed contention, furthered here, was that there is very little that differentiates the leaders. moreover, their argument seemed to be that rudd was worth voting for on potential. kevin rudd; he's not john howard. and i agree, he might be a good prime minister; there is just no evidence to support or refute such an opinion.

a service industry

drink whore: you're not going to pay with a fifty too, are you?
me: yeah
drink whore: i can't do that

quite pretentious, occasionally good

this blog (quintessentially)

working and sleeping. with occasional eating and crapping

life as i know it

everyone should see this now

certain songs they get so scratched into our souls

i feel like i wouldn't like me if i met me, i feel like you wouldn't like me if you met me...there's nothing to live for when i'm sleeping alone...i won't be saved...now that i've met you, would you object to never seeing each other again? ...will you be me? will you be me? wear my clothes, drink my coffee, write my mommy, do my homework, feed my babies, fight my crazies?

there are very few problems in life that can't be solved by brute force

for example: iraq

there are nights when i think that sal paradise was right

why is happy better than sad?
so many orphans
suffer little children
but then again, you're used to that
i am my hopelessly romantic notion
that someone somewhere could feel something
sometime, or now
but wishing won't make it so

we drink
and we dry up
and now we cruble into dust

"someone should take him up on that offer"

today 33 students died in a gun massacre at virginia tech

at the 2000 National Rifle Association convention, while brandishing an antique Sharp's Rifle over his head, Charlton Heston, then the association's president and spokesmen, proclaimed that Al Gore , the democratic presidential candidate at the time, would take his Second Amendment rights "from my cold, dead hands". He repeated these five words in announcing his resignation in 2003, again raising a rifle over his head

the soundtrack of my life

reprise

fuck that

today i was alerted to the fact that korn have recorded and released an mtv unplugged session

my band rocks harder than your band...

i saw a kid wearing a t-shirt with a picture of jim morrison and the accompanying slogan read "an american poet". i felt like asking him to name another american poet

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and to be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion

Walden or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

i saw my favourite band of all time perform tonight at the venerable corner hotel in richmond. when last they toured, i saw them play this venue on consecutive nights. i was younger than i am now

i was so much older then, i'm younger than that now

my back pages - robert zimmerman aka bob dylan (1941 - )

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on saturday, my father said of a fellow road-user who may or may not have been of asian descent, "he should learn how to drive, too." to which i replied, "what?! in addition to learning english?"

monkeys?

i don't know what the french call it, but i intend to further the socio-political melange that has become the want of this forum recently by relating my thoughts on the debate i just witnessed between wayne swan and joe hockey broadcast on the ABC's lateline programme. well, thought really; when is virginia trioli going to stand in a federal seat for the labor party? and, whilst i bristle with political wit and wisdom, may i add, much to the annoyance of members of the public service, that should kevin rudd win the forthcoming election it will be the biggest win for style over substance ever. well, member really

he ate when he was no longer hungry

my epithet

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Mrs. Clinton has always been a follower of public opinion on the war, not a leader

-Frank Rich in an Op-Ed column in the New York Times, Sunday January 28, 2007