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