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For once, I'd love to see the Politician's wife, supportive and adoringly looking at her husband at the podium, just turn and belt him in the face after he proclaims his poor-judgment in the sex scandal. Just roll-up her fist and coldcock him!
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Your e-mail doesn't seem to be working from your blog. Just a silly fae girl trying to get back in touch, perhaps. ~Kysh
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Actually, it would be proper to say, "This steak tastes of/like iron." I don't perceive the phonetic difference either.
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Happy Birthday! Sometimes the honoree must blow his own horn to announce the great day, though. This last year, my very mother forgot about mine for more than three weeks, as well as my brother and sister. I'd still go out to nice dinner and try to collect a free shot or two.
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Great friends, great birthday, good game...fucking Rangeers afterall! Care to fill in the gap?
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Didn't I hear the Times is laying off people? Immediately, I thought, "Damn! He just got that job." Any rate, this impending layoffs provides a great excuse during an interview and to start a job hunt, just in case something better comes along. Nice clean look to the new journal, easy to read and on the eyes.
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I've been out of the loop for a little bit, but I just got caught up here. Congratulations! I hope the new job is working out the way you hoped.
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I'm elated for you! So what exactly are you going to be doing? (if you mentioned that already and I missed it i'm sorry...i'm a bit all over the place these days.)
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Congratulations! Way to go! I should have known by your writing that you studied journalism. Around midnight, I'll raise a toast to your success!
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okay...please delete that last comment. Afer reading it, I'm giving advice again...just can't win...
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I'm just a daily reader who prefers to be in the background and be a passive observer. In the past, I was much more active in responding to journals but finally realized I'm no more qualified to give advice/comment than your ordinary, daily, television viewing, soap opera slug. Some journalist write solely for response/humor/entertainment whereas other journalists strive to write about their lives and the places they live which is why I’m drawn to your journal as well as some others. I want to learn about lives outside my small, every day world.
When I comment, and it is now rare these days, it means, I'm compelled. Since journals are so personal, I felt if I were to comment, I may sway a decision resulting in a life change with a person whom I truly don’t know intimately (a social sense). It’s a delicate tight rope we walk/write/observe in Diaryland!
As someone with almost a year under their belt writing a journal, I’m still finding my voice and a reason to write. Earlier writings wanted to entertain. Now, I want to find me. Damn the statistics otherwise known as the ‘sadistics’!
Just keep writing! I’m in awe of your vocabulary, descriptions, life and surroundings.
P.S. Did I miss the open mic night entry?
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god i'm such a bitch - i promised to write yesterday and the fucking end of the semester is creeping up and bashing me over the head. however i think i DID email you last - technically that is.
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hi! I just found you through bohemianlife. It looks like you are sort of starting over here, but I wanted to et you know I like your haiku. They are very flowy, if that's a word. :-) I hope you keep posting so I can see where you decide to go from here.
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promise to give this some thought, but it's unbearably late and i have to get up fucking early tomorrow morning...promise, promise to email tomorrow.
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that's crazy. it sounds like everyone involved acted stereotypically, which is scary.
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"I spent nearly a half hour on the phone to people at the corporate offices that deal with incidents that fuck with the process of making richer the people who run the company." -- nice line!
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;)
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sorry i cannot get this thing to work, keeps saying it can't connect to the service or something...if you're still awake email me, not as fast as im, but better than notes. if not i'll try to get this thing fixed tomorrow and let you know when it's running.
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damn it all - i just download the stupid aol im thing and now it won't connect me...same thing was happening with the yahoo one. this must be a firewall thing or something...let me see if i can fix it
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ok, i'm attempting...give me minute to get it.
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this fucking yahoo thing! wait i see yours is aol im - let me check something...
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are you sure you know? cause you'd be disgusted i'm sure of it! um, the im, i think i have to redownload my yahoo one...but i can do it if you have that.
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right place at the right time...if i told you why i was really checking my mail every few minutes right now you would be more disgusted with me than you could imagine...
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good timing i guess!
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Yeah, yeah I know it bugs me to...i know it's wrong, but i just write fast and don't think about it. But when I hear it i do find it annoying. and for the record i meant couldn't care less...
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Well now I'm forced to hate you! At least till I get over mourning the loss.
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Hopefully it is just the D-land hardware meltdown preventing you from adding entries and you didn’t give up writing. You're one of my daily reads where I get a first hand experience of “Big City Living” where I recall what I like about the city and some aspects that I can do without. I’m looking forward to your recap of the last couple of weeks.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Go have a beer on me (smile)!
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i agree with you. "shutting the world out" is only a survival technique when you have a neighbor with an obnoxious voice or the road crew has the jack hammer going. i think we might get an ipod mini for our car- it is better than a CD player. but if you need to shut your world out, you are missing an important piece of information about yourself and your environ... probably that it is inhospitable.
also- musically, your ears are a precious organ. my mancub says that eardrum damage is easily done (even those little micro-hairs in your ears) so, protect them. best!
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i just got one but mostly listen in my car as opposed to the god awful radio or a cd player, and i listen to it in my art class while i'm painting which is nice...but if i lived in the city and walked a lot i'm not sure if i would use it then or not.
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i've decided to ditch the background pattern, a few people have mentioned that it makes it hard to read, so it's gone - hope it's better this way.
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No of course not. I'm just an awful person truth be told. An awful person whose been dealing with full-time school and full-time mother to a toddler, not to mention being sick for like a month. It's very time consuming unfortunately. Also, unlike some people's diaries that I read, I can't just skim yours in 5 minutes. But I think that means you're a good writer with something decent to say. But that takes time to read, and respond to. Sometimes more time than I have. So i'm sorry for dissappearing, and promise to make a better effort in the future. Spring break's coming up and I'll have plenty of time to catch up on what's been going on hopefully!
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Wish I could have seen the decision-making process for this selection: Donuts, beer and yogurt...life sustaining staples!
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Well, being a woman this is a hard thing to say... but I have to admit that all the female cats I've had have been wacko, and all the males have been easy-breezy! Not that I have had many, mind you. I'm not one of those crazy cat ladies. I prefer male roomates to female too. Females are just more difficult, I suppose!!!
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May I reccommend, for your consideration, black & white cats? They tend to have the best personalities, particularly the boy kitties (fixed is key here- otherwise you get spraying!) Second runner ups are tiger stripes. I think boys tend to be a bit more jaunty than the girls... this is my experience. They can add a lot of warmth and love to your life.
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Thanks for your favorites, they look really worthy of further investigation. I checked out your journal & will continue to read you... I opened a coffee bar for a higher ed bookstore several years back and we had many "Starfucks Refugees" in our crew. You are smart- it comes across in your writing- and I foretell that you will do more than barista. I am half-gypsy blooded, so THIS IS TRUE!!!! Best, Kimgo
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...Tonight's minute (rhymes with "my lute")... I am amused.
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sorry for the lack of commenting lately...it's just that with school starting back for the semester I've had a little less free time on my hands...actually a lot less computer time. hope to get better as i get settled into the class load.
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Glad to see you took control and busted some ass during registration yesterday. Well done. I tried to think of what I would have done. I decided nothing was most likely because Im fairly certain I would have been escorted out of the building early on.
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Oh I think you're right, sometimes it's just not there, it's not anyone's fault...i think what the idea addresses is just that men tend to avoid conflict and don't like to just come out and tell women they aren't that interested, they'd rather just give excuses for why they can't see them or call them or whatever. Because truth be told, if you are really interested in someone you make the effort, that's just natural. So I don't think it's about men being morons for not liking us back, it's more about how they sometimes won't admit it and instead tend to string us along because it's easier than dealing with the issue.
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Exactly! You nailed it. I think that it doesn't matter if an experience is good or bad as long as it moves you in some significant way. As long as it spurs thought and insight and strong but pure emotion then it's totally valid. And really the heartbreaks can be as revolutionary as the good things, in fact maybe more so in many cases. I'm always more creatively influenced by hard emotional stress and turbulence than I am by being joyously happy. I think that's true of most people though, right?
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I think you're right. But I also think that nobody can know what is deserving of strong emotions and the weight we put on certain things except for ourselves. I just mean that even though somone else might not think these issues are worthy of this hardship, doesn't mean that i don't deem them worthy.
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that's an idea, I'd like to cohort with some friendly people! ;-)
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I just saw your picture and you're a cutie...with or without the guitar. If I were your co-worker I'd get even less done than I do now!
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Ugh...people are stupid, and no catering to the lowest common denominator is not worth it. It never is. Before you left for lj i was going to suggest perhaps Blogger or something that is more open than a closed little community like lj or dland. And i'll share this little quote though you may think me an ass for doing so: "Better to write for yourself and have no audience than to write for an audience and have no self" Can't remember who said it, but it's the main reason I continued to write here when nobody cared.
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I just "added" your diaryland diary and you're leaving thus proving my theory that if I add you you will die. :-)
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Forgot to mention, I think alot of us look around to ask, "Now what? Is this it? Is this life?"
Purpose? Unfortunately, in our society it is maximizing your earning potential in order to numb your senses through chemicals or fabricated, packaged entertainment. But, if you do find purpose to life, let me in on the secret!
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10.05.2004 | 16:15 ...great entry... Since some of "favorites" decided to take time off, I was forced to find other diaries and glad I came across yours, even though brief with your departure.
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That's a question that I can't answer and that I will never understand. God knows that ten times more people should be reading your site than mine. At least you have something intelligent and interesting to say nearly every time you update...where as I rarely do and am forced to fill the diary with pointless links and ridiculous babbling most of the time. I used to feel the same way you do when I was at my old diary. I don't know what changed when I moved...new title, somewhat new subject matter, who knows. All I know is that not nearly as many people read my page as that little buddylist thing would indicate - half those people have just left and never deleted their profiles. I think in truth, you're too good for diaryland. You'd be better served to get a blog out in the real blog world, i have a feeling you'd be much more read out there in a place where real adults with things to say keep blogs and not just 13 year old girls. I'd leave myself and do think about it often, if it weren't for the few people I love here. That's all I can say about it. But I think we all want the attention, otherwise we'd just lock these things up.
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I think that situation goes both ways, I think guys go for dumb girls too when the shouldn't. Either way it does suck though. I think I experieced a lot more of that in high school than as I got older. In high school all the guys I liked dated girls with one thing - big breasts. In retrospect some of these girls weren't even cute. As for you, I think you are probably a geek in the best possible way - smart, artistically inclined, etc. I think I'd call you an intellectual as opposed to a geek. Oh, and I have seen your pictures of yourself...You have nothing to be self-concious about, you are very cute (if you don't mind being called cute, if you do I'll find another word)...you know what I mean. There's another thing a lot of people don't find attractive about people like you and me...we speak our minds because we actually have them. Those girls in high school - not a brain cell, I've been opinionated my whole life. I'm sure its the same for the guys. Now that I'm older, people like that about me though!
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So how ya dealing with the whole election situation?
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Oh my god...such a great song. I just got their greatest hits thing, storm hymnal or whatever it's called. I can hardly listen to anything else on the cd because that's the first song and I just adore it so much. I promise to try and email soon...school is fucking killing me with business. Hope you're well. - k.
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I'm promoting my diary because I'm bored as hell tonight and hey, you may be too. =)
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Hey,
I accidentally stumbled upon your obscure little corner of this site. You know, it kind of amazes me...I mean, wait. What I mean is, we are all surrounded by strangers all the time...
But see, the thing is, I am a police dispatcher who works the midnight shift in upstate NY. I have a lot of time for thinking and reading on my hands. I am working towards my degree... I have been working towards it for some time now...yet instead of diligently attending to my studies, I find myself in this dark, grey smoky little cubicle endlessly surfing the internet. I found your diary.
I guess what I’m getting at, I love your writing and appreciate your perspective.
And maybe...umm, thanks…at least for the morsel of stimulation.
But regarding strangers--I always feel so isolated from everyone else. I live in a bad part of town myself, which might make it easy to feel so much more alone when you are surrounded my people who behave like lunatics when you are the one who is attempting to make the community a better place… er something... I have lost faith, I advert me eyes, I walk quickly and always try to be as polite as possible. When I read what you had written, I felt something like...hope? It just sparked me into thinking...what if more strangers think this way? Am I missing something? Do I have it all wrong? Keep writing. I am intrigued.
Warmly,
Sarah.
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Thank you for liking my drawing, and for still leaving me a note even though I've been a bit of an absent ass lately. I'm too fucking old for all this school shit, but that's what it takes to actually graduate so I will have to endure...drop me an email sometime if you get the urge!
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God I just can't stand that Pogues song...I think the band itself is really great, it's Shane that I don't like. I can't understand anything he says, and he just seems like a very unsavory character to me. But I can appreciate the band, and the song is funny I have to admit!
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Hi, got your email, things are incredibly busy with the move, promise to write very soon!
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So how's the job going? No updates in awhile.
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Well the new picture is great of course. But did your girlfriend really get upset that you had not credited her with the taking of the last photo?
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Well that's what I figured. Personally I have always found the confession thing to be quite intriguing. I'd probably become addicted though, or is there a time limit? Is it like free therapy? By the way, how'd the weekend turn out? Apartment still standing?
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Sorry. Maybe I didn't phrase it right. Maybe it's that I a have a hard to picturing you as a devout practicing Catholic...but who the hell am I to say anything about it really? I know little if anything about the religion itself I guess. I hope it didn't come off sounding offensive, just that I didn't picture you as the church going kind. Do you actually do that? Confessions and all? I guess I'm a bit curious and naieve when it comes to all religions, seeing as how for all practical purposes I don't have one.
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Why is it that I have a hard time believeing that you are Catholic? I'm not really sure, but I do think that the teaching gig sounds like it will be really amazing for you. Good Luck. (Even though I know it's a bit trite to say something like Good Luck, I mean it all the same.)
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Hey there... are you going to do scary stuff with hormones, or cool stuff like hand lotions?
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I'm sure that you're just as interesting with your tirades left behind (or just slightly dimished in frequency). I only said I would miss the tirades because it's so rare to come across someone who not only ACTUALLY feels strongly about something, but can write well enough to get those ideas across in a convincing manner. But I will be just as curious to see who you are aside from all that. I understand your logic however. You can take more questionable behavior from people with whom you already feel close than someone you barely know. You excuse a lot of things that you would otherwise find objectionable when you know (and like) other aspects of someone's personality. And yes sometimes I feel a bit overexposed. When I first moved to this diary from my old one, I said nothing real about myself. I tried to avoid mentioning the fact that I was married and had a child. I thought it made my diary less attractive to read. But I gave that up. I couldn't write anything worthwhile if I wasn't at least mostly upfront about my real life situations. But yes, sometimes I feel that maybe I've said too much, but I try not to let it bother me. People are usually much more receptive to my writing when I am completely honest.
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I think I am really going to miss the passionate writings that you are threatening to do away with. Ah, well, if you ever feel so inclined you can always email a few to me. So what is the intended focus from this point forward?
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hey dont mind my screen name its old but anyways i really like you entries, i have read a few from now and the past and they give me a lot of emotion i like them a lot. keep writeing....
jen
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came across your words and enjoyed them very much, keep writing and i will keep reading.. yours, the cdghost
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Actually, I think you're attitude towards reunions is pretty common. I think WANTING to go like I do puts me in the minority, most people would probably just forget h.s. all together!
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I can understand your not wanting to participate in any of your reunion stuff. For me I think it's more the fact that I am quite nosy and a bit of a voyeur (obviously why else would I spend so much time reading other people's diaries and writing my own?) and as such it's more that I want to know what happened to all those people who I never bothered to keep in touch with after school. The ones who I claimed to be close with while I was there, but obviously wasn't because the ties were cut immediately. I don't think I want any of them back as friends, I just want to see what became of them, it's like some sick soap opera I guess. I only keep in touch with like 2 people now anyway, but I suppose I'm just curious.
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Well, I agree as much as I can. I think the bleached out, tanned out women typical of porn magazines are pretty hideous. I think most celebrity/hollywood type women usually look a lot better sans all that makeup and hair. The real question (for me anyway) is do you think that most men share your point of view about women? Or do you think they are mostly man-show loving "juggies" types? I mean I know my husband is like you, when it comes to liking celebs, the most he can come up with are women like Winona Ryder and Drew Barrymore, who are obviously rare types out there. But it seems, just based on our culture, that most men like the fake look and I can't really seem to figure out why. Fake breasts are ugly to me. And bottle blond is the same. I don't know why men are attracted to these types of women...and is it only idiot men? Does your level of intelligence as a man determine the type of woman you are attracted to? I think it might for women, for instance if I am so bold as to proclaim myself intelligent, I find muscle bound and tanned men to be repulusive and I guess they are the counterpart of the stick skinny, fake boob blondes, am I right?
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You're exactly right. Most of these people need therapists not plastic surgeons. I mean they may not be beauty queens but if they could repair their seemingly fragile mental states then would it really matter if they looked like a supermodel or Pamela Anderson? I hardly think so. Of course I still can't figure out why I am so easily manipulated into viewing these shows. I guess it's that same reaction that people have to gruesome car accidents or something. I get sucked in by the sheer ridiculousness of it all. I saw the worst one by far last night on the famous face show. It was a transvestite(sp?) who was already taking hormones to become a woman and then got all this surgery to make him/her look like J.Lo...it was horrific. I mean I have no negative opinion of people expressing their sexuality in whatever manner they choose, but to me it was just a skinny, gangly boy who would never look anything even remotely like Jennifer Lopez. Sad, very sad. I guess women are naturally more concerned with their looks than men, but I would never go under the knife to look like someone else, or even an improved me. I may not be a supermodel, but I'm me, and that's fine. It would scare the shit out of me to look in the mirror and not recognize myself. I really think I need to give up on tv and read more books..
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I'm glad you're back and feeling better...and no you haven't lost your readership!
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In my life is my favorite Beatles song...
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You know, I think we are just a generation of people who are in some serious denial about growing up. I only wish I had a solution for it all.
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Hi, just googled for Jay Bennett, Titanic Love Affair and Wilco and found your November post. I never realized until today that the same guy was in both bands. TLA was one of my favorite bands in the early 90's while attending U of I. I saw 'em live w/like only dozens of people while they played on the South Quad. I guess they weren't big enough for the real Quad. Wilco has been one of my favorite bands this whole decade. Thanks for confirming both Jay Bennett's are the same dude.
Rob
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Country, huh? I enjoy some old classic country, and of course I guess I'm all about the alt. country or whatever that is. Speaking of which did you get Cracker's Countrysides? Any good?
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Very true entry indeed. Even though I must admit that I have a bit more idealism than you. As fucked up as I realize the country is, I feel like there is always hope. I am always hoping for a savior to come along and right all the wrongs. I guess I am a hopeless dreamer. Even though I, like you, feel that in so many ways this country is a mockery of everything it stands for. I hope for the best while bracing for the worst I suppose. I educate myself on the politics, more than the average individual I think, and then I vote. What more can any of us do?
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what in the world happened? why such a sulky valentine's day?
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Care to expand that comment? You can email if you want.
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I think you're probably right to just avoid the situation all together...it's much easier than confrontation.
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I have to say that I can somewhat sympathize with your current plight - the god friend. Well, except I took the opposite approach and it came back to bite me in the ass. Long ago and far away when I was oh, say about 19, I fell for this guy I worked with. He seemed to like me too but was an innocent and very devoutly Christian. Since I was not, innocent or devout, he didn't really find the prospect of dating me very appealing. It wouldn't be right considering my lack of faith. Well lack of his faith anyway. So I tried to convert myself. In a way. I started going to church with him and all that crap. I really went for it, I got totally sucked in and even bought myself a bible and everything. Well, for a short time all my faking of faith worked out. Well taken into consideration I considered getting him in bed was sucess, it worked. But in the long run, when he refused to further and continue our relationship due to his suspicions regarding said faith - it fell apart and I was the one devastated. So the moral here being...you would be well served to cut ties now, otherwise it won't end up well.
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I envy your ability to have adventures around NYC, but it does seem as though you and your friends are making the best of it. By the way, I liked your shadow pictures...very creative.
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Hey, no problem, I realize most people are busy and don't spend all their free time screwing around in diary world. But thank you for saying something so nice, even if I wasn't quite smart enough to decipher most of it! I'm personally impressed that I got as much as I did...thank you, you're a sweetheart and I reciprocate the message 100%.
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ooh, ooh, i deciphered the last bit, an new picture taken of you this past year in Brooklyn Heights...very good, and still as cute as the last one if you don't mind me saying...I'm still working on the first part...oh, and glad your landlord problem is working out in your favor...those people are scum.
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If I had paid more attention during my two years of h.s. spainsh class, if they hadn't made me take a placement test my first semester of college to see what level spanish I tested into, if I hadn't placed into college level spanish 3 and subsequently dropped out a few weeks into it because the teacher spoke zero english...if not for all these things, maybe I would be able to gracefully decipher your message. The reality however is, like a bumbling idiot I have to ask you what it means...I can make out about 1/3 of it, but not enough to get the whole meaning...enlighten me please?
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Just because you don't find your words brilliant anymore, doesn't mean that other people don't. I know that's not of much comfort, but I had to say it anyway. And I truly believe that through more words does come more meaning...sometimes, there just are no words.
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First off, you're right about everybody having regrets, and no, knowing someone else did it and hated it, just isn't enough to make it up for me. So I guess my only course of action is to attempt, however much in vain, to move on and try and actually enjoy myself, and make what time I have worthwhile. Secondly, you are so right about Bach. I have the Brandenburg Concertos on vinyl, I fell in love with them during a music class a few years ago. Also, I have this version of his Cello Suite No.1 by a guy named Patrick o'Hearn that came on some public radio music source sampler thing, that is just phenomenal. And of course everyone loves Beethoven, but I also appreciate stuff like Gershwin, which is somewhat classical, but more fun and upbeat I guess. And I too hate those whiny boy Staind type singers. I hate all these psuedo-punk bands, like Simple Plan and kids who are either too young to say anything worthwhile, or too old(like Good Charlotte) to be talking about "Girls don't like boys, girls like cars and money." Yuck! I personally like my men a little more, I don't know....manly! I have no problem with love songs, but must they sound so downtrodden? I like a guy who can sing a good love song and then proceed to get in a good rousing bar fight! Now you see why I like Ryan Adams. He's a romantic, and also quite a bit of a jerky, jack-ass. Just how I like 'em!
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Yeah, I suppose it would be hard for a guy to understand all that. But the early Camper stuff is just basically nonsense. Oh, and by the way, the Jack White piece....brilliant!
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That is funny...I had been making a mix of Camper and Cracker stuff for another of my diary buddies last night, and Merry Christmas Emily was the last song on it, so it was stuck in my head. You're right though, I do get the difference between the sappy, crappy love songs and having it be balanced out with something else. But we were just discussing last night how different Cracker in particular's love songs seem to sound on Forever as opposed to the older albums. Just more real or more grown up I guess. It always makes me wonder when that sort of thing happens, what happened in his personal life to make that change, you know? Love songs or not, he's a brilliant fucking writer. But it's very obvious that he didn't come into his own as a writer until Key Lime Pie. He also manages something I find baffling, he can write the goofy, sarcastic, sometimes silly lyrics and at the same time (from a female perspective of course) he also manages to write very sexy lyrics sometimes. I think that's a very difficult thing to do and not sound corny. My favorites probably being:
And how I wish I was in your bed tonight
To taste the salt upon, salt upon your neck
To feel your body press, pressing down on me
Instead of being, I’ve been around the world
He's very good at being sexy in a subtle way...
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You're right about the Beatles, but don't some groups/people write good love songs? Maybe I have a skewed view because I'm a girl...but take your favorite Cracker for instance...they may not write sappy, love-me-do type love songs, but love songs none the less. But you're right noboby likes to hear Richard Marx or one I heard yesterday, Savage Garden...yuck. It personally offends me that women fall for that shit....but some love songs are good...my favorite Cracker song is Big Dipper, isn't that a love song?
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Yeah you finally turned your notes on! I would write you more often, but sending emails is just a hassle for someone as lazy as I tend to be on occasion. Although I am obsessed when it comes to notes and such. So easy. On the marriage thing, I think I agree about people marrying porn stars....kind of pointless. I was going to mention Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro, but I guess she's not a porn star. Why do I always think she is? Anyway, I'm married so I do believe in it for regular people, but you're right about the porn stars. And if you are one, isn't the beauty of that job, the lack of monogomy involved? Look forward to more conversation now that your notes are on. - Kristina
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