For a long time I was really miserable. Really, really miserable. To paraphrase Shirley Manson, I was only happy when it rained. It got to the point that I’m pretty sure that I forgot how to be happy. I call it the “Poor Me” syndrome. It is accompanied by a dispassionate aloofness when in groups of more than four and involves a lot of sighing. And guess what – it sucks. It fucking blows. I’m sick of it. I’m sick of feeling bad for myself. continue reading…
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Hopefully the first in a long line of painfully obvious witticisms that we tend to overlook. Okay, here it goes… continue reading…
My sincerest apologies for the title, I have been watching a lot of The Big Bang Theory lately and all their episodes are named similarly. But it’s so cute.
That being said, I think it comes as no surprise to anybody that knows me that I am a jeans and T-shirt kind of guy. continue reading…
A few months ago I was packing for my sister’s wedding. It was during this frenzied mess of deciding what to take and what to leave behind that I figured out how much I truly suck at life. continue reading…
So I was on my way home from work tonight and a song came on my Zune. Yes, I am one of the three people in the whole world who owns a fucking Zune. Get over it. Anyway, this song came on and I instantly got the chills. You ever have that moment when a song takes you so back to where you were at the time and you have to relive the moment? Of course you do, it happens to all of us.
It’s no secret to anybody that knows me that I like music. I like music a lot. I like different kinds of music. And yes, despite what I will tell you in a bar, there is some rap and country that I do like. I have gone through various stages as the years have past. I have always been into rock, but I went through a metal phase, when I was in college I went through (obviously) a college music stage. Most recently my music of choice has been punk music. With the recent final show of Even In Blackouts (arguably the coolest experience of my life) I am reminded of the band that really got me into punk music who are no longer with us (as a band anyway). This band was called Eight Ball Grifter. continue reading…
