"Rock n Rolla"

So, I'm thinking this moving might be lacking in a major way... But there is one thing that might be its saving grace:



mmm... yes.

"Suffocation En Masse" (an Ode to the T by Esmerelda Villalobos)

Little mice scurry across the tracks
dodging, darting
hurry hurry, little mouse,
the train, itsa comin'.

The big silver box comes
clickety clacking
at a top speed of
2 miles per hour.

Fifteen minutes we've been waiting,
and the cars are overflowing.
Squeeze, push, cram
yourselves into the lack of space.

"Excuse me, sir, I dont mean to be rude,
but if you dont stop breathing on my face,
I'm going to be sick."

Leaning, swaying, pushing,
the train jerks and stops and goes
like a mean little rumba
dancing over the Charles.

Let me out.
I'm going to scream.
If you don't fit, push.
I think tomorrow I'll walk.

jukebox in my mind

"might makes right" - camper van beethoven... "boys from county hell" - the pogues
"beastslayer of valenar" - diego's umbrella... "good friend your hunger" - castanets
"9 in the afternoon" - panic! at the disco... "springdance" - korpiklaani
"baby got back" - jonathan coulton... "fall down lightly" - VHS or BEHTA
"streetlights" - the view... "nightly things" - begushkin
"ice dogs" - man man... "middle of nowhere" - hot hot heat
"400 bucks" - reverend horton heat... "love is the drug" - roxy music
"soma" - the strokes... "if you leave" - OMD
"start me up" - the rolling stones... "do you wanna dance?" - the ramones
"sing me spanish techno" - the new pornographers... "505" - arctic monkeys
"my good gal" - OCMS... "wake up and go beserk" - mogwai
"the great escape" - boys like girls... "forever in the west" - white light riot
"20th of april" - oysterband... "strange love" - depeche mode
"gone away" - the offspring... "be without you" - mary j. blige
"rain dogs" - tom waits... "follow me up to carlow" - the young dubliners
"start wearing purple" - gogol bordello... "ignition (remix)" - r. kelly
"you" - lloyd... "whistles the wind" - flogging molly
"dreaming with a broken heart"- john mayer... "until the end of time" - justin timberlake
"open up" - dispatch... "hitchin' a ride" - green day
"alright" - supergrass... "lump" - presidents of the united states of america
"friendship" - tenacious d... "karate" - kennedy
"permanent" - acceptance... "hook" - blues traveler

mental playlist - part one

"rifles" - black rebel motorcycle club... "wagon wheel" - old crow medicine show
"true love way" - kings of leon... "obstacles 1" - interpol
"samson" - regina spektor... "she dont use jelly"- the flaming lips
"irish" - tonic... "dareh meyod" - OAR
"in the garage" - weezer... "flourescent adolescent" - the arctic monkeys
"like herod" - mogwai... "under control" - the strokes
"waltz for aidan" - mogwai... "a little more time" - zox
"dance dance christa paffgen" - anberlin... "full moon cigarette" - gran bel fisher
"more today than yesterday" - diana ross... "afternoon tea" - the kinks
"the killing moon" - echo and the bunnymen... "kyrie" - mister mister
"moore street girls" - the elders... "rocky road to dublin" - the young dubliners
"rock & roll queen"- the subways... "with you in mind" - aaron neville
"rainbow road" - percy sledge... "it's no good" - depeche mode
"clear spot" - the pernice brothers... "secret" - howie day
"bonnie lass of anglesy" - tempest... "home" - michael buble
"drink to moving on" - grand national... "find a new way" - young love
"did it all for you" - the tossers... "grounds for divorce"- elbow
"don't stop" - inner party system... "cannibal queen" - miniature tigers
"dark blue" - jack's mannequin... "brooklyn is burning" - head automatica
"in other words" - ben kweller... "sunship balloons" - the flaming lips

"here it is, your moment of zen"

wow. it is amazing how fast time flies when routine consumes your life. i've turned 27, gone to an octoberfest, survived my one year anniversary, had bfs come visit me in Beantown, and watched the Sox implode in the playoffs...

The Election looms ahead, and it remains a decision to vote between a giant douche and a turd sandwich... partisan politics aside, neither one will fulfill a single campaign promise. guaranteed. the first term will be spent a) doing damage control and b) preparing for re-election. tax cuts? alternative fuel sources? healthcare? withdrawing troops from Iraq? not. gonna. happen. when will Americans learn that politicians are not to be trusted? we bitch and moan about issues, yet do we realize that not only do they speak out of both sides of their mouths, but their hands are so deep into the pockets of special interests and they owe so many people, that actual progress will never happen. never. not as long as politicians run the government and Americans remain complacent in the status quo. change will only come when we put aside our addiction to luxury, and learn to live like the rest of world. we need to climb down from our ivory tower and earn some street cred, babies.

*sigh*

so, for now, I raise a glass and take a deep draught while i can still afford it...

the power of one... ja, absoloodle

One of the best blery books I've read. Takes place 1935 ish to 1952ish. Story of a young boy born English in a Boer South Africa. He is a child of Africa. He can speak English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Fanagalo, Shangaan. I've listed my favorite passages and tidbits in sequential order from the book...

"In the matter of white man's punishment, the black people already understand that the body can be broken by a sjambok but never the spirit. We are the earth, that is why we are the color of the earth. In the end it is the earth who will win, every African knows this."

"... in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed."

"First with the head and then with the heart."

"Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it."

"It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you will grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life."

(the funniest bit) "...wouldn't be worth a cardboard boot..."

"When a man knows somebody cares, he keeps some small place, a corner maybe of his soul, clean and lit."

"According to Miss Bornstein..."

"Man is a romantic at heart and will always put aside dull, plodding reason for the excitement of an enigma. As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance."

the People

"The power of one was based on the courage to remain separate, to think through to the truth, and not to be beguiled by convention or the plausible arguments of those who expect to maintain power."

Mayibuye Afrika

Thanks to Bryce Courtenay and his boetie Peekay.

country roads

Almost heaven, west virginia
Blue ridge mountains
Shenandoah river -
Life is old there
Older than the trees
Younger than the mountains
Growin like a breeze

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads

All my memories gathered round her
Miners lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine
Teardrops in my eye

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads

I hear her voice
In the mornin hour she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
And drivin down the road I get a feelin
That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads
Take me home, now country roads
Take me home, now country roads