Short Stories, Long Odds

Best Song Lyrics I’ve Found In A While:

So I’ll stick to my guns,
but from now on it’s war:
I’m armed with the past,
and the will, and a brick
- Frightened Rabbit, Good Arms vs. Bad Arms

Best Line from Neruda That Used To Be a Favorite Until I Forgot It (Tie):

I want to do with you / what spring does with cherry trees.

…and…

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

Best Description of Me, Worrying About Who / How I Am, by Someone Else

If I didn’t know you, I’d say “Stop being a girl. You’re fine.” But I know you really weigh these things.

In the fall of 1997, I started college at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. I would ultimately end up attending Berklee for just three semesters. I left after the first two semesters when my hands went bad, and went back for one more semester in 2004 for one last ill-advised grab at living the dream and becoming a film scorer. During the first year I lived in Boston, it became my home and I made great friends of the people I lived with. Even these days, 12 years later, I have the rhythm of that city in my bones more than any other I’ve been to. Some nights when I lie in bed I still feel the thrum of the T.

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iTunes purchase I am most ashamed of: ‘Temperature’ by Seal Paul.

Bon Jovi: “Union men on strike” = why we are livin’ on a prayer

Rush: “Oak trees have formed a union” leading to some kind of forest war.

Tenacious D: Owns the means of production (the Pick of Destiny) but “blows your mind” – “accidentally”.

Beck: Refusing to negotiate (will not give up that ghost)

The evidence could not be clearer. Harmonix is obviously trying to quell union talk among workers.

Yes, but was it Phil Collins Genesis or Peter Gabriel Genesis?

I secretly hope it was Peter Gabriel Genesis.