Friday, April 30

Found on a walk

A box of free books, among them Kurt Cobain's Journals.
On page 27 there was an awesome story and luckily another blogger has typed them all out.
Thanks, @http://cobainjournals.blogspot.com/. And @Google for making this connection possible.



In a last attempt to make it clear that this girl did not have downs syndrome or a mongoloid, there is proof that Lakeside High School does not have or ever has had the facilities to teach those chronic retards. In fact, Darrin, Ace, and Trevor were also in one of her classes & she also had regular classes for normal people. A lot of naive asshole kids just called her retarded because she never talked.

The object of the guys who had been going there for the past month was to steal booze from the downstairs basement den while others distracked her by opening cupboard doors & pretending to eat all the food, one would go down & take a 5th & then exit out the downstairs.
It was basically a gift to Trevor the pot overlord who enjoyed pot not as quite as much as booze, and to his helpers & I a reward of getting high in the woods near the school was always promised if we stold booze for him. Only being stoned within that week for the first few times was what i claimed as "something i will do for the rest of my life!" And i would practically do anything to ensure my supply of the fantastic weed. So we did this routine every other day & got away with it for about a month.
And during that month happened to be the epitome of my mental abuse from my mother. It turned out that pot didn't help me escape my troubles too well anymore and i was actually enjoying doing rebellious things like stealing this booze & busting store windows, getting in fist fights, etc..... & nothing even mattered. I decided within the next month I'll not sit on my roof and think about jumping but i'll actually kill myself and i wasn't going out of this world without actually knowing what it is like to get laid.
So one day after school I went to her house alone and invited myself in and she offered me some twinkies and I sat on her lap and said "let's fuck" and I touched her tits and she went into her bedroom and got undressed in front of me with the door open and I watched & realized that it was actually happening so I tried to fuck her but didn't know how and asked her if she had ever done this before and she said alot of times mainly with her cousin.
I got grossed out heavily with how her vagina smelled & her sweat reaked so I left. My conscience grew to where i couldn't go to school for a week and when i went back i got in-house suspetion in the office for skipping, and that day the girls father came in screaming & accusing someone of taking advantage of his daughter & they went in the principals office and yelled at eachother & they came out with a yearbook & were going to have her pick me out. but she couldn't because i didn't show up for pictures that year. & so during lunch the rumors started and by the next day she told my name and everyone was waiting for me to yell & curse & spit at me calling me a retard fucker.
Because a lot of people liked me the sides were even but i couldn't handle the ridicule so on a saturday night i got high & drunk & walked down to the train tracks & layed down & waited for the 11:00 train & i put 2 big pieces of cement on my chest & legs & the train came closer & closer, and it went on the next track beside me instead of over me. So i rode the bus to Lakeside School from Jenkins Lane everyday pretending to go to school & doing acid instead walking in the woods so my mom would think i was going to school & the cops stopped me one night at a football game & i went down to the station & they tape recorded my confession of what i did and said that her family can't do anything because she was 18 and not mentally retarded. But tension from school made me have to attend Jenkins School and the train scared me enough to try to rehabilitate myself & my guitar playing seemed to be improving so i became less manically depressed but still never had any friends because i hated everyone for they were so phony.

Friday, April 23

we'll never feel bad anymore

I am sitting on my porch, waiting for a hitchhiking dude from France to show up on my sidewalk. I haven't had a phone all week, and I feel pretty free. I show up where I want to be. It's nice. Or it has been nice, until now. I wish I knew where this guy was; he's only coming from DC so I don't think he'll have much trouble getting here, but I want to take a nap! Haha, surprise...

I want to hitch hike soon, I need to get to L.A. on August 15th to see Jenny Lewis and then to San Francisco to move in Nicole at Berkeley. Anyone want to come along? A dude? A girl and a dude? I'm trying to go with back-up bus ticket money galore, because I'm not edgy or faithful enough to stay relaxed while stranded in a Nevada desert or some shit. Stuck and broke is not adventurous; it's miserable. So is a trip that takes too long. But a possibly free trip with me and bubbles and endless ABC I spy sign games!? Let's do it.

I can't wait til "Greg Le Brun" arrives so I can bombard him with questions. Surely he's stuck in some killer commuter traffic. But I am curious as to how long finding a ride took him, and whether he lucked out with amiable company, and how frequently he has travelled this way in the past. I also wonder how proficient his English is. He has messaged me in both French and English, but writing a language is a different world from speaking it. Hitching with someone who forced you to chitchat in broken English for a 4 hour standstill ride would be absolutely torturous, especially because of the obligatory gratefulness that you would and should feel towards the driver.

I forgot to say- he's staying with me/ contacted me through couchsurfing.org. I feel like all my followers have heard of it, or would have seen it in this month's Ink! Ink is my university's literary magazine:

http://issuu.com/ink_magazine/docs/ink_vol._2_no._4_final_version

Meredith Rigsby wrote the article, which begins on page 21! I am quoted with something slightly negative to say, boo. Anyway, it doesn't taint the overall piece, and I still kept hosting and surfing after that Rome experience! Meredith did a pretty fine job on the story, I'll say.


Previous guests of mine from Bosnia, Germany, and Japan, respectively! :)

Here I am, just trying to not be unreliable for my own couchsurfer. But I, unlike the Vatican City tour guide, do not even have a phone to not answer! Hopefully he throws a rock up here soon....

Monday, April 12

Damperers:

"It is better to be fooled than to be suspicious"

Truth.
But sometimes I just want to feel untouched by the bullshit. Having expectations blows sometimes.
Another let down, another test on my depleted reserve of mercy & patience, another unnecessary instance of feeling tried and tricked.
I don't want to re-evaluate my approach. But dammit....

How long should you stay giving people the benefit of doubt? It's always been my policy, and I'm still certain it is the right one. But when is assuming the worst not only protecting your feelings, but also just an exercise in logic? What has been will continue to be? You can't place your demands on someone who doesn't care and doesn't get it. I want positivity all the time. But it's becoming detrimental to me when I apply it in situations where it does not belong.
Fuck you if you fool people. You disillusion me when I'm supposed to be spreading fairy dust around here. And that's why you make the world suck for everybody.

Monday, April 5

Secular Grace to Memorize and Recite

It's only happened like three times before, but when I copy and paste lyrics into a blog post, I feel:
1) like I miss middle school AIM buddy info/ away messages, on which expression of personal "emo" feelings through "emo" lyrics was not only acceptable, but commonplace
2) like I am to a degree participating in the bullshit Tumblr phenomenon- simply coming across something I fancy and plagiarizing it

Both accurate.
But, I really have a purpose with showing you guys the following song:
I truly miss saying grace before meals. There are so many sincere things that religious folks do. The only religion that I can claim thorough familiarity with, Christianity, may be riddled with contradiction and flaw, and everything about it may breed hypocrisy. But so many church traditions are just about acts of goodwill and earnest, heartfelt, even cheesy sentiment. I'm okay with cheesy...
Whether or not you address it to anyone in particular, saying a simple word is just the right thing to do when you are about to enjoy the sort of meal that would be luxurious to many less fortune folks in the world. It is not a prayer, it's "grace".

I'm really so lucky. Thanks, Chance.

The lyrics to "In a Future Age" by Wilco would be a perfect grace. They don't really say thanks, but they give a nod to something big- the facts of time- and place faith only with the future and with our actions. I like that.
I want to know this:

Genuine
Day will come
When the wind
Decides to run
And shakes the stairs
That stab the wall
And turns the page
In a future age

Some trees will bend
And some will fall
But then again
So will us all
Let's turn our prayers
Into outrageous dares
And mark our page
In a future age

High above
The sea of cars
And barking dogs
In fenced-in yards


This message does not exemplify awareness of having a good lot in the world, though. What would you guys recite for a secular grace? Alanis and Dido gots some thank you ones. I can't think out of the box on this one though....what to say before a meal?

Sunday, April 4

True Life: Two Worlds Collide

School is a jail; books are my escape.
Being an English major is a love/hate roller-coaster.