10.09. ...you all frustrate me!
Faondradh: But yes, I agree... if you tell yourself that you will never achieve happiness, you won't.
Faondradh: You have to have some sort of apathy towards your own situation if you want to truely be happy, or truely be unhappy.
Faondradh: Because, well, it is your mind... if you tell it something enough it will more than likely believe it... they have a name for that.
Faondradh: They call it brainwashing :P
Faondradh: Scientology does it by convincing it's members that they won't be happy without scientology.
Faondradh: What your are describing is convincing yourself that you won't be happy because you are alive (the you is figurative)

See, I've been looking at so many profiles, websites, IMs, emails; heard thoughts, phrases, predictions, 'goals'; from so many people. Their common thread being that they will never, ever be happy. Now, they aren't complaining. Hell, I think that might be better. They are declaring. I will never be happy, or find love, or recover from the traumatic experiences of my past, change my ways, stop smoking, or be able to speak fluent Italian! And why, praytell, shall you be so denied the blessings of this life? Because life is so horrible, because you are so horrible, because nothing will ever work out right...

Sorry, that was a truckload of sarcasm. I suppose if I was -really- sorry I'd just delete it before I post it, but you can interpret how you like. But really, all this... over-negativity. Negativity is fine with me, it really is. And I think a lot of people need to acknowledge the shitty side of life, and I don't think ignorant bliss is any kind of solution. But there is a difference between acknowleding that yes, sometimes life is shit and for some people it is shit, and becoming obsessed with, embracing, and working towards the most horrible aspects of life, while giving up all hope on yours ever becoming better. I think the more you work towards something the closer you are to it. I don't think telling yourself every day that you're going to be a millionaire is going to get a million dollars. Maybe a job, maybe a little bit of motivation. Who knows, maybe some day it will snowball up. Maybe it won't. I don't think repeating to yourself for a day straight 'there is a million dollars under my bed' is going to upgrade your dust bunnies (or whatever else may lie beneath...), but I do think that repeating to yourself, at every given opportunity 'I will never be happy, when I felt good I was fooling myself, what feels good is lying to me, and what will make me feel better will never exist' is definitely going to impact the way you live, and, your life. Gah, you punk mother fuckers that say I hate life, and would turn down an opportunity to enjoy it if it were given to you.
Ingrateful bastards. Look at a tree, closely.. cracks in the sidewalk, dirt, someone crying. And for god's sake, pity parties can't last forever.
~red~
disclaimer: The you is plural, maybe a smidgeon hypothetical, and nonspecific. If you thought it was specific, well, hey...



o.-|||.|| bucephalus
for your amusement:
(a journey into my world of misinterpretation)
The away message: "Gotan Project - A quai"

hmmm..
The first thought is Dragonball Z. But that's out of character, heck out of vocabulary or atleast usage anyway. Can't be that. But that's an awfully strange name for something they'd give you in school.
Ok skip the first part for now. A quai.. looks French, but she prefers Spanish. Or Russian... but that's not Russian... ok we'll try Spanish.
Babelfish results: u sux
Dang, thought so, ok, French then.
Babelfish results: u r t3h ub4r suq.
Ok, ok, so Babelfish sucks because that looks really French. I'll try a google search on the whole phrase.
*lots of results in French*
Aha, I was right! Hmmm.... univers-musik.com, 444musique.com, i-muzzik.com, www.cultureobs.com/concerts/concerts1972_068.html ... right.
(artist) - (title)
... *smack head*
~red~

o.-||.|| leaves
Wonderful wonderful day. =]
~red~



o.-||.|| bruising
papercutpapercutpahpahpahpapercut.
scrape that knee and break your shin,
grazed it to the bone
we're all outta antiseptic, johnny best run home.


se@le eh. A thousand and 7 places in between.
Dub's at school: shit I'm going to miss that kid.
slash, slash, slash. (just a pretty word in this case)

I spent the night with my mom and my sister tonight, we rented Rat Race. 'It's a race I'm winning!' _ 'Look, a drifter, let's kill him!' _ 'I can do anything! I'm eccentric!' She was brushing out my hair with her fingers because she always has to see if she has somehow outgrown me (I've got a half inch or so on her), and she started scratching my back. *drool* I realised how long it had been since I'd touched anyone. I hugged Dub before I left after we moved him in at school, but other than that - months, literally. She ended up beating me up again. Well she kept sitting on me, and I was really tired, having slept 4 hours, so it felt like getting beat up. Was great to spend an evening with her though.

(on a different note)
Maybe one of these days I'll manage to get it to come out as well as it still lives inside me.
~red~



10.03.02 malatov
I've got enough bitter sarcasm built up to kill a few elephants. Pretty funny too. Very mean, mostly. And of course it would be the case where it's mean, not funny, because it's about 'you'. (despite similarities to things laughed at) Heh heh heh heh.
To drive or not to drive, that is the question.
Then again, I couldn't do it if I wanted to now, I managed to lose my keys - god knows how. (hopefully, because I don't.)
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~red~




9.27 funny
A winter's day
In a deep and dark December
I am alone
Gazing from my window
To the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow

I am a rock
I am an island

I've built walls
A fortress deep and mighty
That none may penetrate
I have no need for friendship
Friendship causes pain
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.

I am a rock
I am an island

Don't talk of love
Well, I've heard the word before
It's sleeping in my memory
I won't disturb the slumber
Of feelings that have died
If I'd never loved,
I never would have cried

I am a rock
I am an island

I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
I am shielded in my armor
Hiding in my room
Safe within my womb
I touch no-one and no-one touches me

I am a rock
I am an island
And the rock feels no pain
And an island never cries


I was listening to that (It's Simon & Garfunkel btw) as I had a hankering for 'Sounds of Silence' and it's after it on my record, and I suddenly realised 'Wow, people really believe that.' Obviously it's satire in the case of the song, but I realised I know people who really believe that. Ai ai ai.
What am I listening to? ATB - You're Not Alone. Clipse feat Pharrell - Grindin' (It's a damned good beat, like the lyrics or not), and KoRn - Freak on a Leash. ~red~



9.20 deux jour
Thinking about myself, and what I am who I'll be and who I've been. I've had times where I really kind of liked who I was. Sometimes I see other people's lives (admittedly parts) and wish I was them, when they do things that I've always wanted to, and haven't for whatever reason. I wonder about where I'm going, and if I've made decent decisions. Being dropped on your face in the dirt makes you wonder whether you should have been walking in that direction. I still don't trust it though. And I don't regret what I've done, and I'd do it again. Not everything of course... offhand I can think of a number of changes I'd make in my life if I had a rerun. I suppose they aren't all out of my reach either, to change them from where I am now. Some.
The downside to not accepting things is that reminders aren't just reminders, they're it happening all over again.
La la la la.
Oh crikes, I've got 72 emails to delete through... all of them are from the autox list. Sometimes it sends none for three days, and others I got 50+ per day. It's a drag though, maybe I should switch to digest... nah, I suppose even though I've come to expect it to be all autox, seeing that I have new email is still exciting for the ever so small chance that it won't be as much. Remedy that, if you like.
La la la la.
~red~

Had a fun day in AC today. synopsis



9.18 Mothersbaugh's Canon, Adia, Tori Amos - God
I just looked over on the desk and saw a Bob Dylan album, (presumably Dub's mom's) and instantly got him stuck in my head. Now I've got something else coming in through my ears, but god is it stupid. I was looking for a link someone in AC sent me, but I lost it and tried searching for the part I remembered (being AC3.swf) but I had no luck.

I reccomend all of you read the sites recently added to the links page. MOZPH34R, A's site, and one comprised entirely of suicide notes! No to mention Maud and Faondradh, who have been updating. And syncrete's looking good as well... check out damn near everything on that page, most of those links are there because I use them a lot.

Letting things go can be hard because you're afraid they won't come back, but that makes sense - that's why it's hard to let anything go. I've had trouble letting something go because I know, all too well, what it's like to miss someone - so why would I want someone else to feel that? I understand that it's probably necessary ... I'm just hoping that it won't make someone else feel the way I have so often.
~red~



9.17 (02) where to go, what to do?
I had a better one in my head, but it slipped away, it's way later than I planned. I saw the video for 'She Hates Me' by Puddle of Mudd again a few minutes ago, I like it a lot. I don't know if I'd defend the song, but the video is cool. Makes me laugh, although I suppose it isn't really going for funny. A few lines stand out to me a lot.

I got to give people flowers tonight, it was exciting. I love giving things, and I like flowers, and I like giving beautiful things. It works out well. Mostly. Sometimes. In one case it may lead to bottled up rage slowly turning to homicidal mania, leading to the worst genocide man has ever known... but only if her mom doesn't stop touching them.
God, people can be so beautiful. A number of reminders of that tonight. Some through glass, some through ice, some through a network of sattelites and little plastic rectangles.

I started writing again. On one hand it's good because there is a lot of crap in me that I don't tell to anyone, or my site, period, and it needs to go somewhere... on the other it may lead to this being neglected. I'll have to decide which is more important and what can('t) and/or should(n't) be here or in there instead, all that.

Working, working, on my self.
~red~


9.16 (02) grievver
I got my AC account reactivated last night. Did a couple of quests I had thought of, one I had meant to do, and got to do the one quest with Kakarot. Missed ... gaming ... with him. (Why is it so hard for me to find another way to say 'play with'? :P ) So nice to be back on a character that can kill damn near everything, have my house, access to a mansion, and just... ahh it was comforting to be on my own account again, heh. I had a lot of fun, even when I chased Kak for 5 or 10 minutes cause the bastitch wouldn't give my Hoary robe back. Ah, humbug, a lot of jokes from last night but I suppose none of you would get most of them. One thing that's fairly universally funny though, was my finishing this quest. It's called a Horn of Vigilance, and I knew it was a housing item (aka something worthless except for decoration). However, I had no idea what it looked like, and when I set it on my living room floor and commented on it's nature, Dub and I laughed for awhile. Here's the thread I made about it.

I heard of a friend of mine who went off to college far far away being in town, but not from him. Could feel like I was slighted, but I suppose he had his reasons for being quiet about it.
Argh, Dub's 10 year old brother really likes to walk up and read everything on the screen... always weirds me out.

There are a couple of other things I could feel slighted by, probably should be. A few other words besides slighted as well. *sigh*
... crikes.
It hurts so much some days. Sometimes, waking up, deciding whether or not to shake thoughts out of my head or to hold on to them... I can't always tell whether the reminder will soothe or ache or sting.

I've got all this advice swimming in my head. And some of it seems right, and some of it seems like it would fit were a few things a little bit different. So I want to atleast partially disregard it, because those things are slightly different, but part of the advice is acknowledging that I am getting this advice because otherwise, and without it, and going off of what my mind says, I'd be fucking up.
Oh hell.
~red~


friday morrissey party
' ...A plastic face forced to portray... '
That line went by as I opened the editor. If you haven't, I encourage you to listen to Nine Inch Nails, in this case 'The Day The Whole World Went Away.' No, it doesn't fit my mood, but it's a pretty song, so I'm letting it play, god knows it beats the rest of Dub's music :P

I stepped into Robyn's bathroom today, and was confronted with the legendary mirror. It consumes the entirety of the wall above the sink, in a small, rectangular bathroom, so you can imagine why it's a bit alarming. However, as I entered, fully clothed and whatnot mind you, I actually thought I looked half decent. [When I got dressed, as I was leaving the house, when I thought about it] I thought I was just overly blue. The raver-size jeans, light blue modest mouse shirt, and my old blue button up shirt open over that. [I decided I really didn't care and wore it anyway], but when I glanced at myself in that mirror, I thought that it looked kind of nice, and my hair wasn't all that awful. In the front it wasn't parted in the middle, but hey... what's one more flaw when you've got many, heh. It was a surprise, to feel that way about looking at myself. It didn't matter, at all, how I looked or how I felt about it, but... nonetheless.

Speaking of the said Morrissey events... the party was fun, and seeing Morrissey on TV was spectacular, but... god, does Craig Kilborn suck! Ah, I'm not kidding about the Moz being spectacular though... even without dancing, or any flowers (even at the party!) present, he made it worth sitting through an hour of Craig that included way too much Tom Green (read: any). It was superfliege, I got a taste of what I think Robyn gets when she hears his name, I can't really say I know what it would be like to be her and see him on TV.
Speaking of Robyn, (hey I'm full of linking my paragraphs together tonight), go look at herwebsite! I think it is aesthetically pleasing, and we all know she can write, damn well. It's also linked on my little publicised page of links, which includes links to the sites of Ang and Maud, as well as many other useful locations on the "internet". Ahhhhhhhh Morrissey is so good, many public thanks to Robyn for being the gateway to him, and for the Morrissey fun this eve.


I looked at the stars for a bit again tonight, tilted my head back. I chased a bouncy ball (... a number of times. If only I had 15 feet of vertical.) I saw a great movie called Donnie Darko, and I spent time with a group of people that are more beautiful to me every time I see them. I pushed my car out of a driveway without starting it(damn that little portion doesn't look uphill!), because I am super ninja. I taught myself three more French words [ali�n� (insane), d�mence (insanity), r�ver (dream)] and tonight once or twice ... I smiled inside in a way that was like an explosion, because, ... parce que, la raison �tait elle.
~red~


thursday ___
wake up get up
Slept late cause I didn't want to give that dream up.

Sign up, then ride up, wait up.
Pulserate up, hopes up, back down


can't lock it away or ignore it or pretend it isn't there...
|beautiful...<-
elle| . . . si ehs <-

stares fades dissolves.
burning like melting like dying rapidly.
my sinuses suck.


Wednesday - from the library
I had a crazy dream last night, really freaking weird. I was staying at Ang's house, (although it was in one of those all-the-houses-are-the-same developments, his house, surrounded by standardized 2 story development houses) and it was the middle of the night... 4 or 5 am. I decided to (don't ask me why cause I'll be damned if I have a clue) wander around outside, ... naked. It was the middle of the night and dark, so it didn't matter much, outside of the principle of walking around naked. I was over in the neighbor's yard, and then came back into Ang's, but a motion sensor light for the back porch turned on. This freaked me out so I kept going, and went to turn around the corner of the house, but another light threatened to turn on. Gah... so I turned around and sat down between the two light's sensors and waited for them to shut off. It was getting closer to sunrise and I was getting a bit antsy... I remember seeing the sky start to turn pink. I had only been sitting a few moments when to my great dismay they door to the back porch opened, and Mr. S. came out. He saw me sitting there and told me to come inside or whatever, because sitting outside in the middle of the night was absurd. Next thing I remember I was clothed, and inside the house at some sort of meal, I suppose breakfast. Aud was there (which wasn't odd) as well as Mr. S., and some girl that was Audrey's friend, according to my dream. Mr Stafford started to tell them 'You'll never believe what I found this guy up to last night...' and Audrey was like 'Dad, I don't want to hear this' and looked at me like 'omfg, what's he doing?'. I returned a look that said (it was kind of like this was being said telepathically.. it's dream, I can do that) 'What, like you think I want him to say it?'. Apparently she knew what he was going to say but wanted to be spared the embarrassment of his repeating it in front of her friend.

And hey, Audrey just called me so you all get to remain in incredible suspense until I get internet access again! Dun dun dun!

Later in the dream we were rollerblading on the freeway... as in passing traffic, 75-80 mph. Audrey was in front of a semi, but it was a flat face one, and she was crouched, so it didn't see her, and she was gonna get hit by it! I downshifted to fourth and sped up, my engine getting louder. Yeah, tha'ts right, I reached over and downshifted, and I could hear my engine. I was moving like I was rollerblading, cause I was... but I had all the properties of my car. *shrug* Audrey was safe though, she went in between the double tires of the semi. How? I don't know.. maybe her MOJO? *g* (Maybe the highway was inside coventry mall...). Anyway the highway long and flat and on a plateau, or on top of a mountain... at the end of the straightaway was a hard corner, I downshifted and slammed on the brakes, and went up on the side wall I was cornering so hard... the side wall was like they all are in my area, covered in greenery and trees, but I still made tons of smoke and squealing noises and engine revving... on rollerblades. It was like the rollerblade portion of my dream was directed by the same genius that did The Fast and the Furious. I'd be furious too if I drove an Eclipse so remote from actual physical laws that floorboards fell out from it's unibody frame when the manifold blew. The rest of the road was a twisty/switchbacking downhill mountain road, and there was more after we reached the bottom, but I don't really remember it...

A soccer jock's profile struck me as kind of neat today. Generally it's just horribly laughable, i.e. the usual 'don't evar look down cuase u will trip on ur sorrow and miss the sunshine and ur unicorn won't kiss the rainbow!!! life is great!!! I love OC, OBX, n DMB!! to all my peeps u rock!!!'. Anyway, the one I liked was a quote from Calvin and Hobbes, probably why it appealed to me. It read:
"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently."
I walked for awhile tonight, and spent a half hour or so laying in the road looking at the sky, that may have a role in it's appealing to me too. Maybe I'll start taking nightly walks... hell maybe I'll run, actually do it without having someone else to run with. I've got enough to run from.
~red~


09.09.02 playing with my tongue
Well I'm distracted and listening to good music (read: A.T.W.A.), so I don't know about the quality of this update, but I feel it's important as the feeling the last leaves isn't what I'm running on. Hey, for once I'm not letting you know about a feeling that isn't crap within 2 weeks. Yeah... so what is it?
It's watching the bag float, and it's that final monologue of American Beauty :
they get disturbingly close to a lot of my views.
Brar. Maybe I'll add more to this later, for now, hey wheee, it's Hello Kitty!
~red~


9.08.02
feeling a new kind of low. A self esteem fading. A knowing so many people out there just see grey. Feel nothing but a bank of fog without the mystery. Shapeless unchanging and dull. Some refuse to turn around, some refuse to accept what they see beyond it, some have nowhere to look, some tie dark cloth tightly about their eyes.

I've never before...

thought about what it's like to feel like a tag along, like you aren't wanted, like you're the ugly/fat/obligatory friend. Hadn't felt like it before. Been this sick of myself, my whati'vegot.
I can't remember being up against a wall like this. Maybe it's more like being on top of a wall, I can jump forward or backward. Nay, left or right. Both are backward and both are forward and either is neither. mother fuckers. Hey, enough of the shit you don't care about, and on to the shit you don't care about that might be mildly interesting.
...
M: "So did you get a job yet?"
".. no."
M: "Wow."
... being why I try to make sure my mom is at work if I've got to pick something up. I got my Japanese books, so I can show them to a friend that knows a bit of it. I was going to start learning it myself, but I really should stick with French until I graduate. Yeah, I'll do that one of these days. Fuck you too.
(sarcastic) D:'I hate you...'
'It's ok, I hate me too.'

wheee, fuck this.
~red~
post; I don't feel like writing about the good things right now, the nonsensical bullshit, the day to day forcing myself, the smiling. About how half of this shouldn't even be posted, I'll forget it in the morning (: will I?). so you all lose.



9.08.02
lonely.
the voice, shoulder, hand, ear,
closeness,
caring

(incoming)
contact and/or communication.

listening, and holding,
laughing, hearing,
someone.

~red~


9.07.02 RolLercoAStEr
Cried myself to sleep for a week or two.
Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks, and based upon the last two weeks, I'm a quarry.
I actually listened to Stabbing Westward.

Felt a lot better, then ended up crying before I could fall asleep that night too. I'm sure I just stayed up too late... should have gone to bed (before I got depressed/before I got to think).
Damn I hope those are two different things.

Give me just a second and I'll be all right...
~red~




8.31.02 poetry
Robyn told me of an 18th century French poet called Mallarme, and the poem he wrote called Sea Breeze. I forgot how much I love poetry, it was good to read some again. I wish I hadn't drifted away from it.


Not your clothes, what you said, your face, your family... but you.



8.31.02 laughter


8.30.01 wet. or 5:52-6:15
If I'm champion of fucking up, I'm also very good at proving myself wrong. I spent 20 minutes straight doing it, and with greater intensity than I thought possible.

I thought I couldn't cry
~red~




8.29.01 Champion.
Wooooo for me! I don't know how I fuck up so often, but I'll be damned if I'm not the best at it! And as far as fucking up and losing sight of what matters, well, tonight was the goddamn Olympics and I brought home the gold, yee - fucking - ha.
~red~
Why don't I ever just shut the fuck up?



8.29.01 missing.
I can't help but feel better about my site when others fail. I've seen quite a few of my friends try to do the same thing as me (granted theirs were different, but online journals nonetheless) and fail several times. Don't get me wrong, I always hope they'll last, and I like reading them... but especially when they make fun of me (*cough*) I get a sort of satisfaction from watching them update less and less or not at all. Granted, it could be a lull, but usually they die after 3 or 4 posts. Ah, and the raven remains =P. Well I would have a few years of archives if I had been aware of my old site going down oh, I don't know, before it happened... but oh well, c'est la vie.

Turned hard today and heard a clicking/knocking noise. This is never a good sign... I looked under the car when I got home and I've got two holes in my CV boot, and it's essentially dry in there, meaning I get to buy a new axle. *twirls finger* Wooo.. hoo. I also need to replace my valve cover gasket. Neither is a pain and I called Dave and he said I can use his lift and do it myself, but it kinda stinks nonetheless, I could have used that money elsewhere. =P


I dream with the same person every night. Location, situation, and other people change, but I'm always with her.
Why do I have to wake up every day?
~red~




8.28.01 SUP4R!!1!

SUPAR DANCE PARTY UPDATE!!1!!11!
AHHHH

HOOHA!
u muSt d4Nce wtih my siSTer adn i
or w3 WILl krarate ch0p U leik

WOO-PAH!

WOO-PAH!

I RECKOMNED FOR ATHS WEBSIET U LISTNE TO SUM HAEPPNIN MUSAK MY FREINSD!!!! Get sum gRo0v3 ni ur shOOZ!!
They were r 2 b teh danzing but i kannot maek r dance they y3t but m3bbe 1 w1LL l4t3r I DTON KNOWOWOWOW I JSUT ODNT NKOW!
2daze updaet iz l33+ liek jeff k.
~red~


8.27.01 tuesday
Soundgarden - Suicidal Dream (Again)

I'm so lost. Straight up, no fucking clue.

Might actually be going somewhere with an aspect of my life... Desiree needed a roommate if she was going to live somewhere besides her sister's basement, so we'll probably get an apartment together, although I would be alone the first month since she needs a bit of time to get money together. Hopefully having a place will be a start to getting things together for me.
I opened my hood today and I think I'm leaking oil from the cam gear and my head gasket is ready to go. I need to rotate my tires and sweep my car, and wash it. But this drought crap says I can't, even though it's rained a fair amount lately...

When positive exists, negative is easily factored in with little or no dramatics, or changes to the symbol. I.E. a positive 25 or 10, or 3 for that matter, can take a slew of negative tenths, and remain a positive number. However, when the number is neutral, i.e. 0, any number added has a dramatic effect. Whether it's 25 or .2, it is a drastic change - it makes it positive or negative. Thus, little things make bigger differences than they should.
This doesn't mean that the output of numbers should cease, change, or that they are wrong in existing while the number is 0. However, it should be taken into account when one considers the effect of the output numbers, and it may be reason for an extra bit of patience when dealing with the effect of the output numbers.


acronyming : But who says it's 0?

even later : i think it's +
~red~



8.26.01 monday
'Aww, does somebody have a case of the Mondays?' - Office Space
I would have hit that woman with the copier had she said it to me. Not that I'm having a case of the mondays, that just jumped into my head. And thus, you all get to hear about it!

I got to sleep in my bed at my mom's house last night, as she was so sweet as to offer it to me after I picked my brother up from the airport since after taking 10 days off from work (to do nothing, since she decided my sister is staying at the FFS even longer *trembles with rage*), she couldn't spare a morning to sleep in after picking him up the night before. Oh well, it was fun. I chanced upon the coolest name for a drink size ever... refills being free I could have gotten the small, but why would someone do that when the large is called... theTHIRST SLAYER!!!!. The cashier was Indian, I couldn't understand a thing he said but it was funny anyway. *rambles in an Indian accent

sorry folks, geocities ate the rest of this file, because it's a whore, so it ends here. =|

7.10 Dramamine
Well last night had some funny in it : Distilled Stupidity. Reading it explains it, so I won't. Oh man, I can't even comment on it, it's just astounding.

I changed my desktop's look when I got home today. A friend reccomended I look at the guys art (that is a self portrait, and 'that guy' is Egon Schiele. At first I thought she was making fun of me, because this guy's favorite subjects were pubescent girls, and he specialized in nudes. But, I like his style, my favorite of his (that I've seen so far) is one of a tree though (here). And of course the one I set as my background. =P.
I drove out to a potential job today (they wouldn't talk about it on the phone, you had to drive there, about 30 minutes away) and they had filled the job that morning. *sigh* Fairly depressing.
I felt better, though, later, now, whatever.
Got to talk to an old friend, too.
~red~



7.08Soundgarden, Smiths, Modest Mouse
This update is fancy, i.e. I wrote it by hand, and I'm typing it now. Every time I update, I realise I have tons to write, I just never do it. Eh, it'll get out one of these days.



i like to blow things wildly out of proportion.
operate out of ignorance, you know, .. good stuff.


I'll take what I don't know, presume it's against me and blam...

pull the trigger.
It's the natural thing to do with a fully loaded gun.


except.. hey, dipshit - the gun doesn't exist.
these people aren't trying to kill you 3 wouldn't hurt you if you weren't doing it yourself. So put down the gun that nobody wants you to use anyway ... yes ... and stfu and accept, that they like you, some love you.


mon amis, est bon.
Ah, what offers they extend, people amaze me now and then.
:love
~red~

6.27Them eyes be evil.

I got into a staring contest with Trouble today. I won when he fell asleep. Silly kitty.
~red~

6.26 Modest Mouse - Karma Payment Plan, 3rd Planet

So I got an unexpected phone call, it lasted about a half hour. Finally I ended it as my cat wanted inside, my laundry needed to be put in the dryer, and my soup was getting cold. So, first I walk to the door to let the cat in. I open the door, and look through the screen door and see that the majority of my porch is covered in feathers, and there is a very, very mangled pigeon laying at the foot of my door. Now, unfortunately, I am used to seeing dead things on my porch - the cat is aptly named Trouble, and he's... active.. in the local rodent community. But then I hear a scurrying scuffling noise and see my cat look towards the outside wall/doors of my porch, and see the rear half of a groundhog struggling to squeeze through the slats in the porch door to get away. Now, there is my feline death standing by the door.. feathers everywhere, a very dead and mangled bird on the ground, and now a groundhog butt wiggling around and making funny noises trying to escape. ( I think groundhogs are disgusting, they are second to oppossums. )
So... I looked at all of this, and said...
'AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!'
... *breathes*
... *looks again*
'AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!'
....
'AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!'
... *turns away and shuts the door* ....
'AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!'
Then I went and did my laundry. (Trouble had run off after the groundhog, which is probably bleeeding somewhere now)
~red~

6.23rd Well sheeit

"I am expecting you to find your own place by July 15."
Well isn't that a pisser.
~red~

6.21 Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?
I finally went over a week without updating, almost 2. Shoot, oh well. I suppose it fits the theme lately though, I've been messing a number of things up that I could swear are terribly important to me, and yet... well here I am with them undone.

So I went to Green Dragon today to continue my search for a specific item for a specific someone (which I found, finally, w0ot =] ), and wandered around the place. Somehow I managed to get out of there without buying anything else *flexes his resolve* although I was damn close to buying a number of things (they being lemonade, mmm, the fresh stuff, lemons in the cup and all, a number of knives, and foooood), which I'm proud of. I was going to buy Wipeout : 3, since I didn't even know it existed, and I -love- the Wipeout games, but I ran into one pissy mofo that ran the little video game cubby hole of a store. The game was labeled $15. I'm poor. So I figured I'd ask him if he'd go down to $10, and if not, think about whether it was worth $15 to me. So, I waited until he was done serving an obnoxious 10 year old who couldn't make up his mind on what he wanted (and when he did was talked out of it every time by his mother "Do you realise how much mowing that is?!" ... parents don't get video games), and then asked "Would you take 10 for this?". The man took the game, looked at it, and said "I'll take 20. It says 15." Then he handed it back to me.
...
I looked at him, blinked, laughed, and then put the game back in the crate and walked out.
Now let's think about this. On one hand, I see the point he was getting across - I presume it to be something along the lines of 'It says 15 you illiterate fuck, what don't you understand about that? I raise the price by 5 because you insult me by offering less'. However : he is in a flea market. He is selling used, mostly crappy, video games. He is open one day a week for 12 hours, he's wearing a T-shirt with the sleeves torn off, and he has a mullet. It's not like I walked into Zales and offered them half price for a nice piece of jewelry. I was a few inches from launching into the haggling skit from 'The Life of Brian', but I thought better of it, presuming it would go over his head, and I could end up with a foreign object inside mine.

Wheeeeeeee escaping. *laughs*
~red~

6.10 <>
I hung up the phone, and fell asleep feeling good.
~red~

June 9th Me, a summary : deux
More than anything I loathe myself. I haven't completed school yet. I sit and stare blankly at this screen and yet nothing about me feels blank except the everpresent ache of distance.
I have noone to turn to because the one to which I seek to turn, I fear to hurt with who I am.
And neither time nor resources exist for me to be me anyway.
I feel like I am existing on a plane seperate from the one which I exist on, save for when with that one. Although even then at times... differing frequencies, AM, FM.
How long will I last like this?
I fear for myself, and those around me, and I hate myself for everything.


Maybe moreso, I just feel like I'm eternally in limbo, eternally waiting, never doing anything but waiting and waiting for something I'm never sure exists, and so I don't feel like I'm real.
Either way... nearly everything feels so far away.
~red~

June 7th Me, a summary.
Somehow... I managed to do nothing... accomplish absolutely nothing... this entire day.
~red~

June 3rd...4th? Mechanical Me
I'm standing up against the glass of my screen door. (It would be a screen but it hasn't yet been switched back from winter). I press my hands against the sides and my eyes push at it from inside, and I want to go out, but I can't. I'm trapped inside, tied to this box, this house, I am here, for how long I don't know. The trance music flows steadily from the speakers to my heart, like a cord to the wall, and it keeps me going, until I am released.
Trapped by myself and circumstance, and a select few others. My body moves and lives, somehow, without my being able to reach it from the inside. I can nudge and push, but it does only so much, I don't have the momentum to change my own path. I'm inside a big mechanical me, and it's doing as it likes, it's a robot, it's heavy and hollow and mechanical. But I'm inside... I swear. Although sometimes I doubt whether I'm actually real. As I sit in here and poke at the inside of the steel shell that is me... maybe I'm just a figment of my imagination, to try and make myself feel real, as if I'm not a hollow monstrocity, yet another failed invention of man.
I can push the robot over to the door, move it's hands to the window, I can look out through the glass and I can feel the music pumping through me, almost bringing me back to life. But it isn't music that brings me back to life, it's ___. And I blink, and realise I'm still sitting in the chair, inside it. Inside me.

.
Ow, no goodbye.
Why do I let the little things get to me at all? They're meaningless, aren't they?
Wierd, that my head can accept how trivial they are, acidental, inconsequential, un-thought-of, but I can't.
Grr, frustrating. I want it to slide off my back.
Do I say 'I'm not a duck, it just doesn't slide off as well'...
Or do I try harder to let it slide off?

....
Actually it did, except that I wrote about it.
I see now... it slides off and into here. Unfortunately, what is to slide off and be forgotten and unknown to others, ends up read by them. Does that defeat the purpose of being able to let it slide?
~red~



June 1st Total Eclipse of the Heart
"I'm serious, while most people are opening presents, some are opening their wrists."
-The christmas hating girl from Gremlins
~red~

May 30th. Fresh
fresh new look, less load when you just want the latest, and woo.
"
Dirty your face
With longing and grace, God-given
Suffer her heart
And love her when your love goes unrequited

Where the cool winds blow
I must surely go
For my love calls me below to drag her
from the depths of my soul

When will I see her again?
" (moderately out of contexted Smashing Pumpkins - Rotten Apples)

Happy to hurt, moreso to love.
Happy in love.
~red~

May 29th . half thoughts, quarter words
Fuck you! Gooaoaaahahhh... you... and +! And the bloody.... !... Blasted insensi... aren't underst... compas...... **! ^v. Heliocentric sans helio addendum yo, ar!

And what do with! 2! .... Trying and wishi... everything! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! BhazifRackIMAST!
Cruath Quasith Zojak Zojak Zojak Volae!!!!!! Corp fucking por.

Waiting all day for a delivery and the package comes empty with a note saying it

This song needs to die. *changes track*


What the fuck am I supposed to do here?

How did I get here and why am I here, for that matter. Why do you keep me put me leave me here.
Spiraling cosmos explosive.
Burning on the inside
~red~



May 27th . Howdy howdy holidai
Wanna go driving, don't have the gas.
Wanna go dancing, don't have the date, wanna make money but it's far too late.
(Aurelia - When The Night is Falling) . Wanna spend my life dreaming, don't have the sleep.
Tired.
D, D, D, D. Sunshine. D, D. J-D, L-D, <>-notD, <>-notD. D. J-D, JL-D, JL-D, can'tH-D.
Wanna go driving don't have the gas. Wanna make money but I feel too far gone.
Graduate, work, be a decent person, manage my emotions well, live a balanced life.
A list of F(rustrations)
Beethoven - Fur Elise
~red~



May 23rd . My away message
Mutakawe, shalom.
I go out driving with Dubblix... woo, pseudo-mayberealonsomelevel-nihilism pour moi, in a way... it's letting go of everything. J'�coute Hurt par NIN. Going out, en trenchcoat and staff in hand.

hour or so later
Heh, drove near the speed limit the whole time. So poo on you, death.
It's good to talk to someone that is fairly uninvolved and disconnected, and do it on a beautiful night (late), and driving around... it's easier to say a lot of things.

Out of gas.. out of road.. out of car.. I guess I'll be dancing here for the night.
That's one way to look at it anyway.
~red~



May 22nd .
Today, I will chill the fuck out.
~red~



May 21st . Ogenki desu-ka?
8:20
So posting song lyrics is crap. I don't know what to post then. Although I guess there isn't actually music playing atm.
I'm so close to crying.
Embrace it and draw them out? Or do I submerge it in one of any number of activites?
I hate this. I don't want this. I want it all to go away.
I haven't left my house in 3 days. Early, nothing to do, so I do schoolwork. Late, could be talking, don't want to miss that, what if <> calls, what if <> comes, what if this time <> talks to me. No gas to drive, or I'd be flying abouts, I miss my car, I miss shifting, I miss roaring.
Pick another song. WinAmp is taunting me. You make a poor drug Winamp. You can't compare to the others.
Stare at the screen little piggy, keep on staring. One day it will talk back to you. You're so pitiful, little piggy, squeal for me. Watch out for the poker. Stare at the screen little piggy, keep on waiting. Waiting waiting waiting. I'm sure it'll come like a tidal wave, the words, the thoughts, the feelings. <> talks to you, in the future, believe me, little piggy, <> shares in the future. You're so hooked little piggy, you're so pitiful little piggy.
Love is a fucker.
8:36now
Why can't I be the pill? Why can't you cope with not being the solution is a better question, piggy. I don't need to be the solution... I just want to help. Maybe you're too codependent? Maybe you need to accept that you can't always help people, piggy. <> hurts! I hate that! I want to stop it! Squeal little piggy. Stare at the screen, keep on waiting piggy... one day, it'll happen. Trust me. *laughter*
Love, is a fucker.
~red~



6:40

I thought maybe I'd feel better if I played with my gun. I forgot how unsatisfying a ping a BB gun makes when you fire it. No explosion, smoke, kick. Just 'boomp'. I wanted to kill that robin, sitting on the shed. I lined it up, understood it, and pulled the trigger. I aimed below it and hit the side of my shed. Then the trunk by another. And a pole underneath a sparrow. I didn't really want to take their life, I still believe none has the right to take the life of another. But I really wanted to watch them fall, see feathers puff out, they get knocked back, and the plummet to earth. After that would have been horrible, finishing it off, or just seeing it's dead corpse. I used to rush in.... take it down with the rifle, then sprint up and finish it with the pistol to minimize it's pain. All before I could think. I haven't killed anything bigger than a bug in years. Spiders don't count.

I never thought I'd be alone. I honestly didn't expect to ever feel as if I had nowhere to turn - especially in a situation such as this. I wanted to tell my mom why I was feeling so bad, why I was being curt. I decided to just give up on being what I want and try and swallow it and make dinner for her. But when I was in the kitchen, just now... I wanted to tell her everything. It would be bad though. I know that, I knew it. I thought 'I wish I had a father'. Because I thought maybe my dad would be able to understand, since I don't think my mom could. Dads are there for you. Most of them express their love for you by disciplining you, and making sure you know how to keep your car in good shape, but they mean well. I could go up to my dad and hug him and start crying and he wouldn't ask a thing I'd bet, or maybe I'd tell him everything anyway. Since I stopped crying over skinned knees, I've gone up to my mom and cried into her once. That was about a year and a half ago.

I never thought I'd be alone.

Nonetheless, I'm obligated to make dinner. My feelings, myself, my head... they'll have to wait.
~red~



May 20th . "Next."
System of a Down - ATWA and Spiders

Well I've got some shit to right tonight. To right and to write I've got some shit and some flowers and some dumpsters full of bodies and some cerebrum that's been forced to hold way too much, far more than should be expected, and I've got 2 more close to my heart I could give you pages and pages for and about and so many others I could give you pages of.

Last night I wanted to write and write and write I was overflowing but by the time I had the opportunity I had silenced smothered shut it off. But now, now, I've got so much of it, right here, at the surface on the red part of my brain the throbbing the pulsing the running the part of my brain that revs my engine when I'm not moving, the part that puts on the boxing gloves, the part that won't fight you unless you fight back, and try damn hard to hurt me. The part with the knife, the part with the gun, the part with overwhelming urge to run until my legs light on fire and what used to be the pen, the part that has the keyboard.

I stand up to light the candles, the kind of dim and flickering and orange light that blocks out all of you and all of the world and the walls and the chair and the plastic and the wood and the everything, and at the same time brings it all in, brings it to my hands and brings it to the screen. All the world I've seen before me passing by. I stood up to get the candles and fell to the floor because I'm laughing and crying and mostly crying but laughing at the fact that I can be so close to crying.. that fragile point where I could shatter, and at the same time I feel like I'm made of obsidian again, obsidian and pain and the thoughts of the world all flowing through me like mana.

All the world I've seen before me passing by.
I fell to the floor and clutched my sides and my head and I laughed at myself, and at you and you and you and you and yours. I stood back up and the tears were already back in my ducts... they almost never hit my cheeks anymore, they don't have the guts. They don't show their faces.

I could go insane. I could do it so quickly and so easily, just never stop laughing at the world and all that it throws in my face and at those that I love, and at what those I love do to those I love and what all of it does to me, and the circle of violence and pain.

what is this shit If I knew I'd destroy it, I'd pull out my big silver 'Jesus Christ is in Heaven now' and I'd blow it to fucking smithereens my love, you know that... I wouldn't hesitate a second I'd blow all their fucking brains out, I'd rip them down to little pools of melted silver in a pot to be poured in a trench and buried like so many dreams and bits of good.

You mother fucker! Next? You don't pass shit off like that, you don't address people like they're items in a line, you don't give your love a ticket, a number, a classification, put it in a fucking line. You don't minimize things you don't sarcastic that shit I don't know what the fuck you were thinking but you were thinking wrong.

People shouldn't be broken!. I'm so sick and tired of toning myself down or changing or not posting when I'm angry or upset or I feel like things aren't fair because the corporations decided to appeal to angry teens and took it all and made it pitiful and stupid and fucking Staind it and forced it to walk with a Limp Bizkit. I don't want to write about this fucking shit. Fuck this paragraph.

I'm sick of hurting people, I'm sick of watching people be hurt. I want to cry, I want to cry in the maniacal way that the tears slide back horizontally from my eyes because I'm running or maybe screaming at the sky. I want everything to turn red, I want to kill everyone I know just to feel it all so pure and raw and un fucking questionably real and right there. That sorrow, that pain, that's undeniable. That's fuck. Sweep around the hills across the roads with a sword a scythe a spell a whisper, a torment of rage to kick and pull and tear at your faces and your hearts and everything that I love about you because I love you... I love you all.
And some of you mother fuckers I hate. I hate you so much. Because I can't hate you. I just get angry and I can't express it to you because I can't pop you're fucking bubbles because I can't keep you from drowning on the air... no more bubble, no more water, you've got to breathe on air and like a fish you could drown. I can hate you I can hurt you I can break you, I can make you wish you'd never met me, alienate everyone, be truly hated and truly alone and work my way from there so that I know everything. If all is hate and pain, and I'd truly know both, I'd know everything.
Absurd.
But. Mais...jE SUiS.
A bass can strum and calm me down, I wave my fingers a bit to match his melody, but it only lasts so long, the melancholy, the depression, the rage, the love, they come back and my fingers shake faster and type again. What do I see?
"Sprite", a pocketwatch with broken glass, (the small spidery crack in the glass), candles, steel, skin, light that won't hold still, and red red red.

You fickle fuck... you base all of the hatred and rumors and choking and throw so much away because of a satire gone wrong in your little crying eyes. They cry for good reasons that I don't deny, but acknowledge them don't pin it on simple shit like that, that's fucked. Wack.

Dreams are made winding through her hair.
And she's falling asleep crying because of you and what you said and because of me and how I hurt and how we've hurt each other and how everyone's found a thorn on their rose at one point or another.

It tears me so to see them crying, to know their crying, to know they're crying.
Some I can't stop and some I can't stop myself and some my self stopped. And some my self caused.

I don't want to let go of it I don't want to lose it I don't want to put it on the shelf but I have to I want to I just don't want to you to. I don't want you to leave it on the shelf, I don't want to be forgotten, I don't want you to need to be without me when you don't want to be. I don't want to lose.
I never want to leave I never want to stop, I never want to spend a minute in this place doing the same thing I did 3 years ago. I'm doing everything new and different and all over again and I am a different person.

Sometimes you can hide it all away, sometimes you can hide it all away for so long, everything. Then you see something, something that boils your blood and sends it straight to your head, and you don't give a fuck about whether you know the half or the whole of it, whether it pertains to you, whether it is what it seems. All of the love that you feel for someone turns to anger when you see that person being hurt.
. a catalyst
"next."
~red~

post script - and i still dont get it all out. I can't feel like I've expressed a wit of what I want to, like I've conveyed... ... I'd like to just fall to the floor on my knees with my hands to the floor.



May 20th . Oompa Loompa anyone?
They got a kick out of this, so I share it with you.
My buddy icon.
~red~



May 20th . System of a Down - ATWA
I've got so much I could write, kinda want to write, will write when I have time, but I said it was work time again at 2, and so at 2 it will be work time. No fuckin around, delaying, etcetera. Sunday I did a good hour of Chem, and this morning I meant to do another hour and ended up knocking of an hour and a half, a whole chapter. I'd done it twice before (At TV in 11th, poorly with Mrs Regener, and I think when I started homeschooling I probably did it) but it was good to review it because I know it for sure now. Did you know that electron's occupy equal energy orbitals so that the maximum number of unpaired electrons exist? Yeah well, Hund knows that. And now I do too, like it or not. I suppose I've known it, just not as the rule.

So, 4 minutes till I go back to work. I spent most of last weekend downloading mp3's. NOFX, a few System of a Down, this cool guy named Tweaker, Masta Ace, Smashing Pumpkins, and some Tom Petty, and Elliot Smith are what make most of my playlist now. And Portishead. I always forget that Sour Times and Nobody Loves Me are the same song misnamed and download both without thinking. =P.

So much to figure out... but I need to focus on schoolwork. Ay ai ay.
~red~



May 18th . spontaneously
'Tis human to love. I'm sure someone else thought of that before I did while I was doing the dishes.

I feel very FLCL right now. The Pillows fit, everything feels out of control, and it's hard to tell what's real and what isn't. I suppose I can be thankful that, if nothing else, atleast there aren't robots growing out of my forehead.
I wish Dubblix was around to go driving. It's a lot easier to go driving for the feeling when you're getting 40+ mpg.
. | . Hmm, download's done, guess I'll go play Tristan's character for him like I was going to. What was I going to write? Oh. Spontaneous and overwhelming depression - blegh, it's not the coolest. I guess it's not really spontaneous, it just seems like it because the dam bursts in such a sudden fashion when you wait so long. Or something. Blark.
~red~



May 17th . Blue skies... sunshine..
"I'd like to know who it was that said it was all good..." Take A Walk - Masta Ace.
Also playing:
Perfect - SP
Rotten Apples - SP
Ghost - Micheal Jackson
Amber - 311
'93 till Infinity - Souls of Mischief
Last Dinosaur - The Pillows
Tom Petty, trance, Orbital, etcet.
~red~



May 13th . stressdreaming
I thought I must have been sick or feverish or something, Wispy said it can be caused by lots of stress too. Well that answers the question of the source. I've been having crazy dreams, and today I just passed out a couple times, I'd lay down, and then wake up from a completely insane dream. Last night's dream was the worst though. I was driving my car by remote control for some reason, from someone else's suggestion I think. The thing was, I couldn't keep up with it (running behind it) to be able to keep it in sight, to steer it right. I was just barely making corners and dodging cars, and then it was out of my sight, and I tried to guess and steer it, and I knew it wouldn't work, so I was hitting the brake button, but it wasn't working, the car went right down the road. Then I walked down the road, and I was standing behind my car, and it had




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