Monday, December 18, 2006

Sunday, January 21, 2007


My Feet Ache

I wonder what the use of it all is
As it all whizzes past me
Are the people we know just ledges and rocks we hit
On the way down
Ding and dent us
Maim or impress upon us
Leave us bloody and bewildered
Lighten us and make us high
In the end
Time bludgeons us all to death
Loved or unloved
Richer or Poor
Even depressed young old men
Like me

D-

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Saturday, January 20, 2007


One More Before I Go
Current mood: melancholy

I'm getting sick of feeling like I have something to apologize for.
It takes so much force of will sometimes to look that in the eye and say:
No.
Sometimes it feels like screaming at a room full of shadows hoping they'll speak to me.
Look at me, I'm flesh and blood, I'm not a monster. I bleed, laugh and cry. I walk around in invisible chains that weigh me down. I try so hard, too hard to be someone. Being me hasn't any room in this place. It kills me, but never enough to finish me. I wish I could cut it out and leave it leaking on the floor.
Just one more moment of beauty and I'll go quietly.

D-

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Friday, January 19, 2007


Misery Never Has Company
Current mood: gloomy

I've come to the conclusion that I will be alone, misunderstood, and miserable for the rest of my life. I've come to find this just happens to me naturally as if karma is punishing me for being a mass murderer or a politician in another life, so, I might as well get used to it.
No matter how hard I try to find my way out of whatever this is it hits me on the back of the head with a wet phonebook. I just have to learn not to care and let it finish with my soul and stop fighting it.

"Help me kill my time/'cause I'll never be fine" - Elliott Smith

I don't pretend that I'm the only one who feels this way or that the way I feel is more important that anyone elses. There are plenty of people worse off than me. I'm not saying I deserve to be given anything. I don't want to be pitied. But I would settle for being understood. I don't want to be feared or talked down to. I can't stand being yelled at or preached to or belittled. Being loved is too much to ask. I accept what is given freely and feel guilty otherwise. I'd take a bullet for someone I cared for, I feel it's a noble way to die (if there is such a thing).
I'm rambling again....

D-


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Wednesday, January 17, 2007


Electronics Boat Zombie Holocaust
Current mood: "This is my Boomstick, you primates!!

"It could always be worse," it's an axiom and it's very true.
I was talking to someone at work a week or so ago who was lamenting about always going to parties all the time with his friends.
I shit you not.
He was bored to tears with it and I found it quite funny. Grass is always greener I suppose. Maybe he'd rather be sitting at home all night, his phone never ringing once, writing a blog on myspace, while other people get drunk and laid?
Kinda like....um, me?
Today I got so mad I thought I was getting a fever and was going to turn green and play Jenga with cars out in the parking lot. Working in electronics for most of the day has shread the last vestige of any hope I had in humanity what-so-fucking ever. "C'mon, people can't be That Stupid, can they?"
Oh contraire, mon fraire..
I wish we sold firearms at my store. There was a saying in the Old West "an armed society is a polite one". Either that or spike the Starbucks coffee and soda fountains with birth control pills and antidepressants.
Someday I hope I can be less of a miserable bastard and maybe people will like me. Maybe I need a good head shrinker, or an exorcist....or both.

D-

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Monday, January 15, 2007


Elliott Smith - See Ya Later

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F@cked if I know...

I don't have pride in many things, probably because I'm my own harshest critic. When it comes to things I know I can do well I can be kind of anal about it. In some parts of my life I can be kinda lazy and I hate that. Well, maybe not lazy more like a procrastinator. I will think the living shit out of something before I go ahead and do it. I put myself through unspeakable horrors and then in the end I don't have the energy to go through with it anyway. Oh, and I also have found that I say the weirdest things trying to be funny and end up sounding like creepy homeless person talking to himself. No wonder wants to have anything to do with me. I wouldn't give my fucked up brainmeat to my worst enemy.
I used to think that all I had in my life was my job, but I'm beginning to wonder whether I'm just wasting my time. I spend the day trying my hardest to be the best I can be but I end up every night sitting in front of the computer alone. I think I can trace every misstep I've made with the opposite sex since I've moved back here to fear. Fear of becomming who I was before I felt love. When I moved to the east coast to be with her part of the reason I did it was because I thought this was my only chance to be happy. Okay, maybe not happy, but a close approximation. To be in a loving relationship with someone who loved me. Even though all the warning signs were there that I shouldn't have, I did it anyway.
Most people have hope that someone will come along, have that cushion of ego that tells them they're good enough, strong enough, and that people like them.
Well let's just say I don't have those things.
I'm more liable to believe the bad things about myself from people than the good things. It's a sickness. I mean, the last time I tried to tell someone I loved them I wrote her (yeah I wrote a letter) telling her all the reasons why I wasn't the guy she needed in her life, but how special I thought she was. It was like I was almost begging her to hurt me so I could feel...something.
And boy - howdy did she oblige.
Women are my kryptonite, they make me weak. Because of my dysfunctional nature I could never one of those guys who makes passes at women. Some people in the past have said to me that I'm a "flirt" and I don't get it. Maybe I'm like a moth to a flame, I don't know. I think I just assume women don't want me. It's not like I have much evidence to the contrary. I've always been like Ducky in Pretty in Pink. I'm the friend who wants the female lead but she really wants the handsome rich dude with a heart of gold.
I guess when you really boil it down to the gristle and bone I'm just afraid of being alone. I think everyone has that fear to a certain extent and I'm no different.
What's my point in all this ranting and raving?
Fucked if I know....

D-

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007


I'm an Idiot

I'm guilty, at least I can admit it.
I'm a fucking idiot when it comes to interpersonal relations. I've been alone for most of my life so people have been a mystery to me. I'm so fucking naive, I might as well have crawled out of the womb. I can only relate this to high school because i was probably the least known student there. I was in fear most of my stay there. I guess it makes total sense when I look at my history. I was beaten by bullies in elementary school, I was ignored and abandoned through middle and junior high. By the time I reached high school i might as well been an alien living inside himself. Rumors, passing notes, crushes, the give and take of friendships in an emotionally charged environment. I wasn't involved, it was all the stuff of tv shows like "Square Pegs" and afterschool specials.
My job has become like that, she said he said about her and who she's hanging out with. And now, as I stumble around like a fucking buffoon with only half a clue. I can't tell who's telling me the truth and who's just telling me secrets or things they only half believe. Right now I've become so invested by it all and I can't handle it. I fucked up, plain and simple. I've become Mr. Awkward and I'm probably going to lose someone I thought of as a friend because of it. I'm not to be trusted anymore, so I'm just going to go away and leave everyone alone. I never really deserved it anyway.

D-

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Tuesday, January 09, 2007


Yer Killin' Me

My day was fun.
I woke up at 2pm from a Nyquil induced coma and felt like shit. After I hacked and weezed at the shit in my lungs for a while my parents told me I should see a doctor. I couldn't really put up much of a fight, this thing has been weighing me down since thanksgiving. I decide I'll go see my doctor who's working down at 'doc in a box' over in del rey oaks. We get down there and after standing there calling out to an empty office for 5 minutes I sign in and they dig around for my folder. Turns out they don't take my insurance anymore, I was pissed.
Hop back in the car and go to a place in Monterey they recommended and luckily they do take my insurance.
Long story short, I have bronchitis. The doctor tells me because of the place and hours I work I'm more at risk when it comes to viruses. If I don't feel better in a week or two after taking the pills she prescribed come back.
Right now I feel as spry as a wet rag, but I'll try to get to work tomorrow. I don't know why I beat myself up for that place. I guess it comes down to the people I work with. I don't want to let them down, and right now it's all I have.

D-

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Monday, January 08, 2007


Broken Glass
Category: Writing and Poetry

The stars above roll and dip
My stomach feels like broken glass
The field before us bounces as we run
My arm feels numb as stone
Wrapped around your waist
If I lose you I might die
You're my tether to the earth
You're my reason to keep breathing
The light in the distance beckons
Encroaching darkness chases close behind
I hear your breath in my ear
I smell your sweet skin
I hold on tighter
I grit my teeth 'til blood fills my ears
I'll carry you even when
The night crashes like a wave
But until then
I'll keep running

D-

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Sunday, January 07, 2007


dining on ashes

I found my ex's sister's myspace page a month or so ago. She's one of the few people I hear from back in Baltimore (even if it's just a chain letter). She didn't hesitate in welcoming me with open arms when I moved there and I'll always be grateful for that. I haven't dared messaging her here because it would open up quite the can of worms I fear. I haven't heard from my ex since I sent her a birthday present in August. My birthday was a few weeks later, I didn't even get an email.
The whole experience seems like a lifetime ago. Back when I was loved for a while and had a second family. Looking back on it all it was a rolling train wreck of an affair that should have stopped before it started. But it had it's moments of beauty even if they were tinged with sadness. But I guess that's life, isn't it?
In life there are some things that you can't return (no matter how loud you scream at the team member at guest service)....

D-

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Friday, December 15, 2006

Update

I know I haven't written anything lately. The world just keeps on spinning and all I can do is to hold on sometimes.
My Dad finished up with chemo and radiation therapy a week or so ago and is slowly trying to get his energy back. He's still feeling alot of after effects from it all but I'm hopeful he'll get back to a bit of normalcy soon. In an hour or so the parents will be going to Stanford again for some more tests. The doctors want to see what's going on with the cancer and what to do about it next. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for him and I hope you do too.
I also want to thank everyone for all their good thoughts and prayers for my Dad. I deeply appreciate it.
As for me, I'm the same bummed out weirdo I always have been. Just more stressed out than usual. I'm going to try to write more after things get slower after the holidays.
Cheers,

D-



Thursday, December 07, 2006

Shazam, The 49ers, and Jeebus

In my house growing up, sundays were for football (the NFL not that college stuff). My parents weren't religious so neither was I. I remember one time being put into a sunday school class for a day. I remember the place was kind of like my regular school but smelled alot older. I just didn't connect with what they were trying to teach us. I didn't have that fear of imminent lightning bolts from the sky. Well, if you don't count watching SHAZAM!! on saturday morning tv.
It's always been fascinating and kind of scary to hear people talk about how they believe in "their God" absolutely and how great He is.
I mean, just because I'm a 49er fan doesn't make me want to kill people who are Cowboys fans (well maybe Raider fans, but they've got it comin' j/k). That type of extremism is foreign to me I guess.
Maybe that kind of belief system has to be instilled when someone is young and prone to believing in things that aren't there. Admittedly most of my belief systems came from comic books. Batman, Superman, Spider-man. I guess it all boils down to "Help people out, don't be a bastard."
All my life I've always the person to ask "why?" so I doubt I could have been a religious person anyway. There are too many logic gaps in most of the literature anyway. I mean, I know that Superman couldn't fly in real life, but parting the Red Sea? He had to be a mutant or something....
Y'know, some of the ideas in some of the religions are good.
"Do unto as you'd have done to you"
"He who is without sin cast the first stone"
It's organized religion that most people have a problem with. How do you organize a belief? How do people, individuals as different as snowflakes, be squeezed through a hole like so much play-doe, and be made to believe in one thing written in a book thousands of years, said book that has been revised millions of times?
That being said, this is America: you can believe whatever you want to just don't hurt people and scramble their minds or bodies.
Y'know, it's funny Jesus by all accounts was a peaceful dude. Healed the sick, fed the poor, was a nice dude. Sure, he thought he was the son of god but that's neither here nor there.
Why is it that some people who believe in him and choose him as their savior aren't very Jesus-like?
I'm not a scholar or anything, but....see what I'm saying?
The late Bill Hicks did this type of commentary better and alot funnier, so I'll leave this one behind for now. But on that note it reminds me of a scene on the classic Star Trek show. I don't remember which episode it was but Spock was explaining to Kirk a philosophy an alternate earth had taken to shape their civilization into something bizarre. The alien said something to the effect that you must believe why they must do what they do and Spock replies. "Just because I understand, does not mean I believe as you do."


D-




Friday, December 01, 2006

"No Good Deed..."

"...Goes Unpunished"
I wonder if Batman ever thought after the umpteenth time the Joker escaped from Arkham Asylum, "Fuck all you people! You're not worth the trouble!"
Well of course not, I mean, you figure he wasn't doing it for any type of monetary compensation or otherwise. One of the upsides to being a billionare playboy, with a mansion, a revolving bedroom door (not to mention Catwoman's cell phone number), and money for any type of toy you'd need.
All the reason he needed to being out on the streets beating the hell out of psychos, rapists, dope dealers, pimps, super-powered dipshits, gun runners, right-wing pedophiles, is the personal satisfaction it gave him. As well as feeding his personal inner demons.
Sure, he could have been a cop. But scumbags don't wet themselves at the sight of them. I mean think of it, a giant bat coming at you in a dark alley in the dead of night with a voice that sounds like satan's bowels after too much taco bell. Your mind fucks with you when you KNOW you've done something wrong anyway.
Instant yellow trowsers.
But he can't be happy, the poor bastard.
The job will never be done, there won't ever be that moment when he rubs his hands together and says, "Well, there it is, I'm done." Everyday it's the same uphill struggle. Over and over and fucking over again.
You just pick yourself up and try again, even if the wave hits you back onto the shore. You can't ask him to be Jesus, but you know he'll do it anyway.
Don't ask Batman to smile either.

D-



Thursday, November 30, 2006

Reason .1002

Yet another reason to learn to drive : Being out of town after dark and not having to worry about having a ride home. Especially in places like Salinas which, if you believe the evening news, makes downtown Iraq look like "cow tipping" country.
Speaking of cow tipping, I wonder how far from my home state I have to move to find a woman who wants to have a non-platonic relationship? I mean, I had to move to Baltimore to have a girlfriend (yeah, I know, look how that ended). I hope at least an english speaking country. Everyone says Canada is nice. Even if they speak french in some of it. I have an aunt who lives in Chicago, at least it snows there.
I'm babbling, it happens when I forget to take my meds.


D-



Wednesday, November 29, 2006

it's his world...

...we just live in it.



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Sunday, November 26, 2006

I was...
Current mood: exhausted

...Gonna write this huge self relevatory rant tonite. But, I suddenly got a splitting headache and got light headed.
I guess I'll take that as a sign.
It seems the more skin I take off the onion that is my life it all doesn't add up to anything real. It's all just "sound and fury signifying nothing".
As much as I can list things that bother me in my life, I have trouble saying what's really wrong with me. I could say it's my eyes for the the way I see my world. I could say it's my ears for not hearing the things I need to be content. Maybe it's my hands for not grasping and feeling what I need to. It could be my feet for not trusting the ground that I walk on. I could say it's my brain for not being smart enough. I could say it's my heart for sitting in my chest like a rock. It could be my dick for making the rest of the body parts miserable for being neglected.
It could be something alot less poetic.
Didn't I say I wasn't going to go off on a rant?
Yeah, I thought so.

D-



Thursday, November 23, 2006

Thankful?

On a day like this, one of those things you think about is the old cliche.
"It's Thanksgiving, what are you thankful for?"
To tell you the truth this is a hard question to answer. Especially with the way my year has been. It could have been worse, sure, but I doubt I could have come though that intact.
Finding things to be thankful for in a year when my Dad got cancer, I had to go back on meds, work grinding my last gear, emotional tumult, etc.
So, like I did when I helped carve the turkey, I'll get down the bare bones of it all. What is good? What doesn't suck?
1. My Dad is through with radiation in 2 weeks, chemo is done in January.
2. I have money in the bank, so I'm not a bum.
3. The rest of my family is healthy, niece and nephew continue to grow like weeds.
4. My ex is no longer talking to me, so I don't have to send her a x-mas gift.
5. There are people I know who don't think of me as creepy.
That's about all I can think of right now. Not exactly the happy happy joy joy big red bow that beffits the holiday.
But hey, Black Friday is tomorrow. What do you expect?

D-



Monday, November 20, 2006

Action Hero

I need a mission
I need a plan
I need a gun in my hand
I need a wild girl on my arm
A gamble to bet the farm
I need to look in her eyes
See the future lit aflame
Feel the world's evil die in my hands
Feel my heart swell with hope
Know that life is worth living
And that I'm not alone
I want to be the hero in my story
Only get wiser as I get old
Leave my mark on the world
Make it better
Live 'til I die.
Amen.

D-



Sunday, November 19, 2006

Altered State
Current mood: Crying

I learned something new the last couple days or so.
Bear with me while I think aloud here.
The other night I got piss-blind-mad drunk. But I don't think it was alcohol that really did me in. I may have had a few beverages but I think it just awoke some mad-dog gremlin inside my subconsious. I read the blogs I wrote the other day and one of them really suprised me how angry I was so I changed one of them to preferred readers.
But there are no preferred readers (I can't get the thing to work right).
What I think I'm getting at is maybe is that maybe my perception of reality might be kinda off. I mean, I'm not talking to 6ft tall pink bunny rabbits or anything. I think it has alot to do with the depression and it's accompanying horseman : paranoia, self-loathing, fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering. It might be coloring my world colors that don't exist in nature. I could be seeing things in people and the world that just aren't there. This is very scary to me. I'm a very bottom line type of guy which is hard because this place is anything but. The people around me are anything but up front and truthful. With a few exceptions, granted.
Yes I was drunk, an altered state to be sure. When I'm with people it's different, I'm goofy and slightly numb. When I'm alone, which is most of the time these days, it all gets dark and murky.
I need to be around people outside of work more. I'm beginning to wonder if I'm ever gonna have a life if I stay there. Maybe I should try to see a shrink even though it means lying to my parents about it. Big Huge Lies.
Or maybe I should just ...save everyone the trouble of dealing with me anymore?
Just in time for the holidays!
It's an odd thing to know that reality is shifting under your feet like so much sand. Hopefully my mental balance is better than my physical.
I can't even rollerskate.
I unlocked the blog. So just bare in mind I was piss-drunk and angry. Believe me when I say: I love more than I hate, and I love you all more than me.

D-



Saturday, November 18, 2006

whatareyouwlookingat?
Current mood: even more drunk?

Never your furry kitten
Not your favorite wrench
You spin me like a top
Skitter like a stone
Down the block
I'm a hard man to know
Never been object of
Desire
I hide too much
Or not enough
I have a question mark
For a heart
No-one has my answer
More fear than comfort
Eyes betray the soul
It never feels right
Spirit out of phase
Pernmanent twilight
Painfully within the haze
Too old to be me anymore
Too young inside
Sickness hasn't killed
My soul just yet
I'll leave that to people
To finish me

D-

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Present Company Excluded
Current mood: drunk

Fuck off
Leave me alone
(I'm already alone)
In my hell
Lock the doors
Turn off the lights
I'll be in all night
I'll hear all about it
It's unavoidable
I dare say
I wasn't invited
T'was not even a
Thought
So Fuck you
So very muchly
May you get hit
By a bag of doorknobs
Along with the screws
Fuck the hell off
Take your Saints
Your Patrons
Your Personal Jesus
Your syphilus ridden genatalia
Your vibrating pogo stick
Your whispers and distain
Your cars, buses and boats
And the horse you rode in on
And....
you guessed it
Fuck You
You wouldn't even say
"Hi"
After I helped you out
I felt like a fool
I guess I don't even rate
On your things to do
It's the failure to
Judge character
That confounds me
Most
The thought
That you were more
Was just a ghost
You're all getting drunk
Bleary-eyed and loud
Happy to be with your
Usual crowd
You're all a part
Of my current
Discontent
I don't have many
Probably only a few
Could count them on
One hand
People I could call
Friend
But I know how to be one
It's to be me
And not you
In the end
I can't stay mad for long
My sickness won't let me
It will turn to depression
Energy deflated
In on itself
So I'll just crawl into bed
Give the finger to the world
And close my eyes
See the new day start the same old way
And not be suprised

D-




Friday, November 17, 2006

Liner Notes/Track List for mix cd Part 1

The title is : From A Poisoned Well : Live, Covers, Etc.
As anyone that has recieved one of my mix cds I have an....eclectic taste in music to say the least. I'll be giving these out to whoever wants one as a holiday gift. What do I get out of this? I like putting these things together from an artistic standpoint and also to turn people onto music that they wouldn't ordinarily listen to.
So, on with the show.
Track 1. Talking To Mary by Elliott Smith

This song was included with the latest "leaks" from the making of "From A Basement On The Hill" (Elliott's last postumously released album). It's a great song and thought it was a solid start to the cd.

Track 2. Hold You In My Arms by Ray Lamontagne
A great song an it's a compliment to the last song (which was accoustic) unabbashedly romantic, kinda remind me of Cat Stevens before he went nuts....

Track 3. Angel (Jimi Hendrix cover) by Fiona Apple
I loved the original, and Fiona Apple is pretty awesome. Two great tastes that go great together.

Track 4. One Tree Hill by U2
Started out as an in-joke for a friend, but this is a forgotten track off the "Joshua Tree" album that bears a listen.

Track 5. One Day God's Gonna Cut you Down by Johnny Cash
This one's off his last studio album and it's a cover and they actually made a video of it for mtv..


Track 6. I Can't Forget (Leonard Cohen Cover) by The Pixies
"Yeah I loved you all my life
And that's how I want to end it
The summer's almost gone
The winter's tuning up
Yeah, the summer's gone
But a lot goes on forever
And I can't forget, I can't forget
I can't forget but I don't remember what"

Track 7. Mad World (R.E.M. cover) by Gary Jules
Stumbled upon this track oddly enough a commercial for a videogame.
It was also on the "Donnie Darko" sound track. The juxtapozition of kick-'splode shoot'em up video game with the song was pretty darn cool so I had to find the track.

Track 8. Cold Brains by Beck
Slightly more upbeat (yes there's a method to my madness). Beck's "throw the kitchen magnet words at the wall and write them down" song writing method works well with this cut. Very groovy.

Track 9. Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell by The Flaming Lips
Not a cover but the words..
"I was waiting on a moment
But the moment never came...."
"I was wanting you to love me
But your love it never came...."
"I must have been tripping
Just ego tripping"

Track 10. Bonnie Brae by The Twilight Singers
This was my song on my myspace page for a while and the whole album "Powder Burns" is pretty awesome. It was also included on the show "Rescue Me" this season (as well as the soundtrack for the show).

End of part one.

D-



Thursday, November 16, 2006

Chewbacca

Everyday
I go against everything
I've learned so far
The futility hasn't
Bashed me over the head
Like a recalcitrant dog
With a rolled up newspaper
I have to let go
Know in my heart
That it leads no-where
I'm not the best student in life
Even though I'm not as...
Stupid as some
My heart is the stupid one
The massive energy
Leads to no payoff
No pot of gold
No gratitude
No gold metal
For Chewbacca
The service to the good
Should be it's own reward
But, baby, it ain't
I collapse like a puppet
With strings cut
Alone with the creaks in my
Bones
Uninvited
Everyday progress erased
Sandcastles by the sea
Learning to give up
Not to care
Letting go
To those around you
Is harder than I thought
So I commit the same sin
Everyday
Submit to the void
Not walk away.

D-


Alone In A Crowded Room

I should have gone out
I should have rode the bus
Sat near the driver
Earbuds drowning out the sounds
Surrounded by downcast faces
Walked the streets downtown alone
Listened for sounds of life
Maybe invited people who
Wouldn't have shown anyway
Found a bar where nobody knew me
Sat down at the bar and ordered beer
Looked around and thought up
Everyone's stories
Like always I wouldn't be given a second look
I'd nurse my beer
While the military people got drunk
Shouting about football
Over the din of the jukebox
The noise always blots me out
Like whispers over thunder
In a few hours they'd all head out for the night
Leaving me sitting with the bartender
Maybe a drunk with his head on the bar
Resting his eyes
I'd finish my last beer
Leave my payment and tip on the bar
Walk out onto deserted streets
Gather my coat around me against the cold
And wait for the bus back home
To sit in my room alone
Just like I did
Tonite

D-

Monday, November 13, 2006 Rainy Days and Mondays

I went to Walmart today, or I should say the "new" Walmart in the next town. It was a dark and rainy day even if it just started out as grey. All I had on was my hoodie so I sent most of the time varying degrees of damp.
I always feel guilty spending any money at "the Wal" because of the economic warfare that the company I work for engage in with them. I never get the chance to shop in my own store. You might as well be painted with a targeting (pun intended) laser like an Al Qaeda compound walking around there in red and kaki. All I want to do when I get a break is be elsewhere or on my ass.
I saw a few people that defected over from my store there, it was weird. "Traitors!" part of me wanted to yell. These stores are always arranged like a patchwork, not unlike a flea market. The departments are strewn about like a retard kid's toys all over the floor. My co-workers and I have had a hope that the openning of the place would make our work load lighter. I had the dark hope that it would draw the stupid people away like squeezing the puss out of an infected toenail.
Well, there are some things they carry that we don't and some of their prices are lower than ours. But the opposite could be said also so it's a stalemate. Walmart's company politics are pretty shitty, they only sell censored cds and movies. There are more than a few class action suits against them (including suits brought forth by employees). I could never work for them. I can understand people moving from our store to theirs. People do what they have to for some extra money. I mean, as much as I've come to loath some things about my store I couldn't in good conscience work for "the Wal".
I did buy some socks though...
Went over and got some Panda Express for dinner (gotta love that orange chicken) and ate back at home. Watched the football game on espn and nearly fell asleep. My Dad doens't have much energy these days so he dozed right along with me. I wish I could take some of the pain from him and carry it myself, I honestly do.
One of my fellow co-workers talked me into trying out World of Warcraft. I took some time and tried it out today, I killed some animals smaller than me. Whoo *cough* Hoo. I'm sure it gets better, but my attention span has shrunk as of late. Plus subscribing to a game online smells too much like stale Cheetoes and flat Mountain Dew to me.
Does that make sense?

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Friday, January 05, 2007


Best Commercial Ever




I don't know what it's for but...

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Wednesday, January 03, 2007


Think ( ing ) About The Future

With the new year upon me, I've been thinking about the future. I think my new years resolution last year was to learn to drive and to "get a life"
It appears I have done neither, but those type of resolutions (well, admittedly one of them) don't really get done. Getting a life is kind of a vague goal.
I've been thinking about the possibility of getting my own place. My parents have this small house in the back of our place that my sister and her family are living in now. It's about the size of a one bedroom apartment. I've always coveted that place hoping one day to have it for my own. Even with my niece and nephew growing like weeds it seems unlikely they will be moving out anytime soon. They always have one money making scheme or another all leading to them getting their own home.
Waiting for them isn't an option anymore, I fear.
When I lived with my ex we shared living expenses and I thought we were doing alright up until she kicked me to the curb. Of course from here to Baltimore is a pretty long fucking curb, but that's a alcohol soaked blog for another night.
To be honest I don't feel comfortable living with a room mate. Other than the one I was sleeping with being the exception. I'm just too paranoid and fucked in the head I think. Living at home and 'getting a life' seem to be at odds with each other. Not to mention I'm not getting any younger.
Please don't mention that. :)
I guess this leads up the point I've been dancing around : sex and the single male living at home. I guess I could have more of a possibility of having a social life if I had a place to bring people over to. Having friends over for drinks, etc. Not having to worry about a female friend encountering my father on her way to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
I can't be suave or debonair, I just have to be truthful about how my life is. As much as I wish that there was, there is no romance in my life.
With all the bad wiring in my head I'm beginning to wonder if part of me wants to suffer? Like the pain makes my empty existence mean something?
That may be too deep for me.
My new years resolution this year is "Try To Be Better".
Maybe that one I can do...

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Monday, January 01, 2007


Auld Lang Syne

If this past year had a grave I would drink heavily, dance like Michael Flatley having an epilectic fit upon it, then piss a half gallon of 5 year old scotch all over it, then scream obscenities at the tombstone before I passed out in a bush nearby. I'd wake up the next day just in time to watch the deer eating the flowers left by mourners the day before. The tulli fog would be just enough cover so I could stumble home without the neighbors calling the cops on me.
I made the mistake of drinking tonite, bad choice with the cold an all. I have one of those headaches that feels like someone kicked me in the side of the head with a steel toed Doc Martin boot. I don't know whether to take some migrane pills or my blessed Nyquil (for my congested nose and cough).
Finally after trying to lay down with some music in my ears I just couldn't reconcile the pain I felt and fired up the computer.
I tend to think about things too much, which can be a pain in the ass sometimes. You can get overwhelmed with the minutia of a problem and not see the big picture. To combat that I've learned that doing something now is sometimes better. At least in normal life situations. But, when the thing you're thinking about is so personal and delicate it should take time. Unfortunately I fall into the same trap. I've had panic attacks over things like that. It's horrible.
People...people kill me, my life is a series of failures when it comes to people. Sometimes I wish I could beat myself into someone people liked. Someone who wouldn't get shit upon so much for being so awkward. Maybe it's this place, I'm surrounded by beautiful people everyday, it's a fantasy to feel like I belong here, that I'm wanted here. I try so hard to be someone people can rely on I lose myself in the strain and struggle of it all.
I can't help but step back and look at my life and wonder where it all went wrong.
"Happy new year, motherfucker. Can I help you find something?"
Help me find my smile. I already checked the lost and found.
"Would you like a raincheck?"
Anyway, Happy New Year people. Let the new year be better than the last.

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Thursday, December 28, 2006


Everyone Leaves

the wind's cold embrace
we clutch at each other
like cats trying to grip slick tile
some claw at the air
into the blackness
alone in their orbit
everything headed down
(or up)
into whatever lies beyond
the breathing life
some are stoked in the embers
of love's embrace
glowing brightly
energy never to be
snuffed out
others incased in vacuum
to tumble endlessly
worse than death
aimless and empty
stuck in their downward spiral
leaving nothing but
trails of atoms
into the black
then gone
from sight

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