January 2012
“The girl is a boomerang. I throw her away. She always comes back again.”
– I was looking for something in my email and found this line I’d sent to myself like a year ago. I wonder who I was talking about.
01/21/12 Alabama Shakes @ the Continental Club,...
I knew about this show for a couple of weeks and had intended on going, but then the tickets sold out and so I chalked it up to another, “oh well, maybe next time.” But one of the guys at work asked me if I knew who the band was and we decided to see if there were tickets we could get, and just my luck, they had held back 50 tickets to sell at the door. (It actually ended up being just...
All good things must end...
Well, the Internet signal I was borrowing disappeared and it’s not coming back, it seems, so I’m sitting at a Starbucks sipping a hot chocolate and eating a blueberry muffin and deciding if I want to see a movie today or tomorrow and thinking about how much I need to do laundry, but I don’t want to do it because it means sitting at the laundry room in my complex and I have other...
“Miss Me When I’m...
“I get my sessions on the phone,
I’m gonna take my pills and spend my...”
– Counting Crows
For the 2nd night in a row...
I am borrowing Internet. Except tonight I stopped for groceries, and by groceries, I mean beer.
I should be at the Mountain Goats, but I’m a slackass, and rather than buying a ticket last month, when I knew they were going to be playing, I waited, and you can fill in the blanks to finish the story.
But I do have beer.
And some taquitos, should I chose to have diarrhea later.
This is why you don't ever want to sleep with me. →
*I didn’t read this, but I assure you, no matter what it says, I still want to sleep with you. And that statement goes for pretty much anyone reading this. I have some pent up energy that needs to get out.
purepopfornowpeople:
electricpencils:
“Tulsa...
I'm stealing Internet
Quick, tell me what I’ve missed.
Excellent Work, Facebook!
Apparently, Facebook has introduced a feature that will translate someone’s status. I have a friend who is Mexican and he posted a status in Spanish, so I clicked translate.
What he actually said was “I’m going for the Saints, in case anyone was worried about that.”
What Facebook told me he said was “I am going to Saints if someone brought the slope.”
Thank...
She said, "Step right, boy, this city's just a...
The first week of job training is over. Nothing unexpected. It’s nice that there are some cool people in the training class. People I’d actually want to hang out with, not just people it’s okay to pass the time with. In fact, one of my new friends is playing a show tonight, so I’m going to catch that.
Last night, I went with Eric and Kelly for Cuban food at Habana’s....
You want fries with that?
The inability to get online for THREE WHOLE DAYS has finally made me crack and I’m at McDonald’s using their WiFi.
So, an update…
The new job is going well. My only complaint, of course, is that I’m going to miss SXSW, because I’ve been told my shift after training will be noon to 9pm for four weekdays and then 9am-6pm on Saturday, with Sunday and one weekday off.
...
Is there a viral video of a guy in a wheelchair...
Every day I get hits from all over the world for people searching for that.
Don't everyone go freaking out...
but I’m not going to be online much until I get Internet hooked up at my new apartment. And I’ll be working at a place that probably won’t want me online all day. Also, I just bought a PS3 and a new TV.
I don’t want to say this is good-bye, but…
Someone come do stuff for me...
After last night’s Cotton Bowl fiesta, my body revolted around 4am. I won’t go into details, but imagine a bowel volcano. That’s the best metaphor I have for it.
Anywho…
My bed was scheduled for delivery between 11am-1pm. They called twice before 9am. I finally called back and they asked if they could deliver early, so I rolled out of bed and met them at my apartment....
I'm real good at gluttony
We went to this sports bar in Round Rock for the Arkansas Razorback’s Cotton Bowl Watch Party. I had fried pickles, hot wings, a deep fried PB&J sandwich, and an ice cream shake. And 88 ounces of Blue Moon.
Is this as odd as it seems?
I’m texting with my cousin, who is my age, about getting my apartment and I say that it’s the first time I’ve lived alone since 2004.
She replies with “I’ve never lived alone.” She had her first kid at 17, and she’s either lived with her parents, boyfriend/husband and/or kids.
That struck me as kind of odd, but then I started doing the math for people in...
Exploring Austin: Mandola's
I’ve been slacking on these posts, but I’m going to try to write something for places I go to more regularly.
I took Eric and Kelly to dinner tonight because they’ve been pretty awesome helping me transition to Austin. We went to Mandola’s for some Italian food, and holy crap, I’m stuffed. We started with garlic fries, which are perfect crispy fries covered in...
Question: If you killed someone in self-defense,...
I’m just thinking about the case I mentioned a few weeks ago from my old hometown, and that’s a question that comes to me concerning guilt or innocence.
Thoughts?
Flashback: 1998
I moved to Orange Park, Florida in February of 1998 to be with my future ex-wife. I sold pretty much everything I owned to get down there, so when we were finally able to get an apartment, we pretty much had squat. We decided we needed a bed, of course, but we were both broke, so there was no way we were going to buy one. Well, someone told us that mattress stores would throw out mattresses that...
“And I made myself a promise, when I was big enough to run, that I’d never...”
– Roy Clark
There's about a month remaining on my band's... →
kaseyanderson:
We’re making a new record and you can read all about it here.
Keeping with today’s theme of cool people making great music…
In case you missed last night's post, the new... →
Follow the link to Amazon.com where it’s only $7.99.
Luke writes heartfelt, literate lyrics and they’re sung over beautiful melodies played by excellent musicians. I put this on my Top 25 of 2011. Since it’s officially out today, you can pencil it in for my Top 25 of 2012.
Act your age, not your shoe-size
So, I got the official “You’ve been hired!” email today, however I’m still waiting on yet another email that says “You’re getting paid THIS MUCH!” I’m not sure why they feel the need to drag it out, but what can you do?
I’ll tell you what you CAN’T do, move into an apartment. I did go and put down my deposit on a place and as soon as I...
The new album by The Romany Rye is available on... →
Get it. You won’t regret it.
The 2011 Worst Prosecutor of the Year Award | The... →
jeffmiller:
Please read this. Because everyone needs to know that things like this happen.
Yeah all of this. ALL OF THIS.
The first homicide victim of the year in Austin...
was at the New Year’s Eve show that I attended. She lived two blocks from the venue and was killed not long after the show ended when she walked home.
Also, she had the same last name as a friend I was there with, though I don’t know that there’s any relation between them.
Pretty sad. By all accounts, she was a great person.
...
3:27AM is a hell of a time to be a man
I have these weird…pangs…for lack of a better word. I don’t really know how to explain it, not nostalgia, but it happens most often when I’m listening to something connected to my distant past, music or a movie or something, and I get this weird feeling that I need to be younger or that I need to go back and do it again or that I want to live forever in a moment that has...
New Year’s Eve/ New Year’s Day
1. I saw the ghost of Jim Carroll
outside the Spiderhouse
stone sober with a stomach ache
and a redhead on my arm
2. Steamy windows on a dead end street
where a moment lasts
both for an eternity
and a blink of the eye
3. Sunlight creeping in
as an ice cream truck
meanders the neighborhood
“Do your ears hang low,
do they wobble to and fro”
4. ...
December 2011
