May 2010
2 posts
January 2010
13 posts
"Boise" And What This Is All About
All the preceding posts were lyrics to most of the songs from the album Worst Band Name Ever by the band UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A START. It is one of the quickest albums I have ever listened to that actually stuck with me. I love everything about it, from the simple music to the hushed vocals to, most especially, the lyrics. The lyrics are not available online anywhere, so I...
"Maureen Kehoe"
I will try all night to be nice.
I’ll even come over in the morning.
To fix your car so you can drive it farther away.
From cutting hair in your parents’ basement.
And I am the number one fan of you getting married to him.
So you can pull one on Uncle Sam.
I swear, if you leave….
You won’t come back, cause you’re tired.
I swear, if you leave…
You...
"Christmas Eve 1993"
Do you remember Christmas Eve 1993?
From my older brother, I learned something about me.
I could not believe.
I must sleep for [unintelligible]
"I'll Thank You Later"
Would you fight on the phone over me, please?
Could the wrong one of you choose me?
If you think making out on a pool table’s hard, you should try dating girls with no car.
But I’ll thank you later.
I’ll thank you later.
Can you tell I don’t know where to put these?
I could use a little help please.
But I’ll thank you later.
I’ll thank you later.
"I Am The Island"
You’ve got a kid and a husband.
And your friends are one of them.
I’ve got nothing nice to say to your back.
And I am the island that you keep.
And I am the island that you stopped looking for.
It’s what you had coming around for how,
For how you been acting.
And I am the island that you keep.
And I am the island that you stopped looking for.
And I am the island that you...
"Gas Station Hair"
You’ll talk about boys, with their gas station hair.
The thing you’re forgetting, is we’ve got the wherewithal to choose.
Or to not choose you, toooooo.
You’ll talk about boys, with their gas station hands.
But there’s one you’re forgetting, but he’s not forgetting you.
Tried not to choose, leave it up to you, tooooo.
But can you believe our love,...
"Shawnee"
The last day of school, in grade eight.
The teacher made the class have a party.
She made ‘em for me.
I was going away, to a new school.
Where I could be anyone that I wanted to.
Try out for baseball, or football, yeaaaaaah.
Yeaaaaaah.
December 2009
13 posts
Thoughts weigh heavy…don’t get drowned in the weight of it all.
Going Local
I had a number of errands to run today, and I did them all locally. I started out by going to the local bank of which I am a member to withdraw money for my car insurance. As I waited in line, there were two individuals who stepped to the counter, the lady greeting them, “Hey Mike” and “How ya doing, Sue?” I’ve dealt with this representative many times, but living...
Averages of the Point of Grade
From what I can tell of OU, you graduate with the Grade Point Average of the semester prior to your last (because they don’t calculate these things in time to “walk”). I made a goal at high school graduation that I would do everything possible to be the best student I could be in college, partially out of jealousy and contempt for those ranked higher than me in my class. Out of...
“And stand for one second up off your knees.
We are not the competition
But we...”
– Glassjaw
Turner out for eight weeks →
Poor Evan Turner. This guys is a lot of fun to watch and the only reason I have been quietly rooting for the Buckeyes this season.
Greg Oden has broken kneecap and likey out for... →
nbaoffseason:
A bad day for the NBA, & especially it’s fans, when one if it’s classiest players go down with yet another injury. Blazers are now most likely deprived of a post-season run unless they pull of a major deal.
Poor guy. He just can’t stay healthy. This coming after a pretty rocking performance earlier in the week.
Mewzik Qritik
I miss the Pastepunk days.
November 2009
7 posts
uhkla
I am watching UCLA vs. Portland right now. When I was a kid I distinctively remember wanting to go to UCLA for college. Probably 7 or 8 years old, no idea why. Looking back, they went 32-1 in college basketball in the 94-95 season and won the national champions. I would have been about 7 at the time, and probably delving into the wide world of sports for the first time where it mattered. And UCLA...
Unwritten Rule of the Lecture Hall
elgatostrikesagain:
Moral of the Story: Actually go to class, if you don’t you’ll end up pissing everyone off. And then they will blog about it, which ultimately will have limited to no effect on whether the #3’s steal their seat again. But they will still express their angst via tumblr.
- This is a great post, especially your use of “ho,” definitely did not see that coming. This...
The Network
In life we are often told to rely on The Network. The Network is a large entity, filled with a variety of people displaying various traits, most of which are maddening to this writer. There are those who siphon the resources of The Network without giving back. They are free-riders, the ones who hope to use this tool only to their advantage. They are leaches, the worst kind of parasites. The very...
October 2009
18 posts
Just Great
Another cbb blogger profiled Indiana University today. In their preview, they said:
Indiana: The Sequel will be built on the backs of four-year “Band of Brothers”-style classes.
I really like this sentence just like the prior one I posted. First, calling it “The Sequel” and utilizing the capital ‘S’ indicates a rebuilding process. Secondly, using “Band...
Words Excite Me, Especially When Strung Together...
A quote from Dana O’Neil’s latest piece on IU’s rebuilding program:
But when Hoosiers coach Tom Crean went out to find the pieces to begin rebuilding his roundball phoenix,
I love it. What beautiful use of words. I can picture a phoenix, not unlike Fawkes, rising from the ashes of Assembly Hall with Tom Crean on its shoulders signaling the resurrection of a once-storied...
@elgatostrikesagain
A dream three years in the making was realized today thanks to this man. To you, I am eternally grateful for the hardball efforts you employed in convincing the cellar gatekeepers to relinquish their authoritarian hold over the precious commodity I have longed for all these nights. The cat truly struck again.
