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April 30, 2007

Getting The Fuck Out Of Taipei


Originally Uploaded here
Hoo boy, I feel like an asshole. Not that I've done anything in particular, or at least not much, but more some abiding desire to fight. It has its advantages.

I just had three days off. Okay, so they weren't totally off because I did doors for Baranduin and a few hours of paperwork for Quinton, but heck, that's a fuckton better than it's been for the last two weeks. One hundred hours can go and fuck itself.

It amazes me sometimes how much people aren't interested in believing things that are true, but merely the things they already believe. This shouldn't be surprising to me, but is so fucking anathema to how I operate that I can't help but continue to be surprised at this behaviour.

I should be asleep. I just made rice. I'm up past my bedtime. I'm a fucking rebel. :P

Written On: Home Computer
Currently Listening: Balthrop, Alabama - Taipei (song d/l)

April 15, 2007

A Nice Vantage Point


Originally Uploaded here by jaki good

It's all starting to look manageable.

The chaos and mess and filth in my home are finally looking ordered. Like obedient criminals in line awaiting punishment in lieu of anarchists tearing down the very fabric of the society that spawned them. It's a wonderful feeling, the turning of the tide. It also informs me of how much I was dysfunctional. There's some things I can't hide, even from myself. My home is me, an extention of my holistic wellness, while I can act and pretend that I am alright, even to myself, how am I to tell the dishes, the laundry, the mess, the filth to smile and act polite? Anthropomorphic extentions that are inanimate are frustrating in their honesty. They don't speak, they just are.

Spring, part of it is spring.

Written On: Home Computer
Currently Listening: Benjamin Gibbard & Andrew Kenny - HOME Volume 5 (album d/l)

April 14, 2007

The Answer To The Question Is That It Is Unanswerable


Originally Uploaded here by vangruvie

Sometimes, I have a feeling, close perhaps to the sensation of Zen Buddhism's description of enlightenment. Like there is a ball of molten metal stuck in your gut. It feels like watching the sun rise, knowing full will that it happens every day, yet still weeping as if it has never happened before. Somewhere, at my core, it seems, I am comprised of metaphorical formally consistent contradictions.

Written On: Home Computer
Currently Listening: Benjamin Gibbard & Andrew Kenny - HOME Volume 5 (album d/l)

April 8, 2007

Metauseful


Originally Uploaded here by Frida K

For the last few days, I shouldn't have been trusted with myself. Friday, I didn't leave my house until after sunset and barely ate all day. However, being a metasmart kinda dude, I left my house and decided to spent the next 30 hours or so away from home. Bethicle, Rin, Pitch Black, Serenity, Boberin, Tilie, Burgers, Juggler, Kung Pow, Juggler Key Lime Pie (OMGs, I should go get some more today!!!111!!oneone), Lamb Chops. That's an awfully fine way to waste three ten hours.

I like existential discussions. They don't interest me if you don't have some background in physics or complex logic. I also really like Nietzsche. I think I didn't before because I didn't understand. Now, I think I do. Aren't you an atheist? No, I'm Daoist, it's not quite the same.

Written On: Home Computer
Currently Listening: Deltron 3030 (album d/l)

April 6, 2007

Out Of Order


Originally Uploaded here by inian.moorthy

I wanted to go, unwind, take 'er easy, all that rot. It didn't work, instead confronted by a galling example as to why evil corporate monsters run the world and not progressively minded altruists. It has, ultimately, little to do with any concepts so baroque as right and wrong, but merely due to efficiency of action. Evil Corporate Monsters, as a general rule, are very good at what they do. If the social progressives want to accomplish anything, the first thing they should do is stop being such useless twats.

So I was sober, and still wound, then and now. I'm some terrible combination of lazy, tired, bored, and frustrated. My head aches slightly too.

Written On: Home Computer
Currently Listening: Venus Hum - Alice (from Big Beautiful Sky, album d/l)

April 4, 2007

Walking On Someone Else's Pavement In Your Own Boots


Originally Uploaded here

I visited my former campus again. I asked the question: what would bring me back here again? No matter the curses I slump upon philosophers and their ilk, I cannot escape the reality that much of those criticisms apply to my field as well. Sure, their methodology is better, but, at the end of the day, it is littered with the same bullshit. Bullshit with numbers is still bullshit. Holding even that constant, I would be held back by the sense that nothing I would do would be good enough. The great deeds I would require would require more than I have.

What would bring me back? Sadly, a second bachelor appeals far more than a masters, even though, on paper, it would be a complete waste of time and money. The stamp of power and influence lays on the graduate, unhindered by diminuatives. I want to produce Art better, but, ultimately, merely living my life may serve as a faster, cheaper, and more effective route to the same goal. Asian studies draws me in as well, some chinese or korean language, perhaps some instrumentation as well, but when I can hardly bring myself to practice a western instrument, I cannot imagine practicing one that isn't.

After May, it will come into focus. Even if the picture looks exactly the same. Call it a hardware calibration, if you will.

Written On: SUB Computer

April 3, 2007

Not The Same


Originally Uploaded here by Mr. Mark

To me, you are a goddess, beautiful and terrible as the dawn. Our lives were connected in a very transient way, like wandering lover royal children, bringing to mind sea swept ship voyages, clad in velvet and jewels. Your heart was a fish from myth that only I had seen, capricious and elusive. But moments would come when, through riddle and persistence, it was mine. I think, perhaps, the only reason I am not now completely mad is through the knowledge that you would not have borne my children. For that, you require divinity of a more stoic nature, more earthly, as to humanity more possible than a normal man. My mythos is more fire and brimstone.

Our Relationship ended the moment we realised it existed. A bad time, you admitted, but it wasn't something you could hold. Me. You were a good friend, but I didn't lie to you that night. I was drunk, I came for the quim. That, into itself, was probably acceptable, and hardly the first time. But the problem was that I loved you. Or, perhaps, that you did not love me. Sometimes, it blurs as to which is at fault. In this instance, upon further reflection, I believe it is actually the first.

I want to talk to you, to see you, to be near you, so very very badly. It happens every time, and is made worse with every new encounter. You could command me much in the same way that she who I loved the most could, and it is perhaps in her absence that part of your power derives from. Some marvellous juxtaposition of fragility and strength, like a muscle at its breaking point: a word and a glance from you can unhinge me for weeks. This is hardly convinient, as the status quo seems to suit us both just fine. So I avoid you, no matter how much I desire the opposite.

Written On: Home Computer
Currently Listening: Venus Hum - Big Beautiful Sky (album d/l)
Currently Eating: Spinach Rotini with Meaty Red Wine Tomato Sauce topped with some Rathtrevor cheese

April 2, 2007

Quiet/Silent


Originally Uploaded here

Sometimes, I have days where I'm quiet. I don't say much, and don't want to. It's not that I'm sad, or that something is wrong, it's just... Some days are quiet. Not many mind you, but they do crop up.

Today, for instance.

Written On: Home Computer

April 1, 2007

Nothing Much Of Importance


Originally Uploaded here

To reiterate: The last two weeks are over. For this, I am extremely thankful.

I feel very attractive today. It is a very pleasant feeling.

El-P is so fucking hard. You should d/l it.

Written On: Home Computer
Currently Listening: El-P - Run The Numbers (from I'll Sleep When You're Dead, d/l part 1 d/l part 2)