ny

met a girl who trains monkeys for paralyzed people. once the monkeys are trained, they help out their new owners with simple tasks- turning a page in a book, getting them water, etc... its a local non-profit organization downtown. i want to work there really bad.
spent the weekend in ny and jersey with the fam. 2 grandmas, 4 moms, 5 cousins, 6 sisters, 8 daughters.
saw saturday night live in ny. fun. there was a monkey hanging out down on the set before borat opened. it would take it's hat off, put it back on, look around, and do it again. i imagine that anybody who really thought about it would agree that yes, they would like to have their own personal monkey. what better present could there be? mine would be named lucy. lucy goosy.

(colossus of roads)

saw this at the coolidge corner theater couple hours ago. 16 years in the making. lucky me! best $7.50 date i ever took myself on.

seldom seen

seems like forever since i've been out of this house. its got the feel of our youth in it lately. spending so much time with melissa, emily. a treasure i'll have forever. growing up, it was just us 3- mom her and i. something warming about the combination.

rain.

sweetest holly! (want to see you again soon)
how funny. 1993 was the last time i'd seen or talked to her. same sweet girl. whoa!!!
the walls we build inside us and around us over time...
can't wait for xmas. see all the family. there will be a ton of kids this year. last year was the first year i wasn't in mtown for xmas. i want xmas music all the way home. cheese!!


need to get on the selling train and lighten the load a little more. had a throw-out party last weekend. felt good. the new built to spill album is solid. 'you in reverse'. guitar aint kiddin. watched the townes van zandt documentary again today. his melancholy reminds me of grandaddy. the few songs i remember of his were the same brand of heartache.

it was cold. i waited. i got drunk. i wrote it all down. i saw the lights of the city start to twinkle. coyotes howled from across the canyon. the wind stopped hours ago. i woke up and made coffee. i walked back down again. how many times can i want the same thing? i find it wherever i go.

she aint revved till the rods are thrown

somethin in the wrinkle in your forehead tells me there's a fit bout to be thrown....

weekend need-to-do's....
movie? riiiiiiide. vacuum. wine. kale & beets at sto. eggs. oj.

drinky time.
cein watson
cein's work needs to be looked at in more detail. good stuff.

weekly standard, the perpetual adolescent

ahaaaaaaa just read buckner's blog entries. fucking hilarious. cracker seed in montana, feeling like a cockroach trapped in someone's hand in boston...

"Got up early to get my broken window replaced in Albany before leaving for Boston and an incoming storm.

And Boston...Take a map, rip it up, throw it into the air: where it lands is the street layout of a town that overturns cars whether or not their team wins or loses. Sprinkle with scraps of LL Bean khakis and blue button-ups. Played a small stage in a club steeped in folk traditionalism: i.e., loops and e-bows need not apply. Driving out of Boston, you feel like a cockroach trapped between someone’s giant hands, and every turn you make, the hands move and you’re lost again. You just wanna turn over on your shell and kick your legs up into the clammy air."

yeah the road life. need to make a list of good road movies.
here's one of my favorites













can't wait to see penn's version of into the wild


why i eyes ya.
chilly fingers.

home

surfin the web, i think i found a place where i could spend a lot of time, if not the rest of it. and i'd only be 2.5 hours by automobile from friends. nice.
why do the hutterites always like the cold environs? fucking germans. why do i stay up so late? i should change my name back to it's correct german spelling...
fucking americans.

ok, so i'm going into hibernation soon. hunkering down for the nasty new england winter. approaching fast. finally got the tent dried out from the ny rain. why the hell would anyone in their right mind want to live in this part of the country? "oh but there's so much CULTURE!!!!! there's so much to DO, so much HISTORY!!" wow. i forgot. how could i FORGET??!!!

no use