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| 03:11am 03/01/2004 |
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wow. my solstice seasonwas pretty awesome. i'll write more after i sleep |
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| the intellectual mosquito |
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| 11:33pm 18/12/2003 |
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mood:  contemplative music: my life at the moment is completely devoid of sound
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today, someone told me that i'm hot when i'm debating, that i give off an air of self-posession and brilliance that's very attractive. it's true that arguing with people is one of the few activities that i engage in that makes me feel whole, like it's something i'm really good at and was meant to do. it almost makes me regret never having pursued it. or getting such piss-poor grades for so long. oh well. i had the most extraordinarily lucid and fascinating dream last night. i thinki may have experienced a revelation. i wish i hadn't almost completely forgotten it. all i remember is a cityscape, a lampost/tree (it was somehow both without being a fusion of the two), a deep understanding of existentialist philosophy, and cunnilingus. accursed memory.
and sorry for not writing anything for so long, blurty. i just had to work some things out on my own. or something like that. |
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| this is the end, my beautiful friend, the end |
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| 12:51am 07/11/2003 |
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mood:  indescribable music: silence . . .
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oh man, i just took a long walk outside. it was so quiet. and the sky was such an unusual shade of purplish-grey. it was just awesome. |
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| hey you (what's that sound?) |
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| 11:27pm 03/11/2003 |
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wow. i'm absolutely fucking incensed. jake's been expelled. mrs. aull just gave one of her ineloquent, authoritarian, infuriatingly smug non-speeches which are supposed to negate all other sources of information. see, after she feedsa us a poorly phrased 40-minute line of bullshit, then she makes it a punishable offense to mention the victim's nname in school. JAKE GOT FUCKING EXPELLED! and as if they couldn't make school any worse, they just hired dr. karen cruise as the school psychologist. my former shrink. tried to drug me up with antidepressants because she's a half-educated, controlling, lazy bitch.
life sucks. i quit. |
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| Aloysius!? What are you doing here?! |
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| 01:18am 01/11/2003 |
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mood:  ecstatic music: concrete blonde-the sky is a poisonous garden tonight
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wow this was the coolest halloween ever. ever. in school, we had costume day, and i dressed up as tristan tzara. i had a really sharp suit, a monocle, and one of those floppy tie-ish neck ornaments that people wore back then. in addition, the left side of my face was heavily made-up, and the nails on my right hand were painted with a bright, garish, red. and when anyone asked who i was, i just quoted the dadaist manifesto. today was a half-day in school, and it was apparent to all the teachers that there really wasn't going to be much work done, so we just watched a movie for three periods. the movie was kinda lame, so me, amy, brad, emily, steve, and a few other people hung out in the other room. it was pretty cool. when i got home, i was de-costuming when trevor called. he said that he and a few friends were dressing up as the marilyn manson band, and they had lost their manson. i agreed, and went over to trevor's house for the dieing of hair and the re-application of make-up. i also re-painted my nails (alternating black and pink). so we went out and we were going around town meeeting people and such, and we got the idea to start trick-or-treating. and then one person saw trevor's guitar and asked, somewhat mockingly, if we were playing music. he started playing this guitar riff, and i realized that i knew the words, so i started singing in a mansone-y voice, and it all just clicked. after that, we started going around to all the houses and singing halloween carols. it was sooo cool. and we swung by the college a few times, and just generally wandered around and hung out until 10, when the prince theater was showing the rocky horror picture show. and there were a bunch of people who i semi-knew there, ans rocky horror was one of the greatest things i've ever been to. and after that, we went back to trevor's house to sybolically burn some of our old stuff at midnight of the celtic new year while shouting "hogunnah!". and then i went home. so all in all, it was pretty awesome. |
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| though we are falling stars . . . |
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| 10:05pm 24/10/2003 |
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mood:  pensive music: The Beatles-Norwegian Wood
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i apologize for last entries abrupt end. i was forced off. obnoxious parents!! and brother!! so, on to more interesting topics (relatively). let me tell you a story. there's this boy (Ewan) and a girl (Abby). Ewan is relatively sure that Abby likes him. his feelings on the matter are somewhat mixed, though. Abby is certainly not unattractive. and it's been some time since he had a girlfriend, which would certainly provide a much-needed stabilizing force in his life. all in all, a relationship with Abby would do nothing but good. however, Ewan has no real special feelings about Abby, and he feels a sort of obligation to develop them before starting a relationship. so it places him in something of a dilemna. he doesn't want to dissapoint, but he doesn't want to deceive either. he respects Abby and considers her a good friend, which is an aspect of their relationship he doesn't want to jeopardize in the event of romantic involvement, or a painful cessation thereof. he is paralyzed by his own intelligence and empathy (a stupider or more inconsiderate person wouldn't even have thought about it this long). it's rather ironic. any advice Ewan can receive on the matter would be welcome. which is also ironic, since he's always on the giving end for advice like this. the whole thing is really kind of funny. |
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| Metacognitive Strategies |
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| 09:47pm 23/10/2003 |
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today had no particular significance, but i need to update the blurty. so, |
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| Commander Toad and the Big Black Hole |
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| 01:25am 19/10/2003 |
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mood:  ecstatic music: the cd i bought at the concert!
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oh wow. by marx, lenin, trotsky and che. by kierkegaard, sartre and camus. by chomsky, zinn, and moore. the three doors down concert i just experienced was the best thing that has happened in chestertown in my lifetime. the intro bands were the amusingly kitschy shinedown (a modern hair-metal band), and the pretty decent seether. three doors down were surprisingly good live. we moshed until they made us stop. i crowd-surfed (which is about the most fun thing ever). i ran into a bunch of cool people who i haven't seen in a ridiculously long time and met a bunch of people who all seem pretty cool (with a few scattered and disregardable exceptions). all in all, it was the highlight of several lunar cycles. |
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| The Irish Question |
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| 11:06pm 17/10/2003 |
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mood:  blank music: Gang Of Four-Tattoo
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hmm. i don't really feel like writing an entry tonight, but i feel obligated, as it's been a few days since the last one. so i went to school of rock with trevor and mishi. 'twas pretty cool. oh, and i'm going to a three doors down concert tomorrow. at the college! it's weird. but i'm definitely going. yeah, i wish i cared more about people. i'm so damn empathetic when it comes to reading people and understanding them, but i can't make myself care. |
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| Positive Flash. |
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| 11:56pm 14/10/2003 |
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mood:  tired music: Iggy Pop-Bored
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wow. fights are reeeaaally fucking tiring. don't have them. be more agreeable than i am. i command it!!! but yeah, the short story never got finished. chalk it up to lack of time, effort, and memory, the three destroyers of good ideas. ugh, i don't have the energy to finish this entry. good night. |
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| A Day In The Life Of Ian Hawkridge-by iandada Ch. 1 |
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| 10:34pm 09/10/2003 |
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wow. today was pretty good. so good, in fact, that i'm going to write ti down in the form of a short story. a sort of solzhenytsine/salinger thing, only minus the talent.
"You're the night, Lyla . . ." His eyes opened in time with the subdued strains of Morphine. Ian raised his head a few inches from the pillow and surveyed that corner of the room he called his. System of a Down stared heavy-lidded, Rage Against the Machine glowered, The Who strode along the window's edge, and Che Guevara gazed out with revolutionary beatitude like a Marxist messiah. The ceiling shouted "No Blood For Oil!" and instructed him in a calm British accent to keep a gas mask on his person at all times, as Hitler would send no warning. Ian writhed his way out of the tangle of sheets around his legs. He stepped gingerly over the miscellaneous assemblies of stuff around his bed, and reached across the front of an old teacher's desk to his clock/radio. Mark Sandman whispered "the prayer, the extra layer, the group??" and the sound sublimated into the air and out the now-open window.
A thick misty shroud covered the town like a burkha. "What's the fog delay rule for Wye River?", his father's voice queried from the hallway. "We do whatever the Queen Annes County public schools do", replied Ian. "Well then you have a 90-minute delay". "Cool." Ian stared out the window at the subtly transfigured backyard. With the enveloping fog draped across it, blandly familiar features took on an air of ambiguosity and complexity that seemed to be revealed by partial concealment. His reverie was interrupted by another question. "What do you want for breakfast?" "Don't we still have some of the good corn meal?" "Yeah" "Then how about corn cakes.?" "OK. By the way, happy birthday." Ian paused for a few seconds. Birthday? Oh, right. Today is the ninth. "Thanks"
His shower was a bit longer than normal, and also more thorough. Shower time was the time he always took to let his mind drift freely through last night and into today. That was a bizarre dream. I hope Emily listened to the CD I loaned her. . . I love fog. . . I wonder if Jake got de-forbidden from the skate trip? . . We'll need more soap soon. And so on. Words and pictures stepped out into the scrutinizing glare of conciousness. Eventually, though, he was clean and lucid enough. Once he stepped out of the shower, he wasted no time in toweling off, or during his various other post-shower ablutions. He dressed with little care, and he spent the most time combing his hair, trying unsuccessfully to encourage it to stay out of his eyes. With a sigh of resignation he abandoned the task, and stepped down the staircase and into the world. |
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| surrounded by the sounds of saxophone . . . |
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| 11:03pm 08/10/2003 |
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(sardonic false enthusisasm) guess what everybody?! i turn 16 tomorrow!! yayyy! seriously though, human time measurements are so arbitrary, yet we place so much significance upon them. it really doesn't make sense. it does work to my advantage though, since when i turn 16 i get the extraorfinary privelege of traveling without my parents babysitting me the whole time. occasionally. which means i can go to ny, which would be really cool. you know, i really wish i was more emotive. it would be so much . . . healthier. |
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| mr. mastodon farm, cuts swatches out of all material |
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| 11:25pm 05/10/2003 |
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wow, 5 guesses as to where i was today. no. nope. nein. nyet. non. an nfl game! that's right, due to a convergence of free tickets, my dad, and my lazy-ass brother, i got to go see the redskins play the eagles in a nauseating display of unbridled over-consumption and mass corporate cultural doping. infotainment is certainly the new opiate of the masses. i sat in the pepsi/chrysler section, where the air was thick with the mingled stenches of beer, grease, and consumer capitalism. the crowd was entranced by the over-hyped vicarious competition of the two teams, the shiny immersive advertising, and the sophomoric pseudo-sexuality of the cheerleaders. the worst part was that these people contributed the same level of energy and fervor to the movement of a leather ball as the protesters at the last anti-war rally i went to contributed to the cause of saving hundreds of thousands of lives. it's corporate siphoning of energy, time-wasting, apathy-generating infotainment. nothing was produced, no cultural contributions were made. it was all mass consumption and entertainment. god fucking bless america. |
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| a bagful of shiny knives |
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| 06:22pm 04/10/2003 |
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guess what? i finally got ahold of one of those personality list things. i stole it from a stranger's blurty. let's see . . . isleinuain's blurty (which is pronounced how?). she seems pretty cool, if a bit on the geeky side, but who isn't? anyway, the quiz thing:
[ Name ]: Ian Hawkridge [ Aliases ]: hmm, do screennames count as aliases? If so iandada [ Born in ]: this hellhole of a town [ Resides in ]: Chestertown, MD [ Good student? ]: occasionally [ Eyes ]: grey-blue [ Hair ]: sorta dirty blond (almost brown at this point) [ Shoe size ]: 11
Last time you.. [ Had a nightmare ]: 4 nights ago [ Said "I love you" and meant it ]: a very long time ago [ Ate at McDonald's ]: i think I was 4 or 5. i definitely wouldn’t do so by choice [ Dyed your hair ]: never intentionally. [ Brushed your hair ]: this morning [ Washed your hair ]: 4 hours ago (i shower at odd times) [ Checked your e-mail ]: just now [ Cried ]: i don’t cry. wish I did, though. [ Called someone ]: trevor, to arrange a shopping cart heist [ Smiled ]: yes, i keep track of all my smiles for these lists [ Laughed ]: ditto [ Talked to an ex ]: i can’t stay in touch with the people who want to talk to me, much less an ex
Do You... [ Smoke? ]: yes [ Do drugs? ]: very infrequently [ Have sex? ]: i would if i could [ Sleep with stuffed animals? ]: no [ Have a dream that keeps coming back? ]: not really. [ Play an instrument? ]: i’m learning guitar [ Believe there is life on other planets? ] :probably, though i’m pretty confident it’s smart enough to have stayed away from us [ Remember your first love? ]: yup [ Still love him/her? ]: hmm, not really [ Read the newspaper? ]: the Baltimore sun and bbc online [ Have any straight friends? ] yeah, who doesn’t? [ Consider love a mistake? ]: most of the time [ Like the taste of alcohol? ]: yeah [ Believe in God? ]: no [ Pray? ]: no [ Go to church? ]: when I’m forced to [ Have any secrets? ]: a few [ Have any pets ]: yes [ Talk to strangers who instant message you]: I would if they did [ Wear hats? ]: hmm, I should wear more hats [ Have any piercings? ]: no [ Have any tattoos? ]: no, but i’d like to get a few some day [ Hate yourself? ]: when I think about it [ Have an obsession? ]: nothing that stands out [ Have a secret crush? ]: i may [ Collect anything? ]: hmm, music maybe. or books [ Have a best friend? ]: not really. i don’t like to prioritize my friends [ Like your handwriting? ]: it’s unintelligible, but I like it [ Have any bad habits? ]: dozens [ Care about looks? ]: not often. once in a very long while, i’ll try to dress up [ Boy/girlfriend's looks? ]: well, I’d have to be attracted to them somehow, even if they weren’t a supermodel [ Friends and other people? ]: nah [ Believe in witches? ]: no. what the hell kind of question is that? [ Believe in Satan? ]: no [ Believe in ghosts? ]: no!
Current: [ Dress ]: a pair of tightish, light-colored jeans (there’s some fashion term for them that I don’t know) and my “moscow polytechnic university” t-shirt [ Mood ]: bored. slightly annoyed. a bit on the tired side. [ Make-up ]: none [ Music ]: Killing Joke-Requiem [ Taste ]: black tea [ Hair ]: in the intermediate stages of longness [ Annoyance ]: life [ Smell ]: lysol and cigarettes [ Thought ]: “what am I thinking right now?” since that’s what I thought as i read the question [ Book ]: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood [ Fingernail Color ]: unpolished, a bit stained [ Refreshment ]: what is that supposed to mean? [ Worry ]: hmm, I’m pretty apathetic [ Crush ]: i wouldn’t tell you [ Favorite Celebrity ]: depends on when you ask me
Last Person: [ You Touched ]: amy, I guess [ You Talked to ]: my grandmother. she shows up at my door from time to time. [ You Hugged ]: see “[ You Touched ]” [ You Instant messaged ]: jenna [ You Yelled At ]: definitely my parents [ You Had A Crush On ]: okay, this is just getting old [ Who Broke Your Heart ]: see “[ Crush ]” [ Kissed ]: umm, wow, yeah I don’t really know. it’s been a long time..
Who do you want to: [ Kill ]: it’s a pretty long list. mostly public figures though. [ Slap ]: it’s similar to the kill list, but more heavily comprised of people I know. oh, and myself [ Tickle ]:i’m not a big tickler [ Talk To ]: noone in particular [ Be Like ]: once more, it depends on when you ask
yeah, now i've gained mad insight. totally |
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| 12:23am 04/10/2003 |
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what is it about other people's happiness that's so damn depressing? is it because it only accentuates one's own lack thereof, or because one can't help but visualize the other person's painful awakening. and is such a vision cynical prescience, or simply one's own jaded assumptions asserting themselves over one's thought process? and if i'm so fucking brilliant, why can't i figure out the simplest of problems in my own life? |
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| Oh I'd rather be the devil, than be that woman's man. |
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| 11:29pm 29/09/2003 |
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wow. these journal entries are starting to become something i promised myself they would never become. formulaic. first, i'll tell you about a new show or musician or other cutural event which i think is really cool. i usually follow it with some sort of half-assed transition like "um. yeah. . .". then, i start whining about some personal event like a cliched angsty teen. but tonight is different, because tonight's cultural event is just so unbelievably cool that i'm devoting the rest of the entry to it. that's right, pbs is doing the blues. a whole week of documentaries about the most talented musicians in american history, the originators of all modern music. these artists recorded their music with no formal training, no polish, no effects, no marketing strategy. their music was purely comprised of talent and soul. these penniless, mostly uneducated men and women put more emotional force into a verse than all of your pretentious intellectual poetry has combined. it's proletariat art at it's best, music as a universal outlet for the pain and frustration that rural black america went through for the last 300 years. nothing i say here, no matter how eloquent, can truly do justice to this extraordinary art form. thus, i leave you with the lyrics to one of my personal favorites, skip james' "hard time killin floor blues" Hard time here and everywhere you go Times is harder than ever been before
And the people are driftin' from door to door Can't find no heaven, I don't care where they go
Hear me tell you people, just before I go These hard times will kill you just dry long so
Well, you hear me singin' my lonesome song These hard times can last us so very long
If I ever get off this killin' floor I'll never get down this low no more No-no, no-no, I'll never get down this low no more
And you say you had money, you better be sure 'Cause these hard times will drive you from door to door
Sing this song and I ain't gonna sing no more Sing this song and I ain't gonna sing no more These hard times will drive you from door to door |
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| 10:36pm 25/09/2003 |
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oh man!! David Bowie in concert! in D.C.! i'm both hyped and stoked. simultaneously!! i don't have too much to say tonight, though. you know what sucks? laziness. like when you know what it is that you need to do, but you simply can't bring yourself to do it. it's almost as if you're pushing up against a really slippery spherical barrier and the harder you push the faster you slide around the outside, no closer to your actual goal. the only way to get past it is to simply ride it out, which wastes time in massive quantities. i hate it. |
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| 11:41pm 22/09/2003 |
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wow. yeah. forget any of the sentiments i expressed in the last entry.my dad is criticising me constantly about my disorganization and using the opportunity to make me clean and organise constantly. my mom is badgering me about seeing a psychiatrist (and keeps mentioning psychiatric medication. no. fucking. WAY!!!) you know, if i can take all of my advantages and fashion such a useless, miserable life from them, think of what it must be like for the other 90% of the world. i'm such a typical whiny petit-bourgeoise teenage brat. i disgust me. |
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