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290 days, really?

95 days ago

That’s a long time between posts. I’ve been thinking about re-doing my site and hopefully updating it more frequently, but it might include nerdier posts about games I play, or stuff that no one’s interested in. But I wonder if anyone would mind, you can always opt not to read, right? That is, if anyone is even still subscribed here. =)

Any thoughts on what I should do with my site? I’d like to come up with something. And now that I’m not a full-time web developer, I feel more inclined to work on personal web projects. I could use some suggestions! What would you like to see?

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He Films the Clouds, Pt. 2

386 days ago

Now we’re apart.
Though not through choice.
Do we stay mute?
Or raise our voice?

Simple lyrics to an utterly beautiful song by a band called Maybeshewill. (Almost all their music is great.)

Listen to He Films the Clouds, Pt. 2


Summer So Far

393 days ago

This won’t be a long post, I haven’t felt like posting lately, but this summer has been interesting. I moved out to Tacoma, WA for a job, two buddies came with me, one has since returned home, the other remains.

I’ve been able to go camping twice so far on the Pacific, and both times it’s been super fun. Also had a nice couple of weeks at home before I left. Check out some pictures on my Flickr account.

Sweet Blue Crab on my Hand

And here’s an animated GIF I made while at the Grand Mere dunes with my dad:

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New Clutch Track: 50,000 Unstoppable Watts

442 days ago

I’m super excited about Clutch’s new studio album, the first that they’ll produce entirely on their own Weathermaker Music label. The album is called “Strange Cousins from the West,” and will be released on July 7th. MetalSucks.net has the new single, 50,000 Unstoppable Watts streaming on their site, check it out!

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33 Quotes; a Little Game

485 days ago

So I had kept this text file of interesting quotes or song lyrics (mostly song lyrics) that I heard. I haven’t added to it in years, but it still has some quotes that I really like. I figured I’d toss it up here and see if anyone can guess where they come from. I would say most of them are not too obvious, but there’s a few in there that you should recognize. Some of them are kind of deep, most of them are just interesting to me. Anyway, give it a try!

1. ‘Cause if you’re dumb enough to vote your fuckin’ dumb enough to believe ‘em.
2. You’re so cute when you’re sedated.
3. He Did it Just to Get a Rep
4. So He Thinks He’s Got a Little Fame, From the Sticker Game.
5. Seven times out of ten, we listen to our music at night, thus spawns the title of this program.
6. I Have a Kickass Harpsicord!
7. They say jump. You say how high?
8. Well I’ve wasted enough time on the edge of forever!
9. Nice day for a resurrection.
10. I’m worth a million in prizes.
11. This uniform makes my nuts rageous.
12. And gorgeous blonde assistants!
13. I’m doin’ fine, so leave me alone, so leave me alone, so leave me alone.
14. Thirty seconds till the end of the world.
15. What I wouldn’t give to see her pee, between two parked cars.
16. Magicians, Don Camaro has lost his mind.
17. Farts are jazz to assholes.
18. You wasted life, why wouldn’t you waste death.
19. I’ve got yo mother’s maiden name tattooed on my arm.
20. Believe me when I tell you she is all about destruction. It’s just about enough to make a grown man cry.
21. The season is coming, and bodies will pile up in sacks.
22. I stay cooly woolie, tell me something fresh ya huuurd me?
23. I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON’T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
24. Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
25. I wrote her a love letter but she don’t know how to read.
26. They promise the moon, they’re always coming, and going, and going, and coming… and always too soon.
27. Aw that’s just fancy talk for sexified!
28. Anyone who thinks you’ll take me out is just a dreama, if you think you’re the bomb, then I’m Hiroshima.
29. You’ll soon run out of chickens, Louie.
30. Constantly talking is not necessarily communicating.
31. She showed up on the scene, she was 17, now she’s 21, she does some more coke, she does some more coke, she drinks some whiskey, and she smokes some dope. She thinks she’s a star.
32. I know life’s a bummer baby, but that’s got precious little to do with me.
33. I’m so bad, my shadow chooses not to follow.

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