Despite the wonders that are delivered by digital music today, sometimes I really miss lying on my back on a shag carpet, eyes closed, two huge stack speakers aimed at my head, listening to a quality vinyl record played over excellent analog equipment.
One day I wish to retire to a dictionary.
Sometimes I come untethered.
Sir @ November 30, 2010 # 2 Comments
A letter to yourself, tell yourself EVERYTHING you love about yourself HA! No. I’m 100% unwilling to go all Vanity Smurf on my ass by writing myself a goddamn love letter (from myself, to tell myself myself). See where this little excursion into the realm of answering flimsy, shallow, repetitive, grammatically suspect questions has brought [...]
Sir @ November 29, 2010 # 2 Comments
Something you hope to change about yourself. And why. I trust no one. This complicates everything. Or rather, it complicates everything potentially important. And trust is a big idea here. I trust certain people plenty. I’d trust a handful of people with my life. I did this for a pretty good stretch of time, actually, [...]
Sir @ November 28, 2010 # 4 Comments
What if you were pregnant or got someone pregnant, what would you do? If I were pregnant, I’d invite biomedical researchers from across the world to a conference, wherein I would stand on the stage, spread my arms wide, and scream, ‘OK, PEOPLE. HIGHEST BIDDER. WHO WANTS A PIECE OF THIS?’ If I had gotten [...]
Sir @ November 27, 2010 # 3 Comments
What’s the best thing going for you right now? When people ask me what I do, I neither cringe nor sigh before answering. I think this may place me in rare company in the world of employment. I haven’t quite perfected the most efficient answer to the question yet, though, because it’s not a job, [...]
Sir @ November 26, 2010 # 2 Comments
Have you ever thought about giving up on life? If so, when and why? Oy. Phoning it in by sending you here.
Sir @ November 25, 2010 # 4 Comments
The reason you believe you’re still alive today Hell, I don’t know. I could wax philosophical about the meaning of life and what keeps us going and how everything happens for a reason and blah blah blah, but I’ve already beaten that dead horse into the ground. And what is it about dead horses that [...]
Sir @ November 24, 2010 # 4 Comments
Make a playlist to someone and explain why you chose all of the songs The last time that I saw you alive was 23 years this weekend. I was a newly-minted freshman in high school and you were in the 5th month of bone cancer’s incubation. Most of my regrets are of the petty and [...]
Sir @ November 23, 2010 # 2 Comments
Something you wish you had done in your life It’s a fine time right now for introspection and I’ll tell you why: My car was towed from the front of my house today because the inspection sticker on the license plate, the one that I have yet to receive from the DMV, has yet to [...]
Sir @ November 22, 2010 # 3 Comments
Something you wish you hadn’t done in your life. I thought that I could put life on hold. This happened primarily in Alaska, but also for much of my time in England. In either case, I was working myself into the ground, foregoing the cultivation of human relationships in exchange for blindly focusing on the [...]
Sir @ November 21, 2010 # 4 Comments
(scenario) Your best friend is in a car accident and you two got into a fight an hour before. What do you do? The first step is clearly to not panic. Also a bad idea: Replaying the argument in your head over and over again, memorizing all the nuances and the ways in which logic [...]