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Last night Isaw Most Precious Blood, The Explosion and Rise Against and it was one of the best shows I have seen in a long time. Very intense and very good although MPB was only a four piece because Rachel was playing in Europe in her other band and I am not sure if their sound was not as full or if that is just...
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the girl has been here since last tuesday and things have been going quite well. we rang in the new year with my roomate a couple of friends, some homemade enchiladas, some vodka and a bottle of champaign. it was the opposite of the vibe downtown i am sure but so mucn better in so many ways. Happy New Year.

RIP Agnes Martin.

RIP Dimebag, you will be missed.

I have been thinking about this for several days and it has profoundly affected me. seeing live music, especially bands that I adore, is a sacred experience and to have that violated in such a violent, bizarre, pathetically cowardful way is baffling and i just cannot imagine or wrap my mind around what it must have been like to...
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Why is it so hard to believe? Everytime I tell someone about her the immediate response is one of disbelief and that is starting to annoy me. She is intelligent, philosophical, challenging, beautiful, understanding, sensual, caring, loving, she makes me laugh, talented, and most of all she is my best friend. So why is it so hard to believe this? You ssee this is why...
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When I was little I used to have this set of Snoopy sheets that had the saying "Happiness is..." along with several endings to that prompt, such as "friendship" or "three scoops of ice cream" and there would be an accompanying picture of Snoopy illustrating the respective answer. I do not really remeber the rest but those two have always stuck out in my mind....
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Happy Thanksgiving! Sorry I missed your call the other night but I was hanging out with some people that I have not seen in a couple of months. I am in Madison for the rest of the week taking time off, from the craziness that is New York, for some Turkey and of course a little bit of lovin. I hope all is well...
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I get to hold a very beautiful, very intelligent very sweet smelling woman, who also happens to love me very much, in just three days. Life for me is like those dream sequnces that you see in cartoons where everything is misty. I know, I know it shouldn't but it is I just can't help it and at this point I am not sure if...
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Did Thelonious Monk ever use drugs? For some reason I rember reading that he had an addiction to something or am I just confusing his biography with some of his contemporaries? I just finished Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser, a biography produced by Clint Eastwood and released in 1989. The film was created using documentary footage shot in the late 60's and includes contemporary interviews...
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How does one define success? Is there just one success or is it possible that there are two or many more than that? If one comes from a place where there is more than one culture, is having more than one culturally prescribed idea of success twice as liberating or twice as confining?

Last week and the great majority of the time before that I thought I had a good grasp on the concept of sucess and how I thought that was going to operate in my life. Do not get me wrong. Being that I am one to live with, embrace if you will, all of the paradoxes that come with life and my penchant for thought...
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I know it has been a while since I have written last but I have been kind of busy actually, not that I remeber with what at this point but that is another story all together, you see I am and have been a little preoccupied with the sort of introspection about mortality that only the death of a family member can inspire. I am...
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