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Since, apparently, starving Iraq to a point where its people were so desperate to get rid of one dictator they freely allowed another to invade worked so well, the U.S. seems ready to do the same to Syria. Jorge seems ready to sign a bill imposing economic sanctions on the nation declaring that, if it doesn't change its' policy regarding support of anti-American groups, apparently...
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fuck you.

...So, instead of working, I'm downloading an entire Explosions in the Sky show and am soon to burn that to disc. Music geeks rule.

I feel like meeting more people. From this site, I mean. Everyone I've met so far seems to be cool...I want to meet someone who's uncool, I mean profoundly shitty, someone I just want to throttle on sight.

Have I mentioned...
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it's entirely too quiet here, and even though there are distractions abound, i'm too dimmed to notice, trying to fade into the unlit room with minimal success. i'm counting instants in reverse, retrofitting time to handle this old version of me, there was something about compatibility issues in that but my eyelids are heavy and the figurative comparison even more so, my jargon may be...
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Okay, I've sat here long enough. Time to adventure. If you see a geeky black guy with dreadlocks, an Aeon Flux t-shirt, and headphones roaming downtown Portland, walk up and say hello. My name is Darryl, and I try to be friendly.

i need to not drink coffee on an empty stomach.

a friend of mine recently told a story in his livejournal about how tyondai braxton, a ridiculously gifted composer and son of one of the most noted pioneers of free jazz, slept on his floor after playing a show to three people in someone's garage.

by the time i was twenty, my musical heroes ceased to be icons and started becoming people i could walk...
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So of course, the cute barista at the coffee shop asks me out five months too late.

[Edited for clarification:]

I don't chase, really, at all. I interpret apparent dsinterest as disinterest, at least when it comes to women, and I'm very impatient. When I ask a woman out and she says no, I shrug my shoulders and move on, thereby suspending whatever emotion I...
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I've always wanted to have one of those struggling voices that somehow manage to make just the right note, the kind of voice that girls find pretty not because of technical skill or bombast or obvious rigorous training, but because it's just a voice, a voice that tries and fails and gets just barely there nonetheless. In recent days, I've given up trying to sing...
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must. stop. listening. to. storm. and. stress.