here comes a regular

I live in the ground floor of a house, and my landlord and her family live above.
She reminds me of someone from my past. So much so its kind of scary. The same physical attributes, mannerisms, even the same clothing style.
I didn’t notice it fully until last night when I was leaving for the evening, [...]

where the long shadows grow

I was climbing through the hole in the chain link fence at the Boy’s apartment, heading to A&P, listening to some new tunes when I had a weird deja vu moment…
Rewind two and a half years ago, its sometime after midnight on my last night in my apartment in Kingston. Ali, Annie and I are [...]

my dream girl don’t exist, at the age of five she slit her wrists

I bought Living in Clip.
You bought a Pearl Jam album you already had.
On the way home you pointed out that Pee Wee Herman doll I hate, in the window on Princess.
I wonder if its still there. It was when we graduated.
At home the stereo at eleven, in the dark, in daylight.  J tried to drown [...]

cause I do my best work with the mannequin brigade

wow. has this ever been a shitty weekend.
hope yours fared better.
you know what isn’t crap though? green day’s kerplunk album.
i now like it better than dookie. albums change taste over the years, don’t you think so?
yet boys in eyeliner…sigh…still heart breakers. still…

i’ll write you a postcard, i’ll send you the news…from the house down the road

why is it so hard sometimes to let people in?
do you think we ever really do? fully?
is it bad if we don’t?
suppose its our own loss if we don’t…
but i don’t think you can ever really do that. perhaps i’m too jaded for my age. or perhaps i like that layer of emotional protection. like [...]

and i’d like to watch the white flesh of your heels as they take turns breaking the desert heat

A new Sunset Rubdown song premiered today. You can stream it at Pitchfork, or inquire within if you’d like the mp3.
I was clicking around YouTube tonight after playing the song at least a dozen times, and stumbled across this gem I hadn’t heard before. It made me heart swell, ever so slightly. You know that [...]

naive melody

I keep leaving the people I love.
Or strongly like.
Sometimes they leave me, but usually its the former.
Its the curse of the nomad, and it keeps getting harder. You’d think it would get easier. Although I guess that wouldn’t make it a curse. Right.
Even now, having moved here just two months ago, I’m contemplating my next [...]

you gotta bring your own sword, sweet girl

I heard this song yesterday. Its the new Tori Amos song, “Welcome to England.”
The video made my homesick, if you will. Funny because its shot in London, a city I am not particularly fond of.
Also, at sound of her voice I was immediately transportated back to my teenage self. By the time the chorus was [...]

egg cress sandwiches at monument

giving in

The snow is completely undisturbed as it falls on the pavement outside my window and I have this urge to run out wreck the calm.
And after I’ve made my tracks in the snow, I’d look up at the stars and say hey, do you miss me?
Me either.