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- blood meridian by cormac mccarthy

- the hilarity that ensues after homer gets his swear jar "oooh. *shudders* that's broken..."

- the ten dollar new york to boston chinatown busses (www.fungwah.com)

- 500 thread count combed egyptian cotton sheets (now when i get into bed it's like angels are gently blowing on my body)

- using an SDS hammer drill in spancrete

- dortmunder beer

- getting my "tension relieved" while driving

- the red blinking lights atop broadcast towers

- lapping valves on an engine

John Sayles directing Terminator 4

Charlie Patton

Discovering open and alternate tunings for the first time.

Hearing Leo Kottke's 6 and 12 String Guitar

One more thing: dreaming in a second language.

WFMU
Neutral Milk Hotel
Dada
Hyped 2 Death
The Office
Space Ghost: Coast to Coast
Jandek
Guitars
The Velvet Underground
The Internet
Mission of Burma
Pixies
Eraserhead
Rock 'n' Roll High School (the movie)
Repo Man
Albert Camus
Franz Kafka
Salvador Dali
Having a schedule for school next semester that should have me out by one in the afternoon.

boomp.

boomp indeed.


- Coming home early from a shitty tour and my mom cooking me brownies.

- backrubs.

- Being such a good cat person that every cat I meet on tour instantly cuddles in my lap after a mere sniff of my fingertip.

- 3 Cd's of Tim Berne's Bloodcount for a little less than thirty dollars.

- Successfully ignoring a shitty tour without the aid of illicit substances.

top seven awesomest things. as written by me for some magazine back in the day.

7) lists - they tell everyone what's "it" right now in your life and in the real world. and they're a good organizational technique. they're also totally overrated. some people thought lists went out when the media started using them to rank unimportant things, but the truth is they're valuable commodities.

6) magazines - when you're not doing something, or even if you are doing something, you can always read a magazine and it looks like you're in the know. when you've got your issue of entertainment weekly or new york magazine, people know not to fuck with you because you're the guy who is totally unflappable with his magazine in his hands, reading and junk.

5) long sleeves in the summer, short sleeves in the winter - it's just something i do, i'm not really sure why.

4) baseball - the mets aren't doing much right now but it's the start of the season and all the game are on tv and i can just geek out with a beer and some cookies like i invented the sport or something.

3) crossword puzzles - i didn't learn my extensive vocabulary from books. well, i sorta did. but i also learned a lot from doing crossword puzzles. they allow your brain to operate on a higher level, like the astronauts do. plus you can amaze a girl's parents when you're over at her house and her dad is all, "what's a 10 letter word that follows Paul Revere?" and you're like, "The Raiders, dude..." he'll smile, thank you, and for a moment, totally forget you've tried anal play with his "princess."

2) beards - it's gotten to the point where i feel naked and exposed and vulnerable when i'm not rocking the unshaved look. it's weird when people can actually see me, instead of me hiding behind my homeless guy disguise.

1) sarcasm - you know why? because IT NEVER GETS OLD. sigh.

the wife's cooking

Copenhagen

the garage

an afternoon jog that wipes the motherfucking dog OUT!

building a fire inside your house

this piece of shit Japanese Les Paul Copy that sounds really awesome

keeping oneself composed during an emotional disagreement and watching the other crumble under a hell they've created all by themself

throat singing

not hating your job

watching the DMM hit the necessary amount of voltage when it hasn't for weeks on end (i.e. the last thing you tried fixed the fucker!!)

waking yourself up by laughing out loud

hot water

poker-playing quadriplegics

-Fresca

-World Series Wins

-Mike Davis

-A really comfy hooded sweatshirt

-camping year round

-Kranky records

-Neil Young vinyl

-hard to find soul/funk vinyl (Cymande anyone?)

-Rachels playing in Denver

-a solid parking spot

-a new acoustic guitar

-Wahoo's Fish Taco's

-good chicken parm

-access to ethiopian food

-Stella Urquois (sp?)

-free cable

-sometimes this message board

thanks for indulging me.

-Jeremy