"She was beautiful as Southern skies the night he met her,
she was married to someone.
He was doggedly determined that he would get her,
he was old and he was young.

From time to time he'd tip his heart
but each time she withdrew.
Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance,
everybody thinks it's true."

-paul simon

i wish i was dead.

c'est la vie.

The new R. Kelly song "Genius" is...

brilliant.

About the nicest thing in the world
is having a friend to come home to.

I dream of performing

in the coliseum of her legs.

Troy, a 46-year-old black man, said to me, "See man, I like talkin' music with you. It's hard to find anybody that knows anything about black music, and they're always my age you know. But you're young and you know Sam Cooke and all that."

It gave me that rare feeling... what is it again?

Oh yeah, good.

"There Must Be A Way" by Dinah Washington

Damn, Dinah. Sing it.

Some days the thought of her nearness causes a passionate burning in my mind, body and soul... an aching in my thighs like a frustrated stirring of leaves, caught in a whirlous wind, crescendoing in collapsing circles in an empty alley.

New Okkervil River album out today.

Great Moments In 21st Century History

Just watched 2001: A Space Odyssey with my niece.

Rather incredible discussions on A.I., evolution and the purpose of existence ensued.

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I remembered climbing into R.'s fort and reading If You Give A Mouse A Cookie with her.

It was a pleasant reminiscence.