Random Thoughts

First Day Craziness

Just for the record, starting a new job just after playing 4 straight days of gigs with your band (one of those gigs being a CD release party) and being in a play that has rehearsal every night is just crazy. And thus is my life at the moment.  So there probably won’t be many …

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Screw it!

I’m reading Harry Potter 7.  After like 2 weeks I’m not even half way through the first one, and it’s killing me not knowing how it ends, and everybody else knows.  So screw it, I’m reading the damn thing.

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Song Lyrics

The Cynic’s Prayer

One of the more spiritually depressing songs I’ve probably ever written, but I think there’s some hope in there too. The Cynic’s Prayer Brick by brick we built a tower to any height we could choose Did we get too close to your power? Did you have to confuse? Since then I’m just amazed At …

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Changes

For those of you who have been following my site for a long time, you may remember this post from two and a half years ago: Last Day It’s really crazy to think back at what my life was before that monumental change in my life. Just to recap, that change was that I had …

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Harry Potter 7

So I did get the book the day it was out (in the mail, not through the ridiculous tsunami of people at the bookstore), but I have not read it yet.  I have decided instead to re-read the entire series in one shot.  I figure this is the last Harry Potter, so why not fully …

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Douglas Fir – A Memorial

My mother loves to get me things, loves to get anyone things really. She also loves to “garage-sale,” which she has turned into a verb. So what this means is that I get a lot of things that I never needed, nor wanted really. I call these her “here, you throw this away” gifts. Some …

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Baseball

Cubs Quips 7/11

Alright, well here we are at the All Star Break and the Cubs find themselves just 4.5 games back of Milwaukee (although they really should be 2.5 or 3.5 back).  There are lots of reasons to be happy right now as a Cubs fan, but there are reasons to still be nervous (there always will …

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Basketball

Bulls Thoughts (Why?) – 7/5/07

Well I’ve allowed myself to cool down for a full week from the NBA draft. Needless to say I was not happy with the Bulls draft. Why Bulls, why? So with the number 9 pick, the Bulls take Joaquim Noah (my least favorite college player from all of last year). I began speaking of my …

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