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deleted, for the better. Instead, you get a draft from over 2 years ago:Sidney Poitier is the MAN.My favorite In the Heat of the Night moments:(1) when Poitier offers that humanistic little laugh while the convict in jail is telling him about a girl;(2) when the guy in the greenhouse slaps him and Poitier immediately slaps him back harder.

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I didn't make this, but it rules.

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Ambiguous/amorphous longing may be better said as...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade

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Now you're in Neeeeeewwwww YooooooooooooooooorkConcrete jungle wet dream tomaaaaaaaaaaaatooooThere's nothin' you can't do...

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I'VE LOST MY MOJO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I'm watching the Africa Channel. Currently on is a program about female leaders from various African countries meeting together, and joining forces with American doctors and philanthropists, to improve quality of life for (and save the lives of) African people. There have been previews of a show about African influence in black American music and even clips of an African soap opera.In a time of

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Often black people, especially non-gay folk, become enraged when they hear a white person who is gay suggest homosexuality is synonymous with the suffering people experience as a consequence of racial exploitation and oppression. The need to make gay experience and black experience of oppression synonymous seems to be one that surfaces much more in the minds of white people. Too often it is a way

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Sometimes I don't end up digging a song/artist everyone raves about until years after the explosion. If and when I do, the wonderful thing is that I've got legions of faces of people I know smiling in my head, waiting together in solidarity, waiting for me to join them and dance a little. Case in point: Santigold. And, a little earlier, Bob Dylan (yes, I am a songwriter-guitarist who went

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I admire many established musical heroes. At the same time, I'm strongly drawn to current artists who reimagine and destroy and rebuild what the legends did. That said, my apologies to Dana Colley, Ralph Carney, Clinton McKinnon, John Lurie, Tia Fuller, John Zorn, Ornette, Rahsaan, Coltrane... my new favorite saxophonist is Colin Stetson. Even if you don't care for the sax, hear me out.I

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DxE8NfHk6o

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I was pretty sure I hated the Dave Matthews Band since I was about 12.But you know when one line from a song you heard a lot in previous years - but perhaps only peripherally paid attention to - gets in your head and you become DETERMINED to figure out what it is? That's happened with several songs lately that turned out to be DMB tunes. So I gave them another listen. They bring back good

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This dog looks a little bit too much like Snoop Dogg for its own good.It belongs to the sister of an acquaintance of Adrienne's.I hope it becomes an internet meme.

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I'd love to direct you all to my new blog.http://makinjuice.blogspot.com

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I make tapes - lots of them.I sometimes record over what I first recorded (be it a concert, a conversation, or just something stupid from middle school) but will often leave snippets of the old parts between new recordings.In August of 2009, I called my aunts Carla and Holly to ask them detailed questions about my grandmother, on whom I did a presentation at Sunstone that month. I taped those

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1. I love my baby mama, Adrienne. (no actual bébés yet)2. I love my parents.3. A phrase I coined in high school, "ambiguous longing", may be more accurately said as "amorphous longing".4. My aunt Carla (see previous post) probably has a few weeks, at most, to live.5. We're hopefully moving downtown in March.6. I sold my drums after nine sweaty years, over 200 recordings, and a gigantic bundle of

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A sequence of events in the last 24 hours has led me to believe that there's a lesson I'm supposed to learn.-While playing with my dog off-leash at a nearby park this morning, he inexplicably ran to the sidewalk, crossed the street, and SPRINTED in the direction of home. He had been following me closely the whole time prior to that. I thought he had mastered "no" and "stop", but I guess his

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Bruce McGill and Stacy Keach - separated at birth?

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It's been a sec. We're still alive and chillin'. Love is lovely.Someone get me a job. I type at lightning speed and I don't misspell... and I guarantee I'm smarter than most of the graduate-degree-wielding jerks working for you currently.I'm recording again - we'll see how soon I actually finish some songs. Hopefully the shows will follow.

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All right, no one clicked "sucks and I hate it" on the pillbug post until a few people clicked over from my comment on Feminist Mormon Housewives. One of you is a jainist and now gives my words no credibility because I kill bugs. Oh noes! Not every liberal loves every living creature!Moving on, Adrienne and I are married and have moved from the Bay Area back to my old place in SLC. It's

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I loathe essentially all creeping and/or flying creatures smaller than, say, mice. Bees/wasps/etc., spiders, gnats, centipedes -- and if I lived in one of many places where much bigger bugs are more common, I'd... move? I feel a little bad about all the insects I've killed.But for some reason, I can't hate pillbugs. They're so harmless. I'd almost call them cute. They're the only insect

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Adrienne goes through the temple on Wednesday. First one in her entire extended family. I'm so happy - and this is all flying by. Three weeks left. Hot dog.

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I feel like I could watch Looney Tunes shorts and listen to the Squirrel Nut Zippers all day and be happy. They call to mind better times.Not that these times aren't kickin' rad... I'm just a nostalgic s.o.b.

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I posted a quote from Judge Vaughn Walker's Prop 8 ruling on Facebook. A friend of mine posted this in response:Yay for separation of church and state!! I have a question for you, James. How do you reconcile being a Mormon with your beliefs, particularly when the Prophet, who is supposed to have a direct connection to God, said that members of the church should do everything they can to uphold

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Why, I'd like to know, are some radio stations still playing that Santana/Rob Thomas duet? There are enough bad '90s leftovers we're forced to hear in bagel shops and supermarkets. I think this one just needs to go.Just think about the way he shapes his vowels:This lahf ayn gooood enuhf, I could chaeenge, mahh world, to liiift you uhp, ah could chaeenge - mayee layeefe, to bettah soot yoh

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Happy end of the first day of the last month before we get married! lol randummm! I used to find it somewhat elitist when people claimed they "married well" - perhaps having wrongly assumed I knew to which of their spouses' attributes they were referring - but now I know how they feel... and it hasn't even happened yet. I'm sure in the coming years I'll know more fully what people mean when

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Why do we refer to people (usually in minority groups) using adjectives as nouns? "she was the first black to...", "he's a gay and...", "they hired an illegal last week..." Linguistic considerations aside, it makes the speaker sound like a moron.With tongue in cheek, Zach Galifianakis poked fun at this in a stand-up routine a few years ago. He pointed out that heterosexual women talk freely

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'90s slowjams... aintnuddinwrongwiddat!

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1. Adrienne wrote out over 200 names and addresses in her lovely cursive. My mom kindly helped as well. We then stuffed/stamped/sealed them until Adrienne had to leave. I just spent the last bunch of hours sealing most of them, stamping some, getting the return address labels on there, and even writing four in my own cursive (after a lot of practice)... and delivering them. Dropping important

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I'm getting married?Oh, right, yeah. I got back with Adrienne and everything's cool now, we're moving into my old place on 21st East, and, you know, I love her.Hang on - what?

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I wonder what Boyd K. Packer and Carol Lynn Pearson think of each other (beyond the I-love-and-respect-you-as-a-child-of-God thing).Any speculative - or somehow non-speculative - insights?

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Meanwhile, on a different tape:"I just got a saxophone from Summerhays. I'm putting all of my heart and soul into it and it doesn't sound like music. Just one second... I gotta stand back..."(HONK SQUEECH WHAAAUUUUHONK)

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I like Harvey Keitel fine, but I'm convinced he's overrated. He has made best actor lists and even sexiest actor lists. Huh? His acting is average to me - but he gets on board a lot of good projects. I certainly don't get the sexy label, though. 5'7" with a nose like that...

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I've seen exactly 100 of the movies on imdb.com's top 250 list. Despite the fact that the list has no established merit, I think that's pretty good. I've seen a good number of the movies that most film fans agree on, but I haven't forced myself to see all of them.If I were what they call a "film buff" and cared to see every last movie people say is good, I'd have spent less time on weird

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I'm listening to one of two tapes of music I wrote on my mission.We weren't allowed to bring our own instruments to the mission field, so I made do with what I could. I borrowed a couple guitars, I kept a banjo some elders found in a closet, I bought a cheap dulcimer at Wal-Mart, I used ward building pianos on P-day, and I sang out melodies my mind wrote while I wasn't thinking. I also wrote

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I'm watching Cop Land. four things:1. Bless James Mangold for trying to pay tribute to Martin Scorsese (not only Cathy Moriarty and Robert de Niro are in this, but Frank Vincent and Harvey Keitel and Annabella Sciorra and Ray Liotta - and I must say it's refreshing that they are not all playing Italian-Americans - and Howard Shore on the score provides nice icing). He even throws an "It's not

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Pardon my French, but what the hell is the point of saying "done and done"?

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I've been pondering the relationship between Utah Mormons and product-based multi-level marketing companies.The basic thing is this: For whatever reason, lots of plant-based cure-alls are sold in mass quantities by fast-growing (and sometimes fast-fading) corporations which were started by BYU grads and are based not far south of Salt Lake City. I'm talking about MonaVie, Tahitian Noni, Nu Skin,

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The earliest Brooklyn rappers may have been far more aware of or concerned with or influenced by the great Gil Scott-Heron and James Brown, but why is Joe Tex totally overlooked as a proto-rapper? Listen to "I Gotcha" and you wouldn't believe it was from the early '70s.

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All right, I'll admit it - I got too lazy to actually type my ideas about lefties and arrogance. The bottom line is that most moonbats are guilty of it from time to time, myself being no exception. Elitism and exclusion and intolerance even of people you perceive as anathema to progress are still counterproductive to the tenets of true, honest-to-goodness liberalism. Don't wag your finger and

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hang on, this post is coming later

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While packing my stuff to move back to CA, I made the last-minute decision to bring my 16-track and my mic so I could record if I wanted to. I only brought my baritone guitar, Israel drum, melodica, and baritone ukulele, which means that about twelve other instruments (about thirty if you count percussion) and several amps were left in storage in SLC. I didn't bother with the speakers - I just

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I'm looking through a massive scrapbook my mom made of things I did and things relating to me as a kid. Here are a few favorites from varying ages (four to seven).A picture book I drew at age four: "Once upon a time there lived a turtule (drawing of turtle with a legspan five times the width of its body) - who had a kangaroo as a sun (frowning kangaroo seemingly trapped in a cage) - and his

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1. I like my in-laws. I've known them for a while now, but I haven't established that fact yet.2. My favorite indie rock* song is "Dark Center of the Universe" by Modest Mouse. I've had the Moon & Antarctica for around seven or eight years now and I'm just now realizing how wonderful the song is. How the same guy who wrote that managed to also write Float On is a tough question. Anyway, from

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I just discovered that three - count 'em, three - songs from Mr. Bungle's ingenious California album have explicit references to an old African-American sermon (or recitation) called "Listen, Lord - A Prayer". It, along with six other written sermons, was rendered in poetic form in a book called God's Trombones. I looked over it and imagined Martin Luther King, an exhibit about whom is entitled

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In Salt Lake City, I sat almost daily at an obnoxiously long light waiting to turn left onto Foothill Boulevard. Here in Los Altos, I sit almost daily at an obnoxiously long light waiting to turn left onto Foothill Expressway. If Addie and I move near LA (the possibility of which is somewhat high), I'm not gonna know what to do with myself if the red lights turning onto LA's Foothill Boulevard

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We're off to California in a couple days. Tonight comes the going-away party, then I gotta move my drums & other stuff into the storage room (I'm only taking like two instruments, some clothes, and my movies), then we're probably heading off Monday or Tuesday. Anyway, I promised to tell the tale of how it all happened. Everyone's more or less heard the story by now, but here's my

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One of the consistently funniest things in the world is watching (the late) Richard Pryor imitate animals. Find any video that involves him personifying an animal and, if you can get past a few naughty cusses, you'll love it. Favorites include his bits about deer, his Doberman, and African jungle dwellers.

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I'm continually fascinated by people's reactions to trauma, loneliness, depression, and stress. Maybe it's more common in the area where I've been living, but I've noticed it more and more lately. The responses I read/see usually involve one of the following: suspiciously loud (typed on a blog or Facebook, but still very loud) declarations of how much the person is LOVING LIFE; information

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Thanks to my fashion fox of a fiancée, I now own six pairs of pants instead of four. They don't all look identical. Baby steps! I'm not over the all-black look, though, so don't think I'm losing my identity here. It's just that Adrienne produces this liberated feeling in me that makes me want to wear red again - red pants in particular. I don't own red pants, but it's certain that at this

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I'm watching a 1993 interview with Cannibal Corpse's Chris Barnes. Cannibal Corpse is a death metal band; Barnes was their first vocalist. The most alarming thing about him in this video is his speaking voice. It's... soothing. He's very soft-spoken and has an endearing Midwestern accent. Just listening to him talk, he seems like a guy you'd let hold your baby. At 2:19 he reminds me of a

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Minnie McDonough was just born to my sister, Hilary, and her husband, Dave. I'm so excited to see this brand new wee one and have her in the family. Apparently the delivery was fast and Hilary is doing well. Hooray for babies!

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I did what curious LA visitors are not allowed to do.I touched the most famous sign in the world.Might I recommend that you read one man's harrowing account of hiking to the sign? Apparently there's a big, mean security system up there.This article is also a little bit scary. $823 fine? Pre-recorded warning voice? Hidden cameras? I didn't experience any of that. Somehow I got off scot-free

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...nor do I enjoy irreligious pomposity.If I were an agnostic, watching Richard Dawkins in a theological debate would bring me to believe in God - if only because someone as goofy and pretentious as Dawkins must have been created by a sentient being with a sense of humor.

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1. Adrienne Barringer is pretty cool.2. I finally got that thorn out of my finger from hiking the Hollywood sign. Don't let me forget to put up pictures of me next to the 'D'.3. Thanks and praise be to Maximum Distortion on KRCL for bringing death metal to Utah radio.4. Despite the fact that I'm writing this at 3:19 AM, I've generally been on a pretty good schedule as of late. I hope to stay on

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You know those times when you feel like you're the ruler of the world - not for any big reason, but perhaps a series of things turned out right in a short time - and anything is possible? Why is it kinda hard to cultivate that feeling? I've only had it a handful of times in the last few years. Not like everything blows the rest of the time; I'm usually pretty self-assured (maybe too much so).

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I just got this mondo-urge to watch Mickey's Christmas Carol. Who'll join me?

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1990 was 20 years ago?!

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The movies I love the most usually either depict corruption/violence/insanity/everyone dies/etc. (Casino, the Departed, other Scorsese flicks, Sunset Blvd.) or cute, cheesy happiness that comes after a few small conflicts (Only the Lonely, Some Kind of Wonderful, other John Hughes-written flicks). How delightfully strange!

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Speaking of hardcore, I realized that a lot of traditional hardcore punk lyrics are in trochaic heptameter or (insert name for poetic meter with thirteen feet - tridecameter?). It's funny to think of something in trochaic heptameter - like, say, Good King Wenceslas - as a hardcore song. It works, though.In reading about poetic meters after my epiphany, I discovered spondee. It struck me that

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Here's a swell little hardcore song that describes how I feel at certain times. It's envigorating to me rather than depressing.Ain't got a job, ain't got a homeAin't got a place I can call my ownGot no time, got no rhymeAnd I don't care if you think it fitsI'm a have-notI'm a have-notGot no clue, got no viewI don't care if I'm out of tuneI got vision, I got sightAnd I don't care if you think I'm

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one-word answers:Where is your cell phone? thereDo you have a significant other? neinYour hair? freeYour mother? strongYour favorite thing? freizeitYour dream last night? weirdYour favorite drink? chocolateWhat room are you in? everyYour fear? lossWhere do you want to be in six years? recognizedWhere were you last night? homeSomething that you aren't? rule-orientedMuffins? littlunsWish list item?

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"I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.""An escalator can never break; it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs - Sorry for the convenience."

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Elder Neal A. Maxwell once uttered the phrase "the narcotic of nostalgia". I'm a terribly nostalgic and sentimental person - nearly to a fault, I'd say - but I do believe it can be intoxicating and lead to unwise choices. What say ye?On a separate note, I'm a harasser, a.k.a. a harasshole. I'm apparently also one of those douchey guys who will insult someone and then insist on a high-five to "

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when we first met we were kids, we were wild, we were restlessand after a while i grew coarse, i grew cold, i grew recklessi hold this memory - i pulled you so close to meand whispered we'll be always happylately it feels like i'm sleeping and i just can't wake uppacing the floor, want to call, but i can't so i hang upsharing a secret on the trainwith a lady who's crying and has ruined her

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Goodbye, goodbye CaliforniaGoodbye to your wavin' treesTo your succulent wind and all my friendsFare thee well, goodbye, sobeit, amen.Welp, I'm back from CA. It was a fine trip. It's always good to see friends - the ones I see every trip, the ones I haven't seen in years, and everyone in between. It was nice to spend some time with my folks as well.I must add that I watched Home Alone & Home

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boys are stupidddddd

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I might be nuts.But then again, I was the source of the problem before. If I'm aware of that now, shouldn't things be different?

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AND FURTHERMORE, when a combination of all three of those positive things (understanding, the Spirit, and a good time) can be had in a single individual, that individual is both a wise and a pleasant choice of company. This can happen.

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You know who a person needs to be around when she's annoyed? Either people who make her forget about her problems and have a plain ol' good time, or people who really understand her frustrations because they've been there (and will thus take her side). An outsider's well-meant utterance of "I understand" won't really do it.Additionally, whoever it is (if anyone) that increases, to any degree,

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This article is awesome.

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Tonight my friends and I went to a park to play football. We ran into two dudes there who were tossing a ball around and wanted to join in on a game. Ben knew of one of them, Taylor Eigsti, through his brother. I later found out he's this excellent, semi-famous jazz pianist who evidently played with Dave Brubeck when he was a teenager and has been up for a couple Grammys. He was a pretty nice

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I don't care how uncool it makes me - I still love Soundgarden. They rock pretty hard and manage to write interesting music while mostly remaining within the blues pentatonic scale (which I generally love - those five notes never get old). And Cornell's voice is great!

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You know when you realize you do the same thing you hate other people doing? I just sort of had a reverse revelation. There's this thing I sometimes do that I hate. It's difficult to avoid. I just realized it has been done to me by someone who does not intend to do it. Now I know what it feels like - so I intend to work harder at not committing said crime.I'm being a little vague on purpose.

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1. Alec Baldwin and Bill Pullman are, in a lot of ways, pretty much the same person. Not really a good thing.2. John 14 is a pretty amazing chapter.3. Happy post-Holidays!4. the Pinewood reunion was a lot more fun than I thought it'd be. These people are still my friends.

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HIPS.

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It's strange/funny/interesting that both Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" and Lauryn Hill's "Ex-Factor", two of the most sad and earnest and true (and therefore heartbreaking) songs I know, also have rockin' good guitar solos in them. A rockin' good guitar solo is not something I normally associate with a sad and heartbreaking song... maybe, though, I would have that association if I listened to

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Deepest and most important thought I have right now:It is always funny when you sing a song in an exaggerated German accent and replace various words - "and" with "und", etc."She liebst you, ja, ja, ja..."

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I'm getting excited about something I don't quite want to divulge to the public yet. Perhaps soon.In the meantime, I want to post a funny thing and a thought(which I'm sure will garner one or two responses, max)Funny thing: Earlier in the year, I watched the Jamaican movie The Harder They Come again for the first time in over four years. I was pretty stoked on it, so I wrote my daily journal

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I'm realizing that the reasons why I love John Cassavetes' movies are much the same as the reasons why I love the band Morphine.1. They involve a lot of repeated words and phrases. Cassavetes has his characters repeat lines onscreen quite a lot; poorly-scripted Hollywood movies have one calculatedly-placed line said once and they bank on the whole world quoting it. Morphine's songs often have

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Back in February I posted fifteen of the funniest CNN-style tickers I'd seen on Onion News Network videos. I've now got fifteen more I wish to share. The last two were the "coming up next" things at the end, but I'll count 'em anyway.16. "Suicide prevented by video of kittens riding Roomba" ("Pentagon Reports Army Mascot 'Liberty' Killed in Iraq")17. "More women losing weight with elective

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On early Monday afternoon I was late for Italian. I got a sandwich. I sat down to eat it and heard the U marching band outside, so I checked it out. Pep rally! Whatever. So I got a hot dog and a coke and some chips and decided to be about an hour late to my two-hour-long class. She let them out an hour early, so I missed it entirely, but that isn't the point.The band played some hits. The

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It's been a while and I have nothing newsworthy, so I'll just mention a few fun posts on a page I found. There's this blob called 1,000 Awesome Things done in a style similar to Stuff White People Like and PostSecret. I get the feeling they're running out of good ideas, which is a shame because it's a countdown from 1,000 and they're only at like 637. But it's heartwarming in a way.A number of

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I'd like to hear any 5-10 of the most pretentious music reviewers in the world collaborate on an album together. My guess is that it would suck. Then I'd write them a scathing review of it and their indie cred would plummet and their careers would be OVER.

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I'm going to get on my soapbox about a word I can't stand.It's the word "soapbox". More specifically, it's the circumstances under which the word is used - and thus, the connotation it has - that I can't stand.So far as I've observed, the word is nearly always employed when someone knows the advice he/she is offering is going to come across as obnoxious, and he/she still offers that good ol'

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I just discovered I got a shout from my dear cousin Merzy a while ago here.It was 3.5 months ago, I know - and I had wondered why I wasn't in the wedding photos she took. But one nice little sentence about me is enough to make me feel like a million bucks.Much rub to my cousins.

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Speaking of my hilarious and effective low-level prank streak, I just punk'd Julie. She never actually farted in front of me while sleeping. Hi Julie.Also, thanks to Elisabeth for being kind enough to offer me free tickets to see David Bazan. It was a great show.I've written about Bazan before, so I'll keep this short: He makes my heart ache.His lyrics can cut so deep. He raises some tough

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Everyone - You've been punk'd. Julie and I are not engaged. Not even close.We thought it'd be funny since the tendency in Utah when two people are dating is to constantly ask if, in so many words, said two people are betrothed.Sorry to break everyone's hearts :) :) :)

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I am engaged to the most wonderful girl in the world.Tonight we went to dinner at our favorite restaurant. We then bundled up and I took her to the park, where we had dessert on a blanket and looked at the stars. I had to swallow many lumps in my throat before finally telling myself it was "time" to tell her everything I had felt. I think she knew it was coming - there was tension in the air.

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Hi. I've had a list of things I wanted to make posts about sitting on my desktop, and if only for the sake of eliminating virtual clutter, I'm going to address them briefly. I've obviously been on a massive David Lynch kick recently, so they're pretty much all about him.1. A sign that Lynch is a truly versatile filmmaker is his capacity to make utterly moving, heartwarming movies in addition to

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I am underestimated regularly. I'm not sure what the reasons are for it, but it drives me berserk. I guess people think I'm easy to read.

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I've been in LA/Irvine the last few days. It's been pretty dope. As has become tradition when I'm here, I drove around on Mulholland Drive today and Saturday. What made today's trip especially good was that I ate at the Bob's Big Boy in Burbank where David Lynch evidently ate every day for seven years (?). The turkey burger and chocolate shake I got were fantastic. In honor of Utah, I dipped a

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ROFL WAFFLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (sorry, had to)I'm going to LA and the Bay Area. Probably very soon. It'll be cool to see my bro and his family (they're gracious enough to put me up at their place in Irvine), hang out in my favorite parts of LA, see a few friends, then head up north to see my folks and more friends.Also: Hi Julie, thanks for being cool and intelligent

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Last night, Julie (hi Julie) and I discovered that the woman who has been screaming herself hoarse and banging on Julie's kitchen wall for the last week was directing her screaming and wall-banging at Julie and me. We thought she was abusing a mute child, yelling on the phone, mad at her cat(s), or hearing voices - we never heard anyone else. I tried to knock on the door and talk calmly with her,

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Julie & I went to see Up last night after scoring some Red Iguana. Parenthetically, the Red Iguana was quite good, but if I hadn't known that it's consistently the most hyped - and crowded - joint in SLC, I wouldn't necessarily have thought it should be. That's not to say it doesn't have bomb food and great service.Back to Up.Most movie actors are attractive. Even the characters who are supposed

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Picnic in the park with Julie. Oh fer cute and funnnnnnn.

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Everyone who utilizes the word "utilize" really could just utilize "use" instead. Can I get a amen?

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To all of Julie's friends who are now blog- and/or facebook-stalking me: Hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I heard someone was reading this blob and got the impression that I'm not funny - maybe a little uptight, hyper-intellectual, etc.Pretty sure that's not true, but I had to wonder - does my writing give that impression?I really don't try to overuse big words and alienate average people. I occasionally write critically about film and music, but if you compare me to one of the jackoffs at

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As someone who normally does not like electro-music or lame remixes, I have only one word for lovers of tha funkee musick: KUTIMAN.Describing how he makes totally incredible music by mashing up amateur YouTube videos could never do the magic justice.Please see any of the videos on my sidebar to discover what I mean.

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