Anniversaries

Ten years ago I lived in a different city where the default personality of my acquiantances and co-workers was largely incompatible with my own. Today I sit in a bar singing karaoke with strangers more or less accidentally and it seems about right. It's been a while since I last felt surrounded yet lonely. September 11th ten years ago I felt that times a thousand.

Anniversaries

Ten years ago I lived in a different city where the default personality of my acquiantances and co-workers was largely incompatible with my own. Today I sit in a bar singing karaoke with strangers more or less accidentally and it seems about right. It's been a while since I last felt surrounded yet lonely. September 11th ten years ago I felt that times a thousand.

Klub Kongress Karaoke. Because I am at heart a nerd beyond your wildest imagination.

Klub Kongress Karaoke. Because I am at heart a nerd beyond your wildest imagination.

"Who cares what games we choose? Little to win, but nothing to lose."
- Strawberry Alarm Clock, "Incense & Peppermints"

"Who cares what games we choose? Little to win, but nothing to lose."
- Strawberry Alarm Clock, "Incense & Peppermints"

Sign at La Placita in Albuquerque ...

Sign at La Placita in Albuquerque ...

Good night, baffling world full of such chaos and such possibility...till tomorrow, then...

Good night, baffling world full of such chaos and such possibility...till tomorrow, then...

Giving is a selfish instinct with unselfish consequences.

Giving is a selfish instinct with unselfish consequences.

Monsoon Sonata

There will be rain at last. The parched desert floor and my sinuses are grateful. I am battling my lack of energy by engaging myself in more projects, both at work and outside of it. Hoping my life will get more well organized as a side effect. Some of it has to do with missing my father and grandfather, I think. They were undeniably smart and undeniably ethical and had character. Somewhere inside me I have that too, I am still that 19 year old would-be agitator, reading "I Rigoberta Menchu" and hanging out with radicals in the PCC basement cafeteria. I still believe there are differences to be made and battles worth fighting. But if I'm going to fight them, I'd just as soon do it in a monsoon downpour.

Auto Draft

Indie Proverbs

Saw "A Serious Man" about a month ago and "The Box" last night. The gist of both stories being, basically, humans are fallible but Karma will still get us in the end...heavy underlying religious themes in both. What is with the sudden rash of indie film moral quandry mongering? Actually really enjoyed both films. When I saw "A Serious Man," it was in a theater and the audience erupted in nervous laughter at the ending. It was much like that line in "A Day In the Life." A crowd of people turned away...