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[zyzyly]

This is supposed to be the last nice day for a while--rain is forcasted for tomorrow--so I abandoned my many responsibilities and headed to San Francisco, which is not what this post is about. it's actually about what I was thinking in the car on the way. I was thinking about lists.

1. I like to read between the lines. When there's nothing to read there, I use my imagination.

2. I also like to write between the lines. Get it?

3. I'm dissatisfied with most of the pictures I take. Were it otherwise, I'd post hundreds each day.

4. I once had long curly hair down to my shoulders.

5. I am clean-shaven for the first time in a couple of years. It makes me look 22+.

6. I am still in no hurry to go back to work, but decided to try out a couple of night shifts this week to see how it goes.

7. I'm happy, but it doesn't mean I have even the slightest clue about what's going on in my life.

8. Music plays such a huge part in my life now--there is usually something playing almost all the time. sometimes it takes on an almost three-dimensional quality.

9. Up until #8, I was wondering if these were all going to be "I" statements.

10. I don't own a coffee maker.

Comments

[hussla.livejournal.com]

Today I was told by an old ex-girlfriend that as long as I'm a seminarian/priest, I ought to keep my beard because the one time she saw me clean-shaven I apparently "looked like a child molester." Whatever that means.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

really! what an interesting observation.

[gracegiver]

You softened number 3. Good for you.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Ya. That one could be a post all its own.

[gracegiver]

Why do you think music is so important now, where maybe in the past it took a less significant role? Any idea?

[myasma.livejournal.com]

I don't know--it's always been big when I was in transition, like now, but it is somehow different this time.

[poetdan.livejournal.com]

I got a coffee maker my first sober Christmas in 1984. When I cleaned out my Mom's house I found it in the cellar. I think I put in my storage with my canvases. I just bought my second coffee maker. I treat my self each morning to one cup of French roast. I'm a one cup in the morning kind of guy.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

I have an espresso maker, and make an espresso every morning. When my coffee maker died last year, I never bothered to replace it.

[vereorc.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on number three.

And number seven? You're adapting Pooh-like qualities!

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Fitting, since I am rather Pooh-shaped.

[zhenzhi.livejournal.com]

no more hairy hippy face? hee hee! i won't allow r to shave his, because then he looks too young *and by default i look much older than him* well, much older than how much older i am than him anyway. :-) oh the vanity! lol.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

I can't get used to looking at myself without the hair--I laugh every time I pass a mirror!

[destabee.livejournal.com]

Several of these are also true for me especially number 8. I remember the past largely through musical associations.

Are you familar with www.cdbaby.com? My current mini adventures take the form of exploring the $5 dollar items there and treating myself to them from time to time. I also like www.ladyslipper.org and inradio.com as ways to find new music and support non-mainstream and emerging artists.

[brendamom.livejournal.com]

I am personally relieved that you are often under-thrilled with your photography and post only the good ones. I figured you had a magic camera and I don't know where to get one.
So I post the best of what I have, still not fabulous photography, so that one day on LJ someone will say..."Whoa..you are getting GOOD."

[myasma.livejournal.com]

There are certain types of picture that I just don't do well, and other types that I do. I keep trying with all of them though, and pay attention to what other people do.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

I had never heard of cdbaby--it looks cool. I have a friend who sends me new music periodically, and I listen to an internet radio station called RadioParadise.com, which often plays stuff I have never heard before. I listen to much more new music than I hever have before.

I too have lots of musical associations. When I saw the Eagles a few weeks ago, I was telling my friend that one of their albums has always been the "depressing" album to me--not because the songs themselves are depressing, but because of what was happening in my life when I first heard it.

The interesting thing about now is there doesn't seem to be a particular song that defines it.

[sistermeg.livejournal.com]

22 plus how many?

my parents have never owned a coffee maker, which makes them totally bizarre in the eyes of the rest of our family and of most adults. Whenever we host Christmas someone has to bring their coffee maker.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

haha--22+ a lot!

[lavidamd.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. I'm trying to remember if I have seen a recent picture of your clean-shaven. The only one I can remember is the one of you in blue/green scrubs holding a baby (perhaps your niece?)

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Yeah--that picture was 15 years ago. I haven't posted one of this particular incarnation yet. I have to stop laughing at myself first!

Post Title = Tom Robbins reference

[errantpenny.livejournal.com]

Nice!

#7: Cluelessness is what keeps us young, I think.

(It's very early -- I don't know if I'm making any sense).

Re: Post Title = Tom Robbins reference

[myasma.livejournal.com]

!!!!

I love that little chiclets story.

Cluelessness is what keeps us searching.

[niquildrvr.livejournal.com]

8. Music plays such a huge part in my life now--there is usually something playing almost all the time. sometimes it takes on an almost three-dimensional quality.

Walter Ong writes about the effects of sound in Orality and Literacy, which is what this comment brought immediately to my mind. There is something physical, visceral about some music--it enters our bodies through our ears and our skin and taps directly into our hearts and guts and minds in a way that written text cannot.

That may not be what you were getting at, but that's what your comment reminded me of.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Yes--that is it exactly--I can feel it. I have always had this with music, but it has intensified lately.

[saintgeorge.livejournal.com]

The Happy Wanderer

[myasma.livejournal.com]

You developed your pictures!

Look at that guy--lost and confused!

[pumpkin-pie-m.livejournal.com]

*gasp* No coffee maker? I couldn't survive without one.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

I learned to make "super coffee" with my espresso machine. There's no turning back.

[chained2u2.livejournal.com]

I like this post.
dj

[myasma.livejournal.com]

I liked thinking about it. This evening as I was driving home from a class I taught, I remembered that there were two other things that were supposed to be part of it. I'll save them for another day.