blogs are truly fascinating.

I was at first disappointed to find out that Keep Trying (a blog I've been meaning to, but haven't visited in awhile) was no longer posting meta-comments about blogging. Then I read a bit of it, and--DAMN--it's all about the situation in Jerusalem and world politics. It's hard for me to remember that there are really horrifying things happening in the world around us. The worst part of my day is the agony of realizing my productivity level is at an all time low. I can't work, I can't seem to think. My brain is a puddle of disorganized thoughts melting into one another--sometimes something relevant will surface, but it's completely by accident.

And then this slap in the face. We're not all born with the freedom to post about our shitty jobs on the Internet.

today is 5-8. that is ostensibly my height. the universe throws coincidences like quarks.

poem

elephants never forget--it has something
to do with their ears, or trunks, or something--
and I suppose, I wish
--photographically--
I had some of the same grey stuff
reminding me of all the things I've already forgotten
before I forget them--
or write them into a poem.

can elephants even write poems?

the eloquent elephant
(on the pleasant pheasant's day off)
jumped over the quick brown fox.

outside, a storm cloud brims
with memories of its own.
soon a cerebral dam will break
and the sky will forget
into the lightening rods of local churches,
tops of banks
and skyscrapers.

there are so many things slinging electrons around--
who is to say the sky doesn't rain down thoughts
too dense and wet to understand?

OK, so I was listening to Yami's playlist from home yesterday, and fell in love with this song, "adding up numbers", which is (I found out this morning) by Kompressor, this weird muppets-meets-industrial band.

So... at the bottom of their homepage, there's a link to this article they were mentioned in from Spin magazine... I highly recommend reading it, it's got a bunch of links, and is pretty awesome.

From there... I got to http://songfight.com/, which is this weird songwriting competition site. Some really good stuff on there. If I were a songwriter, I can't imagine a better way to hone my skills. So now I've been listening to old songfight songs. Good stuff.

I wanna know who thought of http://songfight.com/. It's such an awesome idea.

I broke down over the weekend, and bought a gamecube. Dropped $400 I don't have on three (additional) controllers, a (required but not included) memory card, three games, and the system itself.

Super Smash Bros is AWESOME.

now I'm working at home because the network is screwed up at work, and DAMN if I don't just want to be playing it.