and off my fretboard these notes will be short and sweet. I officially nominate July 8 the best day of the year.
Posts Tagged as ‘random’
March 13, 2007
Comedia Sin Titulo
When will life offer us a break from all of its required reading? A beautiful song can restore a bad day. It’s like a kiss, except you can replay it as often as you like. If I could be anywhere else in the world right now, I’d go to Spain. “La Celestine” is the name [...]
March 12, 2007
Zen and the Art of Eating Triscuits
I am perfecting the practice of enjoying my food, so listen closely, and I will share with you the secret to eternal bliss. I’ve forgotten how good Rosemary & Olive Oil Triscuits are. They’re much too satly to eat with cheese, unless it’s cream cheese, which I can’t say I particularly care for. There is, [...]
January 18, 2007
no strings, just warm summer rain
Sometime this week, when you are in the shower or bathtub, pay particular attention to the ceiling above your head. You may notice some fascinating details you’ve been missing: a light that needs replacing, a spiderweb with little hot water droplets all over it, perhaps some tile that needs fixing. I for one noticed an [...]
January 15, 2007
thirteen ways of eating a subway sandwich
I am thirteen sitting across the table from primitive romantic intrigue, and the whole thing falls apart in my hands **************** Sunday afternoon blue big pale alone alone sky, red falcon bird. He takes it apart, the whole thing: first the olives, then the bell peppers, then the onions **************** There is still sauce Under [...]
January 4, 2007
On Proust and Starbucks
If I was ever an early twentieth-century writer in my past life, I must have been Proust…because as it is, one look at a Starbucks cup and I’m probably off writing a semi-fictionalized, 3000 page account of the various phases of my life, with an additional thesis on the role of…what was it he called [...]
December 30, 2006
Jesus, what the hell was I ON as a sophomore?
“Life is not a box of chocolates. Chocolates aren’t even part of the food pyramid. If life were a box of chocolates, the FDA might as well be telling you to go shoot yourself—eat fruits, vegetables, meat…but no chocolates. No life for you. No, no…life is a box of crackers. Those Monet Assortment Platter (6 [...]
October 1, 2006
on fate
I don’t believe in fate. But I don’t believe the choices humans make are the only things responsible for the outcomes of our lives. I don’t believe in chance either, but I do believe in being at the right place at the right time, that intangible, elusive, phantasmagorical conglomeration of events and timing to create something [...]
February 2, 2006
Elton John
I went to Dina’s house for a rehearsal with the accompanist, so Tara, Simona, Dina and I had Russian tea and discussed music. So somehow we get on the topic of Aida and Dina said “It’s a nice musical…and it made Elton John very rich. And he didn’t marry me.”
