Hi

This quote is cool:

"A comment on the importance of poetry...
There are four dimensions of poetry: intelligence, senses, emotion, imagination. And it appeals to these things in three ways: through rhythm, through sound, and through what might best be called "correspondence," the comparison of apparently unlike things. The poem you create is an object you can carry in your hands, a smooth stone you can keep under your tongue. Poety is a place where you live part of your life, so you owe it to yourself to make it as real, as comfortable, as furnished as you can. Because the right poem at the right time can save your life. "


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This movie seems like it would be cool weird.

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Star Wars Mike told me he read in some new Star Wars character book that Darth Vader can't shoot blue force lightning since his arms are robotic and he has gloves on too.

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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction:
I've believed I've needed brake work for a few months now and in the past 2 days my brake pedal was going all the way to the floor, like I had no brakes. (I barely had brakes.) I postponed belated birthday dinner plans with Mom to take advantage of Mechanic Friend Brendan being home, before he split for Vegas for 5 days. Brendan diagnosed my troubles over the phone from my descriptors and organic sound effects, told me what parts to buy at Murray's and we'd do a brake job in his driveway. The A2 Murray's who had the parts - when I got there, somehow, someway, some other person in Ann Arbor with a 2000 Focus needed those rotors and brake pads and bought the last ones. Within the 3 hours I called on them and then got there. But the Ypsi store, 10 miles in other direction of Brendan's, had them. So I hop in the car, which is losing brake ability, haul ass to Ypsi to retain the sunlight, get the parts, and get back to Brendan's. Very grumpy, very frustrated, just Meh...

Upon actual inspection of my rotors, pads, and brake fluid, Brendan filled my low brake fluid back up, the brakes came back to life, and I'm getting my $125 in parts refunded tomorrow. I know that for a good while there was a grinding sound coming from my front wheels. Maybe when the fluid starting getting low there was an airpocket/hydraulic chamber noise going on when I braked. I dunno know, there was something grinding.

Anyway, I to got get some more car stuff done as I used Brendan's shopvac to vaccuum out the car, Joy and I jumped on Brendan's backyard trampoline a bunch, I did one good land-and-stay-upright-on-my-feet front somersault, had some DiGiorno and beer, and came home. I have not stopped yawning since. And Max the Rottweiller we're dogsitting got to make friends with Brendan's great dog Cosmo. They ran and chased and sniffed each other's butts all night. Kinda like guys when they get together; they run their mouths, chase girls, and smell each other's ass via farts all night. The universe is all relative via verbs, that's all. It's the nouns that separate everything.

Joy was an absolute angel tonight. The best girlfriend in the world. The grumpier I got the funnier and nuttier she got to force me to smile. I'm blessed.

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Speaking of blessed, i got to hang out with Dad Wednesday night, have a nice dinner. I got an iPod as a birthday/get-well present (the hernia op I had in February.) How cool is that? My dad was hearing baout them, asked me about it, I showed him online how cool they were. My Dad's always a sucker for great gadgets.

He always asks me about finding old songs from the 50s he grew up with, so he asked me about 2 songs;
1.The b-side to Santo & Johnny's "Sleep Walk", which we figured out via the internet as 'Tear Drop.'
2. The b-side "Sometimes" from Danny & The Juniors. (They did the 'At The Hop' song)

We found both, and it was cool to sit next to my Dad and watch him smile as he literally had not heard 'Tear Drop' in 50 years. 50 Years people.

( Iswear, I wanna make links to all these songs above but I'm so damn tired right now... sorry)