Should is something I’ve said a great deal “I should do this” “I should do that” “I should be this” Often I’ve said it to describe how little I’ve done Or how lazy I can be I’ve often said it with longing and to inspire motivation I’ve often said it because I’ve felt like a [...]

This wall is my companion It hears my pleas The floor too It is just as patient and kind My prayers hit the ceiling Echoing off the spinning blades Reflecting off books and shoes Sound is absorbed in the corners All that is trapped are my words Who is there to hear them? Who is [...]

I hate that I have to delete these files and hide these folders. It feels both weird and wrong. Wrong that it’s necessary and wrong that I want to do it. Wrong that part of me is enjoying the process. That I am even excited about it. But at the same time profoundly sad. And [...]

(Help me to love…) My naivete is endless I think very simply and without much depth I act on impulse without thought to reception, intention and consequence I am your mouth and I butcher your words You have called me to create You have put this great love inside me and it overflows But I [...]

I found today’s song review, first of hopefully many, on NPR’s SXSW mix page. The page allows you to stream over a hundred artists that played SXSW last week, and download some of the songs. Actually, quite a few of them. About 30 or so, but who’s counting, right? One of the songs I downloaded [...]

Upon finishing New Brunswick, New Jersey Goodbye on Saturday, I think I’m glad I read it. I like that I was immersed in another’s experience of punk rock, and I liked the description of the New Brunswick scene, although it was minute. I also would have loved a companion CD with the book of the [...]

Young Widows are a three piece, post-hardcore band from Louisville, Kentucky. The band has been around since 2002, though their beginning was as another Louisville band, the metalcore gods Breather Resist. B.R. called it quits in 2005, and three of the four members stayed on to form Young Widows (not without first considering “Breather Resist” [...]

This is too funny.  There’s a couple pretty sweet lines, but it’s mostly ridiculous.  The sweet ones are bolded.  This is a piece I wrote for the Papyrus on April Fools’ Day, April 5th, 2006: These pretzels are making me thirsty… You wouldn’t believe just how much I’ve eaten in the past two hours, just [...]

Fire is very beautifulHow it consumes what it is burningBut gives life through light and heatAnd gives death through smoke and ash

You always ask questions that you already know the answer to had you only taken the time to think But I love it when you answer your own question I love seeing the light flash in your eyes The sudden realization “Oh”