josh blog

Ordinary language is all right.

One could divide humanity into two classes:
those who master a metaphor, and those who hold by a formula.
Those with a bent for both are too few, they do not comprise a class.

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12 Dec '04 07:39:15 AM

I value more than is revealed in my actions; this is a constant source of frustration, isolation, and disappointment for me.

11 Dec '04 11:09:39 PM

'got a water hose and the thing you wind it up on'

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10 Dec '04 04:32:21 AM

Did Ted Leo just say 'bourgeois'?

Sigh.

10 Dec '04 03:30:29 AM

Low provoke more lazy reviewing than most any of the music I like. Slow! Oh! My! God! It is slow! They are slow! Hey! Slow!

8 Dec '04 08:52:12 AM

I don't see how John could ever get sick of all five thousand songs on his new iPod; I've had mine for a few months or so and 3551 out of 5200 of the tracks I share between iBook and iPod are still unplayed.

7 Dec '04 08:05:27 AM

'a teenage love that didn't feel no hurt yet'

7 Dec '04 01:36:43 AM

'Why, Doctor Wong, what brings you here?!'

7 Dec '04 12:47:36 AM

The spy-guitar shit on Britney's Toxic seemed to have vanished once I listened to it for the first time on my decent headphones, and the bendy bassline gained prominence.

6 Dec '04 08:03:41 AM

Undergraduate humanities educations are sincere but premised on things that aren't really possible with a normal life outside the academy: leisure time and a community of intellectual friends. They are possible, but only by rejecting much that is difficult to reject.