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2005-06-27T09:00:00.000-04:00

This is where it all began, but, for now, this blog is inactive. Most of my posting recently has been to livejournal. However, I have recently started a blog for book reviews and one for image posting. My other currently inactive blogs include: | view askew 2 | mixes | mixes 2 | musical memories | love and marriage | truth or consequences You may still sign my guestbook

2003-09-14T03:00:00.000-04:00

To the few of you who check this blog occasionally, my apologies. My wife lured me to LiveJournal several months ago, and I've finally gotten tired of posting both here and there. So I'm not going to be posting here. Probably.

2003-09-13T01:23:00.000-04:00

I'm a twenty-something guy, one of many who was amazed by Johnny Cash's performance of the Nine Inch Nails song Hurt. His last album was the first I bought. The Man Comes Around includes a few original songs but mostly cover versions of songs like Bridge Over Troubled Water and The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. I'm familiar with some of Cash's earlier songs from soundtracks and mixtapes -

2003-09-05T23:58:00.000-04:00

Your Life: The Movie by mintyduckWho will play you:Johnny Depp Who will play your love interest:Ashley Olsen Weeks you will stay in the box office:25Song that will play during your love scene:Space - Female of the Species Song that will play during your death:Poe - Haunted Your name:Created with quill18's MemeGen!

2003-09-05T23:21:00.000-04:00

Seasoulsky's sometime six: 1. what did you like about this summer? Music and books. 2. what didn't you like about this summer? Movies and weather were pretty crap. 3. what songs were part of your personal summer soundtrack? Fallen - Sarah McLachlan Be My Husband - Lisa Hannigan Imagination - Frank Sinatra You and I Both Know - Jason Mraz Crazy In Love - Beyonce August Day

2003-09-05T22:38:00.000-04:00

I updated my favorites list (see sidebar) again. I hope you'll browse the links- maybe you'll discover some new favorites too. It's been a weird week. Monday was nice of course, getting to stay home. But the week didn't seem any sorter really. I feel selfish and stupid to complain about not having enough work to do, but sitting in the same place doing practically nothing 8 hours a day is

2003-09-01T11:01:00.000-04:00

I'm surprised how excited I am about the new Sarah McLachlan song. I recently removed her link from my favorite music list because nothing had happened in sooo long. But now this, the album in November and a tour next year. I am so fucking excited! The song - Fallen - is wonderful. Thankfully Sarah hasn't followed Jewel, Sheryl and others into Pop Tart hell. She sounds as good as ever. I don't

2003-08-31T12:46:00.000-04:00

Ten Movies You Own [1] Leaving Las Vegas [2] Stealing Beauty [3] Everyone Says I Love You [4] This is the Sea [5] Before Sunrise [6] Heavy [7] Swingers [8] Jerry Maguire [9] The Sweet Hereafter [10] Amelie Ten CDs You Own [1] Waiting For My Rocket To Come - Jason Mraz [2] Live from Union Chapel - Damien Rice [3] Intergalactic Sonic 7's - Ash [4] Indestrucable Joy - Erin O'Hara

2003-08-31T12:18:00.000-04:00

Yesterday was a productive day - I washed dishes, vacummed and dusted, took out trash, made dinner, transfered some music from cd to md.' I removed the shopping links from this page, bringing some of my favorites links from blog 2. I read Financial Peace by David Ramsey and learned about the debt snowball menthod. It seems so simple but I'd never thought about it before. You pay as much as you

2003-08-30T03:17:00.000-04:00

Financially, it's been a horrific month, and I'm not exaggerating. Over $300 in bank fees for insuficient funds. Talk about a wake up call. I redid our budget plan, properly this time, allowing for occasional expenses like car repairs, clothes and vacation. I cleaned out my wallet of credit cards and deleted them from all the online stores I frequent. I've got $100 in cash for groceries, so I

2003-08-24T10:25:00.000-04:00

I've been reading the West Virginia radio message board, and a local station is being congratulated for including Ronan Keating's Lovin Each Day as a 'Best New Music' selection. Surely the end of the world is nigh. No? Okay. I discovered a disturbing coincidence at work this week. The employees were shuffled aorund again to different cubicles, and I ended up near a woman I haven't talked to

2003-08-18T01:22:00.000-04:00

What I've been enjoying or hating lately in... -Music I'm loving Frank Sinatra's earlier music - the Tommy Dorsey collaberations. Songs like Imagination & I'll Be Seeing You. I don't like his later tribute to those days - some of the same songs with an annoying brassier sound on the 'I Remember Tommy' cd. Today I added several pages of my mix tape/cd track listings to my website - I

2003-08-10T21:51:00.000-04:00

It's been a while since I updated. Life in general has been good. The worst I can say about work is that it's been boring. Vic and I have been as close as ever, probably thanks to me not being as much a bitch as I used to be. I'm feeling a little homesick tonight, mostly because watching a movie set in Paris reminded me of how much different European cities are, how alive. I miss walking in

2003-07-27T11:46:00.000-04:00

> What have you been enjoying or hating lately in... > > -Music Michael Nyman, Elliot Goldenthal, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Norah Jones, Eva Cassidy, soundtracks to The Talented Mr Riply and The Mothman Prophecies. > -Movies The only movie we saw in theatres this month was Pirates of the Caribbean. It really was very good - a rollicking adventure.

2003-07-19T12:52:00.000-04:00

It's been a weird week. The nausea and sleepiness continued, and the anti-depressant hasn't kicked in yet. I really don't think I can stay on them unless the side effects subside. I yawn all the time, and can barely keep my eyes open to read. Vic's been sick. The Doc said today it may be Pneumonia. I stayed home 2 days with her. Raise time is coming up at work. I hope they'll consider the first

2003-07-12T10:09:00.000-04:00

There's not much to report this week. I've been nauseous and fatigued, which I assume is a reaction to the new antidepressant - the first pill in my life I've had to take regularly (with the exception of a week's supply of antibiotics). I hope the side effects will pass. By the way, I'm on Lexapro. Comments are welcome if you know anything about it. The atmosphere at work is really negative

2003-07-08T01:06:00.000-04:00

Mountain Stage was great! The acts performing included: The Jim Kweskin Band & Samoa Wilson (wonderful blend of jazz and folk - I especially enjoyed 'What a Little Moonlight Can Do'). Hammel on Trial (loud, crude, entertaining, hilarious and touching (I cried during his song about Brandon Teena & Matthew Sheperd). Xavier Rudd (fascinating, multitalented Australian, powerful vocals, great sound

2003-06-28T10:57:00.000-04:00

-Music I got a wonderful cd from the library called Cinema Paradiso, which contains great arrangements of classical pieces from the movies. Among the highlights are Mozart's Clarinet Concerto (Adagio), Ennio Morricone's Cinema Paradiso theme, Rachmaninov's Air on a theme of Pagnini, Puccino's O Mio Babino Caro, and a spirited instrumental version (by James Galway) of My Heart Will Go On. Don't

2003-06-20T00:30:00.000-04:00

I spent so much time on ebay last week that I've tried to stay offline as much as possible. Hence, the lack of an update last weekend, in case you noticed. Anyway, some things that have been happening... I was named employee of the month at work, so my name is engraved on a plaque for future generations to see :) Unfortunately, the award has no monetary value. I am due for another annual raise

2003-06-11T12:07:00.000-04:00

> What have you been enjoying or hating lately in... > > -Music I've been listening to more celtic music lately. My favorite Chieftains cd - Fire in the Kitchen, on which they collaberate with many Canadian artists - and Aine Minogue's Circle of the Sun. No she's not related to Kylie - she plays harp and sings on this cd which also features the whistle playing of Seamus Egan, from Solas

2003-06-02T23:40:00.000-04:00

Just watched A Walk to Remember - one of those teen movies I'd been avoiding because it looked like a typical crappy teen movie. I'm surprised at how much I enjoyed it. A sweet story, a nice message. And Mandy Moore - a pop star who can act! Looking at her IMDb page, I suspect she's going to be abig star. Anyway, before you rush to watch this based on my opinion, it does have a Dawson's Creek

2003-05-31T12:05:00.000-04:00

A BBC list of books to read. I've read *these... *1984, George Orwell The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho *Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll *Animal Farm, George Orwell Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy Anne Of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery *Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer *The BFG, Roald Dahl Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks Black Beauty, Anna Sewell Bleak House, Charles Dickens *Brave New

2003-05-31T11:32:00.000-04:00

Survey Time Me: 1. I call myself: rarely 2. I am this old: 26 5. My favorite thing to drink is: water 6. My favorite food is: chicken 7. I am this tall: 5'8" 8. When I get up in the morning the first thing I do is: turn on stereo (or as Vic Calls it, my penis extension) 9. The last thing I do before I go to bed is: turn off lamp Shower Time: 1. I take baths or showers: both 2. My

2003-05-31T10:09:00.000-04:00

Okay then... time for another of those weekly update things. Chelle and Coble visited last weekend. We took them to breakfast and to stores and parks and home. We had pizza and subs and beer and wine. We watched Kissing Jessica Stein and Stealing Beauty. We sang and danced and some did more. But I'll never tell. Vic probably will though, since she's shameless. We had a jolly old time. It was

2003-05-24T23:23:00.000-04:00

My birthday was Thursday. 26. I'm an old man. It was a fairly uneventful day - dinner at Bob Evans where as always we talked about getting pie but felt too full after the main course. A friend sent me an Amazon gift certificate, and I ordered the new Lady Sings the Blues compilation. I also ordered some used Ridley Pearson books. This week I read A Terrible Beauty by Graham Masterton. It was