Wednesday, November 18, 2009

omgwtf

Not sure what's causing it but lately I feel like yelling out for no apparent reason. It happens most often when I'm sitting and reading at lunch time or just looking over materials in the few moments before class. I just want to scream out something that's being said by one of the characters or read the passages of text out loud. Not in a quiet stage-whisper, reading to self kind of way, but loud, like James Earl Jones reading the Bible. The most disturbing part is that it often feels like I'm just barely able to stop myself, like it takes an immense effort of will to keep the words inside.

These are the kinds of thoughts that keep me biting my lip in anxiety when I should be relaxing and enjoying life.

Monday, November 16, 2009

All hands to battlestations!

So I had this strange vision the other day: me and my brother, decked out in the orange Rebel Alliance flight suits, hopping into a snow speeder, running pre-flight checks and getting ready for combat. Harpoon gun and tow cable, check. Flaps, check. Flux capacitor, check. We run through our routine and John pauses, saying to me, "Joel, I'd just like to say that this is easily the most bad-ass thing ever." To which I reply, "I know, John. I know." Then of course we go speeding off to battle with John Williams conducting in time with the galactic conflict.
Why isn't anyone in the Star Wars universe amazed at what they can do? They've got blasters and giant walking robot vehicles and aliens with butt-faces, but everyone seems to shit a solid gold brick when some moisture farmer makes some boxes float.
These are the kinds of thoughts that kept me trying to levitate my cats when I should have been doing my homework.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Lucid Hallucination

Late for a test that I never remember
About ethical theories, pancakes and Chopin
Watercolor consequences
Bernini's stone gods
And my pet hedgehog

Desperately I sail the straits of Lot B
Wholly convinced I'd never been to class
Except maybe once
Handed a syllabus with words like roaches
That scattered when I looked

I find the building, drop anchor
Find claustrophobic walls squeezing
Warping the floor
Tiles roll, crest and break and I'm
Tossed

Outside at the window I see
They're laughing, all of them
Because I'm not there, never had been
Except maybe once
On roach word day

Briny hands slip from the knob
And I wonder
What am I missing?
And I fear
What have I missed?

Monday, November 2, 2009

Early Surfer Culture Obsessed With Waves, "Chicks"!

Hermosa Beach, Ca. - Residents of the Hermosa Beach community recently unearthed a series of artifacts - collectively known as "records" - containing "rock and roll" music written about the surfing culture. The artifacts appear to date back to the early 1960's. Apparently, the bulk of these artifacts chronicle the surfer's eternal search for the ultimate wave. However, a more sinister side of the culture was revealed in the record containing "Surf City" by "Jan and Dean". "Two girls for every boy" exclaims the duo, espousing their support for and obsession with poly-amorous relationships. Were these surfers merely trying to do their best to ensure the survival of the species or were their actions a reflection of the immoral attitudes of surfer culture? Jan was unavailable for comment.


These are the kinds of thoughts that constitute a small but significant portion of my daily consciousness.