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Pic I took at the show: [link]

Listen to some Finntroll: [link]

Also, I love my new apartment

]]> *Zraelian http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/19765215/ http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/19765215/ Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:23:10 PDT
Congrats to them!

]]> *Zraelian http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/19470252/ http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/19470252/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:30:02 PDT
The "nice" one I could deal with, though I don't really like having people introduce themselves to me by their fake names and acting interested in me in hopes I'll give them money. So phony. Not enjoyable. But I can deal with that. I can appreciate the female form with a sippin' cocktail in hand and chatting with a few pals and all that. Whatever.

But this other place we went to was like, the asshole of humanity. Like, people are OK with this shit? The job description involves having your own towel, windexing the mirror when it gets gross, and trying to tough it out when someone violates you before eventually leaving.

Fuck, that, shit.

It's weird. I don't really feel distressed or upset about it. But it keeps coming up in my mind. I dunno.

Right now I'm actually having an OK evening. Good wine and music. Unwinding.

]]> *Zraelian http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/17546509/ http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/17546509/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:16:50 PDT
The "progressive" radio station I'm listening to is playing trance classics for some reason. Marco V, Members of Mayday, Paul van Dyk. It is not unwelcome.

]]> *Zraelian http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/17370489/ http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/17370489/ Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:01:20 PDT Recieved: Two minor injuries and a lot of memories

]]> *Zraelian http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/17156839/ http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/17156839/ Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:58:31 PST You all have the gift.
You're all funky.

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[link]

This is probably my favorite work in recent memory. I'm going to have some friends read it. I'd love to hear interpretations.

I even went over it many times to fix errors and make adjustments, and though I almost never change too much, this is actually a lot for me, heh.

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"Throw my ashes in the lake behind my old house."
"Well, if that's what you want..."
"Nah, just kidding."

"I started to be upset about it, but then decided it just wasn't worthwhile."

Last thing he said to my dad who has been taking care of him for the last few years: "Thanks"

Last thing he said to me: "Get married to a nice girl"

Story he told me: When he first saw his wife she was in a convertible. With her fiance. He talked her out of marrying her fiance, and married her. They were married 70ish years. They loved each other in the way you stop believing really happens when you're a teenager and you experience your first breakup.

I understand funerals now. This was nice. I learned a lot of things I didn't know, felt good to paying respects, and the surrounding visiting with family was nice.

Also learned: Don't feel obligated to feel sad. Then when you really do feel sad, you'll feel like you've already been through this.

]]> *Zraelian http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/16601345/ http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/16601345/ Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:28:33 PST
Eventually I was going up stairs to a parking garage, and I saw a performance going on down below. People were dancing, there were frosty-glass cubes around with colorful lights flashing through them in different colors. I stopped to watch, but someone wanted to go on. Then my alarm went off.

Somehow, my alarm sometimes goes off even if its turned off. At first I thought it was just me being stupid about turning off the alarm. But now I've confirmed several times that it just goes off when it shouldn't. Time for a new clock.

I proceeded to do laundry, which is somehow a day-long task, cook salman with rissoto, and buy some super random songs on itunes.

M.I.A. -- Paper Planes
The Toxic Avenger -- Escape (Bloody Beetroots Remix)
Nouvelle Vague -- Too Drunk to Fuck
Alanis Morissette -- You Oughta Know
CSS -- Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex
Danger -- 11h30
Sander van Doorn -- Loaded

Also read some Nevermore by Neil Gaiman, I'm finding it a little more kiddyish than I wanted. It being described as "dark fantasy" made me think Pan's Labyrinth but I'm getting more of a Secrets of Nhym vibe, but in a bad way.

]]> *Zraelian http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/15813681/ http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/15813681/ Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:24:36 PST alexiuss for 1) having amazing art 2) giving permission to use [link] as a forum avatar (You should always ask first!)

]]> *Zraelian http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/14847070/ http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/14847070/ Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:40:56 PDT
This song is unbelievable.

]]> *Zraelian http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/14055472/ http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/14055472/ Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:12:08 PDT
"Why the hell did you do that!?" she inquired, furious.
"Because you took a bite of my food right in front of me--" I started yelling so that others could hear.
"Alright alright, fine, I'll give you a free cookie."

My dream self doesn't put up with crap from Taco Bell employees!

Also, someone else was ordering hot dogs with chocolate sauce. I dare you to try it!

]]> *Zraelian http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/13893858/ http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/13893858/ Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:53:31 PDT
One of the interesting side effects of doing dream experiments is that it tends to cause really weird things like this to happen. I find it fascinating... when I don't lose sleep over it anyway.

That said, here is a great sample from I song I discovered recently:

"They say seeing is believing, but the true question is, what do you believe you've seen."

]]> *Zraelian http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/13566097/ http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/13566097/ Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:08:06 PDT
"The first cicada!"
he said--
and pissed.

Unrelated: I was in bed roughly 15 hours, on-and-off sleeping with only one episode of TV disrupting. Hopefully this was the catching up I needed. ]]> *Zraelian http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/13437852/ http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/13437852/ Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:44:09 PDT
[link]

That track is Paul van Dyk -- Nothing But You

]]> *Zraelian http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/13395146/ http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/13395146/ Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:25:59 PDT
[link]

Thinking about triaging my gallery of all the really brief not-so-good stuff. Might even do the same for my scraps: some of that stuff doesn't even need to be where it is.

I have another piece of prose in the works that is, you guessed it, based on a dream. This dream was fantastic: it had four distinct parts that could all be used separately. I got up and typed a 871-word dream log, which is bountiful. So far things are looking good for the immediate future of writing.

]]> *Zraelian http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/13205116/ http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/13205116/ Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:14:26 PDT
I miss being 12 and having more and endless stream of ideas at all times. Its like you get life figured out, then don't feel like considering other options any more. I want my imagination back!

I also wish science fiction and fantasy didn't seem so trite to me now. Someone upstairs is trying to play Clocks on the piano.

Maybe I can't write because I don't feel like my life is quite so interesting a narrative anymore. This is why I wrote limeade. I need something to happen, and it doesn't even matter what.

]]> *Zraelian http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/12881303/ http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/12881303/ Mon, 07 May 2007 20:51:50 PDT
* Getting a car in the next year or so
* Traveling to Europe with some of my friends, probably in the next few months
* Getting a nicer apartment: I'm moving in September but don't know where to yet
* Eating salmon for lunch!

]]> *Zraelian http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/12599597/ http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/12599597/ Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:09:29 PDT [link] . Its adapted from a real conversation and real things that I heard people yelling one night. I don't know if it really seems relevant to anyone else: its relevant to me as an experience. I was moving things to scraps and think this poem needs 2 things: an explanation of the above in the author's comments, and a new last line. I want to share the question a little more: they stopped yelling, but do I call the police anyway? Can I get that question in the reader's head without actually asking it? Maybe the poem does that already?

I'll definitely revisit it some time, but not sure where to go with it yet.

]]> *Zraelian http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/12272340/ http://Zraelian.deviantart.com/journal/12272340/ Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:15:28 PDT
I'm not sure if I'm going to use this journal so don't expect any more, I'm just writing for the sake of writing.

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