December 2009
Looking back at this year
With the new year ringing in tonight, as might as well jot down my thoughts on the year we just had. Musically, 2009 was marvelous; maybe it’s only my tastes that make 2009 great, but many amazing artists released many amazing records, there were none that I anticipated that really disappointed me, infact my favorite album of the year was Between the Buried and Me’s The Great...
Only at Packy's
Would a dishwasher (Me) and his boss (Walt) sing along to Bobby Brown Goes Down for everyone still in the kitchen. Excerpt of the song’s lyrics: “One day me and a friend, sorta drifted along into S&M, I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I gets a little golden shower. Oh god I am the American dream, with a spindle up my butt till it makes me...
“I hear Lionel Richie going off in my pants”
– Mark Nicoletta, referring to his ringtone when he gets a text
“Sullen and bored the kids stay, and in this way, wish away, each day
Stoned in...”
– Sentimental by Porcupine Tree. Lyrics by Steven Wilson
A Realization I Came To
If you look at my page so far, I am noticeably not in the best place with myself right now. A solution I often turn to when feeling this way is to hide away from everybody, but that is never really a sound solution. I realize that whenever I simply wallow in my sorrow, the only thing that happens is my mind takes me to some dark places that kind of frighten me, and I start having thoughts that I...
Where I am currently
I figure there is no better way to start off on this website than to simply open up about where my life currently is, which is something I should have probably started doing a lot sooner. As it stands, I am frightened about where I am headed mentally. For years now I have gleefully bottled up every bit of pain I felt for the simple reason of wanting to look impenetrable to others, and it worked....