I fully realize how stupid this is, but it’s worked in the past. So here is my new tumblr todo. And boy do I need it right now, as I’ve relapsed like a motherfucker in more ways than one.
1. Stop with the stupid ass smoking
2. back to running 50+ miles a week
3. the one thing I need to do. focus like a lunatic on this
4. avoid “entanglements” at all costs
32nd birthday would be nice to spend as such:
So I wrote this last year:
I didn’t think of them as resolutions at the time, but looking back, they kinda were. Taking stock now, I had a pretty successful year based on what I wanted to accomplish.
Gonna give it some thought and come up some goals for this year, but right now I only have one. Well, maybe two.
since i’m feeling very emo lately, i’ve decided to channel my white boy man pain into a really bad idea. that really bad idea being rap. i’m going to sample the whitest songs i can find and rap in the least rhythmic drone possible about how much my heart hurts. first up, a song sampling the beginning of this song:
doesn’t get much whiter than that.
FREE BOOKS
In, what will no doubt be a fruitless effort, to declutter my life a bit, I’m getting rid of some books. I’m way too lazy to be bothered with selling or trading them, and I hate to think of them gathering dust in a charity shop. As such, I’m offering them here on the old facebook before I cart them off.
Take a look at the list and email me if you want anything. Obviously it’s way more convenient for me if live in or around the greater philadelphia area. If you don’t, we can probably figure something out though. So seriously, email me, take these shits. Help curb my compulsion to hoard before I become one of those people who gets buried and dies in an avalanche of their own stuff and doesn’t get found for weeks.
The books are (in alpha order by author)
henderson the rain king saul bellow
the tortilla curtain tc boyle
ham on rye charles bukowski
junky william burroughs
dry augusten burroughs
the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay michael chabon
the mysteries of pittsburgh michael chabon
eleanor rigby douglas coupland little shit nommed on this a bit
the brief and wonderful life of oscar wao junot diaz
paddy clark, ha ha ha roddy doyle
snapper roddy doyle
the van roddy doyle
the woman who walked into doors roddy doyle
foucaults pendulum umberto eco
go down moses william faulkner
sanctuary william faulkner
a fable william faulkner
requiem for a nun william faulkner
broom of the system david foster wallace
brief interviews with hideous men david foster wallace
american gods neil gaiman
the motorcycle diaries che guevara rough shape
a letter to a christian nation sam harris
a long way down nick hornby
the elementary particles michel houellebecq
the doors of perception aldous huxley
world according to garp john irving
lake wobegon days garrison keillor
sailor song ken kesey
darkness at noon arthur koestler
the unbearable lightness of being milan kundera
fortress of solitude jonathan lethem
the razor’s edge w somerset maugham
atonement ian mcewan
amsterdam ian mcewan
beloved toni morrison
thus spoke zarathustra friedrich nietzsche
snow orhan pamuk
the moviegoer walker percy
ishmael daniel quinn
one day in september simon reeve
portnoy’s complaint philip roth
human stain philip roth
everything is illuminated jonathan safran foer dog chewed a bit
extremely loud and incredibly close jonathan safran foer
blindness jose saramago
the braindead microphone george saunders
fast food nation eric schlosser
leaves of grass walt whitman
the professor and the madman simon winchester
revolutionary road richard yates
