Del Nightingale's Glue Bound Journal

2003-08-31T12:23:00.000-07:00

Well I am back at Cabrini where I always have access to the internet so if you found yourself pining for my rants then your wait is over and the satisfaction I will provide you will be more exquisite then the pain my absence has caused you. It was a great summer but, as every college student knows, school is infinitely greater than home. You should do yourself a favor and download as much sigur ros as possible. But if you need a song that provides immediate satisfaction without a repeat listening then you should download "A perfect sonnet" by bright eyes.

"I believe that lovers should be tied togteher...left there to drown in their innocence." Bright Eyes

2003-05-09T12:58:00.000-07:00

Well I just typed my last essay and yesterday filled up my last blue book and last night experienced my last thirsty thursday of this year, and i feel fantastic. My head is shaved and i am ready to rock summer like Gene Simmons...

2003-05-01T11:32:00.000-07:00

"some take delight in the hurley and the bowlin'
I take delight in the juice of the Barley
and courting pretty fair mades in the morning bright and early!" Whiskey in the Jar

Call me Captain Crazy of the Cuckoo Cadets but it sounds like he is waking up early to court women then drink, which seems odd since drinking is really not conducive to an "early bird" philosophy and I cant imagine the maids he is looking for are on their way to the Farmer's market. "Hey its 4 AM lets go drinking and girl hunting!" Email me and call me an idiot if you disagree but this is an odd lyric for that reason and also that it says that some take delight in "hurley" and "bowlin'."

2003-04-27T20:24:00.000-07:00

field day concert and it will cost 190$...well there is no way i have the $ to go now but i think I will in a month when the concert is supposed to occur. So who wants to come with me.........think......RADIOHEAD, bjork, bright eyes, BEASTIE BOYS, beck, sigur ros, trachtenburg family slide show, and BLUR!!!! so email and and IM and call and send smoke signals to me if you are interested in organizing this road trip to new york!!!!!

2003-04-25T23:33:00.000-07:00

"All there is after us are the songs that we play." the promise ring

Wondering if you're record collection is complete? Well guess what it isn't without Woody Guthries "Dustbowl Ballads." There are two songs dedicated to giving a plot synopsis of The Grapes of Wrath. Each song is done in country ballad form but it sounds so..... raw. It seems like his guitar was found in some desert oasis being worn by the moisture, sun, and cold desert nights....the strings twang like rust its just great........so if you are interested in the period get it, or folk music or country music, or steinbeck, or how to write a great and meaningful songs.

2003-04-25T23:28:00.000-07:00

This post is for anybody who actually takes the time to read this thing...thanks.

2003-04-25T09:27:00.000-07:00

i got tickets to go see bright eyes. Ever go to a concert of one of your favorite artists and know all the words to almost every song but then he plays a song that only hardcore fans know. I can see all of them with their t-shirts and beanies screaming the lyrics to these hidden hits with abandon and me smiling like an idiot waiting for a song that produces less joy for everyone. Well i am sure this will occur this monday but i am discovering some of his older stuff and i just love the stuff i am hearing off of his album fevers and mirrors.

2003-04-23T17:01:00.000-07:00

get ready to post on the d12 website...go to rookie battles and post on the "thread" that requests to know what everyone's religion is...this is where all your rhymes should be......

2003-04-21T16:01:00.000-07:00

well easter is over so anyone participating in the attack on d12 should be ready and rapping by tuesday night...Well lets talk about my band washtub cadence [the name is from a great novel by F. Scot Fitzgerald Tender is the Night.] Well we got a new member to play keyboard and guitar and moandolin and sing and it just sounds great. The drummer and bassist are finding their niche but there are still a few bugs that must be worked out and I see it coming out in my songwriting...what is the difference between ambience and a lack of direction? Think treefingers by radiohead versus godless by the dandy warhols....then IM me or email me or smoke signal me or send me a letter on old aged yellow paper ripped out of an old book that was only fifty cents [i cant believe paperbacks used to be 50cents and that my parents have some!] Well thats it for now i am writing this from home so I do not have a heck of a lot of time to elaborate on this post...

2003-04-14T10:22:00.000-07:00

Well if there is any place to drink on earth its boston. Boston was a greatly exagerated philadelphia and even in the pouring rain the city is great, though it is very easy to get "lost in Boston." While in boston i was reading a little walt whitman and here is an excerpt i considered relatively poignant;

"I play a great marches for conquered and slain persons...Battles are lost in the same spirit they are won...I sound truimphal drums for the dead" Whitman

and another fantastic line from the same poem, Song of Myself, is;

"Steeped amid honeyed morphine." Whitman

I loved A Streetcar Named Desire but I think I enjoyed The Glass Menagerie for more sentimental and less intellectual reasons. Regardless Williams is my favorite playright.

2003-04-10T00:20:00.000-07:00

and another thing....I realize that having insane grammatical mistakes in my criticism of people who interfere with english classes, and my intention to become an english teacher, does not help to validate any of my points but in my defense i type them fastt with no reread, this is really just a flow of conscionesness.

we've been had by the walkmen

2003-04-10T00:13:00.000-07:00

" 'But...why?' Brand: Dead Cat in Bucket" The Onion-----------------------hahahahaha, just picture that product!

going to boston this weekend so if you are looking for me to post this weekend, well just get a grip! And by weekend i mean thursday night through sunday afternoon....i will be sure to post anything interesting that happens or since my life is not excactly like spiderman i will post something kind of universally boring but personally amusing.

2003-04-09T22:13:00.000-07:00

the dragon song by the lonesome organist
beetlebum by blur
double dragon II by theme
angel of harlem by U2

See Roadhouse----throat ripping, 60yr old fighting bikers, a polar bear attack, and an ending thats sure to please.

2003-04-08T11:52:00.000-07:00

"It's not like I will be showing up to boston with a Rambo Sash of contreceptives."

Well, that was one lousy math test but hey, I'm one lousy math student. The weekend involved me recovering and then visiting a fantastiv part of Washington DC. It was beautiful out but a little chilly so the cabinet show i attended was not as nice as last year, when i reread the hobbit. I realized the other day that I reread books with the seasons [and sub-seasons that I designate,] Pretty soon I will be rereading Shadowland and then right on to Grapes of Wrath and then a summer of new material [perhaps another reread of the silmarillion [not sure though] and then in august its the great gatsby. Well then september begins and its time to begin the epics, though i guess all my favorite novels are a little [or a lot] epic, with The Talisman and then I wait until right before thanksgiving and then its lord of the rings...now i realize that there are so many great books that i will eventually find myself rereading the same novels every year....and that may be true, but i have not figured out how to deal with that. If you are reading this and you cant understand why I enjoy reading so much just go out and pick up some trashy literature-stephen king, straub, koontz, herbert, card, whoever but make sure that you find a few books in your lifetime that you can identify with.

and if you read this and become one of those people that has books banned in their children's schools..... have yourself newtered now with a mace. When i heard the list of banned books i think i may have blacked out and destroyed an entire forest. may i stereotype for a moment please...? of course i may. Damn those soccer cheering-enya loving-Martha Stewart-wicked Genomes who pilot their silver SUVs into the world of art. I have a hunch this idiots who ban books [And Yes Farenheit 451 is one of the banned BECAUSE IT DISCUSSES BURNING BOOKS!!!!!] are illiterate. and what in gods name are the school boards thinking when they kowtow to these pant-suited titans of idiocy [and not to avoid being sexist, those confederate championing nicotine coated avengers of ignorance]????????????????????????

I think the signs of the apocalypse are going to be really domestic and mundane so here they are;

1.My glasses break at the hinge for no good reason.
2.I forget a pen when i go to class.
3.I leave dvd on at night and listen to the menu music loop because i am too tired to leave my bed.
4.Farenheit 451 is banned because in the book the bad guys burn books.
5.Fox stops making ground breaking reality television programs and replaces them with hilarious Malcolm in the Middle clones.
6.Someone uses "dude" in a serious context.
7.Fred Savage starts doing the wonder years again only now he has that old guys voice and he is an effiminate and boring adult who manages a Blockbuster.

by reading this blog i must come across a bitter rant loving psuedo-intellectual who only talks only about nerd concerns, trashy books, and politics which he is not very familiar with and you are right... except, that i am not really this bitter but I believe i am doing someone or something a service when i point out these insane things [FARANHEIT 451 BANNED FOR THE BOOK BURNING OH MY GOD.] and since the world around me is in a much more severe situation than some middle class college student from lancaster who does not like idiots who ban books and champion death or any of the other things i have ranted about lately...this college student does indeed realize how lucky he is and does indeed want everyone to know he is one happy guy.

2003-04-02T22:13:00.000-08:00

well do not worry too much about lord of the rings that last post was the result of an internet april fools joke and I was obviously the fool. The site was sent death threats so I like to think that I handled such a nerdy blow in a mature manner.

I am just about finished with huck finn and he said something that seemed very poignant. "The average man is a coward." What mark twain meant by average, I think, is institutionalized [average is the key word.] When someone and a bunch of their friends agree that shooting arabs is the thing to do then they are going to say lets send in the troops. I wonder if the rifle where in their hands what their attitudes would really be like; the only true satisfaction is the "truimph of ideals [Emerson]" and I wonder if these individuals who so fervently champion violence, and goddamn freedom fries, really would be able to kill another man. We are not going over to Iraq to just get rid of weapons and saddam we are, obviously, going over their to kill people who have grown up in violence that the majority of the "average" men in America could not possibly imagine [no matter how many times they have seen full metal jacket, deer hunter, or platoon.] We are killing people not evil; thats why that "axis of evil" is such an insanely idiotic label. It seems that if mob mentality, which seems to present itself in violent picketts, vandals celebrating their sports team winning, woodstock, gang rape, etc. that americans are not so seperate from the "evil" army of Iraq. If Mob mentality can succeed in celebrations and political demonstrations why cant it succeed in an atmosphere of poverty and violence that doesnt leave when fox news stops and a rerun of Friends illuminates the average television screen. This atmosphere manifests violence and yet some would say that the armies of Iraq are "evil." I would say that war and evil are the products of circumstance; tragic circumstance. I am not saying that Hitler and nazi Germany should have gotten a slap on the wrist for world war 2 but rather that the Germans didnt lose their humanity or become evil, they were driven by circumstance to commit such horror. Twain would argue that both war hawk americans and Iraqees are both cowardly and I agree; to a degree. I believe that evil acts must be answered for but i do not believe any one is born evil; only an average man is a coward not a man without influence. Well there is a serious rant which is may just be the angry reaction to the terrible lecture on Huck Finn I had to endure today.

2003-04-01T16:41:00.000-08:00

Well I have terrible news for everyone who loves the lord of the rings...the release date has been pushed back an extra six months so it can be all it can be [according to jackson.] Though the joy i feel when it is finally released will be much more exquisite so will my impatience. That really stinks since I enjoy seeing those films around christmas and stuff, damn damn damn. Well atleast harry potter and punch drunk love come out soon. I also need to buy sunset boulevard, a streetcar named desire, and the glass menagerie. Damn peter jackson for making me wait!!!!!

2003-03-31T23:40:00.000-08:00

hey i have this great idea you download everything i tell you so your life is that much better...Download Johnny Saucepan by Moxy Fruvous and Judy and her dream of horses by Belle and Sebastian

2003-03-30T22:37:00.000-08:00

Well the war has begun and all the idiots come out of the woodwork;

France decides not to back the U.S., oh yeah we will change French Fries to Freedom Fries, take that you deodorantless snobs. Thats right you think we will stop with your potato innovations, forget it! Escargot will hence forth be called Liberty Snails. Seiously who the hell decided to think of calling french fries "freedom fries," i cannot think of anything more petty or pathetic and if you find yourself calling french fries "freedom fries" impail yourself with a spatula. I pray that what i heard about french fries is a joke and nobody is stupid enough to call them anything different.

when has disagreeing with the government unpatriotic? Just a few weeks before the war I am sure plenty of idiots were complaining about their gun rights but now that we are shooting foriegners they all agree with every idiotic word that plops out of the presidents mouth...and another thing, just because we are at war doesnt mean anyone has an obligation to stand behind the president, maybe he will decree tommorow that we all have a duty to magically transform into rapping cobras?.... or more importantly we end up in the same situation we were in in Vietnam,, or has everyone forgotten about that little tiff?

It seems that the same thing happens every war and then a million sad and clever movies have to act as america's conscience. How about we realize we are not fighting little arab-devil-imps but other human beings, the explosions on fox news are not amazing like die hard because war is not amazing and certainely not entertainment, its horrible unless you watch fox news eating freedom fries saying you are just getting behind the president. I do not want to see anyone die so I am "behind" the troops but I am not "behind" the war and people who confuse the two are idiots because troops are not a political campaign they are humans as well.

There is my rant, download the "gulf war song" by moxy fruvous and realize how little we learn from art.

2003-03-28T10:55:00.000-08:00

going home to see my sister in the musical and earn some $. It has been a hellish week and its time to sit back with a glass of wine and watch dvds (and perhaps record a few songs!!!!)

2003-03-25T16:26:00.000-08:00

joyful exclamation of the week: "Capitol!" from the Simpsons

2003-03-25T15:31:00.000-08:00

well the today i had to break out shorts and sandals and realize that nobody cared if i wore an eskimo parka or a acid burnt thong.

I watched easy rider today and realized how sweet it was and how amazing jack nicholson is in that film.

fight song by the flaming lips

Also download everything from one of my new favorite bands Sigur Ros.

There is nothing interesting to really talk about right now but the simpsons and homework await [so does the film death in venice [[which was a pretty bitching short story by thomas mann]] then tommorow its off to philadelphia to see mahler's fifth symphony]

2003-03-24T20:04:00.000-08:00

my screename is freshproducegtar

take my quiz or take it here whatever you want to do...

http://www01.quizyourfriends.com/yourquiz.php?quizname=030324225238-Matt~p20Serfass&email=asdf@hotmail.com&c=0&a=01

just put it in your address thing and let the fun begin....[IF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING!]

2003-03-24T18:36:00.000-08:00

"i got more rhymes that my man seuss and believe you me i can tap that caboose" arkatin

soon we will embark on a rap journey of unparralelled blasphemy so suit up and prepare for the rappin' jesus this easter...though i dont usually make fun of christianity it is a hilarious foundation for rap music.... I will be playing the role of mc jesus and whoever wants to join in will be a disciple on the D12 website....wait for my signal....following my first post the hilarity will ensue and rhyme domination will be ours....my friend above is on board are you?

2003-03-24T16:46:00.000-08:00

i was thinking about the oscars [which seems like a paradox] and i was thinking about best picture. It was Chicago, which I loved don't get me wrong, but I am not sure it was the best movie made this year. Chicago was stylistically perfect but besides the characters being very interesting and intruiging they never really seemed to change. Each character has to do something for themself and thats really all they do. I think Chicago itself was so full of razzle dazzle that we missed gangs of new york. I realize some academy members could have realized that in voting for the very very popular Chicago they are being ironic in awarding style over substance; awarding the razzle dazzle and not serving justice [the same justice roxy should have recieved in the film.] Neither film was perfect but the Gang's ambition alone is one reason it should have won. Chicago had plenty of style and it depicted the media in an interesting and certainely poignant way but I think Gangs was a much more important film + Daniel Day Lewis is insane. His character alone is fifty times more dynamic and complex than any of the characters in Chicago...feel free to argue but i just thought that Chicago winning was a lot like Roxie winning her court case and that was a really intriguing idea for me.

2003-03-23T21:45:00.000-08:00

"Cause I'm tired of living and scared of dying." Showboat

Though this is a bit melodramatic to hear it sung by the amazing voice of whoever sings "old man river by Showboat" (probably and more accurately from showboat. I discovered this song on the simpsons when Bart and Nelson portray Tom and Huck.(Awww Catfish!) (These Deringer bullets are weak...powerful weak.)

Well back to writing the worst paper on Mahler's Fifth Symphony ever.

2003-03-23T21:33:00.000-08:00

Movies that one must see right now...Chicago

2003-03-20T15:48:00.000-08:00

I do not think we should got to war and on top of that i think my proffesors should stop assigning so much work at one time.

here is the book list once i thought about it a little more

Cannery Row
A Tale of Two Cities
Nine Stories
The Grapes of Wrath
Dune or Ender's Game
The World According to Garp
That Hideous Strength

2003-03-19T13:41:00.000-08:00

replace that hideous strength with the world according to garp and put that hideous strength beneath Dune.

2003-03-18T23:08:00.000-08:00

though these books were not released last year [and you deserve to be whipped with a ninetails if you didn't realize this] I did read them last year and I will now attempt to reveal my favorite literary experiences of 2002. I may talk about them later on when I am not procrastinating...

1. Cannery Row- Steinbeck
2. A Tale of Two Cities- Dickens
3. Nine Stories- Salinger
4. That Hideous Strength- Lewis
5. The Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck
6. Dune or Ender's Game [but probably Dune] -Herbert and Card

2003-03-18T21:52:00.000-08:00

Whenever I have to write about classical music I want to go back in time and beat the living crap out of myself. I would start early and take away all my toys and then i would skip a few years and take all the pop and punk cds [excluding the essentials] and replace them with classical cds. Then, i would travel to when i could drive and then everytime I would go anywhere away from 90.9, 89.5, or 88.5 I would slap my hand and inform myself that a very difficult experience was ahead if I insist on listening to so much crap. Instead I will go through this root canal that is writing about something I am almost entirely ignorant of...oh green day why has thou forsaken me?!

download you are the light by pavement

2003-03-18T10:18:00.000-08:00

""Why does it feel like night today?
Something in here's not right today
Why am I so uptight today? Paranoia's all I got left"

This is not the text of a rejected ad for Prozac or Ativan; instead, this is how the debut album by Southern California quartet Linkin Park begins. On paper, these words seem earnest, dejected and desperate; on record, the overall attempt is to make them sear with blame. On paper, it sounds like the first day at a community college poetry workshop." Sweeney

I found this on a friends blog a few weeks ago and I thought since linkin park has since come out with an insanely annoying single from their upcoming album of self absorbed and bland metal songs. Plus really how perfect is "it sounds like the first day ate a community college poetry workshop." This is true for almost all modern rock...and if you are interested in pointing out that I am a hypocrite and gain an insanely catchy but artistically detached pop song download

your star by the american rejects

*and look for the video on mtv and wonder why the boy/girl story is worth being filmed
here is a plot synopsis;

scene 1 (setting)-
guy-"sure is great being affectionate"
girl-"indeed it is great."
scene 2 (CONFLICT!)
guy-"The car broke down"
girl-"let me take a look"
guy-"we are through"
scene 3 (bleacher debate)
girl-"I am sad friends, oh wait here comes the ex"
guy-"i love you"
girl-"i dont"
scene 4 (walk around the towns makeout point and look forlorn)
stage direction=mope

hey i have a great new concept for a video, the audience watches me reading a book...it should be thrilling if they can make a video like the one i just satirized.

2003-03-18T00:20:00.000-08:00

Fried and Breaded Hot Wings
Smiss, Mushroom, and Bacon Burger
Thin Onion Rings
Triply Fried French Fries
One Glass of Water
One Yuengling Lager

You are now hungry and this is the ideal food [excluding thin crust pizza or a truckload of wings]

Breaded vs Not-Breaded Hot Wings------this debate is raging within me and I fear it will never be resolved...I may have to start differentiating breaded Wings from Buffalo Wings...Maybe a breaded wing is a subsidiary of Fried Chicken...but if its spiced, like many breaded wings indeed are then what....War is on the horizon but there is no way we can send troops out of the US without first resolving this wing crisis....plus which tastes better when and with what.....download this song;

Mad World by Gary Jules

2003-03-17T17:24:00.001-08:00

oh and the elvis costello and promise ring suggestions are albums not songs

2003-03-17T17:24:00.000-08:00

the tarintino film i spoke of is entitled kill bill...while your researching that do yourself a favor and download

let the idiot speak by the old 97's [the back-up vocals make this song!]

2003-03-17T15:30:00.000-08:00

It is monday and classes are over and I realized that I may have the opportunity to see the latest stephen king film Dreamcatcher this friday. The book was dissapointing but the movie looks alright, I will read the reviews [www.rottentomatoes.com] before I spend my 8 bombonas....So i am a little anxious for this cinematic experience. What else are you "dying" to see matt? Well I will tell you

1. Return of the King [Two Towers=ungodly sweet, Fellowship=a truimph in the world of matt...My anticipation of this film is at an all time high and the pay off of actually experiencing it at 12:01 on a wednesday in December will probably be the cinematic highlight of my life so for this film alone the movie year looks fantastic.]

2. The Two New Matrix Films

3. Terminator [THough I do not consider myself a sexist I am little concerned that the new bad guy is a supermodel...Schwarzenegger was frightening because he is humongous, the second one just looked really creepy, this new one just looks determined but not scary....feel free to email me about how much of a sexist I am but girl terminators dont work I am sorry]

4. Harry Potter [ I refuse to read the books because, unlike the LOTR, it lacks the depth that Tolkien has but the films are great Especially if you arent aware that they are changing the book.]

5. New Tarintino Film

THats all for now.

2003-03-17T14:07:00.000-08:00

Emily Dickinson writes profound and intellectual zingers but I am not sure I like her stand-up routine.

Regardless here is the one that my proffesor decided to ignore in class and it was my favorite so here you go;

I died for beauty --but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb
When One who died for truth, was lain
In an adjoining Room--

He questioned softly "Why I failed"?
"For Beauty", I replied--
"And I --for Truth--Themself are One--
We Brethren, are", He said--

And so, as Kinsmen, met at night--
We talked between the rooms--
Until moss had reached our lips--
ANd covered up--our names--

2003-03-16T17:32:00.000-08:00

Oh and road to perdition may be # 6 on the movie list feel free to argue with the list but dont give me any foreign films because i am an idiot.

"so the catterpillar has emerged from the cacoon...as a shark." simpsons

2003-03-16T13:54:00.000-08:00

wondering how to improve your life?....

my aim is true-elvis costello
very emergency-the promise ring

2003-03-16T13:16:00.000-08:00

Florist Saves Abusive Relationship......matt laughs at amusing headline from the onion and shares it with his int.ernet buds

2003-03-15T02:27:00.000-08:00

I was at this restaurant the other day and I asked the waiter for a burger with no ketchup. He comes out of the kitchen with a burger with ketchup and so I was forced to beat up the entire city of philadelphia........

"Rollercoaster screams from summer's past. Everything was closed on coney island. I could not help from smiling." Deathcab for Cutie

Who is ready for a discussion that sounds a bit like a summer camp or drinking party discussion...in referring to the last quote I would have to say if you are to appreciate closed amusement parks it is neccesary you visit wildwood or ocean city on a semi-rainy day but not too cloudy so that the sunset cannot leak through the haze and that you walk up and down the boardwalk. watch the rosy glow of abandoned coasters and blue and white super slides fade into view...it is a great atmosphere if you are tired of your current environment. or atleast download the song coney island by deathcab for cutie and try to picture what i just described though I would not consider that a legitimate substitute for taking a day off and visiting wildwood....get some mack and mancos while you are at it they are open year round.

2003-03-15T01:21:00.000-08:00

conan o brian was making fun of the oscars tonight and I thought i would post my thoughts on the year in movies since I am a movie nerd. what were the top 5 films this year according to me

1. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [though this film does not deserve best picture it will next year, i do not consider the movies to be seperate entities.] *also download the song forth eorlingas and samwise the brave by howard shore.

2. Punch Drunk Love [Adam Sandler turns up the nuance and turns down the slapstick, this film is like true romance only quirkier. See Magnolia if you are curious about the director.

3.Catch Me If You Can or Chicago [Christopher Walken]

4.The Royal Tenembuams [ "You wanna talk some jive?! I'll talk some jive like you never heard." "I am sorry about your mother she was a very attractive woman."]

5.About Schmidt

This list is subject to change, especially since i am not sure all these came out this past year and also since i have written it quite quickly.

Wondering what hilarious movie to see next...try Bachelore Party with Tom Hanks. See a Hell's Angel arbitrarily thrust his head into a glass window, see a donkey sniff cocaine, see a tennis ball crushed in rage.

2003-03-14T11:41:00.000-08:00

hmmmm...i think i may have sipped from too many flagons when i wrote that lost post but then again when one is simply musing he usually, or atleast in my case, comes off like an idiot anyway...got a little unexpected news the other night...i song i recorded with my band washtubcadence is now on a compilation put out by a very small record label call outreach records. From what I understand my labelmates who are also on this cd are pretty much full time rockers who only listen to cds i never heard of. Maybe one day I will meet them and they will discover my shameful cd collection, then the sham will be up and I will be pelted with condescending murmurs and psuedoclever quips between every song my band would play. When I think of the current state of independent music, this is extremely ancedotal, i usually think of great musicianship and terrible lyrics. It seems that the abstract, this is true for many of my songs too so don't picture this coming from a secure soapbox, that abstraction can substitute for depth or meaning. its always some girl or friend....
"she orbits souls and plucks the rings. There is a veil of tears but its beautiful like a ceremony. keep falling through in autumn" or something ridiculous like that. And many of these writers are under the impression that their material is groundbreaking and if it made the radio there is something about that particular song that attracts idiots.
I also notice that screaming in a song is now not only reserved for passionate metalheads and extreme punk bands [or whatever the heck they are called] but its ok for independent music or the really annoying label i heard once or twice screamo[ or something annoying like that.] I wish there were less screamers out there and more people who could just substitute that rage for a melody. I am not saying that yelling is always something that hurts a song but it just seems like the interesting part of the song the interplay between guitar and voice is torn down so the voice becomes static and some of the idiots in the audience can "lose themeselves and mosh." i will never understand people who speak in tongues, see apparitions, or lose themselves in music to the point where they thrash about like a large buck having a seizure. I never see midgets or cripples moshing but, atleast ostensibly, they have the capacity to appreciate music to the extreme those moshing idiots do. They dont mosh because they are not really aesthetic people they dont participate because its a dance for idiots. I think that maybe breakdancers should usurp the moshers and then the concert would be really interesting. Imagine playing a particularly rythmic song and half the audience starts spinning on their heads and setting their trusty pumas ablaze with happiness. I think that would be fantastic. I also think that at a large arena bands should force the entire stadium to slow dance with strangers and create that seventh grade mixer awkwardness on a very grand scale. "Hello cleveland or you ready to slow dance?"

2003-03-13T23:18:00.000-08:00

Mirth [in the context of alcoholic indulgence] according to myself is the product of wine [or meade since it sounds so great but I have not tried it yet] and not hard liquor [excludig whiskey [[read cannery row by john steinbeck for an adequate explanation]]] Wine leaves a taste that is worth keeping unlike...hmmmm lets say tequila or vodka...if you are one who intends to partake in mirth find something you like not something that makes inebriation easier. [though some tequila tastes pretty good, though whiskey is better.]

I would like to add that I am a hyprocrite.

2003-03-13T11:09:00.000-08:00

Nothing beats a movie with a good score...I find that in all my favorite films the score is atleast half the reason why I like them so much. I love the lord of the rings for the acting, adventure, etc. but without howard shore's score the film would not be half as good. This is true also with braveheart, the cider house rules, pulp fiction, and all m. knight shaymlan films, and all movies with a score by john williams [excluding catch me if you can I did not like the score in that, though that is probably my favorite film with christopher walken.]

download rachel portman's score for the cider house rules and while your at it read "The World According to Garp" by the man who wrote the screenplay for that film.

Also download "sparkplug's minuet"

2003-03-10T22:22:00.000-08:00

"within the context of the song these are just so domestic that the end up being really quirky about sad things."
gee matt that was really profound...what i mean by profound is that I should cut off both of my hands and attempt to type a 500 page apology with my two bloody stubs.

what i meant to say is that you should just listen to the song "grace kelly blues" by the eels and then realize how genuis that very suburban and quirky verse is.

2003-03-10T22:15:00.000-08:00

http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/2/1047330856

sorry but i cannot work the links on this thing...just copy and paste it in the address.

2003-03-10T21:25:00.000-08:00

wondering if there is more great music out there for you to download? You are right there is;

bowl of oranges by bright eyes
where there's a whip there's a way by the hobbit [which is really from return of the king cartoon]
when summer's over we will dre by cursive
all things good and nice by jets to brazil

wondering about the next LOR film and what the trailer may contain? here you go

note this is a spy report...

2003-03-10T18:35:00.000-08:00

I was watching a little SNL and in a parody of the actor's studio will ferrel exclaims...

"I am not alone in thinking that you make ghandi look like a child pornographer."

2003-03-10T14:27:00.000-08:00

tractor trailer driver radios....
that kid in the mall works that hot dog on a stick
his hat is a funny shape his heart is a brick
taking your order he will look away
he hasn't got a thing to say the eels

within the context of the song these are just so domestic that the end up being really quirky about sad things. I just saw raging bull by scorcese, if you are reading this and you haven't seen it yet dive out the closest window and begin sprinting towards your local blockbuster.

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a great guy but if I hear one more word about him in 19th Cent. American Lit. I will invent a time machine and go back in time to bludgeon the man with my notebook...

I thought I would through an excerpt from the script my roomates and I are working on...

I remember seeing an old photo of my family. They stood shoulder to shoulder, the drunken uncle's with their arms relaxed around other more uncomftarable and sober family members, and the family leaders staring into the camera as if challenging it. A stream shot out of the upper right hand corner and curved and bowed across the picture dissapearing on the lower left hand side. The setting may one have been organic but the camera bleached out all the life--the camera killed everything. I knew several members were now dead and the picture perfectly communicated this fact. All the shadowed eyes and grey scowls seemed to form a collective ghostly gaze. I could see my mother was pregnant with me at the time and I realized that in this picture I was a mere lump; a roundish bulge and nothing more. I could make out make out my aunt who was a little left to the center of the photograph. In reality she was probably fattening up at the time but the camera stopped her body from inflating from becoming this grotesque and detailed and life-like circus balloon.

2003-03-10T00:39:00.000-08:00

I was thinking, what if something as dumb as the blog were the only thing I wrote that people found after I died. Would some grammatical error be my epitaph? I certainly hope so, what better way to show up those other stiffs, or maybe it can be a t-shirt slogan like the ones i saw at atlantic city this week--only something really tacky will do.

The double hyphen or the semicolon?

2003-03-10T00:16:00.000-08:00

wondering what songs to download, because if you are then download these delightful ditties;

yatta by happy tai
hocus pocus by focus
hobbits by johan de meij

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." Balzac.....This is from the front of the Godfather...The Front Quote is where there is usually where some sort of clever quote is placed to get the reader prepped for picking out the neccesary themes in the upcoming text. I notice this in Stephen King novels, I particularly remember reading "It" and the quote "Born Down In Deadman's Town" which is a lyric from Bruce Springsteen's song "Born in the USA." Though this song is usually accompanied by some sort of huge patriotic hoop-la I thought it was interesting that now that song reminds me of a child killing clown...that line alone in the context of a patriotic anthem is something that makes me wonder about Springsteen's new album the rising, and whether their may be some bizarre purpose behind its creation...This is probably Stephen King's fault.

Stephen King writes entertaining novels but some are awful [ie. the dead zone, Dreamcatcher [[though the film could be good considering the book reads like a movie]]] but if you want a few thousand pages of trashy fun here is a list from greatest to not the greatest.

The Talisman [the best and it was cowritten with Peter Straub who wrote a really awful novel koko and a really great one Shadowland, for which this site is named [its not my favorite book of all time or anything I just like the names in the novel [ie. Skiliton Ridpath, Del Nightingale, MYLES TEAGARDEN]

It I have'nt read it since fifth grade but I think you should be ok.

The Stand

I may think of some others later but if you really want some grade A literary garbage then read those.

2003-03-09T19:28:00.000-08:00

Though this is on one of my friend's site it would be wrong for me to keep it to myself and not share...
http://www.trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy/

It is fun.

Interested in recieving my packet on songwriting or reading an unfinished script? If you are then email me at mjs726@cabrini.edu or contact my screename freshproducegtar

2003-03-09T18:33:00.000-08:00

Hey,

Welcome to my first blog and the first post in what promises to be a cornucopia of spelling mistakes, musings, and really nerdy things that I dig like a ditches. Here you will find all sorts of things. Make sure to check this site daily because I intend to update it on a daily basis (shoot! who knows maybe more than once a day).

Matt