staring into the grain: 2009

i've been laying in bed for 20 minutes. i can't get to sleep.

i have class in 5 hours, and i'm alone.
there is NO reason for me to be awake.

except, of course, to blog and eat horseradish (both wildly underrated.)

15 minutes ago, anders decided that pitchfork.com decided that 2009 is over.

considering i cannot think for myself, i tend to agree.
besides, everything that was slated to release this year has already leaked anyway.

so heres my top 11 albums of 2009.

11. the field : yesterday and today
10. discovery : lp
9. memory cassette : rewind while sleeping (ep)
8. vega : well known pleasures (ep)
7. dead luke : the black plague in mono no. 3
6. sonic youth : the eternal
5. french teen idol : el siete es la luz
4. the pains of being pure at heart : the pains of being pure at heart
3. japandroids : post-nothing
2. the xx : xx
1. jj : jj n °2


that's it.

wish me sweet dreams
-Jizzy T

confession

oh, hello. i didn't hear you come in.

it's been a fucking long couple of weeks, ladies and gentlemen. so goddamn long.
sit down, this might be a long one.

i guess i've just been feeling off lately.
"off" is a good way of putting it.

alot of things are going well in my life.

apartment is good.
school is good.
friends are good.
i might even have a job!
i mean, shit.

but i've just been feeling dried up lately.
i'm not really happy with my direction in life, and i have realized that if i don't find something worth fighting for soon, i'm going to crawl into a cubicle for 40 years and then retire. then die.

no, that's stupid. too dramatic.

simply, i'm bored.

i'm bored and i want others to comfort me in my moments of boredom.
there you go. thats truthful.

i keep thinking to myself. "it'll get better when school starts."
but i'm not really convincing myself.

maybe i'm just getting bored of uconn.

maybe i really just want to fall in love.

oh, just shoot me.
-Jizzy T

wood paneling

i moved into my apartment yesterday.
it required waking up very early, driving, and lifting heavy things.

i'm not good at these things.
after i moved in, i took a nap for a few hours until my roommate arrived.
i helped him move in for a bit, then my friend ren arrived.

we drove around, walked around, biked around.
we went around.

he left, and i went out for a cigarette before bed.
i was terrified by monsters in the woods, screaming, and a blaring car alarm.
i slept soundly.

i woke up, made breakfast, and returned home.
now i'm in west hartford again.

not sure how i'm going to spend my day today, but i might be driving to jersey tomorrow.

wish me luck.
-Jizzy T

st. mike part one.

I was not upset on account of her having a penis. Rather, I was upset because of the size of her penis. You see, it all started 338 minutes ago.

I'm an accountant. After work, some co-workers and I decided to celebrate. What were we celebrating? I suppose another day we didn't fall mouth-first into a bottle of sleeping pills. (A common hazard in our line of work.)

Our usual haunt was closed due to the massive amounts of child pornography found in the owner's basement. After some argument, we decided to head out and look for another bar. After all, we all had unpleasant women to return to after our "celebration" was concluded. Except for myself, but I'm sure you've already guessed that.

After some driving, we paused in front of a small brick building wedged between two abandoned warehouses. The sign read simply, "St. Micheal's Tavern." After another quick huddle, we decided it was this or nothing. Now, if we had chosen to go home, this is where the story would end.

We each ordered a cheap American beer.

The walls were unadorned, and besides us, the bar was empty. Mike, the bartender and owner, leaned forward after a few minutes and interrupted our conversation.

"You boys want to hear the story of how I earned my nickname?" He asked.

Of course, we were curious, and he began the story of "Saint Mike."

Apparently, he was not the first "Saint Mike," and the bar's two previous owners had both shared the same nickname. None of them were named Micheal. He continued with a sweeping epic spanning three generations and two World Wars. Many parts of this story seemed exaggerated, but the look in his eyes was furious, passionate, and desperate. Acts of bravery, loves lost, and many other stereotypically manly events were sloppily strung together into this exotic tale. After about 20 minutes, we hadNumbered List heard enough. We thanked him, and he returned to his post atop a stool, and under a bottle. We continued our conversation, saving the discussion concerning this man's sanity until later.

Six rounds later, the conversation had shifted from dive-bar-risque to downright depraved. One of my co-worker was trying to explain the sensation of having his wife shove a pipe-cleaner up his ass while he jerked off. This comment was met by mixed applause. Sparking another debate, each man presented his favorite story of sexual domination (or submission.) By some cruelty, I was the last one to be asked to share. I was flushed with embarrassment and alcohol, but I explained that I hadn't had sex since my college years. Their faces lit up with joy. Getting me laid became the priority of the evening.

It wasn't long after when two absolutely gorgeous women entered the bar. Saint Mike grinned.

/end part one/

sorry guys, gotta build up suspense.
how do YOU think it's going to end. (it's not that obvious)
-Jizzy T

accidents

hello.
before you read this post, go to the window and look outside.
if you can't see something beautiful, move.

today was a good day. usually i judge this based on how tired i am when the sun goes down.
if i'm not tired, then i've been doing something wrong.
i'm fucking tired.

spent all morning running around with Pops grabbin' stuff for my apartment.
things are looking good.

next week will be my last week before i move into my beautifully wood-paneled apartment.
i know there are some people who are reading this who might want to see me before i leave.
i want to see you too.
but you need to call me and make a date, because if i don't plan my schedule right now, nothing will get done.

sometimes i feel like Акакий Акакиевич Башмачкин. i feel like someday someone will come and take away everything that i care about. and then i will become a ghost.

today i don't feel like that.

tomorrow will be laundry all day, and maybe i'll make a little trip to see my other swedish cousin.
cumster.

connecticut has a sort of desperate charm to it.
a radioshack next to a marshalls.
three pizza places on the same street.
banks that go out of business and are replaced by dunkin donuts/baskin robbins combos.

give us some credit, we made pathetic into a passion.
-Jizzy T

new lifestyle / ren-inspired post

i have realized that i now have entered into a new lifestyle.
in the past 2 years i have changed dramatically.
really and truly.

there's a lot to say about the physical changes (hair, clothes, pubes, etc.) that i've undergone, but my psychological changes are the most profound. i've been finding more and more wanting to do more relaxing activities.

reading.
writing.
filmz.
blogging.
music. (making and listening.)

i guess getting older means wanting to enjoy the things that you do and not just doing something to kill time. finally being able to amuse myself and keep occupied is a luxury that i never had in high school. i always wanted to be "doing" something. it didn't matter what.

i mean, in high school i never just sat down and listened to an entire album.
never just sitting and listening.
it's really relaxing.

i also think that i will always be bored.
i don't mean "bored with life" or "sick of it all" or anything like that, but i mean the general angsty kind of boredom. i'm slowly realizing that i have been born into a futureless society with no ambitions or dreams.

whatever.
i'm not going to give the "things change but things stay the same and are good and sometimes better" speech.
i'm laying in bed, naked, writing a blog on a laptop.
i would not have done this two years ago.
that's all i'm saying here.

i like things better now.
-Jizzy T