.............................................. .* * \ /\ .* O . . .. ..O .. 380 15 Jun 2001 ) ( ') .* O O* o o o o o o o ( / ) * ***O O O O O O O O O \( _)| * O o o.*..o.*..o.*..o. .net "Brain Graffiti x 75" * * O * *. o |\ _,,,---,,_ * * /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ * * |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' by Infernal * * '---''(_/--' `-'\_) *mE0w* o *. .......................................* 'Anada is cat-friendly..o*` I'd rather feel too much than spend my life numb and blue-lipped. Karma attacks my landlord, finally. Devoting my life to music and writing has led me to my only joy, and all I could want of it. Any video game made after 1985 can kiss my ass. How on earth did it take me this long to get into Queens of the Stone Age? I have never appreciated my few true friends more. I still don't appreciate them enough. One of these days I really am going to get my apartment cleaned up. "Fuck you straightedge, what would you do?" - Brad Sibbersen, MrSatanism.com The 1,000-word-down, 59,000-words-to-go mark in writing a novel is the scariest part. If there was really a God, he'd let our pets live as long as we did, if he gave a shit about us. You can't go home again, but when you visit, they usually feed you for free. My friend Dave has a metal toolbox full of spices. He cooks like a motherfucker. Not even 30 and I've already maxed out my lifetime quota of drunken bar talk and hot air from idiots. Is hedonism in moderation a contradiction in terms? Everyone must buy all Masters of Reality CDs. Let me grow dead with you. Does whoever drew the "print" icon in Microsoft Word get a kick out how many bajillion people look at it daily? Most of my furniture was dug out of people's garbage or picked up off the curb for free. We broke up over incompatible underwear. Writing at 6am, in my home, cats at my feet, with a few glasses of cheap wine in my belly and some good music playing, is the most comfortable feeling there is. Everybody's doing the Toxic Waltz. You didn't blow your only chance at happiness, because you've never had a chance at happiness. Doing laundry is the bane of my existence. I bet me and Dorothy Parker coulda had one hell of a fling. If there is a "text file scene" I don't feel much like a part of it, but Gloomchen rules for publishing my shit. While we're on the subject, Schoolboy is the best writer on Anada. I got a seven-word email from Lee Ving and it made my week. Sometimes I rhyme slow, sometimes I rhyme fast. We don't mind our own farts and can't tickle our own feet. We're numb to our own obnoxiousness. "Dad used to drink his coffee 'black and bitter, like a woman's heart.' I think he drinks decaf these days." - Mark Sperry, 'Extra Strength' By most people's standards, I've sure lived in some shitholes. Not all my exes live in Texas, but two really nice ones do. It's a wonder to me that more people aren't conniving assholes, given the lack of incentive not to be one. If I had any villains, I'd hate 'em. "The things we make/have no use/but they have the most beautiful shape." - Six By Seven Peace is my mantra, but war pays the bills. I'd be a house-husband, hell yeah. Gimme that "Kiss the Cook" apron and a mop. I must believe that most heartless people are unaware of their handicap. I finished two years - couldn't they give me the left half of a diploma? Art? You call that art? I call that a funhouse mirror and a nickel's worth of glitter. I got my first French kiss while wearing a Nuclear Assault t-shirt. Even then, that struck me as hilarious. Explosives should only be left in the care of experts, or of stupid people no one likes who live far from me. I think I'm getting another tattoo this year. I think about them for years before I get them. Poverty is freedom. The inventors of Creme Savers candy, Ebay, the 69 position, the Commodore 64 computer, and automatic drip coffee pots with wake-up timers should all be canonized as fucking saints. My high score in Toy Bizarre makes me immune to your harshest barbs. If I wore all my band t-shirts in alphabetical order, one a day, would anyone notice? Cat, you bite my toes one more time when I'm trying to sleep, you'll be a taco and a fur hat by noon. When the antics of the lame only amuse you, paranoia is impossible. Older women rule, but for some reason, the older I get, the fewer of them there are. "Well, all I've done today is snoop, sir. I guess I turned into Snoopy today, sir." - weird old man who came into my work today and wouldn't shut up Hippies can't possibly be serious. Nothing on this earth is more annoying than getting a bat in your house. Beef jerky = stretched testicles. If I ran a concentration camp, Taz tattoos would be our Star of David. I only love the sound of my own voice so much because the sound of my silence frightens me. Meet more people? Haven't I already met enough? I could be a vegan, but cheese rules too damn much. When Larry King spouts off like this, he gets paid for it, that fuck. I'm still up when you clock in. The memories of seeing one awesome band live cancel out the misery of a hundred bad ones. Show me a hardback work of fiction for fifty cents at a yard sale and I'll probably buy it. The Gravel Pit Rules OK! "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" by Harlan Ellison is the best short story ever written. I wish more people still played board games. I wish more people could talk to each other, quietly, without liquor or recrimination. I'm starting to realize that I'm what's known as a "lifer." I'm starting to really enjoy that distinction. I'd rather be truly eccentric than rolled flat and pressed from an liberal-arts cookie cutter. "It feels as though I've been turned inside out/what once was me, is now undone for none to see." - Me, 1994. "Kid, you don't know the fuckin' half of it." - Me, 2001. I left my anger behind, and I could be wrong, but it feels like it might have left me for good. "I feel at home in my skin." - Moby Jane This wasn't supposed to have a theme, dammit, but it seems to have sprouted one when I wasn't looking: I can't even begin to tell you how happy I've become. .................................................................. /\_/\ * ( o.o ) (c) Anada e'zine anada380 by Infernal o > ^ < o ********************************************************************