How to Not Kill Yourself in the New Year / 13 Years Ago I Made a Cassette Tape
Oh, bloggy blog, how I've missed you! The hustle and bustle of the holiday season have kept me away from your warm embrace for over a month. But I've returned, lover...
Ew. Gross. I end my cliche analogy of a relationship to blogging right there. "Lover" has to be the ickiest word ever uttered. If I'm reading a story where someone refers to their significant other as that ew-ickiest-yuckity-yuck-ick-yuckest words, I'm done, I'm out, I drop the book, close the webpage. If my wife ever referred to me as "lover," I'd throw her out of bed. And I'm proud to say, she'd do the same to me. Just imagine your parents calling each other that icktastic word and you'll wanna shoot yourself in the face.
Anyway, missed ya', ya' old blogeroony.
I have a new piece up a the Prague Revue. It's the New Year, and folks do a lot of reflecting around this time, and sometimes they air their holiday grievances or start regretting what they didn't accomplish in the previous year. In this new piece, I say F all that. Let's look at all of the wonderful things we get to regularly enjoy in this wonderful life. Among other things, my list includes Robert Fripp solos and pretty ladies. And then I encourage others to create their own lists of awe and wonder.
You can click here to read HOW TO NOT KILL YOURSELF IN THE NEW YEAR. Then please go ahead and leave your list of neato things about this universe we call home in the comments section.
I'd also like to add, despite the fact that I've lived this long does make me sorta wanna kill myself, today is the thirteenth anniversary of the first cassette I sold under the Thirsting Quench moniker, Mmm, 4-Tracky! named after the fact that it was recorded to 4-track tape and an allusion to a line in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, because even at 18 I was just that cool. It consists of a bunch of 4-track mucking about I, at the time, called experiments, and sappy, teenage lovey dovey romantics.
If you're into that sort of thing, download MMM, 4-TRACKY here.