Best thing I ever said?

I am proud to say this line rolled off my tongue a few years ago:
"Pink Floyd did drugs so you don't have to!"

After a nice conversation with Mike Ryan, I can now bear witness to the fact you can say:
"[Insert techno band here] did drugs so you don't have to!"

Also, in the words of his thesis supervisor, "There is no such thing as good writing. There is only good re-writing."

Something I can bear witness to via the agony that went into my 1-page 'Statement of Interest' for grad school applications. Well, I don't know if the final result is good. But it's better.

Real Life Conversation IV

"They'll probably just say it's good writing, but I think it's kind of understood in the academy that good writing equals good bullshit."

[After spending hours and hours obsessing over one page of a scholarship application.]

I have no idea what this means but it's awesome

" WHAT A GLASS SMASHER! LOve it.. gimme the tunes and i'l feed them to the racoons, and they'll be dancing in environmental freindly moonlights." (And the copy-paste picked up her photo without me even trying. Bonus.)
It came from here.
Whoever DOQTRESS is, I am a little too frightened to visit her myspace page.

Introduction to enchantment

dream fragments like slivers of glass:
getting sucked into my mirrors,
fighting the consequences of capture,
it was like i was the rope holding her and she was untying me

does your hearbeat ever keep you up at night?
i stumble through old wounds
rubbed raw by my tongue, undone by my hope
please still my shaking, runing in tremolos of regret
silence my mind chatter, introduce me to myself
and untie my hobbled heart
leave me
washed fresh, with true-love tears.

haven't you ever been in a fairy tale before?

"sin like you mean it!"
sing like you've seen it
dream like you want it
fall like you can't.
(i am a weak vessel for love
but i promise to leave the candlelight of common sense behind
if you'll venture into the shadows with me
greeting solitude but passing it by
dismissing small fears and insecurities
persisting in these days of incredulity
struggling to live lives bound by love).

you know, Cupid dips his arrows in your eyes
and as i listen to the colours in your voice
the words i say no longer belong to me.
and it's easy to tell who's a friend:
you know your name is safe in their mouth.

Real-Life Quotations III

"Blue is confident enough to be a dark colour — not like black, which feels like it has something to prove."

Word Games

Here's one I just made up. Try to make the longest possible sentence by combining band names. No added words allowed, or at least as few as possible.

You're allowed to drop the prefix 'The' from a band name if that will help. Here's my best attempt so far, though I cheated and added the words 'yet' and 'could' to make it work.

"They might be giants at the gates," the obsessed Emperor decided, "but if — as I lay dying among thorns, earth against me, stars in flames — if evil farm children possessed deep purple throbbing gristle, then I could die happy, mayhem overcome.

If you care, here it is with punctuation so you can see the individual band names. I capitalized the beginning of each new band name, and put the added words in caps:

"They might be giants At the gates, " The obsessed Emperor Decided, "BUT If — As i lay dying Among thorns, Earth Against me, Stars In flames — If Evil farm children Possessed Deep purple Throbbing gristle I COULD Die happy, Mayhem Overcome."

You could of course do the same thing with song, album, movie, or book titles. Or thoroughbred horse names! Man, have you watched the Kentucky Derby anytime in the past decade? There are some weirdly named horses out there.

(Speaking of weird, yes, I am aware of what a strange person I am. (Fortunately, the chances of my genes being passed onto the next generation are slim. (Yes, unfortunately, I have yet to meet a lady that accepts compulsive music-dork word games (and I mean compulsive, this definitely stopped me from sleeping one night (not that that takes much)) as some sort of mating ritual. (Though if on the off-chance you happen to be reading this, (oh dream of mine) would you like to get married? (Good, well, then, consider your ability to parse these nested parentheses as something of a litmus test (i.e. please e-mail me if you can actually get through this paragraph without getting a headache.(And if it actually makes you smile, let's just skip the ceremony and elope, eh?))))))).

Hey if you can't amuse yourself... I don't actually know how to finish that sentence. I'm going to bed.

Real-Life Quotations II

"I just kind of tried to hide, except I was just sitting there."

It's about rape. The play that I excerpted in that last post. If you didn't get it. (Sometimes I wonder how obvious it is).

No and other ambiguous words

Waiter: Would you like some coffee?
Woman: Yes, please.
Waiter: Just say when. (Starts to pour).
Woman: There. (He keeps pouring.) That's fine. (He still pours.) Stop! (She grabs the pot; there is coffee everywhere.) What are you doing? I said stop.
Waiter: Yes ma'am.
Woman: Well, why didn't you stop pouring?
Waiter: Oh, I wasn't sure you meant it.
Woman: Look, of course I meant it! I have coffee all over my lap! You nearly burned me!
Waiter: Forgive me, ma'am, but you certainly looked thirsty. I thought you wanted more.
Woman: But--
Waiter: And you must admit, you did let me start to pour.
Woman: Well, of course I did. I wanted some coffee.
Waiter: See there you go. A perfectly honest mistake.
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Excerpt from the play Until Someone Wakes Up, written by Carolyn Levy and a group of her students.