let me just tell you, that, I have spent the entire day at work freakin wasting time. I have been trying so hard not to fall asleep, or trying hard to just sit there...I am completely worthless...why am I even here...I should be in my bed, or else accomplishing great things. and neither of those are happening right now...

that's all, have a nice friday afternoon, I hope YOU are accomplishing great things..

I love it.

Once again, Stephen Colbert is amazing...

Novel Update #5

so things are going slow, but steady.

i have labored over this sentence for the last 12 hours. It started with an idea that i couldnt even get formed into words. then i got the words, but they just didnt make sense. Then they made sense, but only to me.
then i thought i had it, but was missing a comma (duly noted by a wise man by the name of A.Ivey)
Im still not 100% sold on it, but i feel like its getting the point across, and fairly well written.

give me some feedback, is the point clear?

here's the sentence....

It was during this time that I realized that something as insignificant as the smell of perfume or cologne that lingered in the air long after it’s source had moved on, just offensive enough for a passerby to take in the last remnants before the fragrance was swallowed up by the stench of the real world, would often cripple whatever thought my mind had been developing and immediately cause my soul to ache with the loss of good friends and memories of younger times.

be gentle, I dont have a degree..
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have i been walking in circles?

im going backwards for inspiration these days. Not surprising i suppose.

The very first time i recorded a "real" record, (why is it that we still call them records when we talk about the studio? we've moved on so much, the 8 track, the tape, the CD, now the Mp3) where was i? oh yes, the first time i recorded a "real" record, i was just out of highschool. Three Way Stop (God rest her soul) my first band was handed a record deal about six months before we graduated, and we jumped in blindly and ignorantly, ditched our crazy guitar player who wanted to go to college instead of living in a van (ole' Blue was her name, God rest her soul as well) and went to Colorado to make it to the big time.
I wrote half the album and Steve (jones) wrote the other half. It was pretty Christian. Not really in a bad way, well maybe a couple times in a bad way. I do remember writing a song that was asking the listener if they knew they were going to Heaven or something close to that. Its pretty embarrassing...

back to writing, i think thats why i started this..
I remember writing two of the songs in Study Hall on the same day, never thinking they would make it onto an album. They both did, and they were pretty solid songs. One of which i keep trying to incorporate into the Autumn In Repair set, but it doesnt look good.

anyway, i've been in a bit of a writers slump for about a year. We wrote a whole bunch of Autumn songs about a year ago, and i have sort of run dry, so my plan is to listen to all the old stuff and see if it triggers anything creatively.
Its not working so much just yet, im more thinking about my life, and we all know where that gets me.
a bottle of Jamo, and a pack of Camels...

i suppose im back where i started, but im not as passionately into making people wonder whether or not they will burn for all eternity with the Prince of Darkness..

be still my beating heart