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  <title>A Beautiful Man is Dead</title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:45:10 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>a few weeks ago i was in love. there was this girl, who&apos;ll remain nameless.&lt;br /&gt;she was older, in her early twenties. she was beautiful and for months previous i&apos;d fantasize about holding her hand or kissing her. (i still can&apos;t believe it actually happened). &lt;br /&gt;she was odd and ill and every moment with her felt so perfect.&lt;br /&gt;but it was forbidden love you see, and i was doomed to leave her and dip on with my heart even heavier than before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;bah humbug.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the whole experience made me realize that i do need to be in love in order to get out of my addictions and aimlessness.</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:58:01 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>On the topic of love- fuck it.&lt;br /&gt;All the people i&apos;ve been genuinely in love w/ are people whose hearts i&apos;ve broken. i don&apos;t deserve them, i fucked it all up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And any girl that&apos;s worth the time of day nowadays... well, i&apos;m way too scared of breaking their hearts to start a relationship or even just fucking kiss them.&lt;br /&gt;I NEED OUT OF HERE</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:27:25 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Life&apos;s a trip. The closest thing to an epiphany i can get out of this whole sham is this: that everything&apos;s a dream.&lt;br /&gt;Delusional? sure. But who can be held against for harboring delusions in a world like ours? Especially within this culture!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes i have to hold back screaming I&apos;M DEPRESSED I&apos;M DEPRESSED I&apos;M DEPRESSED. Because lord knows i truly am. I want someone to dump that in, but i can&apos;t find anyone. It&apos;s probably for the best- those are terrible sentiments to hand off to some loved one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At least it&apos;s not like the things i used to want to scream. I&apos;d try to kill myself every other weekend in times past. It&apos;s been a really frantic and dismal life for the most part.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So where&apos;s the glue that&apos;s sticking me to life?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Music. And a few of the moments between friends.&lt;br /&gt;Nowadays my friends torment me a lot. It bugs me.&lt;br /&gt;They say they don&apos;t mean it. but sometimes it&apos;s NOT the thought that counts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-phew-</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:21:09 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>i don&apos;t often wake up in the middle of the night feeling miserable anymore.&lt;br /&gt;:).</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:47:20 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Been feeling kind of out of place lately.&lt;br /&gt;I get into these really paranoid mindsets, where I&apos;m 50% sure that certain people around me can hear my thoughts. So I think really loud &quot;IF YOU CAN HEAR ME THINK, SCRATCH YOUR LEFT EAR!&quot; or something like that.&lt;br /&gt;Then they don&apos;t, and I shake my head a little bit- get all the bed-bugs out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also get this idea that I blast invisible waves of emotion from myself in a 360 degree radius, making people feel the huge feeling inside me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I go on very long philosophical conversations with myself about where life is going and what life is. I debate about the direction to take things, and let the liquid pressure feeling in my head tell me if I&apos;m right or wrong.&lt;br /&gt;There really is a pressure. If it&apos;s uncomfortable, I know not to do it. If it&apos;s a comfortable pressure, I continue along that particular train of thought.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that doesn&apos;t even scratch the surface.&lt;br /&gt;What the fuck, im nuts.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:08:10 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I&apos;m smashin Cody McCune like a little fuckin bug this Saturday. Just you wait, Money!</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:41:50 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Things are going swell. I have a lot of determination and self-esteem.&lt;br /&gt;Been watching lots of space ghost.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:44:48 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Got woke up drunk by a cop at some party in some empty house last night.&lt;br /&gt;It was fun, though. Bunch of the old homies.&lt;br /&gt;The cop let us go. That was nice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few thoughts:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I&apos;m going to go to college.  Making a life out of chaos and lulz is too hard without some kind of stability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The whole music career that is my dream will probably just fall into place conviently. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After much analyzation of the world around me, it&apos;s obvious there&apos;s a lot more to life than what human senses can tell us. During my first (and so far only) phsycadellic experience, my mind told me this paradox: &quot;There is a god. There is no god.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;I stand by that idea. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, for the past- like, year, i&apos;ve only hooken up (sans a few exceptions) with fifteen year old girls.&lt;br /&gt;How coincidental. I was fifteen when I got my first girlfriend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Haha, wtf. This is just babbling. No structure.&lt;br /&gt;So be it.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:49:43 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Recently I&apos;ve been feeling pretty good. Yesterday I didn&apos;t feel so good, though.&lt;br /&gt;Today- I feel alright.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:16:04 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I&apos;ve been feeling better lately.&lt;br /&gt;Got a new girlfriend. Hope that wont turn out to be a mistake.</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:57:04 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Strength is what I need. Because all in all, I&apos;d rather die than fix my life.</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:21:44 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Well, this is the uhm... 4th day of being sober.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s funny: getting clear of drugs is a lot like crawling towards some light at the end of a tunnel.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:47:59 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I want to be clean; am taking steps to get clean.&lt;br /&gt;If it works this time, life still might end up beautiful.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:14:41 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Right now, all I want to do is sober up.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:13:05 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>A poem.</title>
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  <description>What&apos;s with life, it&apos;s situations?&lt;br /&gt;Well...&lt;br /&gt;All&apos;s just atoms; information!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then what&apos;s with love?!&lt;br /&gt;With intuition!?&lt;br /&gt;What&apos;s with laughter&lt;br /&gt;and mind&apos;s cognition?!?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All&apos;s psychosis!&lt;br /&gt;More! More of it!</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 12:28:42 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>What if in the course of humans evolving into the beings we are today, there was a mutation in the genome which rendered the brain psychotic. Chemically imbalanced. Off the rocker.&lt;br /&gt;What if that particular mutation led the replication of human thought.&lt;br /&gt;Some odd hallucination that attaches sounds to emotions. Something that was completely necesarry to advance our placement on the food chain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&apos;t know. Life seems to make more sense when you view it as a hallucination.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 12:18:43 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Music is the way.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 19:15:39 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>People can be very interesting.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:39:26 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Some of the girls I&apos;ve dated are really great people.&lt;br /&gt;I love them to death. I wish I never broke up with some of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But then again, if that happened, I&apos;d be dating like 3 people.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:12:03 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>What people don&apos;t know about is what it sounds like.&lt;br /&gt;That&apos;s fine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m re-writing most of my songs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chilled with Kyle all weekend. It was good times.&lt;br /&gt;I really think that he and I have the right idea.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:19:05 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Songs.</title>
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  <description>They&apos;re like giant cabinets where you keep memories and feelings.&lt;br /&gt;They mix and match like socks (the memories and feelings).</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:05:38 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Also, my (and probably all) minds experience several different realities of consciousness at the same time based on physical stimulus. We can only see one of them.&lt;br /&gt;All the other realities can be seen in dreams from time to time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Haha, maybe.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:00:49 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I&apos;ve been high, I&apos;ve been low, I don&apos;t know where to go.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:42:29 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I like my girlfriend a lot. She and I, we&apos;re on the same wavelength.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:06:06 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;b&gt;Here&apos;s a series of things I wanted people to know last night:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of you guys are good people. Or at least I like you. There&apos;s only a few people added on here that I don&apos;t really care about; and I need to delete these few and such.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other morning, this thing that was really odd happened to me.&lt;br /&gt;I started hearing voices in my head. Voices I wasn&apos;t making up words for. They said things that were very interesting (things I&apos;ll never remember).&lt;br /&gt;So I figured maybe I&apos;ve finally gone off the rocker, right? Gah.&lt;br /&gt;But no. What happened was I was just hearing a dream that was going on at some place in my brain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the people on our planet aren&apos;t good people. Even some of the people in our town aren&apos;t that great.&lt;br /&gt;But there&apos;s a grip-load of people who are really great. And they&apos;re worth surviving through the fuckshits in life, maybe, really.&lt;br /&gt;Theoretically speaking, this means there&apos;s probably lots of great people we&apos;ll never meet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Great great people. Like Brittany. She&apos;s one of the most amazing people I&apos;ve ever met.&lt;br /&gt;Perry&apos;s pretty tight. Dylan and Lance are swell folks.&lt;br /&gt;My Dad and Grandfather were great people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I listened to folk records with my grandpa in his garage all the time before he died. He had thousands and thousands of records. It was awe-inspiring to me when I was 6. It&apos;s awe-inspiring to me now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A year or two after he died, my brain had him visit me in a dream. I was 9.&lt;br /&gt;I said &quot;Wait, aren&apos;t you dead?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;He said, &quot;Yeah. But how else am I supposed to visit you?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;i said, &quot;I love you.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;He said &quot;I love you too, you know.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My mom, she eats a lot of pills so she doesn&apos;t want to die all the time.. My brother&apos;s mentally retarded. He also has some nervous tics that are related to the tourette&apos;s he has. The tics are treatable. It would be a blast if his brain were. That&apos;s why I have this huge interest in the way people think, love, and such... I grew up with a best friend who couldn&apos;t think the way everybody else could.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess I really want to feel loved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the story &quot;Breakfast of Champions&quot;, the character Dwayne Hoover&apos;s wife kills herself by drinking Drano.&lt;br /&gt;In the story &quot;Julius Caesar&quot;, Brutus&apos; wife kills herself by eating hot coals. &quot;Swallowed fire&quot; is how it was described.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In one of the stories I made and forgot and am clawing through my memory to try and explain, a fella named Roger does a bunch of homemade drugs and hallucinates small animals. The small animals help Roger hurt other people.&lt;br /&gt;Roger was a dream catcher. He hallucinated himself as one, at least.&lt;br /&gt;A dream catcher is one who dips his hand into the combined subconsciousness of the world and pulls out dreams to watch and entertain himself.&lt;br /&gt;He actually caught fish for a mute fish chef.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I won&apos;t live to see the ozone burst into a coffin.</description>
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