The temporary Hastings thread

Hey, I can't help it if you were all the spooky teenage poets. I was busy writing reviews for Tolkien fanzines (quel surprise).

Most of the time I spent reading rather than writing, aside from class assignments and all that. I didn't start writing-as-such until senior year of UCLA when I was an irregular columnist for the Daily Bruin.

Oh well, that explains everything.

Sara, I love these. Please post more of your song titles.

John has also written some great poems. Dude, I hope you haven't lost them.

This is why I don't like poetry. I have no idea what it means unless it's explained or it's explicit.

Also if you think about it modern literary theory is about 50 years old. Literature and poetry are thousands of years old.
I'm old-fashioned. Maybe that means I'm 'excentric' instead of 'insane.'
I have numerous problems with 'the new criticism' or whatever, but that's gonna be a blog. I'll post it next year. I'll start writing it next week.

I have a few of John's poems and a few of Dan's poems, each in ther own individual folders. I CLEARLY remember being on the staff of Revery and having John turn in 2 or 3 entire notebooks every year, though.

GZeus, I can only hope you wouldn't understand some of the poems I wrote. Seriously.

Top 10 Fave Chem Songs

10. Depeche Mode - Products Are Products
9. Erasure - Chains of Carbon
8. The Cure - Stereochemistry Street
7. Mudhoney - Let it React
6. Robyn Hitchcock - So You Think You Made Gold
5. Nirvana - Smells Like Acetesalicylic Acid*
4. Depeche Mode - A Question of Lead
3. Concrete Blonde - Everybody Reacts
2. Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Halide
1. R.E.M. - Losing My Electrons

*acetysalicylic acid is aspirin; here I was also making a joke to myself about the first hour (9th grade) "practical chemistry" lab that Mr. Gr0ssm4n hadn't tested where we were supposed to synthesize this chemical. It smelled SO strong and SO bad that people had to leave the room. The class periods after us didn't have to do the experiment.

This seems like a variation of my wheedliewheedliewheedliewheedlieweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeechunk-a-chunk

I don't know what I had against tert-butyl alcohol, for example, but on the favorites list I have caffeine (C8H10N402) and NaCH (Sodium cyanide).

BEDLAM AND RUIN FOR EVERYONE, YAY

Dan, it would have been worth the inevitable prison sentences to be at the same college with you guys. (For one thing, FB could have been my orgo lab partner - apparently - and he could have pointed out SARA YOU ARE CRUSHING ON ANOTHER GAY MAN STOP NOW, and saved me months of aggravation).

The serious downside: A. would likely have been scared away.

BEDLAM AND RUIN FOR EVERYONE, YAY

TRUE

I actually prefer chuggachuggawheechuggawheechuggawhee.

HAHA. That's good. What about ckbrrrrrrchrack-pop-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

LOOKIT ME I CAN GET CLOSE TO MY AMP

BEDLAM AND RUIN FOR EVERYONE, YAY

A vision.

Now if Ned was at college with us all, well, that would have CHANGED EVERYTHING.

http://muperformingarts.org/bios/mu_daiko

Also: \*/ and (@).

I have spent an inordinate amount of time on the checkbooks for my Dad's stores this weekend. Every time I close my eyes I see numbers swimming there. Two down, one to go.

(I don't think Sara has seen this yet.)

Earbuds! That is the word I was searching for.
It is the loudness factor that makes me nervous with the "in ear" thing; I'd like to be able to hear still when I'm 65...

My dad's been sneaking smokes in the garage.
I stole all his matches and threw away the old aluminium can.
Now we wait to see if he says anything.

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