typing and writing

"You can't write poetry on the computer".
~Quentin Tarantino

I used to debate that in my mind. Could you write poetry on the computer? Isn't it possible to craft rhyme and meter and verse through the QWERTY keys given to us by Dell or Gateway?The genius mind that is Bill Gates surely recognized the possibility of typing poetry on his braind child that is Microsoft Windows.

Hmm.

Amy got me a leather bound journal for our anniversary and thus the beginning of this thought process which I'm currently sorting through. See, on here, I tend to be much more methodical, logical, and thought out. There's something of a overarching theme to each blog. (The title is what I'm referring to). Thereafter I usually give some type of horseshit to support what I just said.

Yada yada.

But there's nothing creative about that. There's nothing like making the fish hook 'j' or the geometric seeming 'k' or the oh so anarchic 'X' to inspire creativity. On here, all the letters look uniform and if I wanted uniformity then I wouldn't be writing poetry.

My journal doesn't even have LINES!!!! It just begs for some manic inspiration to be scribbled upon it. Thoughts have the opportunity to run rampant and wild instead of being forced to serif or san serif. (I like serif, personally. If I'm speaking too much geekanese just look up 'serif').

SOOOO--- that said. I think Quentin was right.

-it is what it is-

-joshua

one year

Today is my wife and my one year anniversary. She's great. That's 365 days of putting up with me. Yes, I am blogging on my anniversary. That's ok. She's cooking me breakfast right now. She's making heart-shaped pancakes. How awesome is that?!?

Things to remember from our first year of marriage:

• Just because one is right does not mean they should fight to prove so. Sometimes it's a very healthy decision to be right silently.
• ALWAYS think before you respond. Sometimes it's difficult but if you don't you'll end up saying a lot more than you thought was going to come out of your mouth.
• Keep your significant other happy and do little things for him or her. They are the most important thing in your life and it's better all around for one to remember that.

Happy and Silly Memories!

• Skateboard Tires! (Said Amy)
• Lazy Sunday Mornings (Like today)
• Staying up late watching movies
• Rob and Big
• House
• Yes, Dear, I checked the doors and they are locked :-)
• Schnoogs!
• Massages
• You bringing me McDonalds
• Late nite backrubs
• and thousands of other little things

Thanks Amy, you are amazing.

Happy Anniversary!!!

.......voldemort's dead

So. No surprise there. The semi-surprise was that Harry Potter did not die.

Why should he? JK never intended for him to be Christ-like and sacrifice himself for the sins of the wizarding world.

He was a kid, unfortunately, who happened to be THE BOY WHO LIVED. He wasn't special, he wasn't all powerful, he wasn't even an above average wizard.

He was simply Harry Potter. Hell, his name is uninteresting.

I know thousands of people are writing about HP right now. Let 'em.

JK wrote the book; she wrote all 7 of 'em. The fact that we were alive and able to read all 7 of them over the past 10 years is simply a privelege that we were granted.

I thought the epilogue was unnecessary but she wrote it so I read it.

I thought it gave closure to the whole series but one can always argue "it could have ended differently". You could say that about Paradise Lost, The Stand, the dark tower, or any number of series.

Harry Potter will live forever in our minds and in literature.

After all....

he is The Boy Who Lived.

-it is what it is-

...vacation!!!!

I'm not even sure what that means really... it means i don't have to get up when the alarm goes off

BECAUSE THE ALARM DOESN'T GO OFF THIS WEEK!!!

WOO HOO!!!

I'm busy trying to inhale the last harry potter book.

And Sunday is my one year marriage anniversary with my fantastic wife Amy.

:-D

-it is what it is-

back again

So nothing much of note has been happening. Summer is whipping by and I've been to the beach enough to satisfy my beach cravings. But I still want to go this weekend.

I do have a bass tube put in my car to make up for the subs that someone oh so kindly took off my hands (Read: Some sack of shit stole them outta my damn car). That's kind of exciting. There's nothing better than cruising Wilmington with a terrible old song on with 'booooooooooooom' from ya back seat going on. It's a beautiful thing.

Works great. Wish we were busier. Nothing else to tell.

Life goes on. The world turns.

Harry Potter 5 was a great movie.

The 7th book will be phenomenal I'm sure.

-it is what it is-

-pay it forward-

I suppose it's possible. Hell, a guy took off in a lawn chair with balloons the other day.


If you haven't read it, you should. If you're too much of a bum to read it, then watch the movie.

The concept is simple. Simpler than America is ready for, which may be part of the problem.

Do something really big, really nice, for someone you don't know, or know very well. In return, ask them to pay it forward. Not back to you, to someone else.

May we all have that kind of faith in society.

-it is what it is-

freedom...

So, day after Independence Day and I've been doing some... contemplating.

Freedom is what it is yet what is freedom?

"Freedom is not enough"
~Lyndon B. Johnson

We, in America, claim to be free. We have cell phones, myspace, facebook, ebay, google, youtube, and email.

We've got American Idol, Deal or No Deal, House, Grey's Anatomy, Big Love, and (used to have) Sopranos.

WE HAVE NO DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS AT ALL EXCEPT MATERIALISM.

And that's not much.

We're losing our national identity. We're mindless. The government is in a state of disarray and WE ARE SIMPLY SITTING BY. Do you know how Nazi Germany came to be? No one wanted to be the first to help their neighbors or themself.

Nazi soldiers and Nazi police attacked and arrested countless numbers of people for speaking otu against the government.

Isnt' that what's happening in the US? Why did we go into WWII to stop communism only in turn to allow it to fester and breed here in America? WE'RE A NATION OF HYPOCRITES.

I'm writing. That's what I'm doing. I have no other weapon that can combat the madness.

Here I normally insert -it is what it is-




.......but it doesn't have to be.

-joshua