Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Apparently I havent written in a month. I was not aware of this. I will remedy this obvious tragedy right now with a scattershot post that doesnt focus on anything in particular so I can cover as much ground as possible before my boss gets back and makes me do busy work.
I am getting married on Saturday. What do you think about that?
Bachelor Party - I meant to write about this the next day but I was not feeling fantastic so i put it off for later but I got busy and i forgot about it but i will write about it now. I want to say thank you to everyone who came. My uncles Mike and Mark, Mr. Beler, my cousins Kevin, Jason, Lennie and Chris, my Dad and of course my very awesome broseph Eric. He did a great job and I couldnt have asked for anything better. we did 3 things that I really love to do: stink at golf, drink and go to Medieval Times. Dad you also deserve a lot of credit for driving six drunk dudes, whose combined ages average 25 years, to New jersey and back without having to pummel anyone or leaving them by the side of the highway. You’re a real trooper.
I am going to putting some selections from Twas Windmills show at Rudys this weekend on Twas Windmills myspace www.myspace.com/twaswindmills. I am making a special note of this because while we were playing thought we played like crap but after listening back to it, there are some really dynamic performances on it. What always seems like more of a good time than a good band is actually starting to pull itself together into a powerhouse collection of musicians and songs. Now if we can only find an orchestra to play with us for free and cramped into dive bars we should be all set.
I voted already. I will be on my honeymoon during the election so i filled out my absentee ballot. I voted for Obama. i was very excited when I left the town hall. If Barack Obama doesnt win the election I am never coming back from Vermont. I am building a dwelling into the side of a mountain and eating roots and berries for the rest if my days on the planet.
My fantasy Football team is 5-3. My team is relatively solid and I am having a generally good season. yet I frequently feel nauseous and disoriented on sundays due to my anxiety over their performance. I hate fantasy football but i cant even imagine what my fall and winter would be without it.
In closing I wrote a book. I finished it a few months ago. it is 109 pages long. It is called a Temporary Absence of Sound. I dont really know what to do with it. I have sent it to say a dozen agents and small publishers and no one really wanted to have anything to do with it. while i dont think answers to lifes burning questions hide in blog comments I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts as to what my next move should be?
To anyone I am seeing on Saturday i will see you on Saturday. To everyone else thanks for reading!
October has been a weird month but a good month.
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Regular readers, are there even a half dozen of you, know that I am getting married in November. They dont know this because I talk about it a lot on this blog, i dont talk about anything a lot on this blog, but because they are my family and have known about the wedding for a while. People have offered me a great many congratulations and well wishes but nobody told me that planning the wedding would be so unbelievably horrible. I thought registering was bad but the process just gets worse and worse as the concept of other peoples feelings takes a more prominent role. I have read a library worth of literature about planning weddings and they all try to convince you of the same idea: This is your wedding, dont let people tell you how your wedding should be, the only opinion that matters is that of the bride and groom. I try not to swear on this blog because who knows who might be reading it but, HORSE SHIT. The place we are getting married holds 140 people we are inviting 158, which means that Mine and Nicolette’s thoughts, wishes and feelings account for only 2 of the of the total thoughts, wishes and feelings we are trying to accommodate. Its just too much. I suppose its like anything else, when ever someone has any kind of expectations they expect that those expectations are going to be met and its only when they are not met that theres going to be problems. The problem people run into, because i am sure we are not the lone people in the world who feel this way, is that these expectations are rooted in long standing general and specific to family ‘wedding traditions.’ I personally am not an advocate of the long standing unbroken tradition. I like starting new traditions, personal traditions. The idea of being tied to a set of social standards regarding weddings just seems really strange to me. there is a hidden culture to weddings that preaches individualism but is actually grounded in fierce traditionalism. Bill Hicks used to say that it is time to start a new religion because all of the pre-established ancient religions were no longer relevant to the world we currently live in. In a different and slightly less substantial way the same can be said about the modern wedding ceremony. we arent joining empires here or rival tribes. This isnt a marrige designed to combine wealth or family lands. if someone is left off of the list due to money and space considerations one hopes that they are not going to band their kin together and burn down a village. This isnt the Montagues and the Capulets (did you like that? Im smart!). i suppose there was a chance that Nicolettes cousin would challenge me to a duel and kill me because he isnt in my wedding party but we compromised and gave him another role allowing me to live another another day without a scimitar in my gut. This is all very complicated much more so than i thought it would be. It hasnt yet taken the fun out of the idea of the the wedding day but its frustrating. we need to adopt some new policies as a society regarding our nuptials. If anyone who is reading this is thinking about getting married themselves, dont feel like you have to obey the omnipresent wedding gods. Throw ‘em some curve balls. Lets starting taking the system down from the inside. Lets start small. We will work on that religion stuff later.
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