Saturday, February 18, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
so-called life
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler
There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
W. Somerset Maugham
A precipice in front of you, and wolves behind you, in
your rear; that is life.
Latin Proverb
The moment a man questions the meaning and value of
life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence….
Sigmund Freud
Not to be born is best.
Sophocles
Samuel Butler
There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
W. Somerset Maugham
A precipice in front of you, and wolves behind you, in
your rear; that is life.
Latin Proverb
The moment a man questions the meaning and value of
life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence….
Sigmund Freud
Not to be born is best.
Sophocles
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Monday, February 6, 2012
Monster Trek
Friday Ryan, Clyde, Joe and myself walked from Moscow to Pullman. Every two miles we drank a Monster Energy Drink. These photos are from the walk.
Friday, February 3, 2012
more vipe pix
http://4shits.blogspot.com/2011/08/hobbit-hole.html scroll down to see a couple pics from the last vipe show. thanks to whoever took these.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Friday, December 30, 2011
Tim Blood's Year In Reading
In 2007 I started keeping a list of every book I read. What follows is 2011's list.
A lot of re-reading this year. A lot more 'educational' and a lot less 'recreational' than years past, which makes it difficult to pick 'favorites'.
Though I'm satisfied and looking forward to 2012's reading lists. I'm shooting for 50 books. Ambitious.
2011:
“The Atom Station” – Halldor Laxness
“Pan” – Knut Hamsun
“Special Orders” – Edward Hirsch (twice)
“Hunger” – Knut Hamsun (twice)
“The Best American Short Stories 2009” – Edited by Alice Sebold
“The Writer’s Portable Mentor” – Priscilla Long
“The Shell Collector” – Anthony Doerr
“The Double Helix” – James Watson
“The Time Machine” – H.G. Wells
“Brave New World” – Aldous Huxley
“Freedom” – Jonathan Franzen
“Prelude to Revolution: France in May 1968” – Daniel Singer
“Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico” – Elaine Carey
“A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968” – Paul Berman
“The Tiger’s Wife” – Tea Obreht
“Orientation and Other Stories” – Daniel Orozco
“The Mezzanine” – Nicholson Baker
“Out Stealing Horses” – Per Petterson
“A Journey into the Past” – Stefan Zweig
“Earthly Measures” – Edward Hirsch
“Everyman” – Philip Roth
“Mysteries” – Knut Hamsun
“Humboldt’s Gift” – Saul Bellow
“Fear and Trembling” – Soren Kierkegaard
“Invisible Cities” – Italo Calvino
“The Orange Eats Creeps” – Grace Krilanovich
“Victoria” – Knut Hamsun
“Blackbird and Wolf” – Henri Cole
“Of Human Bondage” – W. Somerset Maugham
“Against Interpretation and Other Essays” – Susan Sontag
“Selected Poems” – James Schuyler
“The Virgin Suicides” – Jeffrey Eugenides
“Tadao Ando: The Geometry of Human Space” – Masao Furuyama
“Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self” – Marilynne Robinson
American: 21
Norwegian: 6
British: 4
Icelandic: 1
Italian: 1
Danish: 1
Swiss: 1
Japanese: 1
Fiction: 22 (Novels: 14, Novellas: 5, Short Story Collections: 3)
Poetry: 5
History: 3
Philosophy: 2
Literary Criticsim:1
Writing: 1
Memoir: 1
Architecture: 1
Total: 36
Favorites in no order at all:
Hunger, Mysteries, Pan by Knut Hamsun (I read Hunger for the first time in 2009, but it's still a favorite)
Special Orders by Edward Hirsch
The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr (I read it for the first time in 2008, but it's still a favorite)
Right now I'm reading "Sources of The Self: The Making of the Modern Identity" by Charles Taylor and "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides. Who knows will I'll finish those two mammoths.
A lot of re-reading this year. A lot more 'educational' and a lot less 'recreational' than years past, which makes it difficult to pick 'favorites'.
Though I'm satisfied and looking forward to 2012's reading lists. I'm shooting for 50 books. Ambitious.
2011:
“The Atom Station” – Halldor Laxness
“Pan” – Knut Hamsun
“Special Orders” – Edward Hirsch (twice)
“Hunger” – Knut Hamsun (twice)
“The Best American Short Stories 2009” – Edited by Alice Sebold
“The Writer’s Portable Mentor” – Priscilla Long
“The Shell Collector” – Anthony Doerr
“The Double Helix” – James Watson
“The Time Machine” – H.G. Wells
“Brave New World” – Aldous Huxley
“Freedom” – Jonathan Franzen
“Prelude to Revolution: France in May 1968” – Daniel Singer
“Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico” – Elaine Carey
“A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968” – Paul Berman
“The Tiger’s Wife” – Tea Obreht
“Orientation and Other Stories” – Daniel Orozco
“The Mezzanine” – Nicholson Baker
“Out Stealing Horses” – Per Petterson
“A Journey into the Past” – Stefan Zweig
“Earthly Measures” – Edward Hirsch
“Everyman” – Philip Roth
“Mysteries” – Knut Hamsun
“Humboldt’s Gift” – Saul Bellow
“Fear and Trembling” – Soren Kierkegaard
“Invisible Cities” – Italo Calvino
“The Orange Eats Creeps” – Grace Krilanovich
“Victoria” – Knut Hamsun
“Blackbird and Wolf” – Henri Cole
“Of Human Bondage” – W. Somerset Maugham
“Against Interpretation and Other Essays” – Susan Sontag
“Selected Poems” – James Schuyler
“The Virgin Suicides” – Jeffrey Eugenides
“Tadao Ando: The Geometry of Human Space” – Masao Furuyama
“Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self” – Marilynne Robinson
American: 21
Norwegian: 6
British: 4
Icelandic: 1
Italian: 1
Danish: 1
Swiss: 1
Japanese: 1
Fiction: 22 (Novels: 14, Novellas: 5, Short Story Collections: 3)
Poetry: 5
History: 3
Philosophy: 2
Literary Criticsim:1
Writing: 1
Memoir: 1
Architecture: 1
Total: 36
Favorites in no order at all:
Hunger, Mysteries, Pan by Knut Hamsun (I read Hunger for the first time in 2009, but it's still a favorite)
Special Orders by Edward Hirsch
The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr (I read it for the first time in 2008, but it's still a favorite)
Right now I'm reading "Sources of The Self: The Making of the Modern Identity" by Charles Taylor and "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides. Who knows will I'll finish those two mammoths.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
christ mass ep lyrics
in case anyone was curious.
i like having you around:
its my first saturday nite you're still the only person that i know,
so i decide to go to a party with you on the other side of town,
but not before i eat some free pizza,
but not before we go to your place and move around your ugly bookcase.
noises made by birds does not equal strange or absurd.
your house is not haunted, so please just show the fuck up.
you don't have a lisp, but you do have a funny way of talking
and i'm charmed, so please don't tell me you might have a brain tumor
(guitar solo)
i would really like it if you stayed around
i would really like it if you were around
i would really like it if you stayed around
i really like having you around
like last year (this song references The Marked Men&Grey's Anatomy):
bread crumbs&black tea any food i can for free
snow covers the ground
when i walk around town with my hands in my pockets
i just about lost it
i need something to fix my brain; alleviate my disdain.
i wish it was more like last year when i had my friends here
i wish it was more like last year when i had my friends here
i just wish something would make these holidays go away
i just wish something would make these holidays go away
whenever i get home i always think of dying alone
i wish my life weren't aimless; suicide is painless
i wish it was more like last year when i had my friends here
i wish it was more like last year when i had my friends here
i just wish something would make these holidays go away
i just wish something would make these holidays go away
what does winter have to offer:
what does winter have to give?
hot cocoa, snow shoes&marinated figs
what does winter have to offer?
no school, no teachers or exams to proctor
we just want to mess around
we just want to own this town
all i want for christmas is anarchy
all i want for christmas is some fucking black tea
what does winter have to offer?
runny noses, coughing&visits to the doctor
what does winter have to give?
sore throat, wet socks&no will to live
i like having you around:
its my first saturday nite you're still the only person that i know,
so i decide to go to a party with you on the other side of town,
but not before i eat some free pizza,
but not before we go to your place and move around your ugly bookcase.
noises made by birds does not equal strange or absurd.
your house is not haunted, so please just show the fuck up.
you don't have a lisp, but you do have a funny way of talking
and i'm charmed, so please don't tell me you might have a brain tumor
(guitar solo)
i would really like it if you stayed around
i would really like it if you were around
i would really like it if you stayed around
i really like having you around
like last year (this song references The Marked Men&Grey's Anatomy):
bread crumbs&black tea any food i can for free
snow covers the ground
when i walk around town with my hands in my pockets
i just about lost it
i need something to fix my brain; alleviate my disdain.
i wish it was more like last year when i had my friends here
i wish it was more like last year when i had my friends here
i just wish something would make these holidays go away
i just wish something would make these holidays go away
whenever i get home i always think of dying alone
i wish my life weren't aimless; suicide is painless
i wish it was more like last year when i had my friends here
i wish it was more like last year when i had my friends here
i just wish something would make these holidays go away
i just wish something would make these holidays go away
what does winter have to offer:
what does winter have to give?
hot cocoa, snow shoes&marinated figs
what does winter have to offer?
no school, no teachers or exams to proctor
we just want to mess around
we just want to own this town
all i want for christmas is anarchy
all i want for christmas is some fucking black tea
what does winter have to offer?
runny noses, coughing&visits to the doctor
what does winter have to give?
sore throat, wet socks&no will to live
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