without headphones

i have made ye grand purchase of a magical cable that connects my computer to the stereo, thus rendering my need for headphones ob-so-lete. no more. i will now be out of my head and back to the world of speaker sound. it feels kind of lonely- the ear-cupped sound was comforting somehow. until.... my trusty pair of headphones died a horrible death my last day in the berkshires and, after contemplating drastic measures involving electrical tape and whatever utensil i could find in the house that would serve as a wire stripper (no tools to be found!), i decided to throw them away and be without my little headphone sanctuary until i got to colorado. my suitcase also broke- poor fucking design made the wheel collapse on malcolm x blvd, so i had to pull/drag the thing 10 more blocks, refusing to get a cab on some unknown principle that only resulted in me being exhausted when i arrived at my friend's apartment. why i was walking through harlem is also unknown. something about it not seeming as far as it was- until, of course, my luggage failed me. note the metaphor for my coming sea change.....

so now i'm listening to my music on real speakers. not my speakers- those are being babysat by piotr and i might never see them again- but hey, we can't have everything at once. stereo sound is a good first step.

toward. something.

the blogginess begins tonight, on the eve of my 29th birthday. a couple of christmasses ago i was given a challenge by my aunt- to write in a journal everyday of the year for a full year. she borrowed the idea from her grandfather, who accepted the challenge from his sister and kept to it with proper german diligence, even if he only wrote one word. "snow." my aunt gave me a nice journal which i faithfully wrote in three or four times before getting annoyed at the fact that i can't write as fast as i can type and abandoning it in the bottom of my bookbag. for my 29th year (or is it my 30th year- that always confused me.... i think it's my 30th year, oh god). for my 30th year i'm going to try to tap into that ancestral discipline and write something every damn day using this oh-so-modern medium (with an oh-so-stupid name. blog. i feel like i should stick my tongue out while saying it aloud. blah. blahg.)

ya. here we go.