~Octopussy~ ⋅ 40
Just an American living Bangkok and writing about all the inappropriate things that I somehow get roped into joining... I've been writing in blogs since 1999, so I'm fairly inconsistent. Sometimes I write a lot, sometimes I have nothing to say for months at a time, but I'm never gone, so just be patient and something new will come around.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time
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Things weren’t easy for a while. In fact, they were as hard as they’d ever been in my life. However, I’ve gotten through to the other side. I stuck with my job and have now landed a better one, t...
This week I kind of went outside myself and tried to observe my daily life from another’s point-of-view, mainly because someone remarked at how busy I seem to be. I realized that that is true. Th...
Gimme Something Good by Ryan Adams in The Song Remembers When
He’s gotten a lot of press recently for covering the entirety of Taylor Swift’s 1989 album, which is good because people finally know who he is and don’t immediately think of Bryan Adams when the...
American Baby in The Stuff That's Not Interesting But Is The Most Interesting Stuff I'll Write
You know, I came back here for many reasons. One of them was because of my family, but the other was because of the friends that I had here. However, as I have learned again and again, those rela...
Twisted by Stevie Nicks (In three variations) in The Song Remembers When
This song has a very strange and, if you’ll forgive me, twisted history. She wrote for the soundtrack of the movie Twister based on having seen an early cut of the movie. She sees the movie as an...
Mine in The Stuff That's Not Interesting But Is The Most Interesting Stuff I'll Write
Since I started back to the school I last attended three years ago, I’ve seen quite a few professors I knew, and occasionally a few students. Well, really only one student. She went to Paris with...
Thwomp Trap in The Stuff That's Not Interesting But Is The Most Interesting Stuff I'll Write
You know, I’m pretty patient. I give people a lot of latitude when it comes to situations, but if someone does something so ridiculous and egregious, I find it nearly impossible to forgive. Sunda...
In order to understand this entry, it will be helpful if you have read Pictures for Lovers of only because I’m going to be referencing people and events that I mentioned in that entry. Furthermor...
Englishman In New York by Sting in The Song Remembers When
I love Sting. I know he’s a very divisive character in music but I quite enjoy his eclecticism. From his punk-reggae infused days with The Police to his various musical journeys as a solo artist,...
Someone gave me a unique challenge, so I thought I’d do it. Let me explain the challenge and why I’m going to do it. Someone asked me if I would do an entry of all the songs that meant something ...
Tout prend son sens sans le miroir by Peter Peter in The Song Remembers When
I discovered this song while randomly searching for music on iTunes. This was a couple of years ago and I was just going through the French music section, and I came upon the title track from thi...
The other night, I initially thought about how nothing ever changes, but then I realized that far too much has changed, and although the outlines of situations might be the same, the way I inhabi...
Saturday was my cousins’ baby shower. I know what you’re thinking, babies and I do not mix well, but I trusted my cousins enough to know that they wouldn’t do anything crazy to make me uncomforta...
You know, this whole situation I’m in actually affects me very little except for one way.... financially. Now, I’ve never really discussed money or finances, mostly because I feel like they’re qu...
Found Out About You by Gin Blossoms in The Song Remembers When
Despite the fact that I’m forever listening to the music I listened to in junior high and high school (or maybe because of that), I’m not familiar with all 90s music. I knew Gin Blossoms from Hey...
June, 2007 - Chicago, Illinois I’d finally gotten into a house. I’d been homeless since I arrived in the city in the beginning of May, moving on a whim from Los Angeles after a brief stopover in ...
I know I’ve been missing quite a bit this summer, but the head makes me listless and I can’t ever get my head together to write something appropriate. But that’s not all. An awful situation aros...
This might be an unsettling entry for some people… mainly because I’m going to refer, tangentially, to the circumstances of my coming out which landed me in jail. Every time I drive with my mothe...
I’ve gone inward again, much like I did while I was in SoCal, but there’s a difference to it this time. It doesn’t feel like a withdrawal so much as a respite. Although I am falling into a strang...
I know it’s been a while, but quite a lot has happened. Some good, some bad. The bad is mostly of a legal debacle in which I have found myself therefore I won’t comment on it. The good was that I...
I Want To Drag You Around by Blondie in The Song Remembers When
A year ago, Blondie came out with a new album. Blondie is an artist with whom I have a deep, intimate connection, musically. I didn’t really listen to Blondie until I saw them in 2004, met Jeff t...
I had actually recorded a video blog to post, it took me eight tries and I even uploaded it to YouTube, but the events of the night rendered the entire video moot. I went out on Thursday as is my...
I’m doing nothing. I mean, now I wake up every day early in the morning and if I don’t go to work, I take children to school. Then I’m free until I have to pick up kids from school. I wander aro...
Rob Me Blind by Jay Brannan in The Song Remembers When
If you don’t know Jay Brannan, it wouldn’t be surprising. He’s a cult artist who initially found fame in a truly explicit scene from the movie Shortbus. His appearance in that movie segued into a...