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Name: jordan
Birthday: 6/15/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: rilke, fourths, fall, aesthetics, banal existence, love letters, jean-luc godard, french, bukowski and incessant cock, ravishment, spiritual bankruptcy, keith jarrett, coffee, three o'clock in the morning, meaninglessness, wayne shorter, yerba maté, kicking around moribund memories, ghosts, science, j.d. salinger, the absence of love letters, chap stick, lessness, and pushing that rock.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Construction
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AIM:  tenfingerheart
Member Since:
12/28/2003
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| so i'm in washington DC right now, and i'm wrapping up a residency program at the kennedy center that i started last week. i've met a lot of ridiculous players here, from all over the country (and world), especially in new york. maybe i should practice a lot for a year to two and then move there? we'll see. DC is a beautiful place. there is pretty obviously a lot of money in this town, so it's that kind of beautiful, rather than a down-home sort of thing. i've made particularly good friends with a bassist from queens named nathan. he is one sly guy. and how they all swing, oh my! but, sadly, i just found out that i have a french exam two days after i get back, and i haven't begun to study the chapter. it's supposed to be tough stuff. it's going to be tough to do any homework, or live my former life really, because i'll be wanting to play all the time. being here has really been eye-opening, and also motivating. i just got a piano in my apartment, so it'll be an especial chore not to be playing it all the time rather than writing papers, etc. right now i have to go, and so i'll end this self-indulgent prose. | | |
| hey, folks.
i guess it's been a rather long time since i wrote in here. it kind of feels like coming home and finding that all of your furniture has been whisked away while you were off in europe, or the next town over, or something.
so, for a brief rundown of my life, i can say:
blogs are decadent, but i don't mind.
i feel numb, but i don't mind (too much).
i'm getting a piano in my apartment.
i've been listening to a lot of hip-hop lately (who knew?): a tribe called quest, wu-tang clan, mos def, busta rhymes, public enemy, the roots, kanye west, outkast, whatevername
plus nick drake. he's one of the few musicians who made me think, upon listening to one of his albums all the way through for the first time, "this is exactly what music should be like."
i've stopped partying for a while. it's making me duller. although we have such a super-abundance of brain-cells we never ever ever use, i can tell when i've burned away a bunch of them.
i'm learning french.
i'm bored with school.
the piano coming is a panacea (panaceas always look so good before they arrive and you find out they're just like any old thing you could pick up at a junk shop).
so, that's my life in brief. how's everyone?
if you don't want to talk to me anymore, i understand. i can't expect to just leave town and then come back to open arms, like in the movies.
i guess i've been watching a lot of movies latley, too. some really good ones i've seen: cyrano de bergerac, man on fire (interesting cinematography), rear window, dial m for murder, m, casablanca, the 400 blows, breathless, citizen kane (better the second time),
and i have to say, with some embarassment, i'm really rather fond of the newish harry potter movie.
peace,
or something like it,
jordan | | |
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