{"id":844,"date":"2007-04-09T03:38:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T03:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=844"},"modified":"2014-09-17T08:20:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T08:20:36","slug":"happiness-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Happiness Is"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finding the browser window\/tab that is playing the music…<\/p>\n

And closing it.<\/p>\n

YEAH EAT THAT, ANNOYING FLASH THINGS!<\/p>\n

And now, to a random diversion.<\/p>\n

It’s not that I don’t blog about personal things. Of course I do!<\/b> My personal collection of Transformers and cameras and various guitar accessories which make no sense because I don’t have an electric guitar. (e.g. a Jimi Hendrix Crybaby wah pedal and an eBow<\/a>) and three harmonicas (2 C harps and a C chromatic). I have a metal slide, picks I don’t use, a SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 which had EAX controls that allow every regular effect known (so I had a bass, distortion, flanger, but no true wah, which is why I got one), and a ukelele I sold off.<\/p>\n

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Chicks dig this shit, yo. (Picture recycled from this post<\/a>.) There are three things very notably distinct about this picture:<\/p>\n

1) I had short hair and was proud that I looked like Neo of The Matrix whenever I put on any sunglasses
\n2) I’m wearing a polo shirt (I swear I had loads of these back then but the stack got misplaced)
\n3) The thing that appears to be a guitar strap is actually a bag. I used to carry one wherever I went, filled with a 1 liter bottle. I was a thirsty hippo then.<\/p>\n

And this, this is an undated picture of an undisclosed location.<\/p>\n

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While at it, I won’t disclose which hot chick rabid fan took this picture, either. Yes, yes, I will have your babies<\/b>, don’t worry. We’ll set an appointment okay?<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to me getting all close and personal.<\/p>\n

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It’s not that I don’t. In fact, I do express my deepest emotions, in convulated prose and rhyme. I only write songs out of bad things.<\/p>\n

You want to dig the dirt?<\/p>\n

If you hang out with me, you know where to dig the dirt – in person<\/b>.<\/p>\n

(stim-girl<\/i> I miss you!)<\/p>\n

But hey, I’m going to put up more text. Apparently, I get more comments that way. Ironically, this was not the case back when I had no pictures. So it might just be a I-miss-the-old-Albert response.<\/p>\n

I worry about readability too; often I read a blog full of text which isn’t paragraphed properly, or with capitalized nouns for easier reading (yes, it does help). Stop randomly coloring your text! Your blog is not your History textbook.<\/p>\n

I worry also if I repeat myself (on my blog), writing about something I’ve written before.<\/p>\n

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I worry about telling stories that have no point or entertainment value. If you blogged that you were brushing your teeth, that would be boring; however, if you blogged that you were brushing your teeth and then heard a voice narrating that you were brushing your teeth, that would be interesting.<\/p>\n

I also see green and red zigzag lines under text all the time ala Microsoft Word.<\/p>\n


\nNotice a missing word? It should be “taste so the different<\/i>” dammit!<\/p>\n

I worry that when I write text, it is often as a personal message to someone. I worry also that I write in such reverse order that the person often does not get it.<\/p>\n

Best friends we are, you and me<\/b><\/p>\n

Yes, that’s a line from a song some very few people have heard<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nI find that best friends are a transient concept to me; I do not have a best friend, and believe the concept died after high school. Such alarming emotional dependence on one person is not healthy!<\/p>\n

My friends waver in closeness; a close friend and I may fade into contactless oblivion. I may make a new friend on the LRT or at a gig. All it takes is that one magic question, that “meet cute<\/i>“, that causes an arched eyebrow on either side, and wham!<\/p>\n

I hate how it is, that I admire certain traits in people, seeing how it brings them such success… and I adapt them… much, much later<\/b>. For example, if somebody starts saying a catchphrase, everybody else will start doing it before I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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