Comments on: The Drought – Part 1

By: Pavan

Pavan — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:38:58 +0000

Having just “graduated” with a fucking master’s degree from UofM and making a shit load of money (for me anyway!), you sometimes feel lonely…Life has moved on, and you are an involuntary part of it. It’s not cool anymore to play beer pong at 1PM in the afternoon, It’s not cool anymore to get baked on a weekday..and guess what? when you go back to YOUR own fucking fraternity’s party, you almost feel creepy hanging out with the new brothers and new girls who you just met for the first time. They are 18 and your are “old”…26. God I hate the societal pressure. You are supposed to be this “professional” guy, having a serious relationship, living in your own house in a “respectable area”, start “investing” money….and I don’t want any of that! That’s why I get drunk every time I go to a friend’s/Frat Brother’s marriage. The only way to spend those few hours sane…I stop my rant.
PL: You shouldn’t stop a rant. It’s like stopping a strong piss.

By: Pavan

Pavan — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:42:34 +0000

“Twenty six is a rotten year. You’re not an adult by any stretch, but you’re way past college jackass. None of the things you really want to say, think or do are acceptable. Every day’s another exercise in suffocating what you’d been for the last decade. For some it works; for others it’s futile – the live wire of adrenaline you lived on since Junior High can’t be unplugged, boxed and stuffed on a shelf. The current in your head builds, relentless, voracious, demanding to be fed. It pitches tantrums while you sit silent, staring at off-white walls and monitors, the low hum of florescent bulbs hissing through your ears. Adjusting’s futile; it’s too clinical, antiseptic, mechanized – the photographic negative of everything your body’s craving. The mind rolls to where you ought to be… On a speedboat rolling through a jungle river, taking notes for a National Geographic article on Nigerian warlords… Driving cross-country in a beaten up Volvo, warm air in your face, stealing a drag from the cigarette of an impossibly built brunette in the passenger seat… Sipping a Heineken and eating crackers, watching the buildings disappear under the wing of a plane to Anywhere But Here. That Ben Harper tune’s on repeat in your head… “I believe there’s a better way…” Flight, movement, some sort of juice – blessed stimulation of any kind. Is that too much to ask?”
MY GOD! You just described in the most perfect way, what I am exactly feeling right now….For Chris sakes! I still want to party, even though I wear suits! Why don’t they understand??
PL: Some do…

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:10:42 +0000

Hey, your stuff is really tremendous, keep up the awesome work. Can’t wait for the book. One small detail, though, it’s an I-6 in the jeep, not a V-6. I’m a fanatic.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:14:16 +0000

To be continued…
Posted by Donika at 11:01 AM
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what does this mean?? just curious, all the other updates are posted by Philalawyer
PL Reply: Donika is the editor.

By: Rosie Palmer

Rosie Palmer — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:21:05 +0000

So, do you think “Will Do Moose Stuff For Money” is 2007’s “More Cow Bell”?
Oh yah and to that last dude… Thank for the Page reference. I’ve had “Levee” stuck in my head for a week now! Dick.
Pizza Pizza

By: anonymous22

anonymous22 — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:35:40 +0000

Long time reader since philalawyer.blogspot.com.
Even after you didn’t post anything for a year.
The weekly updates are great, and pure quality. Looking forward to the book.
Just keep remembering to use the original takes. In some of your re-edits for the rudius website it seems that some of the magic is lost.
The best way I can compare this is to look at Jimmy Page. Sometimes it is okay to let the master’s of their craft use the first, second, or third take instead of spending all day in the studio. The later sessions may be more technically correct and polished, but the first ones have the raw energy that excites and cannot be described.
Please keep up the fantastic writing.

By: doctornine

doctornine — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:39:43 +0000

“When you’re young, losing your mind in an office and not getting any action, you’re an unpinned grenade.”
Man oh man, this is so fucking true. You are awesome.

By: Clitoris Rex

Clitoris Rex — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:10:29 +0000

Damn man. Fucking great as usual. Makes me want to give up writing/working. Not drinking though, your writing makes me look forward to hangovers.
Keep up the good work.

By: Ze Cacetudo

Ze Cacetudo — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:35:13 +0000

Excellent writing, all of it. Some of us know how the game is really played while the rest stick to an ironclad belief in the rules.
Just curious, how do you know what a rugby ball looks like?