| thinking about s |
[Jun. 15th, 2005|10:21 am] |
not all consuming, but she's always there. occupying my subconscious.
like a scratch, a cut or sore on the roof of my mouth. when did it happen? what caused it? mysteries, insignificant enough to voice, echo in my head.
seems like maybe just a few days, or have i always had it? was i just too busy to notice?
nothing more than an option, to play with in the back of my mind.
she's always there. |
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| well well, it's been a while |
[Jun. 14th, 2005|11:23 am] |
hey kats 'n' kittens, it's your old pal charlie checkin' back in. i know it's been a while but hey, what do i always tell ya, like a celebrity's deadbeat dad, i'll be back again someday, looking to "cash in" on your laughter and experiences. it's been a busy, busy life for yours truly. since the first of the year i've been to orlando twice, ft. lauderdale, las vegas, baltimore, wash. dc twice, new orleans, atlanta, and boston.
new orleans was wicked nasty. bourbon street smelled like stale sex, shit, piss, and beer. the cloud of funk hit me as i got out of my cab. the stench floats along in clouds of 90%+ humidity. so bad you break a sweat walking down the road in 50 degree temp. gross. everyone told me before i went "you'll love the food, it's sooo great." Bullshit. The food was gross. Po'boys are nothing exotic, just sub sandwiches - nothing special. sure, some of the stuff was pretty spicy, and i like spicy, but food must be both good and spicy for it to be enjoyable. if that wasn't the case every fucking cook or restaurant in the world would just dump a fuckload of spice into their creations and they'd all be great. but it doesnt work that way assholes. new orleans food fucking sucked. the best thing i had there was a cheeseburger. ettoufe, jambalaya, gumbo? all tried - all okay. bbq means beef. oh, and everyone smothers everything in "hot sauce" (read: Tabasco). News flash folks, Tabasco ain't all that hot. i think the numero uno indgredient is VINEGAR. If you want something spicy, upgrade your hotsauce, don't dump a bucket of vinegar on it. jeez. |
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| back in the burg |
[Mar. 2nd, 2005|02:58 pm] |
back from vegas, yeah, that was a hoot. spent (read: "lost") waay too much money, but oh well, first time to vegas. got solicited by a crack whore. a real, honest to goodness crack whore, w/ real gold tooth grill inserts. how sweet am i?
a whole bunch of the same old, same old, running around downtown.
and i met this chic in vegas. 18. redhead. wants to change the world. wants to be relavant to art or literature or someshit. chatted it up quite a bit w/ her on the jobsite. she flashed me her card on the way out of town. i didn't even really know her yet.
she's got her own site, already finished high school, took some community college courses, headed to Europe, and then on to university. got her shit together. her masterplan all blogged out in the open. and everything she says is true.
waaay too mature for eighteen. and to think i wasn't giving her the time of day because of her age?!?
but in other news, there's little to nothing going on here. |
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| vegas |
[Feb. 16th, 2005|08:58 am] |
headed to vegas for a week friday.
"staying" (which in all reality means hanging my clothes up and showering) here:
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"working" (who knows what that'll mean)next door here:
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the sick part is i should be excited, but i know there will be very little pleasure on this trip to sin city.
every notice how all the songs/movies and everything about vegas are all about leaving it. |
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| borlando, home of the rat |
[Feb. 11th, 2005|10:12 pm] |
fuuuck orlando. (and i've got to come back at least once this year)
50% of orlando is owned by disney 40% of orlando is owned by marriott |
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| sleeeep |
[Feb. 4th, 2005|01:34 pm] |
sleep.
does a negative sleep bank 'build up' over days, weeks, or months of not getting a good six to eight of shut eye a day?
when i'm on showsite, i frequently sleep less than six, sometimes four hours per night. if it weren't for caffine and nicotine, i'm sure i would have passed out operating something i shouldn't have and killed a bunch of people in a strange city. and they say cigarettes kill!?!
i figure if negative sleep does build up, i need to pull a rip van winkle for the next nine months to break even. if i've been shorted - on average - 2.5 hours of sweet sleep per night since i was 18 (remember i'm using adult figures here) i've missed out on nine months of sleep. that's just an estimate and i've not even counting how many nights i stayed up into the next day, and just headed into work in the a.m.
here's the upside - imagine all the cool shit i've been doing in those nine months that you fuckers haven't. here's a list.
drinking smoking assorted illegal drugs dancing, clubbing, and other assorted night life sex driving working
i've read studies that said eight hours of sleep per day is way too much for adults. i also have read studies that show adults getting less than eight hours a day suffer from a bunch more ailements.
fuck the experts.
i've not been getting much sleep latel, and to make matters worse, on nights i do, it still seems like it's not enough. monday i slept til one pm.
when i was 21 or 22 i'd stay up til four am and then sleep til the afternoon. now i go to bed at midnight or one and still want to sleep til the afternoon.
am i getting old?!?
[to be edited and continued] |
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| on the road again |
[Feb. 2nd, 2005|08:42 am] |
i'm headed back out this sunday. back down to florida for the third time this year. i feel like i'm one half traveling salesman and one half businessman. my business is seedy like the salesman, woman, cigarette smoke, booze, hotel rooms, airports, posturing. i need a cheap suit, a gold chain or two and some ugly rings - no more than 10 karat - that would complete the image. The late night drunken phone calls to the girlfriend while there are three women in your room, or at your table or wherever doing whatever.
on the other hand it's another day at the office. There's board meetings, schmoozing the clients, showing up on time, clean shaven, teeth brushed, laughing at shit that really isn't funny. there's the i love you phone calls where you hear yourself saying it for a multitude of reasons, you really mean it (kinda) (i think i do?), she needs to hear it, they should hear it, it makes you less of a monster if there is love in your life - i think.
The work is either hard. fast paced...adrenaline/amphetamine rush. or incredibly, loopy and boring.
Some shows have both, sometimes switching gears quicker than you'd appreciate high and low and high again. Some have only one gear.
I'm my department's new show horse. A young stud out there, eager to make contacts, friends, allies with the many powers that be in this industry. They've been on the road. They've tired of it. Married up, had some kids, whatever - they're done with it. They brought me in, 24 years old, bright, and ready to go. They know it won't break me, they've been through it all. But they had a lot more lattitude when they were making the rules on the fly.
i don't know that this is for me. |
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| the one that got away |
[Jan. 29th, 2005|06:18 am] |
Now everyone knows, your pal Charlie ain’t one to wax philosophic… so I won’t. But as I showered at 5am this fine florida morning I starting reminiscing of girlfriends past, and like a toothache in a molar – waaay back deep in my subconscious I’ll never forget the one that got away.
Not Always Mr. Badass. Back in high school I wasn’t exactly Mr. Candyass, but I wasn’t the badass mofo you know and love today, either. I smoked plenty of pot, tried to avoid athletics, wrote poetry and maintained a monogamous relationship with an incredibly intelligent, beautiful womanchild. I was one of those types that didn’t do a damned thing through high school and I still walked with a 3.5. I didn’t do homework, recycled research reports and wandered the halls often under the influence of something more intoxicating than chalk dust. Without a place in my own school I was a lower middle class kid from the neighborhood next to the trailer park. The rest of the crowd looked down on my Nirvana t shirts and ripped jeans in Ralph Loren, Tommy Hilfiger, Abercrombie & Fitch. I couldn't have cared less. It wasn’t so much that I felt badly about this, but I knew my place, and they knew theirs, until a common bond - intelligence brought one of us together with one of them.
My girlfriend’s family was like mine, poor and generally considered a step and a half above typical small rural town white trash. She was, in reality “good people”. She was incredibly bright, receiving only one “B” in one marking period from middle school through community college – all the rest “A’s”. She didn’t have my lackadaisical attitude towards school though. Homegirl WORKED. She did her homework everyday, for the most part, right after school. She planned her papers weeks or even months in advance and read ahead in assigned reading. Looking back she was always a little compulsive, a little neurotic.
“Tracey” and I pretty much kept to ourselves, but in our junior year, she befriend one of “them”. They had an advanced super dee duper math or science class together. Ironically enough it was a girl I’d know since middle school. My mental impression of her at the time was an overweight, brace toothed, band nerd with bad hair and coke bottles for glasses. Oh how “Sara” had changed over the "I'll Be A Junior This Fall Summer". The once puffy helmet of hair had been straightened and colored. The glasses were replaced with contacts and showed off beautiful eyes. The weight had been lost due to a healthy new appreciation of diet and exercise and the braces had come off. Still a diamond in the rough, don’t get me wrong, she wasn’t a perfect dime, but the days of being a lump of coal had faded for Miss Sara. Tracey and Sara had yet another thing in common, both had overcome a significant transformation from ugly duckling adolescence to beautiful young womanhood. The two hung out, worked together at the bagel place and so on. The poor girl with the rich girl. The rich with the poor. Shit, it could have been a Disney movie. Lindsey Lohan could play Sara and Tracey could be played by Hillary Duff, and there could be a shower scene where Sara comes in from a sweaty day on the tennis court, and Tracey stumbles into the bathroom, “looking for a hairband” while Sara’s in the shower…. But I digress.
Sara started dating one of my few upper class friends, a writer and artist named Clyde. He was off the wall nuts, born to Xtreme Christian fundamentalists and shipped all over the world in typical military family fashion. Clyde had decided during the first few years of high school in Okinawa, Japan he would do anything and everything to piss his parents off. Dating Sara was just one of those things.
The two got along very well at first. He’d had plenty of other girls but he was her first. She’d only recently become beautiful and noticed. Everything was her first. Kiss. Make out session. Oral. Intercourse. Whatever. Sara actually grew bored of Clyde over the course of a year or so. They were done by Valentines Day, senior year. In the meantime, Little Miss OCD was driving me up a wall. I didn’t have the balls at the time to break up with her crazy self (remember – not Badass enough yet!) as we’d been excepted to a school 200 miles away and had already looked at off campus apartments. I was this poor girl’s financial and emotional support system to getting through college, to be the first in her family to go to a four year school. I didn’t have the guts to break her heart, and mistakenly thought she couldn’t live without me.
A Funny Thing Happened Over Spring Break Me and Miss Thang got into a little argument right before spring break, senior year. I had saved up some cash and wanted to get my party on. Miss Thang wanted to head down to VA Beach with her (nerd) DECA friends for some Hoosker Du conference something or other. As she left she made me promise not to do anything crazy. I spent the week with Sara. Hanging out. Trolling the mall. Teaching her to smoke. (Yes I know, she “didn’t know how” and begged me to show her” Getting drunk out of her fathers liquor cabinet (well, that was just me) Driving around late at night. We got tattoos together. I was showing her a wilder side than she'd seen. I was real. I did things she'd been told her entire life were "BAD", but she knew I was a goodperson inside.
I enlightened her to my Gray Theory - There is no black and white, right or wrong, it is all shades of gray.
I really felt this girl was who I really wanted to be with. And I think she wanted to be with me. We each hinted at it. But I actually let it all go.
Tracey got back and Sara and I acted like nothing had ever happened. I’ve seen her once since high school – just as beautiful as I’d remembered, if not more so. Months later I broke up with Tracey. I wonder if I should call her? Use this ole intarweb for something good.
Or will she just forever be the one that got away? |
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| Puking on USA - One State At A Time |
[Oct. 28th, 2004|02:43 pm] |
So I've began my multistate monthly travels. Puked all over Atlanta, whoa boy there's some hotties down there. The ATL, The Drrty Drrty. Buckhead. If you ever go to ATL make sure to visit Buckhead - just North of Atlanta. Stop by American Pie - even on a Sunday that place has got more balls than a crooked lottery official.
Next was Anaheim, CA. The OC. Orange County. Which, suprisingly (maybe not so much) sucked. I was holed up in the Newport Suite of Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel. Ironic, i ask for a smoking room, and they give me the Newport Suite but i still can't smoke in it. Apparently you cannot smoke in any public resturant, motel, store, or anything in California. Reason numero uno the west coast sucks. Staying in such pimp finery as the Newport Suite actually made the visit worse. It was like having a fine italian exotic out in the garrage and no drivers license. See - i was just outside of Disneyland, and the Rat they call Mickey fucked up my parade. No party people looking to throw down for miles around. Conservative midwest middle aged white dudes and their families galore.
But it wasn't just little old Anaheim that was slow - i headed to Huntington Beach on a Friday night w/ my main man Gary - per the sugestion of some locals. We was ready to go crazy. Drunk tank here I come! Pre-gamed it up in the hotel room with a litre of vodka before we rolled out. But what was in HB? A bunch of pretentious Abercrombie & Fitch model wannabes, trying to mack on fifteen year old girls with fake ids. You think i'm kidding?
Trying to salvage the night, we headed to Long Beach. WTF? Nothing goin' on in the LBC? You'd think snoop dog had been shot from the somber looks i was getting from people - oh well, on to santa monica! Had a little run-in with the boys in blue down near the pier in SM. It was really just a big misunderstanding, as they had received report just minutes before i pulled in to park that a silver chevy malibu had been weaving through traffic on the way to the beach at speeds exceeding 115mph. after i assured the officers that it was someone else's rent-a-car that had been abused he finally let me and G Dawg roll. i threw up on the beach at santa monica, and we headed back to the room completely and utterly crush.
dr dre and tupac lied. California doesn't know how to party.
the hook up for cheeba in the OC was pretty hopeless two. ganje was expensive, full of chaffe, and impotent. very dissapppointing.
not too worried. i'm back on the right coast and i plan to have a very happy halloween south of nags head, on the outer banks of north carolina. probably spending a great deal of quality time with my favorite liquors, herbs, prescription pills, and street drugs, be real kiddies.
Love, Your Pal Charlie. |
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| i need a job |
[Sep. 7th, 2004|03:26 pm] |
this entry brought to you by BOREDOM. so today is my second real day of unemployment. friday i hung around all day naked with my lady friend, yesterday was a holiday, so nothing much happened - but today the straight world all headed back to the grind. everyone. except me.
i have a job, actually. i start next week. tuesday. seven days from now. so far my little sabatical has yielded a day full of smoke (both tobacco and cannibis), drink (primarily beer, cause i'm kinda broke - but i had a side job today and made $75 so i'm considering a run up to the liquor store if i can get off tha damn couch) and Madden 2005.
thursday i'm heading up to boston to see my brother and possibly meet up with a friend i havent seen in ages who lives in Maine. My few-day excursion to the North should be good fun. i'm trying to get all my party-style in before the trip, though. Homeboy goes to one of them tharr religious schools. no booze on campus and he'd never forgive me if i got busted smoking up in his dorm room. the RA would probably kick us out into the streets. oh wait, he is the RA... muhahahah.
i've actually quite enjoyed the dope i've got. usually i have access to pretty decent run of the mill head and shoulder body buzz stuff, and it's pretty good. gets me where i wanna go, and it's relatively inexpensive. however, this weekend i ran into an ounce of some one hitta-quitta shit that has just got me all warm and fuzzy inside. pathetic, isn't it? that's pretty much how i spent my unemployment lengthened holiday weekend. getting high and getting stuffed on mediocre food from local resturants.
i kinda wanna get it all out of my system as the new job is going to drastically change my lifestyle. i'm going to be bi-costal, motherfuckers. working south of Washinton, DC and in San Diego on the regular. i'm not going to be partaking in the cheeba while on travel. fuck smuggling that shit accross the country. fuck jail. fuck the patriot act and airport security. i just wanna take a 1/8 oz. to the beach. but alas.
anyone have good stories on getting the sweetleaf through domestic air travel feel free to leave a comment.
tanks. |
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| hurricane |
[Aug. 12th, 2004|05:24 pm] |
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bonnie and clyde '04 sounds so much better than bonnie and charley. who is doing PR for these bastards, anyway? |
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| bob spelled backwards. |
[Aug. 5th, 2004|08:39 pm] |
i've always favored legalization of marijuana, but i thought it couldn't happen. not ever. as hopeful as a person could be for a single act of legislation, i figured the sun would set on my illustrous life prior to this ever coming true.
see, the problem isn't the pot itself. it's no one person, company or intity could make big money off cheeba. not a dime, ladies. it's too simple to grow and harvest. hundreds if not thousands of people you know have tried. some suceeded. they are the ones that smoked with you. remember the ones that bought the new bmw m3's, corvettes, lexuses, and the ilk - all while you tried to figure out a way to get the window in your 1983 ford escort fixed. (it's summer time, and the ac's been busted for two years. you need to get that damn window down!). but those assholes can grow it, and dibby out the males and females and show you the type of miracle grow you should use. and all that. will phillip morris make a penny? nope. budweiser? not a chance. will they spend their campaign dollars to influence their senators and congressfolks to vote in a manner that will allow legal marijuana consumption? nosiree, bob-oh.
tobacco and alcohol aren't good for you, no secrets there. but they're no more healthy than the occassional smokity smoke outta your favorite bong john silver. so why are they legal? i tell ya kids, the answer is green. G-R-E-E-N. and i don't mean the sweet leaf, i mean cashola. if tobac and booze were outlawed tomorrow, would drinkers still drink? sure, but not as many, and not as much. ever made moonshine? or beer? or wine? yeah, you can do it, but it's not much cheaper than buying it from the liquor store. and it tastes awful.
tobacco is equally difficult, problemo numero uno is the whole country isn't cut out to grow the other leaf. difficult to process. difficult to manufacturer in mass quantities. blah.
these two industries keep the pockets of our politicians lined with the cash we give them for their products. how many political contrabutions have you made this year? don't worry about it Big Tobacco and Big Liquor are making payments on your behalf, but using up your vote for their purposes.
the government acts like they're keeping the two bohemouths in check by taxing the hell out of them. BUT, instead of just paying their cumuppance, the greedy sloths pass on the taxation back to the homeboys smokin' the newports. cigarette prices go up, i spend an extra $10 - $20 a month in tobacco and the wheel goes round.
this makes me sad for poor lil ol mary jane. no big mega corps to get my girl's back. what's up with that. she's a sweet girl. a hippy chic. she's not in it for the cash, but for the experience. she's my kinda girl. with no one payin' mary's tab to society, the politicians brow beat activists and act like they're just looking out for the public's best interests. mary jane can't compete.
and then i figured it out. marijuana could have a major sponsor. actually a few giant ones and literally hundreds of smaller ones. what if the babysitter of every american schoolage child, the date to millions of lonely single-somethings, and the driving inspiration for losers like my ex-wife were to endorse mary jane's canibicy?
TV should fund the marijuana political action committee.
i'm talking about TV, motherfucker.
ever notice how great tv is when you're high? television sitcoms seem so witty and full of cheeky humor. commercials seem ingenius, and Little Nicky is almost funny when stoned. ever watch the original scooby doo (pre-scrappy) cartoons high? good god that shit seems deep. i've watched shows i've never seen before with a true and genuine interest in the main characters' lives. like i know the motherfuckers. caught myself cryin' for 'em and shit. damn.
the MPAA (motion pictures association of america) should take note too. i'd bet at least 30% of the ticket sales to any given vin diesel flick could be attributed to stoned ass motherfuckers. i went to the premier of XXX. They (we) actually set up a gravity bong in the front of the theatre.
don't even mention the RIAA (recording industry association of america). have you ever listend to the radio, a friend's cd, mtv, or some other music channel while stoned. i've gone out to buy albums based on samplings done while blockfaced with mixed results to say the least. Dr. Dre's Chronic 2001 is a moderately successful, progressive rap album when listened to sober. catch a buzz and it become the shit of hip hop lore.
(to be continued) |
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| The Great Debate |
[Aug. 4th, 2004|07:46 am] |
there's only a few things i do really well. in fact, there's only three things that I think i can do better than anyone in this entire shit stain of the country we call a commonwealth. so here they are, all numbered out and shit, for your convenience. 1. Fuck 2. Drink 3. Drive
And it not necessarily in that order either. but i do feel a great confidence in my assessment of my finely tuned skills in these three avenues of excellence. so when the topic of relations during *that time of the month* came up the other day with a group of friends, i found i was the only willing participant. like German forces in 1941 - i'm the only one of my friends willing to invade Red Red Russia during the cold war.
I don't know why guys are so afraid of doing their deed while their meat sheath is getting her monthly visit from good ol' aunt flow. it's just a little blood, nothing major, playa, clean up afterwards. besides, once your lady gets over the gross-out factor, you're going to find she's a little extra horny when she's surfing the Red Sea Pipeline. Nah nah nah, it's not kinky, it's just hormonal. she doesn't have any sick count Dracula fantasy about your dumbass, it's just chemical reactions n shit.
However, if you're going to play in the mud, I suggest you set some ground rules. Mine are pretty simple. 1. No V8 near my face. If it gets on my hands, cock, balls, legs, whatever, but not in/around/near my nose or mouth. Sorry ladies, that's the brakes. That's not to say I won't still give the oral luvin'. I don't mind going down as long as the pipeline has adequate obstruction. I never spend too much time threading the needle anyway - i always prefer to concentrate on the funny little bald guy in the front of the canoe.
2. My bed? Better put a towel down. One of the few things i'm anal about are fabrics that touch my body regularly. I spend a lot of money on sheets, so they have to last a while, no menstrual stains on my expensive ass sheets, sorry bitch.
3. The cleanup. Afterwards - i'm heading to the bathroom, where i may or may not take a full shower. Sometimes cleanup is quick whereas other times i really want to wash everything away. Don't be offended. It's just the way it is. Feel free to join me in the shower for round 2 if you're so inclined.
Now, this third and final rule has been broken on occasion, and I must say, last night was one of those nights. We started things by visiting with our good friends Bob and Mary Jane. After a few rounds of "Pass the Bong, kissyface" i was ready to go upstairs and break my dick off in my lady friend. Much to her chagrin, The River Runs Through It, but i told her, as i have before, i could care less. Upstairs, olympian sexcapades ensue, and i ultimately pass out of pleasing both her and my most primal of urges. I was so fucked up I just came, put some shorts on, rolled over, and went to sleep, throwing rule three right out the second story window (or was that her thong?).
This morning I woke up groggy and sick. Hung over from drinking 1/3 of the night. Still stoned from smoking another 1/3 of my night away, and sore from fucking the other 1/3. I headed straight to the shitter, as it's my usual first stop after a raucous night. I didn't even turn on the light before dropping my drawers to the floor and my ass to the porcelain. As i sat there contemplating whether i should call in sick to my shitfuck job i started staring at my right hand. i had this barbecue sauce looking conglomeration of orangey/brownish/darkred/ paste dried on my index and middle fingers. Still barely knowing where i was, much less the activities of the night before I found myself wondering if i hade eaten ribs the night before, and almost began to lick the souvenir covered fingers clean before it hit me. Whoa, that was a close one.
I don't know what my hang up is. I'm not quite so sure why the bloody bloody goo-goo makes me want to ralph, but that's my deal. I finished my bathroom session, cleaned up from my finger tips to my elbows before satisfied and returned to bed for another 30 minutes of tag-you're-it with mr. snoozey-snooze button of ye olde alarm clock. what a night. |
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