August 2010
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John and Erin's Wedding Day by Bands of Honor
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June 2010
8 posts
31 Years Young EP
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31 Years Young EP
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An evening of recording
Lex & Lyle laid down some tracks last night for 31 Years Young EP Posted via web from Lyle Machine | Comment »
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Audio: Can We Just For Once Part I on 31 Years...
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Audio: Erin Nelson on 31 Years Young EP by Lex &...
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Audio: In The Blood on 31 Years Young EP by Lex &...
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May 2010
2 posts
A Sketch 29: Down the river, salmon skipping along
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A Sketch Part 28
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April 2010
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Ran Up To See
There at the bell, it was told over and over, “I will never be old enough.” The autumn leaves remained come spring inside the window ceil. It was then that all the land was clear and the littlest one ran up to see. Winter had passed and sure enough, growth led to a view out onto the valley. As the sun set, on the cool evening in April, the triumph of the year was finally seen. ...
February 2010
3 posts
A Sketch Part 27
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Whiz Kidz
Whiz Kidz
J.D. you never finished teaching your lesson.
You left it prematurely.
Holden and I trapped in adolescence.
No way to turn without digressing.
Limited to pointing fingers at phonies.
Never becoming well-rounded.
Never becoming well-rounded.
We’ll never get to be …
We’ll never get to be whiz kidz.
We’ll never get to be …
We’ll never get to be (can’t get much...
Lacerations for situations, that in the past...
There will never be that feeling while he contemplated over the meaning of life and its secrets. Instant messaging escapades promised that the paranoia would pass and the winter would bring a gift that would censor and blind into a computer. The tears out of his eyes explained everything that was on his desktop.
She was no longer around to hear the world. A landfill of hope would tell her that...
January 2010
12 posts
Afghan-Russian War (Vintage Poster)
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A Sketch Part 26
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Growing Old to Wave Goodbye
Out the window of Mama Mia’s the trees used to wave so fastwith building after building on a cold night in November.
Now the trees can only wave goodbye. For a couple minutes, I remembered my childhood, when this restaurant was a mecca for Friday nights. My mom and dad were sharing a bottle of wine and my sister and I were spending all of our change on the jukebox again. Behind that glass modern...
A Sketch Part 25
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The Modern Disease
I kneeled over to check and see how muddy I had just gotten my shoes. It had been raining for a good hour before I decided to take a walk. Everyday for about a month now, I would step out of my house through the backyard, and take a seat next to Bridgette. I was generally pretty high most other times, and had no trouble making it.
Tonight, I just shook the whole way out here with my friends not...
A Sketch Part 24
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Looking For A Hoodie That Fits
Concord is where I grew up. I grew up with a Notre Dame hoodie on.
J.D. Salinger kept my attention best. my feet were steady, growing up.
The creek behind my house was where I found
silence.
My socks would brown from that creek water.
My limbs were always cold. My hoodie
was just to thin to withstand it. The blue in my hands would make me hope for summer.
Fawn Haven is home for me now....
A Night With The Hitchcocks
so what if i have a story. even a story of rock ‘n roll has been told and sold and spat back to the slave trade and gray race, and all the love we had: nights where weekends were spent in our best friend’s basement. it took some time to realize that no one was truly satisfied. change of a street name and I had a bad headache from the night before, and that is why you run away. nazi...
Winter In Kent, Ohio
North Eastern Ohio, the state of mind I find myself in ninety-nine percent of my life. All the limbs on the trees look thin, you can see the wind brisk through them. Smoke pours from the mouths of people running to their cars, from the town grocery store.
Down 43, Summit Street to Campus Loop, Rhodes Road the only home I know. Work the long five hour shift. Selling cigarettes for the nicotine...
Praying Mantis
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Floor Boards
He stood, shaking, centered with his focus on the floor boards. He couldn’t figure out why the holes in the bottom of the base board were so loud. At first, he had thought that the noises were coming from outside or perhaps downstairs. But just minutes ago, he had run to the window and frantically looked around for a weed whacker, a loud engine, anything that would silence his nerves while...
Audio: Out Of The Window (G. Gordon)
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December 2009
1 post
Social Media 2.0 is Dead and so are you 3.0 and...
The claim is that Social Media 3.0 is already here and like landing on the moon, 4.0 is not too far off. With that being said, I would like to be one of the first to state that Social Media 2.0 is dead. Kind of like when Kurt Cobain stated, “Punk Rock is Dead,” wearing it as a publicity tool on T-shirts without ever really meaning it or having any understanding of what it really...
November 2009
9 posts
Audio - Back Up For My Back Up by Lyle Machine &...
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Audio: Stand By Me (King)
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A Sketch Part 23
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At The Playground
I am not sure what year it was. Although, I am pretty sure it was 1988. There was a playground at the Heritage Elementary School. Actually, there were two playgrounds. There was one at the top of a hill. It was old. There were tire chippings that smelled like tires. They laid in the bed of the playground set. My guess was always this - tires needed to be recycled, so they became a wonderful...
One More Day
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Nights Spent Doing Teleservice
In a four-story building, on the corner of East Main and South Water streets, there is a dingy, dull painted, stuffy office space. It truly is an “office space.” There are precisely four walls. They were painted by the staff that occupies the space. It was someone’s unique decision to put a mix of white wash and blue paint together. The streaking of the watered down white wash made the room look...
A Sketch Part 22
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About Girls
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“About Girls” - the...
October 2009
5 posts
August 2009
1 post
I will be back soon . . .
July 2009
12 posts
My Device (Sussex)
Here it comes! Wait, it is already here.
Splinter cells, worker bees, call them what you will. The American Class Worker is what it has always been most commonly referred to as. The future state of the U.S., with healthcare reform, the globalized market, and dependence on foreign nations, will indeed take the next generation of the American Class Worker on a ride like never before. This was addressed in an ideological sense in a...
Flight 546
In my ears I heard Thom Yorke say, “I don’t wanna be your friend, I only want to be your lover.” As I researched the contours of one’s left arm, the arm of an aging twenty-something woman, whose finger nails were colored with chipped brown polish, I began to think of this individual, seated in front of me on flight 546 from Columbus to Raleigh. She was asleep in such an...
24 Part One
He had been seen at the south end of the local newspaper loading dock rummaging through cigarette disposal units wearing latex gloves, removing cigarette butts and slowly treading back to his apartment, which is aptly enough a half-way house.
He would return to his dimly lit one room dwelling, break the butts, separate the tobacco from its paper cartridge and filter. After the tobacco was...