A Moment
by I haven't written a journal in a long time.
So as not to upset Ian and disregard his forum, I'll keep it like a diary. I used to keep a diary when I was younger because I read that if you keep a regular journal, your fictional writing improves. I think that was true. Since I stopped keeping a journal (because my stepmother read them, btw), my writing has gone downhill. That's a random thought.
There's a song by Braid called "I Keep A Diary" that's really beautiful. Anyone know it? When I first heard it I thought it was amazing that a man would keep a diary, unless the song title was bogus. Have any e-zabel men kept journals? What did my fellow women write about? I remember writing about guys I liked, what I did that weekend, how my parents made me angry. Then I saw "Heathers" and I thought that was the way a diary was supposed to be kept; like a constant interior monologue to be written while wearing a monacle.
Good movie.
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exactly...only w/o the monocle
never kept a diary. id rather a machine.. stabbed into my head... made a movie out of everything i was thinking that day.. that'd be cool
Whoah you know Braid?!?!?! WHOAHHHH i have only met two people in my life who like Braid, one of whom got me to listen to Braid. WOW. Braid. Braid rules... too bad, too bad
Now you know 4 people who know them,except i don't remember if i was ever into them it's been a billion years and a hald since i even heard that name,, oh yeah and brandon knows braid to, & jay
That's like a handfull of people now that you know who know Braid!
SWEET! .
I have all but two of their albums. I even got a 7" at a show because I couldn't afford a CD but wanted it so badly. Hey Mercedes is pretty cool too, as a remnant. I was in high school when Braid broke up and I sent Chris Nanna (The guitarist) an e-mail saying how cool I thought they were. He wrote me back and said, "Thanks, that really means a lot". I still have that e-mail. :)
Yeah Bob writes back too when you write him haha I asked Hey Mercedes to play at my wedding. My husband has the "rare" video of their (Braid not HM) last few days on tour and interviews and stuff, he used to watch it religiously. It's a good video.
Did they totally say no? How incredible would that be!
Haha i think i still have the email... but he said that they were on tour and stuff so they cudlnt' make it, but he was honored by the request. Haha. Hmm i'm gonna see if i have the email. Oh and there are two bands that my hubby bubby found that sound kinda like Braid that you might know already but if not, here you go - Army of Ponch and Floor. Sound Braidish.
Baha i do have the email:
Wow, thanks a lot for asking. It sounds amazing, but the rest of the the year is really bad for us. We're completely booked! I'm sure you'll be able to find a good band to play. As long as there's no Chicken Dance, Macarena, or Electric Slide, then I think you'll have a lovely time.
Congratulations!
xxoo
bob
I've only heard a few of Braid's songs, but I definitely like them.
hahah. i love my journals. very important things. just chaos though. guys, thoughts on why the world is changing, jehovahs promises, why i act the way i do, what i need to change, what annoys me, what i think changes in other people would make them better, life as i live it, parties, sayings and funny things you do with friends. entries can go about 16 pages (front and back) at a time. i think i think too much.
one reason i stopped writing journals long ago-too time consuming and i was always days behind and i would start forgetting stuff anyway and i would annoy myself w/ being to detailed about stories.
yeah sometimes it annoys me cuz i should be sleeping but i just have to write down what i felt that day who i talked to what i thought about. but i look back at old journals and i just appreciate the detail and the glimpse of my life back then because you don't remember a lot of stuff.
i would write my journals in spanish but w/ greek letters so when my nosy family came around, they would never figure it out.
ha ha, interesting,
I can't beleive all you kids didnt have amazing places to hide these things, what where you thinking!
I never had a journal, I can't spell so i figured what the heck, i dont wanna look back in a few years and be like what does this say? and we all know that is an almost certanty with the way I STILL spell
we DID have amazing places to hide stuff, but we were even more amazing at finding each other's stuff! i got sick of trying to hide it so i had to come up with something else.
i've never had a problem with that. people in my family hand it to me. its not like i'm hiding anything but they know its my own thoughts that they couldn't understand it they tried.
hey you know greek?
only the greek alphabet
oh ok. i tell people i know some greek. i say to them "alpha beta gamma! that means hello." hehe ;)
I kept a journal throughout most of my life, havne't really done it lately but I wish I did! I kept it in a locked little case. One time my brother got in it somehow and I actually... beat him.. It was rough. His friend was over the house and I just pulled my brother into my room and beat him. And his friend was like HOLY CRAP. This was I think.. hmm at least.. I don't even know how many years ago. Probably about 8 years ago.
I started keeping a journal about almost three years ago. It's such an amazing idea because it's a way to vent about anything: boys, stuff that makes you angry, something that made you really happy, something cool you did, trying to figure something out, a feeling you don't understand. Internal monologue is a big part of my journal.
i read somewhere that a journal is good i you're a wirter, so i started to keep one, and you're right, it really does help. i have about 20 lying around here that ive filled up in the last few years
i used to keep a journal online. i dont' know why. that was a really stupid idea. people knew a lot about me, and i didn't even know who they were. i wasn't too clever back then.
live journal was so popular in high school, but no one wrote anything important in there. it was full of all the stupid stuff they did.
keeping journals is great! It lets you get stuff off your chest, without having to confide in a person. That makes me sound like i'm not a very open person, but what i mean is that some things you just can't go around telling to other people...unless you REALLY trust them.
And, in my experiance...not too many people want to hear what you have to say anyway, but the blank pages are more then willing to listen.
i started writing journal entries on the computer around mid-2000. i don't really keep them personal. i was looking thru it, and i've made some changes in the way i talk, pretty interesting. and just recalling back all those good memories made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside lol.
warm and fuzzy like after you've had warm beer?
eww, warm beer is sick...isn't that how they serve it in england?
yeah, bleh, i'm a cold beer drinker.. but i didn't say that.
of course not. why would anyone drink warm beer. duh. who started that stupid rumor??
on the computer? what are you... doogie howser?
no, that's me man
you do kinda look like doogie
nah, i don't have a lock in my room. my door doesn't even close, which doesn't bother me, but i would mind if someone read thru somethin personal like a journal without me knowing.
I kept one for a little while in middle school. i just got bored. or i'd forget to write in it. nowadays i write a lot of key phrases down and story ideas. stories i hear from other people. unique word usages and stuff. i dig coincidences and irony. i love film and screen writing. i do a lot of that. my mind is extremely cinematic. i noticed i write a lot at work. like two legal pad pages a day. of just stuff i hear and story ideas. i better bring it all home before they get lost.
i kept a journal...for about a week. i couldn't keep up with the commitment (wish i did). i used to write a lot of poetry. i would think of some unique phrase during the day and the moment i had a chance to write it down, a little story would come out. it was really cool. but that was a long while ago. i haven't written in a long time. i haven't been very passionate about anything for a long time. i had a brief writing spell a few months back. i believe i posted the story on here. beyond that...nothing. i should write again. i want to write again. i can't wait to see what i say.
that's 0one of the best parts!!! you never know what's gonna end up on the paper or what you were thiinking about til you write it all down.