I recently started playing guitar and I think it’s safe to say that I’m falling in love with it. It’s a lot of fun on a different creative level that I haven’t really experienced before. I’m still trying to learn the basics but I feel as though music in general has been opened up to …
Monthly Archive: April 2009
Apr
30
Apr
30
Stunted Growth
Just like every other rugrat rampaging through the elementary playground, I had dreams of what I wanted to be. While others played with stethoscopes and dreamt of sawing into people’s cerebellums for their future occupation, I turned to a much more glamorous and overall better profession: Professional Stuntman. My main influence? Director, producer, screen writer, …
Apr
27
Dear Grace,
Editorial Piece On any given day at the UMass campus, there are millions of interactions between people. During my career here as a student for the past two years, there hasn’t been a day on campus where I successfully stayed in complete isolation. It might actually be statistically impossible considering the 28,000 students crammed like …
Apr
20
Editorial Debut
This is the first of my weekly articles for the UMass Collegian campus newspaper. At first I wanted to build a comfortable reputation as a tasteful and moderate voice for the population… then I realized I was being a huge pansey. Here it is, as straight as I could put it without losing my job. …
Apr
14
Judgement – Part I
I’m currently working on a poem broken into “chapters.” Here’s part I: Spit and sound soar and strike the serving hands and hearts of friends and family, loosening the links of lovers, if not by now long, long, gone. Ludicrous. the bottle aims high to salute the sky unfocusing the brokenness, bending sharp edges with …