Tag: Glassjaw

• All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 27

  “All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.” My namesake, Rainer Maria Rilke, wrote that and it rang true to me. I admitted that I never had the highest opinion of people, for my parents, or myself. Nothing about my parents was ever poetic, it astonished me that they even knew Rilke existed […]

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  September 23, 2022

  All Guests Must Be Announced

  depression, Fiction, Glassjaw, Human Behavior, Memorial Park Boys, Mental Health, Modernity, New York City, Novel, Portishead, Rainer Manning, Rainer Maria Rilke, Relationships, Sean Gabler, The Black Dahlia Murder, XXI Team

• All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 11

  I left Gerry and Ichabod in the lobby and went downstairs to the locker room to get my toothbrush. Obsessive compulsive disorder hits everyone differently. I had more obsessions than I had compulsions. I don’t have tics or count things but I admit I paid close attention to numbers. I tended to seek out patterns. I probably washed […]

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  September 5, 2022

  All Guests Must Be Announced

  Big Pharma, depression, Fiction, Glassjaw, Memorial Park Boys, Mental Health, New York City, Novel, OCD, Queens, Real Estate, St. Dymphna, The Smiths, Upper Class, XXI Team

• Dart Etiquette – Ch. 6

  Soilent Green executed a flawless set. I felt inspired. I didn’t want to chalk it up to being what it was because of the mushrooms, because it wasn’t. Only certain bands have the ability to become larger than life, to conduct an event that might be the closest thing to a religious experience I could […]

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  November 4, 2021

  Dart Etiquette

  Bayside, Book, CBGB, College Point, Converge, Death, Drowningman, Fiction, Floods, Flushing, Glassjaw, graffiti, Hatebreed, Memorial Park Boys, Napalm Death, New York City, Novel, NYC, Pantera, Queens, Soilent Green, The Outsiders, Whitestone, XXI Team