Old Southern Sleaze

That old dirty ghost folk gets me every time. Its what it means to be southern and to live in a land of humidity and dirty towns. Sure theres backwards people, but this world is full of that. Theres always going to be 100 assholes for every saint no matter which town you live in and that will never change. I grew up in the south and I looked forward to the day I can jump in my car and drive off away from this dirty nasty place. Get away from the racisim and get away from the hicks travel far away from this all and never look back. However, the older i've grown the more i've realized this is a stupid idea not that I shouldn't get away from the south or that I have some how fallen in love with this land, but I can't deny the fact that there exist an old southern soul still in grained in the atmosphere around here. When I listen to old rockabilly southern ghost rock like that of the Pine Hill Haints or the Caravans I can feel it creeping around in it's own dark mysterious manner. That old southern sleaze... impossible to describe but completely unavoidable when it touches your soul and drags you down with it.

Fountain

Every time a brand new fountain is created someone always comes along... regardless if it's a wishing well or not, and throws coins in it.  Why? why do we feel the urge to toss a coin into a fountain when walking by? Is it a hope of a wish that could possibly be granted? Maybe this fountain will be the one boys lets unload a few quarters in it and find out.  I wonder if that has ever worked out for some poor soul.  I like to think so.  A lone wanderer, whose down on his luck with only one penny to spare decides to toss his lot into the rippling waters in hopes that today will be the day.  Today will be the day his wish will finally come true.

I'm not trying to knock this tradition though... I could really use a wish so maybe today will be my day for a wish and I can graduate out of this school and move onward to the next goal.  I wonder how much money is necessary to appease the wish god of the all mighty fountain waters.  Is it really just a penny or like everything else do you need to pay your dues before any favors come your way?  It doesn't matter to me though my whole backpack is full of coins and one of these better work.

Schools out

Today is the day of my last day of college.  After today I will be finished with school and moving onward to the next step.  I'm looking forward to the adventures ahead of me and hope to keep this blog alive as a somewhat online journal chronicling my awesomeness and ambition as I tackle all of life's wonders and problems as they arise.  How did you feel when you finished school? Did you believe that everything you set your mind to would come true?  That is how I feel.  I guess this is what youth is, our dreams and passions are so vivid right now and have yet to be corrupted or lost along the way.  I hope I never feel "old" and if I do I hope I will never forget that I was once a young man and I wrote crazy things like this on the Internet in the midst of my crazy and anxious ambition.  We'll see what happens and we'll see how things turn out but I'm an optimistic and eccentric human being if life has taught me anything so far, so I'm sure the best will be there for me.  Did I mention Im extremely cocky and sure of myself? Thats somehting I never want to forget too

Been listening to a lot of Bob Dylan lately and it's completely set my soul on fire.  I would have liked to hang out with Bob Dylan when he was my age (Hell I would like to hang out with him now) I know I would have learned a ton and been blown away by his presence even though thats never what he was about.  It didn't matter to him that he was seen as great and visionary poet all that mattered to him was to write his songs and speak his mind and thats easily one of the most honorable traits anyone can have.