All I Really Want to Do - Bob Dylan

I ain't lookin' to compete with you,
Beat or cheat or mistreat you,
Simplify you, classify you,
Deny, defy or crucify you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

No, and I ain't lookin' to fight with you,
Frighten you or uptighten you,
Drag you down or drain you down,
Chain you down or bring you down.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I ain't lookin' to block you up
Shock or knock or lock you up,
Analyze you, categorize you,
Finalize you or advertise you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I don't want to straight-face you,
Race or chase you, track or trace you,
Or disgrace you or displace you,
Or define you or confine you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I don't want to meet your kin,
Make you spin or do you in,
Or select you or dissect you,
Or inspect you or reject you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I don't want to fake you out,
Take or shake or forsake you out,
I ain't lookin' for you to feel like me,
See like me or be like me.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

Cigarettes in Chicago

Cigarettes in Chicago by Jeremy Heuslein the Blood, pooling

in my mouth, tastes

like the last cigarette

we shared in Chicago

that winter.

hot lungs and cold faces.

It spills out like that smoke,

our breath,

wrapping around flushed cheeks.

then, I see gray eyes change into blue-

clear-winter-sky

and now, brown turn into gray.

i could say i'm Sorry.

I could.

I'm Sorry.

I never should have left

dearborne and kinzie, and

all the old haunts, where

our cigarette smoke still

lingers and sticks to brick,

where you pressed your back,

and held me and spoke and

loved me, many sidewalks ago.

i got lost in another city, somewhere

between fairbanks and ivanhoe,

out of cigarettes and plans.

and dying, dying is taking the Orange line,

out past roosevelt to cicero,

flying from Midway.

Beyond Summer's End

here i stand. at summer's end. i cannot believe it is finally here. one more day, and my ra responsibilities start - my freshmen arrive. it's exciting. i am moving from a summer without 'place' to a definite role in a community. it's interesting to me how much i really need that. that sense of identity reliant on an i-you relationship. it's intensely personal and singular. martin buber, this jewish philosopher, talks about how an actual relation with a you can only happen with an i, not a we. i find that interesting.

summer's end. the swings stop. the notes start.

summer's end. we've made it back, but not all of us.

summer's end. another beginning. hope born again.

end.

reading levinas

everything needs to be rethought.


where has all the transcendence gone?


everything needs to be rethought.

i should be in bed

i should be in bed, but i have been working on yearbook and philosophy. i will be going to bed soon, and it will be enjoyable. i don't know when i will ever have time to write in this blog ever, but who knows. i might try. i like my journal better.

less media. more real.

in attempt to live more fully in the immediate present, i am deleting my facebook. if you need to get in contact with me, i will be keeping both my email and my blog, so you can check out what's going on there, or call, or come and find me. anyways, friends, keep it real.

quotes that i liked - stolen from my about-to-be-gone facebook

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope." - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"We live, as we dream - alone." - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

"We'll always have Paris." - Rick Blaine, Casablanca

"God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him." - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

"They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made..." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"Oh blush not so..." - John Keats, Sharing Eve's Apple

"Death is philosophy's only problem." - Albert Camus

"The leaden circles dissolve in the air." - Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"It is impossible to live without contradiction when you live without God." - G.K. Chesterton

"The heart has its reason that reason knows nothing of." - Blaise Pascal

"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play." - Immanuel Kant

"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit." - Aristotle

"We're having a moment. Don't ruin it." - Raven, The Beast Within

"Goodnight, forever, goodnight, my darling." - Mars is the Tyrant

"Voldemort can't stop the rock." - Harry and the Potters

"College is full of awkward moments...it comes with the sleep deprivation and over priced textbooks." - Amanda Bartlett

"And now Harry, let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure." - Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

"[to Albus Severus] You were named after two great Hogwarts headmasters, one was a Slytherin, and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew." - Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

"Some things tie your life together,
slender threads and things to treasure.
Days like that should last and last and last;
but you've already lost." - Dashboard Confessional, Dusk and Summer

"I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain. It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.
I am a rock, I am an island...
I have my books and my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock, I am an island." - Simon & Garfunkel, I am a Rock

"Tracy: When you can't run, you crawl ... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that...
Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'" - Firefly, The Message

"Everything's dead but the tree." - Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

"Never judge a philosophy by its abuse." - Saint Augustine

"Stay close. It's about to get interesting." - The Doctor, Star Trek: Voyager

"Now the hour has come to part. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot the god only knows." - Socrates, Plato's Apology

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

"Apathy! The subjunctive is dying, and you shrug!" - Carol Miner

"To truly know something is to live it." - Ken Lippold

"And I have to speculate
That God himself did make us into
Corresponding shapes like puzzles pieces
From the clay.

True, it may seem like a stretch,
But it's thoughts like this
That catch my troubled head,
When you're away, when I am missing you to death." - The Postal Service, Such Great Heights

"Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy, but still a man." - David Hume

"The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers." - Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World

"Philosophy: an obsession with the verb to be." - Team Quote, Jeremy Heuslein and Bethany DeMasie

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters." - Seneca