Author: David Schwarm

  • Born in the USA

    Last night, Jack and I listened to Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA album while playing with legos. Jack is getting fairly amazing at Legos. BITU is much better then the hits – there are some really great lyrics, the album moves very cleanly, and the entire evening was a raging success. Putting a turntable in his room may not make his life infinitely better, but it has dramatically improved mine. I am now able to hang out in his room playing anything forever.

    Amazing what a little music can do.

  • Head Sets :: 02005-10-19

    fell asleep before it came on, which is likely a massive drag because last week ruled so much.

  • Changing Morning Routine

    I get up every morning at 3:47. I make coffee. I feed cats. I feed fish. I unload dishwasher. I load dishwaher. I move the laundry around. I surf the web. I blog. I write in my journal. I keep a gratitude list. I read DR, ADAAT, Qur’an. I type three prayers as fast as I can. I shower. I iron. I get dressed. I pack my gym bag. I get a to go cup of coffee. I drink four glasses of water. I put away blankets.

    I do all this stuff almost every single morning. it is tiring. but is a good habit to get into.

    Lisa has started to jog on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday – she plans to do Yoga on Tuesday and Thursday.

    this will have an impact on my morning routine. I will need to make some modifications – but I am not sure what or how. I think that it is important to have a flexible schedule – I need to be able to move around freely and do the things that I need to do, yet having a routine is something that I really cling to. I am not sure how I will adjust – evenings are hard for me because I am so tired when I get home – maybe I can get in the practice of making coffee when I get home – but even then I do have a lot going on during the week.

    Monday is library night, Tuesday is Softball night, Wednesday is Lisa’s Weight Watchers & walk with Fabia night, Thursday is Pumpkin patch, Friday is something else…

    need to find more flex time.

  • "Comments are more interesting then the book…"

    Peggy picked up Hawthorne’s Blithdale Romace from the Deidrich’s Free Library. She asked me if the notes in the book were mine. I do not know, but I said yes – because in all probability they are. She then said that the comments were more intersting then the book.

    To me that is somehow an insult. She is trying to get inside my head, to figure me out, she is trying to take some of my wisdom away – or something. It is a very basic fear – it comes up with out me even thinking about it.

    I have a closeness to literature – I mean that I take it very very seriously – I really care about it. When someone has access to my deepest thoughts about something that I care about, I fear that they are going to take something from me. Even if it is something that I am giving away. Even if it is something that should bring my joy.

    Peggy was not being judgemental. She was happy and having fun. I need to remember that the other persons perceptions are most likely more correct then mine.

    Also, I wrote those comments for someone else – some ideal rereader. I did not write them for me because I never go back over anything that I read. Maybe I should start – maybe I should start paying more attention to the literature in my life and what it may mean the second time around.

  • Reading List :: October 18, 2005

    1. Autobiography of a Yogi
    2. New Yorker
    3. last night a dj saved my life

  • BP :: PJ36

    #This is some bad poetry from a journal that has a pink bandana cover. It starts with a
    #newspapaer clipping dated June 2, 1989

    Inward See – Leonard Nimoy
    Cannot be me even with teh ind meld; for the eye, however cannot completely represent a reality. How could adding more senses improve this condition. In fact, the existance of a universal spiritual sense, no matter how improbable, would not prevent this from being true. Accept it Mr Jones, there is something happening that your understanding can never keep up with and honesty is the only salvation because the changing face of truth will always be more clear then the be pimpled face of fiction

    Bad Lit with Big Pring Part III

    Fiction is false by it nature
    Truth rejects it

  • BP :: PJ35

    #This is some bad poetry from a journal that has a pink bandana cover. It starts with a
    #newspapaer clipping dated June 2, 1989

    The narrator must be trusted, from him comes the entire tale. Seeing his flaws ins one thing – adding reasons to them is something altogether different. However, the writers often manipulate narration by foolish dsavowels of the word – i.e. the word does not create the reality it reflects, points, directos towards a ‘Reality’ – for there is no such thing as referential language – in fact, things are simply and entirely things and can be symbolic only for themselves. Thus writers manipulation of narration servers absolutely no purpose. Write the honest truth. Speak for yourself. Personify nothing, but yourself for it is easy to become lost in ideas, rather than the

  • BP :: PJ34

    #This is some bad poetry from a journal that has a pink bandana cover. It starts with a
    #newspapaer clipping dated June 2, 1989

    Boots the dog Bark Bark
    can be bribed Money and
    with peperoni food,
    Yet you shall Bible
    still be accosted Thumpers
    On the way in return
    Still more
    six liners and
    Haikus

    American verse
    platonic love
    Clarol Womyn
    50’s verse

    Is blown apart as
    the univers inhales again
    and the lines of verse run
    end to end unlike
    The lines of highways
    built in the ’40’s
    or disjointed versification
    found in the 90’s

    Three lines Rain
    In a row connecting
    not parrallel sky and lake
    more then
    Rainbows ever
    could

    wood greet
    destroyed by the morning
    the hail Trees
    Frozen in blocks
    of ice
    under

    The knees of the driver
    as the avalanche
    slowly passes by
    faster then a train
    yet slower
    then the clicking of teeth
    removes teh metality of
    the metaphorless
    society
    Born Anew

  • Fortune Cookie :: October 17, 2005

    Never let an opporunity pass you by

  • BP :: PJ33

    #This is some bad poetry from a journal that has a pink bandana cover. It starts with a
    #newspapaer clipping dated June 2, 1989

    Lisa and I are in a movie theater when 12 or so punks sneak in a side door off to the left 20 or more security guards rush in and escort them out – one, who looks like a cia man, rushes over and shots a man directly in front of us – Lisa does not look shocked. Another man breaks in the exit door – the gaurds see him – he rushed the shot man and blasts him two more times. The gaurd – blond haired Slavis youngster – examines the young man who jumpts up laughing and runs past us out the exit. I see LIsa is not bothered. I start screaming, laughing, carrying on. When the first assasin walks in, sits next to us. Says “you’re dead” and walks away. I run after him begging – saying “I’ll do his act, please don’t kill me” He laughs and hands me a cigarette – we walk toghether through the parking lot smoking.

    Mary the colored girl carved a man with a casorol lid. Carved him good for calling her a name mayber there would be less metaphors
    if
    more people acted
    like this
    Smashed a man with a
    muffler for keeping her time
    robbing her money