Let me be your everlasting light.

"Let me be your everlasting light
A train going away from pain
Love is the coal
That makes this train roll
Let me be your everlasting light"
                The Black Keys - "Everlasting Light"

A playlist I'm currently enjoying the hell out of...erm...um..."a playlist out of which I am currently enjoying the Hell"(???):

1. The Black Keys - Everlasting Light
2. The White Stripes - Black Math
3. Vampire Weekend - Holiday
4. The Unicorns - Jellybones
5. TV On The Radio - I Was A Lover
6. The New Pornographers - The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism
7. Modest Mouse - Heart Cooks Brain
8. My Morning Jacket - Off the Record
9. Panda Bear - Bros
10. Titus Andronicus - My Time Outside the Womb
11. Wolf Parade - Grounds For Divorce
12. Against Me! - Walking Is Still Honest
13. Liars - The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack

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Man...let me be your everlasting light. I am awfully happy to be alive right now. Got some sunshine today. Has been a good week all the way around. Back hurting less. Watching Murray v. Ferrer in Australian Open semis. Murray was playing like shit for a while there but he's come around at this point.

This is a good thing.

Have written little bits of poetry here and there lately. Wanna read some? No? Okay, here it is anyhow:


Trudge through the downpour or
Skip through the shower -
The view is up to you.
Whether the glass is
Half-empty/Half-full
The point is to see
There's a glass there at all.

A light yet remains,
We are not yet the doomed.

To find holy beauty in
one simple kiss. To see
I am not yet consigned to the grave.
To think how I could have been
dead long ago--yet life's but a dream
So onward I row.

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Sitting backwards on the train
the sights retreating from me
Last night dreamt
excessive injections
So waking was the track on which
I fled those bitter longings

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There's a sign outside of a church in North Portland that currently reads, "Trouble with infertility?" followed by information on an upcoming lecture for couples. This served as a catalyst for a wonderful short story idea.

However, it just occurred to me that rather than tell you about the idea for the story...I'm just gonna write the damn story. Good thinking, no?

Hope all is well with you, whoever you are.

Rosswell