Whisky and Ginger Ale are Afternoon Cocktails (830 hits)
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Submitted by someone (View user info) at 2005-04-13 12:53:59 EDT
Note: This is the last of these angsty, stream-of-conciousness type entries I've been doing. I'm just trying new shit and this is the result of the last few months of winter-induced depression along with personal aspects of my life. It's spring now, so this will wrap everything up. Thanks for reading!!
Part One-http://www.ubersite.com/m/61335
Notes: http://www.ubersite.com/m/61814
Notes: http://www.ubersite.com/m/62078 (format is fucked on this one)
Part Two-http://www.ubersite.com/m/62580
Part Three (final)
Should drinking an ice-cold glass of whisky and ginger ale at preciously 12:30 in the afternoon be considered a problem? I'm concerned for my physical self, but mentally, I'm totally prepared, my brain has hit massive academic evolution in the past year and as far as I'm concerned I need at least two of these drinks per hour just so can stay at the same universe as you cretins.
Yesterday, I polished off 80 percent of the whisky-solution, and wrote three pages of a book no one will ever read, then wrote two pages in two different journals for two very distinct lives. Afterwards I finished Catcher in The Rye for the second time this year, and also read a few pages of Farewell To Arms and The Great Gatsby at the recommendation of the great phony D.B. This was all accomplished with a musical backdrop of Way To Blues: An Introduction To Nick Drake. I figure if your going to dive fully into temporary depression with a hope of something twisted and creative coming out of pen onto paper, then Nick Drake and whisky and J.D. Salinger ought to do the trick, as well as total seclusion for the better half of the day.
The downside is waking up a half mile from your house sleeping against a steering wheel, sun streaking across a battered interior and pale skin telling you 'wake up'. And so you do, slowly at first, and drive back home, doing your best to ignore the clothes, music, books, and crumbled dollar bills strewn throughout the car, telling you to keep going, but the clock reads 9:30 and class starts in three hours, so that solitary road trip across the world and away from friends, family, expectations and failure, happiness and depression, well it's going to have to wait a while. Maybe next lifetime I'll realize that I gotta break the eternal circle and experience a week or month or year of enlightenment, but today...class and maybe some homework.
This is happening, more frequently now, the writing is reaching perfection, in terms of madness anyways, and every day I wake up to a room torn apart or a car piled with empty suitcases or letters to friends and family explaining in detail bills to be paid, things to be sold, notebooks to box away for another half of a life.
I forgot to mention what keeps me here. My connections with hipsters and idealists, my movie projects, drunken madness debating life and death and heros and enemies, marijuana heaven with long walks seeing the connection with life and death and me and you and everything and nothing. Of course family, and doing my best to restore a once-perfect-now-shattered GPA, so I can feel some sort of self-worth and satisfaction, and this will semester will be the start, a 4.0 average is and will be maintained provided I can stick in this disaster for three more years. Three more years...can I take it?
Everything I wrote last night I read this morning and threw away. Drunken nonsense and hopeless ideals.
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Submitted by AnotherStupidUsername (user info) at 2005-04-14 15:54:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
It's too bad, I liked this series.
Submitted by Conform (user info) at 2005-04-14 15:45:45 EDT (#)
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Holla!!
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2005-04-14 10:36:51 EDT (#)
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Thanks. I'm glad you took the time to read them.
Submitted by Dannie (user info) at 2005-04-13 22:55:12 EDT (#)
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I will read all of these. I'm glad you linked me.
Submitted by mybrainisawaffle (user info) at 2005-04-13 19:16:54 EDT (#)
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Booze takes the pain away.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2005-04-13 15:08:14 EDT (#)
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Ehh, I don't know.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2005-04-13 15:07:52 EDT (#)
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Adam-- You're the second person to tell me that recently. You're right, I won't listen. Don't you think in a way I'm better off finding out for myself?
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2005-04-13 13:45:58 EDT (#)
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cool.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2005-04-13 13:42:01 EDT (#)
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I know exactly what your problem is, but it won't do any good telling you because you won't listen.
You'll see it eventually
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2005-04-13 13:16:41 EDT (#)
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