two months later...a new offering
Current mood: artistic
Category: Writing and Poetry

so, it's not much but it's a start. i present the first thing i have written in two months and two days:

live this

closed
reach through ether to feel the seas of green
connectivity, immortality
no longer the number assigned but
the name repeated a thousand times
on a thousand tongues in linguistic worship
as if the words themselves held physical substance
to be gathered like grain
and feed the vast hunger of the mind

opened
i empty out into the sink, vestige of loose water
pouring from my face through the sieve of soul
so many pinprick holes, the true death
of a thousand cuts
the animal inside tires of hibernation, snarling
darting and daring directional shift
the whole of a life…changing lanes and going in a different direction
and yet still more noble than no direction at all

time bombs have such clarity…the peace of potential
a silence both deafening and telling, not quite fear yet wholly afraid
wise only with the knowledge of catastrophic end results
and the perpetual ticking off a clock somewhere in the background
of every moment
in every action

there is something real out there
there has to be something real out there
what the fuck is all of this for if we are only ghosts?

-woodley williams, jr.

Currently listening : Live a Little By Big Kenny Release date: 2005-03-01

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IT HAPPENED AGAIN!!!
Category: Life

so, once again for the last couple of days i have been without internet. apparently one of the technicians for at&t u-verse unplugged my connection and plugged in someone else! that also means we missed the debate last night. we watched old episodes of 'firefly' instead. oh well...kinda puts a cramp in my elimination of misanthropy plan. hope all is well and i'll get back on a little later after work.

i love you!
woodley

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that was the weekend
Current mood: cultured
Category: Life

all right…we're back from our trip to see the dandy warhols. it was by far the best live show i have ever seen! i've always found bands that have been around for awhile to be rather cold and almost on cruise control in concert, but the dandy's are really crowd friendly and even played requests from the audience. they evolve older songs so they don't sound all stale…we all had a great time  the venue was pretty cool too. it was set in an old theatre rather thaan a boring colleseum setting, so i was highly impressed. if they come anywhere near you it is definitely worth going.

also, for all the college football fans out there…holy crap! this was an interesting weekend, and i'm loving my sooners being on top where they belong  we caught the last quarter of the usc game that started off all the under dog wins.

i still haven't started writing again, but as soon as i get back in the 'happy monkey' mode i'll send up some offerings. it's not that i can't, i just don't really want to right now. it's almost like when i write i start ignoring everything else in my life, so as soon as i can find a happy medium i'll jump back up on that pale horse.

anyways, i won't gush on (especially without candy for the waiting)…but i'll be back on soon. ttyl!

woodley

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holy crap!
Current mood: bitchy

all right...so, the whole internet thing? just came back on today! some of you may have been visited by at&t about their new u-verse system. it's essentially cable/internet/phone that costs a bunch less than cable. genny talked to the door-to-door rep and after a couple of hours decided to go with it. they came out and installed on friday...couple of bubbles...no hd service and my daughter's converter box wasn't working, but no prob! should be on in a few hours.

so saturday we call in and say that the hd and box still aren't working. at&t proceeded to completely disconnect our service for the next four days while they fumble-fucked a way to work it out. i missed my football, i had no internet, genny missed heroes...fucking everything! i know, it's petty to whine about something like that, but if we had known there would be such a big problem and this much stress, calling at&t and talking to a bunch of numb-skulls that didn't know what the fuck they were doing...we probably wouldn't have signed up in the first place.

oh yeah, and we found out what the problem was. we live on 38th place. the initial order had our address as:

"38th place"

but the order for the hd and second box read:

"38 place"

that was it. a 'th' shut down at&t for four days. anyways, i'm back back now lol! plus i have this week off. on friday the fam and i are going up to lawrence kansas to see the dandy warhols! i'm so excited i think i just peed a little ;)

anyway, ttyl!

woodley

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i’m back
Current mood: hopeful
Category: Life

hey all! my comp died a few weeks ago but my new comp is up, running, and awesome! it actually does what i want it to do and loads myspace with no probs, so hey! neat buttons :) i actually got it a couple of weeks ago but had to wait to get the new wireless router, etc., so the internet was kind of spotty. i guess it took some time to get up the courage to get back on myspace too. i felt like i had changed somehow and it got a little dark for me for awhile. this morning i feel better (plus i woke up before i was due at work, so that helps).

so, you probably have forgotten about me, and hell...with this time away i've kind of forgotten myself. i'm not quite ready to put that sockmonkie face back on but when i start writing again the jumpy little simian will surface surely.

last time i was on we had lost both of our managers and the future was pretty unclear. we had a manager from another store transfer over to my store. i have worked with him before and he is an awesome leader, so we all look pretty good when he does his thing. i have been working six-day weeks which is great for overtime but kills my social existence, not to mention my sleep cycle and chipping away at my warm gooey sanity.

so that's my story...same shit, different day. i'm looking at going bacck to school or something. i feel personally stuck in a rut...don't quite know what to do at this point. i think i want to be a teacher (which i think is a pretty cool way to go). anyway, will be back on soon and will try to get through all the backed up space-mail. i love you all!

woodley

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top of the morn’...
Current mood: blessed
Category: Writing and Poetry

this morning

a challenge to describe the morning
with the sun slowly pushing through a horizon of trees
hampered only by the mist of twilight
so the glow reaches every corner missed
there is no better time of the day
but this is hardly descriptive

how about this morning?
is it any better or worse than its predecessors?
who am i to say, for i did not bask in their arrival
i did not watch them awaken into this day
like i am watching this day become
i was not there for their birth
so how can i triumph in their fruition?
as far as any concern allows
they were other's bastard children

but this morning, i can claim a piece of her
as the azure of countenance
spreads its will across a naked sky
what is yesterday less that which happened
in the past
tomorrow is happening right now…
a destiny shared; we both watch each other
break into the hope of a fresh new day, see?
the light finally clears the darkness
cleansing shadowed cobwebs from the sleeping world

-wood williams, jr.

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hey all!
Current mood: peaceful
Category: Life

so, i actually woke up early this morning and have an opportunity to blog. work's still the same...actually it just got worse last night. my district manager called me and apparently we have lost yet another manager from our store. that makes two down in as many weeks. it also leaves us with two left and more overtime. it looks like i'll be lucky to get one day off this week...i've already lost one.

i miss you all. i miss writing and getting up early, seeing the sunrise. i miss getting into word-play wars on navworks. i miss the feeling you get when you write something really good and just sit back needing a smoke. hopefully the stars will align and i might get to work more mornings. it's so much more peaceful than staying up late at night. my head buzzes so awfully with words and images and noise...it's just so very hard to get past. but this morning is beautiful, clean...like a new slate. in fact i think i'll write something and post it here in a bit.

so much for starving artist...all this overtime's gonna' go stright to my thighs :)

i love you,
stupid batman

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my god i am so tired
Current mood: exhausted
Category: Life

i'm still knee deep in work. one of our managers quit this week and i have had to make up the slack for his absense. today is my day off, so i'm only having to work eight hours lol! there's been a lot of schedule confussion, like me closing the store last night and opening it this morning. stack my meds on top of that and i really don't know if i'm coming or going. i'm sitting here minutes from leaving the house and i can hardly keep my eyes open.

anyway, suffice to say i haven't been spending a lot of time online at all, much less writing. i actually have a few minutes today so i'm sending this blog. i certainly hope something gives soon or i might break...i'll try to get on later when i get off, but it's a rare opportunity to spend time with my family so i will probably do mostly that. i love you all and hope to be back to true form soon.

-woodley

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when i awoke...
Current mood: pirate
Category: Writing and Poetry

...this popped out:

hooray for our side

cold waves all crashing like a business
identical and relentless
pounding knees that buckle for the distress
pushing through the tide as a sickness

holy water pouring from a bloody brow
is it innocent or an incident
it can purify but i've forgotten how
where sacred meets the sacrament

all i ever really needed to know
i've learned it well from an atom bomb
cleansing in molecular arrangement
it's the baptism from the men who learned how to become a

god

and he's sitting there like a twelve-year old
holding sparklers on the forth of july
any push will do, any monkey could
flip a switch and let salvation fly

it's a holy war, it's a holey war
gaps filled with rhetoric and human glue
don't rock the boat while the masons work
you hold that brick well while it holds you

-wood williams, jr.

Currently listening : Fight With Tools By Flobots Release date: 2008-05-20

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exit stage left
Current mood: quixotic

a friend and i have been messaging back and forth and she mentioned she was born the same day redd foxx died. this suddenly sparked a piece of useless trivia (like 85% of my brain is filled with it)…it brought back the tragic and oddly amusing story of the death of redd foxx.

those of you who know who redd foxx is need no explaining, but for those who do not he is one of the rare comics who pushed past the barrier of being just a 'comedian' and became an institution, much in the way people view richard pryor or lenny bruce. he is one of those founders of the feast, a man who made little compensation for his monumental effect. to go through his list of accolades would not do justice, for most of what he did is on par with going the zoo and seeing a bunch of dogs and chickens and one really cool lion caged up in the middle of it all. why would you go back even if just to see the lion? i will make one exception: sandford and son. that show was awesome and years ahead of it's time.

anyway, through lame gigs and getting screwed making everyone around him rich, drug and alcohol addiction, and finally having all of his assets seized by the irs he finally broke through (so to speak) with a new television show back in 1991 called "the royal family". he co-stared next to della reese (damn near an institution herself), and the ratings were good. then comes the rub.

on october 11, 1991 he suffered a massive heart attack during rehearsals. the people around him watching him writhe on the floor clutching at his chest stood back laughing and waiting for the punch line. it was one of the best jokes ever…total commitment, rapture, eventually consumed by an involuntary act that was only received with that which you live your life to hear…laughter. the punch line never came, or maybe it did…perhaps building oneself to a point that death is the final cymbal crash is a punch line in itself, if not a punctuation on a longer running joke of life.

i've always wondered about that, how it was a damned shame no one felt the need to help, but then again as time goes by i realize that it was not only fitting, but perfectly so. and now we have a story to tell each other about a great man.

and now perhaps you might even remember the magnificent death of redd foxx.

kisses chickies!
stupid batman

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