sarabandegreen's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=sarabandegreen2012-04-20T05:12:31ZSilly Song for the Newly in Love (poetry)http://m.everything2.com/user/sarabandegreen/writeups/Silly+Song+for+the+Newly+in+Lovesarabandegreenhttp://m.everything2.com/user/sarabandegreen2012-04-20T05:12:31Z2012-04-20T05:12:31Z<p>After 2 and a half years of getting over an 8 year <a href="/title/high+school+sweetheart">high school sweetheart</a> type relationship, I found to my surprise that my capacity to be sappy cheesy in love with someone wasn't actually <a href="/title/irradiated">irradiated</a>. Nor was my desire to write, sing and exist on planet Earth.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(<a href="/title/a+cappella">A Cappella</a>)</p>
<p>You say that you love me:</p>
<p>G </p>
<p>Like <a href="/title/alcoholic">alcoholic</a>s love the weekend</p>
<p>C</p>
<p>Like a <a href="/title/Republican">Republican</a> loves himself</p>
<p>Emin</p>
<p>The way the news loves tragedy</p>
<p>D </p>
<p>And <a href="/title/teenagers+love+apathy">teenagers love apathy</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>How monkeys love to fling their poo</p>
<p>Like cats love to meow</p>
<p>The way that fleas adore the pound</p>
<p>The way cows love to moo</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Like <a href="/title/Florida">Florida</a> loves sunshine</p>
<p>Like Oregon loves rain</p>
<p>Like Texas loves <a href="/title/secession">secession</a></p>
<p>Like <a href="/title/New+York">New York</a>ers love to complain.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Like grandparents love <a href="/title/proverbs">proverbs</a></p>
<p>Like mothers love to nag</p>
<p>Like<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Hemingway's Poetry (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/sarabandegreen/writeups/Hemingway%2527s+Poetrysarabandegreenhttp://m.everything2.com/user/sarabandegreen2009-01-26T04:48:18Z2009-01-26T04:48:18Z<p>One of the remarkable things about <a href="/title/Ernest+Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a>, and for that matter, many of the "prose only" <a href="/title/American">American</a> authors of the mid <a href="/title/20th+century">20th century</a>, is the tendency for them to drop little moments of reflective musings into their novels. A paragraph here, a short quip there, and then perhaps an <a href="/title/aphoristic">aphoristic</a> observation. A good bit more than a descriptive device to set up the scene, the particular breed of segment to which I refer is more as if the author had slipped into the world of his novel, <a href="/title/succumbed+to+his+own+creation">succumbed to his own creation</a>, and was <a href="/title/thinking+out+loud">thinking out loud</a> in that little pocket reality without perhaps even realizing it.</p>
<p><a href="/title/Kurt+Vonnegut">Kurt Vonnegut</a>, for example, had this tendency <a href="/title/in+spades">in spades</a>, yet it was most often filtered through <a href="/title/Kilgore+Trout">Kilgore Trout</a>, and was often aggravatingly <a href="/title/self+conscious">self conscious</a>.</p>
<p>For Hemingway, this impulse is expressed in a number of passages, most frequently in <u><a href="/title/A+Farewell+to+Arms">A Farewell to Arms</a></u>, and <u><a href="/title/The+Sun+Also+Rises">The Sun Also Rises</a>.</u> Hemingway's <a href="/title/filter">filter</a> however, was not an <a href="/title/alter+ego">alter ego</a>, but prose. By<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…December 31, 2008 (event)http://m.everything2.com/user/sarabandegreen/writeups/December+31%252C+2008sarabandegreenhttp://m.everything2.com/user/sarabandegreen2008-12-31T17:59:24Z2008-12-31T17:59:24Z<p>Good Riddance 2008, or "<a href="/title/poetry+i%2527ve+written+while+alone+and+feeling+emo">poetry i've written while alone and feeling emo</a>",
is that a dare?
<p>What Goes Up, Must descend,</p>
<p>in a flaming
rage of divine vengeance, apparently.
</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Perhaps joy is the <a href="/title/Hubris">Hubris</a> of the naive.</p>
<p><a href="/title/God">God</a>s always
punish Hubris.
</p>
<p> </p>
<p><a href="/title/life+is+very+long">life is very long</a>, when you're lonely,
he said. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Its even longer when you're <a href="/title/sober">sober</a>,</p>
<p>and when you're sober and lonely...
</p>
<p>well that's what it feels like to approach the
<a href="/title/speed+of+light">speed of light</a>.
</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Fuck You 2008, and fuck the beautiful years you crushed
on your way through, you're welcome no more.</p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>December 28th 2008, Gaza, Act LXXXVII. (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/sarabandegreen/writeups/December+28th+2008%252C+Gaza%252C+Act+LXXXVII.sarabandegreenhttp://m.everything2.com/user/sarabandegreen2008-12-29T05:38:08Z2008-12-29T05:38:08Z<p><a href="/title/Fanatic">Fanatic</a>s,</p>
<p> </p>
<p> have the great ability,</p>
<p> </p>
<p>
to make beautiful things uglier
than anybody.
</p>
<p>To <a href="/title/degrade">degrade</a> their own causes
more fully than any enemy.
</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>So it really isn't about <a href="/title/good+guys">good guys</a> and bad
guys...
</p>
<p> </p>
<p>it's about who has,
</p>
<p>the most fanatics on their side.
</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Many have tried to figure out,
</p>
<p>what made America just,
</p>
<p>(in the <a href="/title/Second+World+War">Second World War</a>.)
</p>
<p>since there's no disputing that they were just.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>But given that America,</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> did the same things unto,</p>
<p>
its <a href="/title/enemies">enemies</a>,
that it claimed to be fighting against.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>(its enemies
for doing...)</p>
<p>It is hard to reconcile <a href="/title/correctness">correctness</a> </p>
<p>with <a href="/title/rightness">rightness</a>.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>I suppose, </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>
In the end, </p>
<p>it <a href="/title/boil">boil</a>s to this:
</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>America,
didn't<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Haand Bryggeriet (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/sarabandegreen/writeups/Haand+Bryggerietsarabandegreenhttp://m.everything2.com/user/sarabandegreen2008-03-02T05:17:20Z2008-03-02T05:17:20Z<p>Haand Brygegeriet, is a <a href="/title/Norwegian">Norwegian</a> <a href="/title/brewery">brewery</a> and <a href="/title/beer">beer</a> of modest, 6.5% <a href="/title/abv">abv</a> strength. Specifically, this brew originates in <a href="/title/Drammen">Drammen</a>, <a href="/title/Norway">Norway</a>. The <a href="/title/spiel">spiel</a> on the back of the bottle informs the prospective drinker that;</p>
<p>Once, every farm in Norway was <a href="/title/required+by+law">required by law</a> to brew its own <a href="/title/ale">ale</a>. All of that ale had a natural smoky taste because it was <a href="/title/kiln">kiln</a>ed by fire and spiced with <a href="/title/juniper">juniper</a> berries. Norwegian Wood, a recreation of that traditional style, is made by the "Hand Brewery"-four guys brewing in their spare time, on an <a href="/title/quantum">absurdly small scale</a>"</p>
<p>So, how exactly does a wood smoked Norweigian juniper beer taste?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>1) Opening and <a href="/title/Aroma">Aroma</a>: the bottle yields a whispering hiss when opened, releasing an immediate scent of forest soil, interwoven with a quasi-<a href="/title/lambic">lambic</a> sourness. Sticking the nose deeper, smoky raisins ala <a href="/title/imperial">imperial</a> stout come forward, while pine begins to develop in the background.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>2) The <a href="/title/Pour">Pour</a>: The beer is quite dark, somewhere<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Record Cleaner (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/sarabandegreen/writeups/Record+Cleanersarabandegreenhttp://m.everything2.com/user/sarabandegreen2008-03-01T00:22:13Z2008-03-01T00:22:13Z<p> Any solution used to clean <a href="/title/vinyl">vinyl</a> <a href="/title/Lp">Lp</a>'s is commonly known as record cleaner. The main <a href="/title/stipulation">stipulation</a>s for an effective record cleaner is that is is <a href="/title/liquid">liquid</a>, and able to wet the vinyl, not bead up on it. The <a href="/title/solution">solution</a> must also be somewhat <a href="/title/solvent">solvent</a>, so as to remove all the dust, dirt, <a href="/title/oil">oil</a>, and other gunk deposited on the record surface and in the <a href="/title/groove">groove</a>s. The liquid solution is applied to the record, allowed to set for a few seconds, and then wiped up with a soft <a href="/title/brush">brush</a>, <a href="/title/carbon">carbon</a> or <a href="/title/velvet">velvet</a> being popular choices.</p>
<p>Debate has raged over the best recipes for record cleaner,
usually at an <a href="/title/arcane">arcane</a>, academic <a href="/title/audiophile">audiophile</a> level. For the purposes of someone who just picked up a stack of vinyl at a <a href="/title/garage+sale">garage sale</a> however, and just wants to play their records, a couple simple recipes are adequate.</p>
<p>For really old <a href="/title/dirty+records">dirty records</a>, you should first wash the record in warm, soapy water, rinsing thoroughly afterwards, and leaving to dry. Remember that this will kill the paper label if you<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…