This Isn’t Meant to Last, This is for Right Now

Last icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 03 from the Broken EP by Nine Inch Nails icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

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Gave up trying to figure it out, but my head got lost along the way
Worn out from giving it up, but my soul I pissed it all away
Still stings these shattered nerves, pigs we get what pigs deserve
I’m going all the way down, I’m leaving today

Come on, you have got to fill me up
Come on, you have got to let me inside of you
Come on, you have got to fix me up
Come on, you have got to let me inside of you

Still feel it all slipping away, but it doesn’t matter anymore
Everybody is still slipping away, but it doesn’t matter anymore
Look through these blackened eyes, you’ll see ten thousand lies
My lips may promise, but my heart is a whore

Come on, you have got to fix me up
Come on, you have got to let me inside of you
Come on, you have got to fill me up
Come on, nothing gets through to you

This isn’t meant to last
This is for right now

I know it’s all getting away and it comes to me as no surprise
I know what is coming to me is never going to arrive
Fresh blood through tired skin, new sweat to drown me in
Dress up this rotten carcass just to make it look alive

Come on, you have got to fill me up
Come on, you have got to let me inside of you
Come on, you have got to fix me up
Come on, you have got to let me get through to you

This isn’t meant to last
This is for right now

I wish I could put the blame on you

I want you to make me
I want you to take me
I want you to break me
I want you to throw me away

Dialectic Trailmix

I loathe bumper stickers and typically regard people who put them on their vehicles as inconsiderate. To my reckoning, an individual’s personality deficiencies are directly relatable to the number of stickers affixed to her car. Yesterday, however, I was stuck behind somebody with only one sticker, and this sticker actually brought me some amusement. It read: God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.

"God wants spiritual fruits not religious nuts" bumper sticker

I was immediately reminded of the only other bumper sticker that has brought me any amount of joy. It was in the same vein as the one above, but highly provocative… maybe even incitant. I have never actually seen it on anybody’s car—I only came across it in a music store that was known to carry some morally ambiguous wares (this store has since gone out of business). I think that if a person actually put this sticker on his car then his insurance policy would be cancelled due to imminent vandalism. Its words were as thought-provoking as they were offensive.

With all the bad parts edited out, the bumper sticker reads: *** * ***** ***** *** *****.

Creative Writing for Assholes 101

From: INSPECTOR.GRANT WATSON <4w3@lalllaaa.ee.tn>
Subject: YOUR CONSIGNMENT BOXES DELIVERY.
Reply to: inspectorgrant945@gmail.com
To: Recipients <4w3@lalllaaa.ee.tn>

INSPECTOR GRANT WATSON
UNITED NATION INSPECTION AGENCY
HART FIELD-JACKSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
ATLANTA GEOGIA,

I am GRANT WATSON Inspection Agency in Harts field-Jackson International Airport Atlanta, Georgia. During our investigation, I discovered an abandoned shipment through a Diplomat from FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA which was transferred from Murtala International Airport. To our facility here in Atlanta, and when scanned it revealed an undisclosed sum of money in 2 Metal Trunk Boxes. The consignment was abandoned because the Content was not properly declared by the consignee as money rather it was declared as personal Effect/classified document to either avoid diversion by the Shipping Agent or confiscation by the relevant authorities.

The diplomat's inability to pay for Non Inspection fees among other things are the reason why the consignment is delayed and abandoned. By my assessment, each of the boxes contains about $4M or more. They are still left in the airport storage facility till today. The Consignments like I said are two metal trunk boxes, the details of the consignment including your name and email on the official document from United Nations' office in NIGERIA where the shipment was tagged as personal effects/classified document is still available with us. As it stands now, you have to reconfirm your Full name, Phone Number, full address so I can cross-check and see if it corresponds with the one on the official documents.

It is now left to you to decide if you are the beneficiary and still need the consignment or allow us repatriate it back to NIGERIA (place of origin) as we were instructed. Like I did say again, the shipper abandoned it and ran away most importantly because he gave a false declaration, he could not pay for the yellow tag, he could not secure a valid non inspection document(s), etc. I am ready to assist you in any way I can for you to get back this packages if only you are willing to work with me with trust. You can either come in person, or you engage the services of a secure shipping/delivery Company/agent that will provide the necessary security. That is required to deliver the package to your doorstep or the destination of your choice. I need the entire guarantee that I can get from you before I can get involved in this project.

Best Regards,
MR GRANT WATSON
INSPECTION OFFICER.
Email :{inspectorgrant945@gmail.com}


The sad thing is that spam mail like this wouldn’t exist if there weren’t people out there that believed everything they read. The MR. GRANT WATSON INSPECTION OFFICER shtick convinces enough dummies to respond with their personal information, and this is why it is worth somebody’s time to write such duplicitous drivel.  Meanwhile, the rest of the world suffers.

It kinda makes you wonder how 999 out of every 1000 emails are about Viagra and penis enlargement, and yet it’s not difficult to infer why this happens: lots of men—and zero women, I should add—actually respond to these messages and divulge their personal details and credit card numbers. If this wasn’t the case then a significant number of crooked schemers on the Internet wouldn’t have anything to show for their efforts. Instead of sending spam mail, they would try to discover a new way to trick people out of their money, or order a Little Caesar’s pizza for breakfast, or watch a Pawn Stars marathon… or maybe apply for a job at ICANN?

We Won’t Let You Slip Away

The Motherload icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 02 from the Once More ‘Round the Sun LP by Mastodon icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

I can see what the world has done to you
I can feel the weight

I can see what this life has handed you
I can feel the weight

This time things will work out just fine
We won’t let you slip away
This time things will work out just fine
We won’t let you leave this way

If you want you can will it, you can have it
I can put it right there in your hands

I can hear what the spirits are telling you
I can clear the weight

I can see all the wolves as they circle you
I can crush the weight

This time things will work out just fine
We won’t let you slip away
This time things will work out just fine
We won’t let you leave this way

If you want you can will it, you can have it
I can put it right there in your hands