May I present, the chronology of the great, the legendary and the mildly handsome… Pete Townshend!

High Numbers at the Railway

Pete as a teen, fresh from playing with Roger Daltrey's band the High Numbers (later becoming the Who), which had also included school friend John Entwistle. This is most likely from the "Birdman" photo sessions that first iconized young Towser. Still firmly planted in the blues, Pete had yet to get into the psychedelic minglings he would produce throughout most of the decade. "My Generation" was only the tip of the submerged iceberg…
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Pretty Cocky Pete

Straight from…

Haven't done one of these for awhile. Life, as they say, has gotten in the way. I went full-time at work, got a new girlfriend and got caught up in things like books and movies. Anyway, here are ten random things that are on my mind:

10. I'm going to be twenty years old in seven days. I'm having a hard time coming to grips with this. On the one hand, I know very well that "me at twenty" will be exactly the same as "me at nineteen"; I pretty much know what lies ahead. It's the past I'm leaving…

I have now seen Prizoner three times and I feel the need to write a journal about them. Let me start out with a little background info for you: Prizoner was formed in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio back in 1980. As they started playing the local bars around Cincinnati, they slowly became an underground favorite and gained a devoted following (my dad was part of this following, seeing them numerous times at a bar called Never On Sunday.) They played mostly covers of bands like AC/DC and Aerosmith. By the time Prizoner finally started getting some attention from the…

When the Apocaly- I mean, the new site layout for Last.fm was revealed, I collectively groaned along with 90% of the other Last.fm users. We all know how much of a backfire there was with the new layout, and I told myself that I would give it a few months to "break in", so to say. Well, after giving the new Last.fm time to grow on me, I have to say…. I STILL HATE IT!!!

Since the overhaul, the noticeable changes in my Last.fm activity are that I:

1. No longer visit the site every day
2. Check out other…

So the basic idea was for Michelle (Prestine-girl) and I to write a poem about each other, in each others' styles, as though we were the other person. So while Michelle attempts to write five stanzas of inane babble that sound really smart, here is my attempt to speak in Michelle's voice! I hope I've done her justice…

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Yep, another one. I forced myself to NOT write a love poem this time, seeing as that seems to be the only subject I can write about these days! This poem is more open-ended, as it's mostly about my outlook on my life as it is right now. There are two distinct voices: the lost little boy and the man on a mission. These are the two personalities I'm struggling with on a daily basis right now.

Inspirations: The Real Me by The Who

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I'm takin' another crack at this poetry thing. I seem to feel better after posting these things, especially after I get encouraging comments back from readers. This particular poem isn't specifically written to one person, though I do have an idea of who'd I'd like it to be for. It's basically written for the girl who I'm going to fall in love with next. As of right now, I'm outta love. But I know there is a girl somewhere who's waiting for me. This is dedicated to her… the girl I've never met…

Inspirations: Don't Cry by Guns N' Roses…

Yeah I wrote another one. Writing poems is addicting; once you write one, you wanna write ten more just to get everything out! Anyway, here's another attempt to convey emotion (or whatever it is that poems are meant to do). I had a little inspiration from two English brothers while writing this one.

Inspirations: Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova, both by Oasis

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So yeah, I haven't written anything in this journal in over a month. The truth is, I haven't had much to say in the past month or so. I wrote these two poems (WHAT, POEMS?! ABOUT FEELINGS AND STUPID STUFF LIKE THAT!??!) to try and explain how I've felt for the past month and a half. I've been singin' the blues, to say the least. Love got me down, as they say. Both of the poems are inspired by a specific song. And yes, that is me in the pictures.

Before I get to the poems, I have to thank…

It's funny how life works sometimes. Just when you think you're on top of the world and everything's perfect, something brings you crashing back down to reality. And just when everything seems lost and hopeless, you find a light in the dark that gives you strength and pulls you back up. Now, those might seem like dramatic statements for the journal I'm about to write, but I feel they're appropriate. So to begin this entry, let me give a little back story on the parties involved:

My girlfriend and I have been together since October of 2005 (about two and…