So good it hurts

I'll admit it. I'm a pretty uncomplicated guy. If you take my pseudo-philosophical musings (read: bullshit) and set them aside, you'll be faced with a simple man--not in the sickeningly trite Steve Miller Band song sense, though. Just the earthy, organic, and hopefully genuine way. Lacking such complexity, it follows that my pleasures are just as simple. I've spent so long concentrating on problems I've been confronted with over the past half-year or so that I rarely mention what makes me happy. So, in lieu of faux intellectual depth, I'm going to talk about the little pleasures that I relentlessly pursue.

Music: I'm fairly certain that if humankind shook off the whole supreme-being idea, there'd be a powerful and influential church of music. With all due respect to literature and art, music is, to me at least, the single most apt medium of emotion. Something in its auditory nature invokes my muse, improving my own literary exploits. Unfortunately, I'm only a mediocre musician, but that's improving. While I'll probably never be able to sing very well, my bass-playing is improving quite a bit. Sometime this summer, I will hopefully get my hands on a Rickenbacker. It's truly the quintessence of German musical engineering. My Thunderbird is definitely adequate for what I'm doing now, but if I do start doing gigs, I'm going to need something a little more up to snuff. Which reminds me, can someone name a few good blues/blues-rock songs? Blues bass more fun to play than I anticipated.

People: I'm drifting back to my old humanist ways. I've returned to looking for goodness in others. I can't say I'm the perfect idealist; I'll admit that for every person with an ocean of good within them, there's a score of shallow wells. I'm happy to say that I've found a few of the aforementioned oceans, and they've all been valuable and true friends. For some reason, though, I don't feel like I come off as the friendly type. I think some people find me intimidating. Oh well, I'll put a positive spin on that and purport to have hidden depths. Nothing like a little self-aggrandizement, eh?

Comedy: Perhaps I'm not the joker I used to be, but I still love to laugh and make others laugh. I wrote a stand-up routine once, but I doubt its quality. Laughing has always come easily to me, even when not appropriate. Perhaps this is why I'll always pick a stupid comedy over an overwrought drama. At least I'll laugh a bit at the immature humor.

Well, that's all I feel like talking about. I have more pleasures, but I'll start getting political or philosophical. Or I'll start talking about how much I like the sins of the flesh. All of them. Tonight is not a night for such things, though.

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Soundtrack:
DARE - Gorillaz - Demon Days
You'll Be Sorry - The Greenhornes - Dual Mono
Send Me Your Money - Suicidal Tendencies - Lights... Camera... Revolution!
Caress Me Down - Sublime - Sublime
We All Look Elsewhere - The Classic Crime - Albatross