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Google+ is Here!

Hey everyone! Tonight's post is just a very quick sidenote. I just started using Google+ the other day, and I don't know too much about it yet, but so far it looks like a cleaner, more user-friendly version of Facebook. One of my favorite features is the ability to videochat with a whole bunch of friends at the same time (more users than any other free website or software I've ever seen before.)

The demand Google has been receiving for Plus accounts has been very high, so they currently are still not allowing new users to just register for an account on the website. In order to get an account, you must be invited by a current user and follow an invitation link that they can send to you; all they need in order to invite you is your e-mail address.

If any of you would like me to send you an invitation, I'd be more than happy to do so. All you have to do is just submit a comment on today's blog entry with your e-mail address. Whether you're a regular follower of Artistic Resistance, or you just stumbling on this page for the first time, I always love to have new readers, as well as those of you that have been keeping up with the blog for quite a while now. It's always a good feeling when I run into someone and they mention something about my blog, so thank you all for that. I'm really determined to start writing on here a lot more now. I know I've said that before, but I've just been so busy recently with a lot of different things going on to keep me more than occupied. Please come back, and spread the word!

Once again, if you would like me to send you an invite to Google+ all you have to do is leave a comment on today's post with your e-mail address (some people have been asking, it does NOT have to be a Gmail account.) Also, if you know of someone else that's been waiting for an invite, feel free to refer them to Artistic Resistance and I'd be happy to set them up with one as well.

Hope you all have a really great week, and I promise you'll be hearing from me again at least once before the end of the week. If you guys are interested in me making a post specifically about Google+ (whether it's a general overview, or a tutorial, etc.) please let me know in the comments below, and if there's enough interest in the topic, I'd be happy to do that for you guys.

Music Monday

This track was just leaked by Mike Posner who has apparently been working on some sick covers in the studio lately. Below you'll find a link to listen to his cover of Coldplay's 'The Scientist' in its entirety.

The Scientist (Mike Posner Remix) by jarcher28

First Love

The following is quite possibly one of the most charming things I've ever seen in my entire life.. If these two don't end up getting married, I'm going to lose the entirety of my faith in humanity. Their names are Elliott and Bowie.

Mea Culpa

"And I don't remember the exact moment everything changed, I just know that it did. One minute I was impenetrable; nothing could touch me. The next, my heart was somehow beating outside my chest, exposed to the elements. Loving you has been the most profound, intense, painful experience of my life. In fact, it's been almost too much to bare..."

- Hank Moody

I want to be a lost poem in a stranger's coat pocket, that conveys the importance of you; to assure you of my desire, to assure you of dreams. I want all the possibilities of you in writing. I want to give you your reflection. I want your eyes on me. I want to travel to the lightness with you and stay and there and I want everything before you to follow us like a trail behind me. I want never to say goodbye to you; even on the street corner or the phone. I want so much.. I'm breathless. I want to put my power into a poem to burn a hole in your pocket, so I can sew it. I want my words to scream through you. I want the poem not to mean that much, and I want to contradict myself by accident, and for you to know what I mean. I want for you to be distant and for me to feel you close. I want endless day when it's day and nighttime never to end when it's night. I want all the seasons in one day. I want the sun to set before us and come up in front of us. I want water up to our waists and I want to be drenched by the rain up to our ankles with holes in our shoes. I want to think your thoughts because they're mine. I want only what's urgent with you. I want to get in the way of the barriers and I want you to be tough when you're supposed to, like you do already. And I want you to be tender, like you do already. And I want us to have met for a reason, and for that reason to be important. And I want it to be bigger than us, I want it to take over us. I want to forget, I want to remember us. And when you say you love me, I don't want to think you really mean New York City, and all the fun we have in it. And I want your smile always, and your grimaces too. I want your scar on my lips, and I want your disappointments in my heart. I want your strength in my soul and I want your soul in my eyes. I want to believe everything you say.. and I do. And I want you to tell me what's best when I don't know. And when you're lost I want to find you. And when you're weary, I want to give you steeples and cathedral thoughts, coliseum dreams. I want to drag you from the darkness, and kneel with you, exhausted with the blinding light blaring on us.

New Year Through the Same Eyes

So it's a new year, isn't it? Which brings across thoughts of memories past, moments not yet experienced, maybe a couple resolutions.. just lots of thoughts I guess. I'm on Long Island for a little while now; a couple weeks I guess. I've been doing my best to keep up with my creative writing (my poetry, prose, etc.) and I'm thinking about looking into doing a LI reading but I'm not sure yet. The NYC readings have gone so well that I'd really like to keep up with doing these readings.

Some people who follow the blog have been asking me to add some of the new material on here. I'm not sure if I'm going to do that yet. I might want to keep the material fresh for readings for a little while first. Whether or not I do a reading on Long Island before I head back to Manhattan, I'll definitely be reading in the city soon. I'm trying to work out as many cool places as possible, so I promise you'll all be the first ones to know about that, and if you're going to be in the NYC area I'd love to have you there. The reading at Kouzan was an incredible experience; the love and support I received there from friends, loved ones, colleagues, and mentors was just overwhelming, in the best way possible. Not to mention, having our own private room in such a nice venue was a great set-up for us.

So with all of that being said, please continue to check back and look for updates on either my writing, or the other material and issues I discuss on the blog. If you haven't already, please take the time to officially become a follower (it's super easy and quick, I promise.)

One last thing.. a lot of people have been asking me what I've been reading lately since I haven't blogged specifically about any particular books lately. I'll probably be finishing Kerouac's 'Big Sur' by the end of Tuesday I believe. That's another great book of his, I'll make a separate post about that, so I won't get into it now. In the meantime I've also started reading some of Marcel Proust. Him I could probably blog about for a month, there's a lot of everything there between his personal life and his written work.

Happy New Year, I wish you all the best in 2011.. health, happiness, success, and so much more.