i have lately been mindful of the sentiment surrounding the song from which the title(s) of this blog are taken. in my innermost thoughts i always portray myself as a slacker in the dave berman/steve malkmus mould but events and experience are wildly at variance with the attendent expectations. i have come to some new terminology for my predicament this morning. i am aggresively indifferent to almost everything that surrounds me. and yet, there is the hard kernel of the real in that "almost" which, alas, i cannot ignore.