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		<title>drama</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>muchtomychagrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Music is made up of tiny moments of drama.  Everything has its own gravitational pull.  A chord will want to go to another chord, a melody will yearn to go up or down, a rhythmic figure will want to change.  Part of being a composer is learning to listen for those tiny pockets of drama. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6900379&amp;post=648&amp;subd=muchtomychagrin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>i&#8217;m tired</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not quite sure where my waning attitude is coming from. It&#8217;s not like life has taken me on this crazy rollercoaster of a ride lately where I&#8217;ve had no handlebars to grip and no air to scream. I&#8217;ve had a lot of time to myself, but yet I still feel completely exhausted and I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6900379&amp;post=645&amp;subd=muchtomychagrin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>from what i gathered</title>
		<link>http://muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/from-what-i-gathered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>muchtomychagrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bom diggity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literary therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pen to paper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[potential narcissism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With a little over two months to the end of this year, I have to admit that I&#8217;ve revisited this blog, time and again, to read what I&#8217;ve said before. It&#8217;s a little ghastly that, throughout the year, this blog would&#8217;ve only had about.. three entries, and yet, it&#8217;s the year where life has felt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6900379&amp;post=640&amp;subd=muchtomychagrin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>an open letter to all the generations before me</title>
		<link>http://muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/an-open-letter-to-all-the-generations-before-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 19:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>muchtomychagrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[literary therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oh don&#039;t get me started]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(edited: changed some words, cleaned it up a little. Wrote this initially when I was half-asleep &#8211; the message is still the same though) Dear Baby Boomers &#38; Generation X-ers, Look, I get it. We&#8217;re a bunch of lazy fucks. We&#8217;re unappreciative and we&#8217;re just all about having a good time. We want to do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6900379&amp;post=621&amp;subd=muchtomychagrin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>heritage propaganda</title>
		<link>http://muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/heritage-propaganda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>muchtomychagrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[i dwell too much]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miscellany and nuances]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Shaolin Temple (from Google Images) Whenever I go to the movies with my parents we&#8217;re always and only watching Chinese movies &#8211; mostly historical dramas, or some action film,  but mostly historical stuff. Curse of the Golden Flower, Red Cliff, Hero (which for some reason I don&#8217;t remember the story, verdict on having [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6900379&amp;post=610&amp;subd=muchtomychagrin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The New Shaolin Temple</media:title>
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		<title>frustrations</title>
		<link>http://muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/frustrations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>muchtomychagrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[feeling bloo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate it when words don&#8217;t do their job and when I read things like : &#8220;Life is too short to be taken seriously&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean anything until I experience loss and grief, or when I can actually see death. I hate that when I&#8217;m frustrated, I get morbid. I hate that I&#8217;m a control [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6900379&amp;post=599&amp;subd=muchtomychagrin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>to wrap up 2010</title>
		<link>http://muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/to-wrap-up-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[immense and immeasurable joy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com/?p=596</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s ironic, I actually signed up to do Reverb10 which was meant to prompt me each day for the month of December, random, insightful and introspective questions about my year. Basically it&#8217;s meant to push me to re-evaluate reflect on the year. I&#8217;ve obviously managed to avoid doing that, and I think it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6900379&amp;post=596&amp;subd=muchtomychagrin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About &#8211; circa 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>muchtomychagrin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[literary therapy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[where i'm from]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com/?p=585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(Wrote this around early 2009 when I first started this blog. I&#8217;ve rewritten the About page because I realize a lot of what I&#8217;ve written below does not fully apply anymore. It&#8217;s still nice to see what I thought of myself back in 2009, so I&#8217;m archiving it as one of my posts.) Well, what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6900379&amp;post=585&amp;subd=muchtomychagrin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>watching the seconds tick by</title>
		<link>http://muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/watching-the-seconds-tick-by/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>muchtomychagrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the events that&#8217;s dropped in &#8211; expectedly and unexpectedly &#8211; in the past year has left my last two months of 2010 with a wide, gaping abyss. Relatively. While I watch the dust slowly settle down from being kicked up, the fog is slowly clearing, albeit getting some sand in my eyes. I forget [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6900379&amp;post=580&amp;subd=muchtomychagrin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>cinnamon candles and seashells</title>
		<link>http://muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/cinnamon-candles-and-seashells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>muchtomychagrin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little disappointed in the upkeep of this site. There was a good point in time where I managed to churn out some pseudo-intellectual drivel that kept me happy with the exercise of my creative juices. And that seems to have fallen flat over the past few months. Funny that, because I proclaimed that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muchtomychagrin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6900379&amp;post=564&amp;subd=muchtomychagrin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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