"i've journeyed here and there and back again
but in the same old haunts i still find my friends"
Smashing Pumpkins thirty-three
JR Maness
(Made in America May 21st, 1978)
As much as I would like there to be, there is really not much that makes me any different than most people on the internet, or in the United States for that matter, at least not on paper. I was born in Salem, Indiana, the first son of my mother, the third of my father. I have lived there most of my life (except for right now while attending Vincennes University, a state college)
I listen to music, I surf the internet, I watch pro wrestling, nothing really extraordinary. I am a broadcasting major, but thinking about changing to my first love, writing. Blue eyes, dark hair, short. All easily explainable traits.
"if pain is music, my heart has been playing symphonies"
JR Maness
All throughout high school, I felt depressed. I figured, as did my friends, teachers, parents etc. that it was all a part of typical teenage angst. However, I still feel that way even though my high school days are a year removed. I don't really look at it as a bad thing, however, because it affords me an extra view of the world that alot of people don't see. I guess that I am sensitive more than depressive. However, many nights have been spent in my bed, tears rolling down cheeks and scribbles of poetry and writing on my Dollar General Store notebook. College has been a new experience for me. I have made friends, lost friends, made loves, and lost loves. The same old story, as Jewel says, because "Hearts are broken everyday." Pain is something that, while it hurts now, no one else really cares because it's "no big deal" and it "happens to everyone." If you've ever hurt and heard these words of consolation, then you understand.
Please enjoy the things I put on my web page. I'm not doing it for an ego trip or to be a cool web guy, but rather to share with people and have people share with me. I can be reached by email or I chat quite a lot on bianca's smut shack in the cafe
as ~atrocity exhibition~
Thanks for listening. May your God, your voice, and your soul be with you...
and...as always...i remain...
Jonathon Robert Maness
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