Scott Rahin

By Scott Rahin

• Track 5: Champion Rooster Jun 2, 2004

  The fifth track from the album “Oat Songs in the Dropsy.”

• Meeting Feb 16, 2004

  There are two basic sorts of pedestrians, those in motion from A to B and the loomers, who move stop-and-start, and set a shuffling pace, investigating trash, asking for quarters. To them we add two recent variations: cell phone users, and now the smokers, both of whom are banished from the bars and restaurants, self-selected social pariahs who breed either annoyance or lung cancer by their presence.

• Ceiling Jan 13, 2004

  Hole in the roof of the Smith & 9th St. Subway Station I went for an interview at a branding firm in midtown.

• Track 4: Places I Have Visited Jan 3, 2004

  The fourth track from the album “Oat Songs in the Dropsy.”

• Sickbed Jan 1, 2004

  A thing that comes from dreams, but would be better forgotten.

• The Bad Turtles Dec 31, 2003

  An inventory of New Years.

• Black Box Theater Aug 27, 2003

  Being in the audience can put you on stage.

• Taking the Edge Off Aug 24, 2003

  Things we love that do not love us back.

• The time I did lines with a bunch of grad students upstate and we ran around in the woods naked firing guns at each other at random Apr 17, 2003

  Paul asked me to elucidate this a little bit. So here’s the short version.

• Track 3: Horse Canyon Apr 15, 2003

  The third track from the album “Oat Songs in the Dropsy.”

• The Escape Apr 13, 2003

  At the end of winter.

• Track 2: Skinning the Chickadee Apr 10, 2003

  The second track from the album “Oat Songs in the Dropsy.”

• At-Risk Teens Mar 2, 2003

  They need to do some yachting.

• The Astrakhan Awareness Network Feb 25, 2003

  In which I encourage Paul to get a haircut.

• Marketing Idea Feb 12, 2003

  Waiting for news of poison gas, Paul & I banter.

• Annoyance Feb 11, 2003

  A quick conversation between Paul & me, in which I gain the upper hand effortlessly.

• The End of Technology Feb 5, 2003

  A night out, then over.

• Some Dogs I Have Known, and How They Died Jan 27, 2003

  It’s hard on dogs when the people around them don’t have their acts together. Back when things were confused and I was always broke, I knew a lot of dogs that died. These were the three that I remember the best.

• The Ugliness Club Nov 24, 2002

  Coming to a conclusion about my place in someone’s personal history.

• Where I’m At Sep 18, 2002

  Scott Rahin writes in with an update.

• The Early Morning Movie Sep 4, 2002

  Watching T.V. to learn about my grandfather.

• Make money! Sep 3, 2002

  Make it now! Make it! At home! Do it! You must!

• Where I Grew Up Sep 2, 2002

  The town, the grid of streets.

• Seance Aug 18, 2002

  Speaking impolitely to the dead.

• Crucifixion for Better Abs Jul 8, 2002

  A cranky meditation (not really, that’s a pun) on marketing other people’s sacred beliefs and approaches.

• Track 1: Billy Goats, Angels, Anarchists, Monsters Jun 10, 2002

  The first track from the album “Oat Songs in the Dropsy.”

• Oat Songs in the Dropsy, an Album Jun 9, 2002

  An album of songs intended to be used in the background.

• Scott Rahin’s Lament Feb 5, 2002

  A field of barley, my ass.

• Heloise in Hell Jan 14, 2002

  The Emergency Wardrobe Alert, and how to cope. Good advice for fuck-ups like me, freely given. Learned from repeated and painful experiences. Including a recipe for fried socks.

• The Dial, the Number Jan 5, 2002

  A work of autobiography by Scott Rahin

• Part 1: Finding My Bearings Jan 5, 2002

  Arrivals and departures.

• A Monadic Soreness Jan 1, 2002

  I sat at the Science and Technology Library, typing on a borrowed laptop, the desire for a cigarette pervading all my humors.

• Coming Back Mar 22, 2001

  Let the taxi-clogged air spread through my lungs, drawn by capillary action into my agnostic soul.

• The Discussion of Music Feb 28, 2001

  Yaaaaan Haaaamah.

• Being Good Feb 27, 2001

  A chapel in the woods.

• The Temporary End of Paul Ford Feb 25, 2001

  Get that bastard out of here, and put him on the bus.

• Faith of My Fathers Mar 14, 2000

  My faith and the place from which it came.

• Moral Futures Mar 6, 2000

  How will we approach these thorny problems tomorrow?

• Sky Frequency Feb 27, 2000

  My personal experience of faith, faith, faith.

• Revolutionaries Feb 19, 2000

  Changing the world, just by exhaling copious hot air.

• The Mysterious Stain Jan 30, 2000

  I was born in Pennsylvania, and my biggest mistake was meeting Paul Ford.

• Change of Pace Jan 30, 2000

  A fucking nasty day.