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		<title>100 reasons to go on</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wicking</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kepschup de Blob christmas in Dublin Iron Maiden the sun the rain Fisherman&#8217;s friend in huge bags (popularly known as Lakrisbåter) music silence Heroes wasting time at Hagstrøm music shop &#8211; feeling dead bored, might I add AC/DC, The Who, Kiss, Rammstein, Gojira Hole in the Sky Torture Devices Too Close For Distance Sex 7 [...]]]></description>
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<li>Kepschup</li>
<li>de Blob</li>
<li>christmas in Dublin</li>
<li>Iron Maiden</li>
<li>the sun</li>
<li>the rain</li>
<li>Fisherman&#8217;s friend in huge bags (popularly known as Lakrisbåter)</li>
<li>music</li>
<li>silence</li>
<li>Heroes</li>
<li>wasting time at Hagstrøm music shop &#8211; feeling dead bored, might I add</li>
<li>AC/DC, The Who, Kiss, Rammstein, Gojira</li>
<li>Hole in the Sky</li>
<li>Torture Devices</li>
<li>Too Close For Distance</li>
<li>Sex</li>
<li>7 different ways to reach orgasm</li>
<li>iPod</li>
<li>pesto marinated chicken barbequeue</li>
<li>tattoos</li>
<li>piercings</li>
<li>3 rings and what&#8217;s attached to them</li>
<li>Taiwan</li>
<li>Garage &amp; Inside</li>
<li>Sara &amp; Linemor</li>
<li>den blå steinen</li>
<li>skinny dipping</li>
<li>photography</li>
<li>this list</li>
<li>mom, dad and siblings</li>
<li>Hansa beer</li>
<li>Carlsberg beer as well</li>
<li>basically beer in general</li>
<li>popcorn with aromat spice on it</li>
<li>Sex and the city</li>
<li>Twilight</li>
<li>Totoro</li>
<li>The Goonies</li>
<li>Sting</li>
<li>Louis Armstrong</li>
<li>guitars</li>
<li>work and colleagues</li>
<li>roses on a rainy day</li>
<li>handmade cards from a 30-year old 3-year old</li>
<li>the journal</li>
<li>the smell of manure</li>
<li>radio controlled cars</li>
<li>stick shift</li>
<li>hot cocoa with whipped cream</li>
<li>O&#8217;boy</li>
<li>mailighet</li>
<li>Guns&#8217;n Roses</li>
<li>Seether</li>
<li>Davey Harleyson</li>
<li>chilling out in the park</li>
<li>going running</li>
<li>swimming</li>
<li>Daim ice cream</li>
<li>tomatoes</li>
<li>2011</li>
<li>Sandy, Toschie, Thomas, Jannicke</li>
<li>Nisse&#8217;s <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">birthday party</span> (shhh! secret!)</li>
<li>Show the world that you dare to (ref post title)</li>
<li>Spit in the face of the resistance</li>
<li>Yatzy</li>
<li>R2D2</li>
<li>skateboarding</li>
<li>poems</li>
<li>history</li>
<li>opera</li>
<li>tea with honey and milk</li>
<li>the first day of snow</li>
<li>cats and dogs</li>
<li>Sex. Did I mention that already? Really? Oh well, it definitely deserves to be mentioned again.</li>
<li>Sex. See? Mentioned it again!</li>
<li>Buddha</li>
<li><a href="http://www.paulwicking.com/thoughts/happy-days-102-things-i-love-about-my-kittie/">102 things I love about my Kittie</a></li>
<li>Nintendo DS</li>
<li>Inside burgers</li>
<li>weed (oh my!)</li>
<li>tickling your boyfriend</li>
<li>being kept safe during the night by a sweaty old guy</li>
<li>riding a bike</li>
<li>Poirot and Miss Marple</li>
<li>being mistaken for being your boyfriends son instead of his girlfriend</li>
<li>the colours of autumn</li>
<li>the smell of spring</li>
<li>back massages</li>
<li>the smell of massage oil in the kitchen the next day</li>
<li>leather jackets</li>
<li>denim vests with patches on them</li>
<li>Africa</li>
<li>bad hair days</li>
<li>the colour green</li>
<li>bruises on your knee</li>
<li>boogers. Well, not really. Although it is nice when someone points them out to you instead of letting you walk around with a booger sticking out your nose</li>
<li>Guitar Hero</li>
<li>Bonjour mon ami! Comment allez-vous?</li>
<li>the Pacific Ocean</li>
<li>Me. Because I love you, and I know you love me.</li>
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		<title>Muse catalyzing a mental and emotional cleanup</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wicking</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m amazed at how disappointing Muse were live. I knew they were supposed to be a stadium rock band, and how great they were supposed to be live, with a firework of a live show. But no, they just didn&#8217;t manage to close their grip on me. 20 000 people, a great and sunny day, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000088; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">I&#8217;m amazed at how disappointing Muse were live. I knew they were supposed to be a stadium rock band, and how great they were supposed to be live, with a firework of a live show. But no, they just didn&#8217;t manage to close their grip on me. 20 000 people, a great and sunny day, basically everything sweet as pie &#8211; yet somehow I just didn&#8217;t manage to get into it. Quite probably the worst live experience I&#8217;ve ever had.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">Granted, the guys were good. Really, their musicianship is definitely at the level it needs to be to be able to play a stage that big, with a crowd of that magnitude. And the most hardcore fans at the front of the stage did sing along, jump and scream. Still, they didn&#8217;t communicate well with the audience, and for some reason I felt like they were not having a good time. And with all the &#8220;tusen takk&#8221; (Norwegian for thanks a lot), Matt Bellamy turned from an attempt to please the norwegian crowd, into a sorry parody of an entertainer. The highlights were at the end of a bunch of songs, when they turned into doing rock&#8217;n roll riffs like ACDC and such to get the groove going. I almost felt sorry for them that they had to turn to other peoples music like that.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">I realized however, that my mood went from party to aggression during the hour and a half the concert went on. And when the grand finale &#8211; Knights of Cydonia &#8211; started, and my girlfriend refused to get up on my shoulders, it felt like the intimacy I somehow needed at a Muse concert went down the drain. Of course, she didn&#8217;t know &#8211; and still doesn&#8217;t &#8211; what Knights of Cydonia meant to me, and I didn&#8217;t realize myself what it meant until a couple of hours later, on the bus going home. I guess the feelings that made my mood swing from good to bad were based on former expectations, lost joy. Somehow, I think there&#8217;s only one person that would understand this fully, and it sucks that I cannot figure out a way to explain the whole thing to my girlfriend in a way that makes sense, and that won&#8217;t hurt her feelings.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;">As the truth dawned on me however, it was like something was released inside me, and my mood went back to normal. I was even feeling happy, happy that I had figured out what was going on inside my head, that I no longer had a need for hurting myself anymore. When I got back, instead of pursuing my plan of wasting my mind, I just got something to eat, watched a couple of episodes of Heroes and went to bed. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">All in all, it was a great day with a couple of hours of darkness. It granted me a new experience, the experience of figuring things out and understanding what had happened. I&#8217;m sorry that I let the confusion fuck up my mood and being a total ass for a little while to the people close to me, but I think that is now water under bridge. My girlfriend was way too understanding and forgiving &#8211; even though I never managed to explain what happened. She just&#8230;. hard to find the words, really. I love this girl, that&#8217;s for sure. And from how she treated me last night, I know she loves me as well.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Muse concert&#8230;. 3 out of 6. At least now I know spending money on tickets for a Muse concert is a waste, so I won&#8217;t do that again. If I get free tickets sometime however, I might go see them again. I wouldn&#8217;t bet on it though.</p>
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		<title>Happy days! 102 things I love about my Kittie </title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wicking</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much have happened since my last post, I&#8217;m not even sure where to begin. A year after a girl fell out of love with me, an new girl fell in love with me. And as luck would have it, I am totally in love with her also!! She&#8217;s amazing, very complex personality yet still [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">So much have happened since my last post, I&#8217;m not even sure where to begin. A year after a girl fell out of love with me, an new girl fell in love with me. And as luck would have it, I am totally in love with her also!! <img src='http://www.paulwicking.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' title="Happy days! 102 things I love about my Kittie <3 photo" /> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">She&#8217;s amazing, very complex personality yet still one of the most easy-going people I have ever met. And I have met quite a few people in my life. She&#8217;s a rock&#8217;n roll girl, into metal music, tattoos and piercings, and loves to travel. I never expected to feel like this again to be honest &#8211; and that it could be even better than what I had experienced from before, is something I am still struggling to believe. It just is. And this time, it somehow feels more real&#8230; not sure if I can really explain it. When she told me she loves me, I knew from the look in her eyes that she was telling me the truth, and that there was no other feelings than love in her heart when she uttered the words. It made me feel at peace for a change&#8230; It feels great to love!</span></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve recently been admitted to the Bergen University, so I&#8217;ll be starting on my bachelors degree this fall. 3 years of hard studies, and then hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to travel abroad for my Masters studies. I know exactly where to go and what to do, and I&#8217;m really excited about this opportunity! I guess my future blogging will be about my studies at times &#8211; and hopefully more about the bands I&#8217;m in also. I&#8217;m finally on the path to become a rock star! ^_^</p>
<p>And because she didn&#8217;t expect me to be able to, I&#8217;ll list 102 things I love about my girl:</p>
<ol>
<li>Her eyes</li>
<li>Her smile</li>
<li>The smell of her skin</li>
<li>When she hugs me</li>
<li>Our kissing &#8211; my god it feels awesome!</li>
<li>The way she looks when wearing my red shoes having a cigarette on the porch at night</li>
<li>Sex</li>
<li>Butterflies</li>
<li>How easy she makes it look to keep my place organized and tidy</li>
<li>The way she looks at me</li>
<li>When she wakes me up to let me know I&#8217;m snoring</li>
<li>Watching her work. She is <em>good</em></li>
<li>Surprising her &#8211; and letting her know she&#8217;ll be surprised in advance</li>
<li>Dinner and a movie</li>
<li>We actually date</li>
<li>How easy-going she is</li>
<li>She runs to the rescue when an old women falls on the rescue &#8211; before others even realize what has happened</li>
<li>She tells the bus driver off for driving like a crazy person</li>
<li>Her dialect and tone of voice</li>
<li>Asswipe</li>
<li>She hates kids</li>
<li>&#8220;Awww, look how cute that kid is&#8221;</li>
<li>Honest</li>
<li>3 rings</li>
<li>Sail Away</li>
<li>Her tattoos</li>
<li>Her piercings</li>
<li>Her makeup</li>
<li>Her without make-up on</li>
<li>The natural beauty of her face. I can look at her for hours on end</li>
<li>She&#8217;s into Gojira</li>
<li>My hero</li>
<li>The way she keeps a journal, just like me</li>
<li>Barbequing</li>
<li>Getting drunk together on a night out</li>
<li>How she always keeps introducing me to new people</li>
<li>Introducing her to new people</li>
<li>Liquorice</li>
<li>Watching movies cuddled up on the couch together</li>
<li>Bra &#8211; or no bra, really</li>
<li>On my shoulders at Rammstein. &#8216;nough said.</li>
<li>Okay, not enough said &#8211; she tittie-flashed the band!</li>
<li>She thinks I&#8217;m a good guitar player. God bless =)</li>
<li>She smokes a brand of cigarettes that doesn&#8217;t make her mouth taste like an ashtray</li>
<li>Her style</li>
<li>Her hair</li>
<li>Her hands</li>
<li>How she&#8217;s made serious changes to make her life better</li>
<li>Her photos &#8211; the ones she takes, that is</li>
<li>Her photos &#8211; on my iPhone</li>
<li>iPod happiness</li>
<li>She&#8217;s down to earth</li>
<li>She&#8217;s a dreamer</li>
<li>Oboy</li>
<li>The way she holds a cup when sipping coffee</li>
<li>Her hearing. Or that she&#8217;s practically deaf on one ear. Go figure.</li>
<li>How she encourages me to try new places to go</li>
<li>She&#8217;s part of my winning team</li>
<li>We look amazing together</li>
<li>Sexy underwear</li>
<li>Sleepyhead</li>
<li>7 orgasms</li>
<li>How hard I had to work to get her to date me</li>
<li>Iron Maiden</li>
<li>Infected Mushroom</li>
<li>She doesn&#8217;t think I&#8217;m crazy at all</li>
<li>How she actually googled me and discovered my blog</li>
<li>Note on a pillow</li>
<li>Accepting I won&#8217;t accept being pushed away</li>
<li>She lets me help out when I can. And lets me know when I can&#8217;t.</li>
<li>She actually thinks I&#8217;m good for her. And her friends are equally bewildered!</li>
<li>3-person meal and a doggie bag</li>
<li>Holding hands</li>
<li>The look on her face when she got flowers for the first time of her life</li>
<li>The funny way she trips away when there&#8217;s a wasp, bee, tiny spider or ant around</li>
<li>Her almost inaudible squeel when I kiss her ear</li>
<li>WOW does she look AMAZING!</li>
<li>Her lyrics</li>
<li>Her drawings</li>
<li>Her way of keeping memories</li>
<li>Totoro!</li>
<li>History</li>
<li>Her sense of fairness and how she hates inequality, disrespect, and discrimination</li>
<li>Her bracelets and necklaces &#8211; that NEVER come off</li>
<li>Mena.. meta&#8230; maleno&#8230; melanoni&#8230;. me&#8230;. hmmmmm&#8230; meeelaaaatooooniiiin?</li>
<li>She knows absolutely NOTHING about cars!</li>
<li>She LOVES Harley Davidsons!</li>
<li>The way she makes me feel when she tells me she believes in me &#8211; in her ways of doing so</li>
<li>Inside Burger</li>
<li>Professionalism</li>
<li>Patches</li>
<li>Boxer shorts</li>
<li>She convinced me to keep the Blob</li>
<li>She pushes me to practice my guitar</li>
<li>On her 1-10 scale, I&#8217;m 15</li>
<li>She doesn&#8217;t compare me to anyone or anything, and I compare her to my own standards &#8211; she exceeds them in every way</li>
<li>Moreller</li>
<li>Bicycling on a weekend trip together</li>
<li>How easy it is to talk to her &#8211; and how she listens to me when I need to talk to someone</li>
<li>She thinks the original iPod earbuds are great</li>
<li>She wants to hold on to me as long as she can</li>
<li>I want to hold on to her as long as I can</li>
</ol>
<p>I guess 103 would be &#8220;How fast I could write this list&#8221;. Bet you didn&#8217;t expect that, did you?! ^^;</p>
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		<title>A bit of random rambling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 21:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wicking</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just need to sort my thoughts for a bit, and I guess this is as good a place to do so as any. I guess part of the disorganization comes from part of the reason I started this blog anyway. Go figure. Very inspiring band meeting today. Went straight home and started working on some [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just need to sort my thoughts for a bit, and I guess this is as good a place to do so as any. I guess part of the disorganization comes from part of the reason I started this blog anyway. Go figure.</p>
<p>Very inspiring band meeting today. Went straight home and started working on some of our music, and realized how much I need to keep working at it. Very enlightening for sure! And also motivating, when I discover on my own what I can do to make the band better as a whole.</p>
<p>Interesting talk with this girl I&#8217;ve met lately as well. Seems she cares a lot, although we&#8217;re not romantically involved in any way. She felt upset that her sms somehow never reached me on my bday. I got a few sms actually that day. Kinda wish I didn&#8217;t though. I&#8217;ve never enjoyed my birthday, and whenever people talk to me about it I try to avoid the subject. I know they mean well, I just feel sad about it all for some reason. I guess I don&#8217;t have a lot of happy memories from that day. I&#8217;ve no idea why it is so. Something to talk to my therapists about I guess.</p>
<p>Meds seem to work well&#8230; one exam in June and then fingers crossed that I&#8217;ll get into the university. And that I&#8217;ll be able to attend.</p>
<p>Anyway, head empty, bed isn&#8217;t. Night night, mind.</p>
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		<title>Ikke alle tårer er vonde</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wicking</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[en veldig sjelden gang treffer jeg mennesker som er her, men som ikke er her som passer inn i omgivelsene sine, og likevel ikke er en del av dem som er en del av livet rundt dem, og likevel alene helt hva det er , hvorfor det er slik,  vet jeg ikke når jeg ser [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>en veldig sjelden gang treffer jeg mennesker som er her, men som ikke  er her<br />
som passer inn i omgivelsene sine, og likevel ikke er en del av dem<br />
som er en del av livet rundt dem, og likevel alene<br />
helt hva det er , hvorfor det er slik,  vet jeg ikke<br />
når jeg ser deg nå, ser jeg bare deg<br />
alt rundt deg forsvinner på en måte<br />
omgivelsene smuldrer bort<br />
det er bare deg der, ikke noe annet<br />
hvordan setter man ord på ting langt bak i hodet, på en hemmelig plass i  brystet?<br />
det er på en måte som om vi er hvert vårt sandkorn på en diger strand,  selv om vi er på hver vår ende av stranda har vi en slags tunnel i  mellom der det ikke er noe annet<br />
en kanal på en måte<br />
det er som om jeg &#8220;ser&#8221; deg. Ikke bare ser deg<br />
hvordan kan jeg vite om du føler deg sett?<br />
dette er nok hvorfor jeg er så engasjert i deg<br />
jeg har så lyst å holde deg i hånden og vise deg resten av verden.</p>
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