Why do these things make me so excited?

And isn´t it cruel of Lucinda Williams and Arnaldo Antunes to come out with new c.d.s within six months of one another? What ever will I have to look forward to over the next couple of years?

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I am not sure what I want to say about the city or which city I wanto to describe... Should the photos show the beauty of the wide tree-lined streets or all of the tawdriness and decay? Should they be of contrasts and doesn´t that run the risk of being trite ( Read more... )

i´m off but i want to wish everyone a happy channukkah/solstice/christmas/new year/end of december (pick all or none)


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i´m looking for a good pop song in the past tense that is singable and would appeal to the middle-aged set.

maybe symmys will write me one ;)

i am enamored with this photo. it is nipsa, though, so check it out when your boss isn´t around.

it's one of those days when the reflection of the grey sky on the damp wet tile roofs seems brighter than the sky itself. a huge flock of birds keeps flying over crowing up a storm, going back and forth between somewhere and someplace else. and now the parakeets have awakened and seem to be gurgling happily instead of cackling at one another as ( Read more... )

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i´ve been in sort of a rut lately. writing is not happening. neither are photos. i have a new photo project that i should start but instead the few i´ve taken lately are this directionless set of pics that look like things i was taking two, three, even four years ago. i don´t really understand.


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two weeks ago in one of my classes i had gotten a feeling about one of my students. while the other students complained about poetry and how hard it was, she stayed quiet. when i commented that i didn´t like poetry and that i thought it was often taught badly in school, she piped up agreeing. i could tell that she was the one student in the room ( Read more... )