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enragedfetus

trouble with dreams

Apr 23, 2009 22:02

As usual, I took the N train home from work today. The ride was less frustrating than usual - I was immediately able to find a spot against the doors, and at the second stop I was even granted a seat. Despite my having slept an anomalous eight hours the previous night, I was tired. Sitting rendered me unable to concentrate on my book, as the motion ( Read more... )

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jackalkisses April 24 2009, 04:40:17 UTC

Jon,

I love hearing about your dreams.
Don't ever stop writing about your life.

xmastree April 25 2009, 07:34:32 UTC

i like the theme of transportation in your dreams (& that is transportation like the title for an english lesson, or a page from a richard scarry book). both truck and trains going into pits - how subway-ian. how dark and watery and awful.

enragedfetus April 27 2009, 14:36:04 UTC

Oh man, I had that Richard Scarry book! Cars, Trucks, and Things That Go, with appearances by Goldbug and Officer Flossie. What a pleasurable thing to be reminded of.

Yeah, I have transit issues. Being trapped in a metal box with people underground verges a little close to a personalized No Exit scenario. I really want to get in a car and solo-drive for a few days around the country, clear my head, my senses.

blueberryme April 28 2009, 08:09:42 UTC

the problem, of course, with driving through the country is that you're piloting a metal box hurtling at least 55 miles per hour through dark wooded areas or wide country pastures filled with things which periodically hurl themselves in front of you-- deer, moose, cows, horses, tractors, skunks, rabbits and the occasional pheasant, which explodes in a sickening, yet comical, poof of feathers and avian carnage.

which is all to say that driving in the country is perilous in its own right, though after a while you do get pretty good at identifying the local road kill.

bard_messiah April 27 2009, 03:53:22 UTC

You finished House of Leaves? I'm impressed. I'd like to do that someday.

enragedfetus April 27 2009, 14:38:51 UTC

Well, no one ever really "finishes" House of Leaves, I'm guessing. At least, about 50% of the edition I own is indexes containing odd fragments of verse and weird exhibits, dark line drawings, etc. That part was more of a flip-through for me.

enragedfetus April 27 2009, 14:39:27 UTC

If I wrote this much every night, I could have something useful by now.

anonymous July 21 2009, 09:59:08 UTC

j.k. you know i look forward to these entries... it's all about your writing style...you have a natural flare. serious. flare. but let me just mention my favorite parts -i smiled when you wrote that you understood your heroic actions to be actually a setup that you had played into...
your paranoia is somewhat familiar to me.
and i likey these two 3 letter words --- (IRL) and Ohp.

thanks for the journal entry. i'll talk to you sometime.
(you gotta call cause i met an englishman who is dating a girl who lives in japan...and he has been actively researching becoming an english tutor in an asian country. i'll be honest, it was a partly drunken conversation but i'd like to ramble about it to you anyway)

enragedfetus July 21 2009, 13:58:45 UTC

Funny, I was just skimming this particular entry last night and decided I really dislike much of the writing. It comes off as unnatural, hoity-toity - at least it does to me. But ohp is something I say... IRL.

By the way: J.M.?