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open letter
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nightmares
Woke up crying and shaking. Tearing at my hair. By "woke up" I mean, of course, never actually managed to sleep but did turn off all the lights and laid silently fretting for hours until the force of anxiety became too great to bear in the dark... Panting. Still. Hours later. So much resentment. It fades into self pity and finally a depressed, calm ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Will I never be wanted in the way that I need? -
Grandmother dead. Expect erratic behavior.
I've been sitting in silence since I finally got home. Nothing but the high-pitched murmur of the air-conditioning and the shuffling sounds I make shifting the sheets around on my floor. I'm reading _The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle_ for the first time. Startled by the "Shitty Island" chapter, since I remember Dan Pereira years ago regaling me with this ( Read more... ) -
As if my options weren't limited enough, PRE-apocalypse.
Why I'm Afraid of Guns
Periodically I get this strange, desperate need to learn what I think of as "survival skills"--talents that would make me useful in a post-apocalyptic world so that no band of ravaging mutants would kill me for my meat. This sounds like some put-on eccentricity, I know, but I'm totally freakin' serious. Thanks to this urge, ( Read more... ) -
Revised lyrics...
Still kinda cheesy. But getting better. It works better with a little more straight-forward story telling, I think. Maybe. It's so hard to sound genuine.
Champagne Summer
The song of our small affair
Is sung by your wedding ring
Caught up in my hair
Catching the light and shining
((In the champagne summer))
The first kiss of the new year
The new first of ( Read more... ) -
The truest thing ever written about love.
Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically, to those who hardly think about us in return. ~T.H. White
Contextually, it's about the maturation of "might is right" to "right is right" in the Arthurian legacy. Out of context, everyone interprets this line differently. Some say it is a statement about the relationship between heroes/ ( Read more... ) -
Songs of the Summer
Hello Livejournal, I'm back. Because I'm going "retro". Also, because it's almost like a secret, using something so passe it barely constitutes a "social networking site". Finally, because it's not blocked while I'm at work and I've got so much stirring up in me lately I can't stop it from overflowing.
Some songs about summer I'm working on...
My ( Read more... ) -
cartooonzz
Today I received my copy of this cool little Dutch (duh) cardboard book by Joost Swarte. It has basically no text, other than the name captions under the portraits, and features 25 characterizations of musicians from the pop, blues, and country genres. Included are Graham Parker, Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Chuck Berry, Hank Williams, + more. Insane. ( Read more... ) -
March 2nd
In a few days I'll be leaving the country to go where there's better beer and lots of ghosts. Please, USA, don't cause any sort of scene while I'm gone that might cause me to be ostracized for my nationality.
Frankly, USA, I think a little time apart might be best for us. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, yadda yadda blah blah blah. You're ( Read more... )