To refrain from posting bad poetry, I'll just say I had a fascinating, eventful weekend which unfortunately wasn't as productive I would have wanted it to be.
I once thought it would be cool to live on a hill just so I can strictly say I live on a hill. Now I'm almost seriously considering it for the future, except all the places I'd ever want to ( Read more... )

[during suppertime]
me: if, in present tense, 'i run' or 'i am running', then what would the past tense be?
him: (pause) ...walking?

Stereogum.com: You've expressed surprise in the past that so many people have responded to your 50 states project. Do you think that's possibly because we live in an era of singles and downloads, and in response there's a real hunger for meaningful full-length albums?

Sufjan: I think there's a reduction in quality and a lowering of standards ( Read more... )

i want to keep on changing.
i don't want to grow older and be set in the ways i am now.


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In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know ( Read more... )

here's what our clothes dryer accumulated over the years:


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