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i feel encouraged
I'M WRITING in my livejournal because this weekend has been a clusterfuck of nostalgia. I don't know if my hermitage is ending or not but today I was walking through a throng of people feeling dan-xiety and couldn't help but think: humanity is ugly. (& sticky, too, ie the little boy who tried to give me a high five and was REBUKED because of his ( Read more... ) -
happy birthday to you
* We've come a long way from the AIDs awareness campaigns of the early 1980s.
* SCREEN SHOTS OF TECMO BOWL I mean, when was the last time any of us thought about Tecmo Bowl and the hours of dateless Saturday night fun we spent with our Wendy-the-snapple-lady sponsored beverage and disappointed parents.
* The New York Times reports that The ( Read more... ) -
My dog ate a cat last week
I have been getting into some Herzog flicks lately, which is the perfect sort of thing to do at 2 in the morning turned up really loud, with headphones and a bottle of wine, possibly candles if you're into that sensitive sort of thing. With the exception of Grizzly Man, which I can't really wrap my head around [the stupidity of it all] his movies ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
I THINK Anne Carson
could write something beautiful
about empty cartons of juice
in the morning;
but I've only found
trouble in the thirst
of a new day -
hoo-ha
Mom's sick, Paul Auster is a new obsession, visitors coming, off the clean.
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her wings are made of dust
and her eyes are painted shut
and she leaving thumbprints on the pictureframe
that sits in the corner on the desk -
Oh, Beauty.
There was no escape. I went into the room, my heart in confusion, and saw the girl sleeping nt he enormous bed for hire, as naked and helpless as the day she was borm. She lay on her side, facing the door, illuminated from the ceiling by an intense light that spared no detail. I sat down to contemplate her from the edge of the bed, my five ( Read more... ) -
ho hum
chicks who make mix CDs and title them "FOR ROCKY" and draw little pictures of rocky dennis in heaven make me infinitely happy
(thank you)
i have much to write about, as it seems to be going on months since I've done so
but later,
always a better reason not to do something -
r.i.p. MTA
can the people between 6th & 5th avenue by 9th & 7th PLEASE tell me why their sidewalks are always caked with dogshit?!
i have never walked down grosser streets in my life. ]
everyday its a damn minefield. -
I <3 The Mountain Goats
I'm not sure how my brother turned into the pharmacist from a Norman Rockwell painting and I ended up with the mental stability of Caligula. But I am really happy for him. He has a lot of warm and loving friends, and it's nice to see a semblance of normalcy, aside for the fact that they're all Republicans and we watched Access Hollywood instead ( Read more... )