On Saturday night, Margarethe and I proposed to one another on our knees in my apartment. We both said yes. Yesterday afternoon, we bought rings in a bubble-gum machine outside of Kroger. It took two quarters to get a ring that would fit my finger, and then it only fit my pinky. We're going to the metal shop in the Fine Arts building later this ( Read more... )

i'm a head without a body
i'm a head without a body
i'm a head without a body
and i'm on my way to lunch

repeat 3x, altering last line each time to tell a story-

there are hours when everything you do, no matter how gentle, affectionate, brash or insignificant, causes me pain. what hurts me in these times isn't you, who bring to me only beautifully, honestly yourself - no, what hurts here is the fact that i can't melt into you wholly, that regardless how close my heart may come to yours, it must live a ( Read more... )

ma iss es kalt!, M. cries as the air crisps in through the cracked window: aber so frisch, so frisch! cold, but so fresh! we quick-do a celebratory boogie-dance ( Read more... )

So Jeff Abarta, A & R head for Epitaph Records (which owns Anti, Tom Waits' label, http://www.anti.com/home.php) sent me a message on Youtube yesterday about some live Tom Waits video clips I posted for public viewing [see: Read more... )

top 15, currently on rotation at Radio Bartleby(e):
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The tracklist for "Auf die Almosen!". . . Margarethe's 27th-birthday mix cd ( Read more... )

Following onenightinstars' lead, here's the year in (p)review. the first sentence (or first thought) of my first entry each month, strummed in progression all the way down the ribcage. i'd like to think a story is unfolding here, but. . .i also LOVE to deceive myself. today, in any case, the year looks pretty good to me ( Read more... )

"If I'm not me, who the hell am I?"

http://www.schwarzenegger.it/mp3.html

uggh ( Read more... )