December 2010
19 posts
“What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small...”
– Haruki Murakami
in the time we were undone
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“The Day” - OK Hotel
The day before your mother starts chemo she tells you she’s always thought Leonardo DiCaprio is a hermaphrodite. “He just looks like he could have gone either way as a child.” You are spending the night at your parents’ house for the fourth night in a row. You wake up at 3am and stare at the Christmas tree until dawn. You are tired of your brain and what it comes up with...
ALEX'S MEANINGFUL NON SEQUITURS
On wearing a headband: “I feel like a dog drying off with a rope in the rain.”
On getting together with our two other best friends: “When the four of us get together a new dimension opens up… and a small one-armed cat gets green beans for dinner and over the hill they are watching.”
On a boy: “He is blonde and his face is small. I need a large-faced one...
CARACAS
I know loving me isn’t easy – the all-night helicopter parties, the glow-in-the-dark haircuts, but when I look at you it’s like praying with my eyes. I know it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold humans to their ears and listen to the echo of machines. I apologize for the fossils growing on the dishes, how the rug is covered with...
we worn born and raised in a summer haze bound by...
To me, Kanye is more like Joan Didion: a fashionable bitch living in a world that I can never comprehend but want to hear about—houses with elevators, giant fucking sunglasses and most importantly, a glamorous disorder of things, dreamers of the golden dream. These descriptions of worlds difficult to comprehend: Haight-Ashbury during the 1960s, award show after-parties, are juxtaposed with...
One of my best friends opened his very own restaurant and painted the bathrooms with chalkboard paint. My contributions to the word tapestry:
“For it is important that awake people be awake.” - William Stafford “We are who we are and only life surprises.” - Stanley Kunitz “Either be good or be good at it.” - Li’l Wayne
