February 2010
31 posts
“It’s the kind of impossible story that holds a family together. You tell...”
– from “Sagittarius”, Greg Hrbek
CST: 6:30 AM
Today is another sudden wake up day. The clock is a few minutes shy of six a.m. It was dark. I fumbled, put on more music, turned over and over. Gave up. Where three walls meet, the corner reflected blue. It is a rarity for me. The instances where I watch dawn have always been departing. How Seminary snakes across the traintracks and flats and the pastel ranch houses seem to glow. A bus going all...
Get out the hydrogen peroxide
You took a tumble, ego, but you might live. Ready to get scourged and start again?
Straight to Hell Horoscope Wednesday (this may be...
TAURUS
April 20-May 20
Pace yourself, Taurus! You’ll get overwhelmed if you don’t slow down and take each step in. If you stop moving altogether, you’ll cause a pile-up on the road! Make sure you are acting in ways that are self- appropriate. (SFBG)
This is one time when you can be both the river and the bridge. In fact, I strongly suggest that you make every effort to be both...
My dreams are full of elevators that are dizzying.... →
Going up and down in the elevator may symbolize going from one state of consciousness to another. Messages from the unconscious may be accessible. Some believe that the elevator may be a symbol of a boring and mechanical sex life. On a more pragmatic note, the elevator may simply represent the “ups and downs” of life. If you are ascending, then you may perceive your current situation...
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ourtracks:
superhero — ani difranco
FINE....
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Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep...
How to be (less, or let's try not to be) dead on...
Bundle up to at least pay homage to the snow if you must hate it.
Productive actions for the benefit. Research and charts and flyers and delegating.
Stay away from folky melancholy music. I'm looking at you, The National / Jose Gonzalez.
Melancholy, bitter tunes with a beat are acceptable (take it away Miike Snow and Silversun Pickups)
Acknowledge weekend disappointment and move forward with the reminder that you hold expectations.
Less red wine, less headaches and thick, stupid tongues.
Drastic internet cutbacks, drastic.
Pull back in, regroup, refrost.
For the love of God, write.
Don't be a fucking mope. Make life less hard for the ones closest to the heart.
I’m tired of aching, the summer’s what you make it. But I’ll believe what I want to believe. - Yo La Tengo.
Christ I’m ansy. March, make it here already. So there’s enough sunlight to keep me occupied, make new words, fill up blank notebooks, shake up the people I know, get me amongst people I don’t. Most things: what you make it. May be time to not hold, just...
Spring Fever + Manu Chao = Combinacion dangereuse
(see that? SPFRANGLAIS, what I'm flashing back to)
London bus rides and walking along canals to Clandestino
Driving in hot, windows down cars along Ashland in July and singing in Spanish
Chopping stirring washing tomatoing beating dough in the outdoor kitchen circa July
Driving down the 101 to Me Llamen Calle
Urges somewhere in the blood, a need for sun, the ease to shake
“Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.
Pray for us sinners...”
– from Ash Wednesday, T.S. Eliot
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Wishin' and hopin' and Horoscope Wednesday
TAURUS
April 20-May 20
Spend some quality time alone with No. 1 and brainstorm several inspired strategies to solving life’s problems that are outside the box.
Throughout 2010, you’re most likely to be consistently in the right place at the right time if you cultivate an amused skepticism toward what’s in vogue. In fact, I suspect that only one trend will be of any use to you...
“In the dark, it won’t be easy to find relief. And I’m not proud that...”
– Relief Next To Me, Tegan and Sara (caray, mujer!)
fuckyeahemilyhaines:
“Too Little Too Late” -...
Like Disco Lemonade (Valentine's backlash...
Me: But jeez. Go have sex already. That's all Valentine's is about anyway. And candy.
Supervisor: Like the Marcy Playground song.
Me: Exactly. The song is probably better. (beat) No, scratch that, is.
“I wanted very much to be a person of value and I had to ask myself how this...”
– Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses
You and I Misbehaving - Tilly and The Wall
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Reason I miss la esposa # 21: Mix CDs
Sigh. Just… nuff said. I’m listening to this absurd Patrick Park song, “Your Smile Is a Drug”. Remember the November CD? Oh, that was a good one. Rough, man, fucking heart breaking.
Harried, but still, Horoscope Wednesday
TAURUS
April 20-May 20
It would behoove you, my Bullish friend, to make peace with what you cannot amend. Don’t lament the stuff that is out of your control. You’ll just stress yourself into a manic panic — and that’s just not your color. (SFBG)
In my view, 2010 is the year you should expand your world. That could mean enlarging your circle of allies or building a bigger web...
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Deathly, Aimee Mann
Yesterday was loud Aimee Mann...
wewillnotbeundersold asked: So I don't have a lot of friends, right? Various reasons for that. Mostly because I'm a boorish, unpersonable lout.
Nevertheless, I often think about making some new ones. You know, so I'm not just sitting alone watching something horrible like Surrogates at 5:15am, which is what I am doing right now.
So what do you say, internet person? You want to do...
Nevertheless, I often think about making some new ones. You know, so I'm not just sitting alone watching something horrible like Surrogates at 5:15am, which is what I am doing right now.
So what do you say, internet person? You want to do...
We were gonna live it out
All of it has been slightly sad music and waking up earlier than I have in a while, which is good. I fill the hours with puttering back and forth from the kitchen and my bedroom — twenty feet! — and force-soothing the dog and listening to music and barely cooking. Egg in a hole three times this week alone, with hot sauce, and sweet farm ketchup, and sea salt. None of it is writing...
Hold back, Horoscope Wednesday, jeez
TAURUS
April 20-May 20
There is no way to go back in time to correct past mistakes, my bully buddy, and creating distractions won’t work either. Rather than obsess on what you can’t control, learn from your troubles by being humble and emotionally checked-in. Pry yourself away from the pity party, pal. (SFBG)
“Whatever shines should be observed,” said 19th-century...
You should always look things up in the Urban...
So many memes, so little time. I actually enjoy this as opposed to finding my “Doppleganger”.
1. an extremely beautiful girl, often a Latina. (WOW!! She’s definitely a Carmen!)
2. A girl that you cant help falling in love with. (matt: who do you like? aiden: carmen Will: obviously)
3. One who dances to old school Will Smith in cars and ghost hunts for fun. All in all, quite...
“Ouch, I have lost myself again. Lost myself and I am nowhere to be found. Yeah,...”
– Sia, “Breathe Me”
