pumpkineater

from one of my favorite books, i am:

surreptitious
B+ student of life
emotional alien
genre bug
yellow peril: neo-American
great in bed
overrated
poppa's boy
sentimentalist
___ analyst
stranger
follower
nice

nogodsnomanagers:

sweetie lovely boy hello!

Sep 9, 2004

signalnoise:

so if your cough better? i hope you're doing well. thanks for the info about your experiences at the protests. it's good to hear that 'i was there' story.

Sep 12, 2004

"People pay for what the do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead."

-James Baldwin

I've had a busy last couple days, but it only took H.D. Thoreau one nite.

the Nazis, Japanese, British all tried it w/ miliatry might, Americans try it w/ corporate and economic might. i wonder...
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signalnoise:

hey there. glad my journals take you home a bit. that makes me feel not quite so silly for writing them.

i'd love to hear more about the protest stuff. most of what i got out of the trib was that there was some shit (sort of just arresting groups on the people, some arrests for not doing much of anything), but that for the most part the nypd was being good and things at the holding cells going smoothly. i'd really like to hear more about what went down - when ya get the chance.

Sep 4, 2004

thoughts tonite:

snores from a boy

i am worried sick

is she safe

come back soon

its not what you thought

my heart breaks

let me comfort you

sister even calls from california

please stop putting yourself in harms way

no long drive

what does this mean?

i'll support your decision whatever it is

i love you

you know that

listen to the ones you...
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signalnoise:

so are you protesting the RNC? what's it like out there? i've read up on it - but i haven't followed much on TV, so i have no sense at all of what the protests are like...

Sep 1, 2004

lily:

isn't it ironic? yeah i really do think nigga. not that i'm glad you sat in a jail cell or even that i think you could even still understand what REAL jail is like, anyways i'm just happy you're here and home with me. i hope your cough gets better.
I love you much.

Sep 2, 2004

there are those who love you.

there are those who love you and are in love with you.

there are those who think they love you but are only infatuated with you.

there are those who make you think they love you b/c they want something from you.

...can you tell the difference?

articca:

Not until it's too late.

Aug 29, 2004

nogodsnomanagers:

never
but life would be so boring if we could predict everyone's influence on us straight away, wouldn't it? easier though
i haven't got my pics back yet, but i don't think i even got any of you. that sucks. i'm back home. it's anticlimactic
take care of yourself because it's easy to get caught up taking care of others

Aug 29, 2004

You often dont know what kind of impact someones had on your life until its too late. Of all the people youve come across and all their lifelines zig-zagging across yours, there are usually a couple that stand out b/c, unknown to you at the time, their profound effect is something you never could have imagined. For me fortunately, that wasnt the case w/ N-,...
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signalnoise:

i think if i commented on this, it would sound stupid and lame and contrived. so i won't really say much at all. but ya got me good.

Aug 26, 2004

how not to live:

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work,
driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for,
in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes,
car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it."

Ellen Goodman

"i...
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hyenahell:

hmmm. i buy clothes because it's illegal to walk around naked.

good quote.

Aug 15, 2004

signalnoise:

the goodman quotation is good - the jung one is great. more academics & other people who think they know stuff could stand to remember that. (god knows i'm guilty of forgetting it way too often already...)

Aug 16, 2004

"Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay."
And when he...
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dravenraine:

Have a great weekend!

Aug 12, 2004

hyenahell:

Quixote + Picasso = awesome. go for it, i say.

Aug 12, 2004

i wish i knew how to make her happy.

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dravenraine:

Yeah the eightball wasn't giving me the right answer

Aug 6, 2004

nogodsnomanagers:

not till the 11th... sooooon, sooooon
x

Aug 6, 2004

"it is better to die standing than to live on your knees."

"The question is one of fighting the causes and not just the effects. This revolution is bound to fail if it doesn't succeed in reaching deep inside them, stirring them right down to the bone, and giving them back their stature as human beings. Otherwise, what's the use?"

word, ernesto, word.

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lily:

maybe now i'll always cry on the 3rd floor and B & N. thanks for catching me, i thought i was gonna fall.
Lily

Jul 29, 2004

signalnoise:

powell's is great too - but i have to say, for some reason i've always preferred new books. old books are great b/c they're cheap, and they have such a good smell. but i dunno - something about cracking the spine on a new book.
but powell's yes. that's another black hole that i plunge my cash into

Jul 30, 2004

diamonds from coal, glass from sand.
it takes a lot of heat and pressure to make something so mundane turn beautiful and grand.

shakespeare would've loved to have met you, written about you. a tragic comedy, only there's no one laughing.

i'm waiting for you, catapillar. butterflies arent just made, they are reborn.

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darkfae:

yep everythings going pretty good around here

Jul 21, 2004

signalnoise:

yea, i know i know .. u of c, elitism etc. it was actually something that i didn't really like about the school at first. - i'm a state-school product (illinois state was where i got my BA & MS - i didn't even go to a *good* state school). sometimes the pride i take in my new school really upsets me. at the end of the day - it's not that big of a deal i know. but i find it disconcerting at times - i actively work to avoid it.

Jul 23, 2004

"Games"

I know I'm being followed by invisible men
Life is good, but why am I so miserable then
I'm second guessing my every decision
But my hand is guided with heavy precision
I can't even trust my own eyes
But actually everything I do is done with pin point accuracy
At least once a week I come this close to dying
But nothing ever...
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dravenraine:

Hey wheres my million dollars???