gigondas

chords like
characters
chiming

I charmed my boss into a new job
I argued with the new chef

wine
smoking
moving near to far
laughing and
silence
laughing laughing
a few more silences

wine and
words
wine
and words

and we put to bed the week

It's been a long, unfunny week. The music's been good. I bought a ticket to see Underworld. Radiohead is actually coming here. ( Edited: I now have Radiohead tickets as well). I'm going to see Iron & Wine and Califone on my birthday. Okkervil is three days after that and Destroyer is a week after Okkervil. Fuck yes.



My boss said I needed to shave....
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We drove through neighborhoods
full of sensible homes
and quite a few speed bumps

singing,"this is the worst trip,
that I've ever been on."
we both love that song when
we just don't expect too.


and beneath those homes,
it's quiet,
damp earth and bones,
and things growing and
the house is sinking,
surely
in value
rising.




It's been an interesting week. At one point...
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dangling

yellow flowers against your caramel skin

those earrings were the best thing you ever wore

everything else

so ordinary

dull and

so unlike you.

grass or astro turf?

Changes.

2008 is a steamroller. I lost my job, found a new one, lost my grandfather, no replacement forthcoming; sliced and diced my way through another girl. They come and go or I just disappear.

I find myself sleeping and dreaming words and waking and having no verve, feeling collapsed. My heart hangs about my neck like a wet, grey sock....
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she admitted to stealing and she worked for the nut company too

things are forever fucking i don't know being churned
jobs moving death
christ
it feels normal to sleep in my car.

another day
when i am just trying to decide:

east west or texas?

It's been a good day. Cold, wet and rainy, a good December day. Read Bukowski and listened to The Stage Names and felt sweetly sad and laid pondering in the bath, soaking and feeling like the week was over and I was damn glad about that and the rain splattering on the window near my head. A good hot bath.

I watched a different version...
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I came to work early.

Today is a good day to masturbate in the office.

Listen to Filthybird.