I was going to write a big post about how utterly brilliant Jamie O'Neill's At Swim, Two Boys is, as I've been intermittently re-reading it for the summer, but that would be enjoyable, I figure, mostly for me. Not that I particularly say anything on here of note to anyone, at least anyone who doesn't actually know me, which is one person ...
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I read Mick Jackson's The Underground Man last week. I can't really recommend it enough and I actually think that the fact that it was both a first novel and was short listed for the Booker makes sense (though, it probably shouldn't have won, which it did not). It's such a brilliant use of character and narrative. It's utterly hilarious at times (the most elaborate...
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It's now been two full months of homelessness, and by homelessness I don't mean the lack of a place to stay, but rather, the lack of a home. This - why do all of the figures of speech for being shocked involve solidity? floored, grounded, etc? - this did not ground me, nor am I floored, rather I feel like I've been floating and time's...
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iggy:
I thought you quit smoking......
edited for deminished fucktard quotient.
iggy:
I think I was born with my sexuality. Is that bad?
I am writing the tip sheet for a book I'm editing. It's far more difficult than I thought it would be. It is also boring as all get up. I wish I got payed to do this.
I am listening to "No More Shall We Part" which is not my favorite Nick Cave album, but I am getting to like her 'newer' stuff and think,...
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I am listening to "No More Shall We Part" which is not my favorite Nick Cave album, but I am getting to like her 'newer' stuff and think,...
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iggy:
Oh. my. god. take a picture.
iggy:
just take the bloody picture.
Everything came with the smell of brown sugar. There was a pompous beating of fists and drums in that dark room: the tenuous connections of youth made solid by circumstance, like boulders about to topple from a cliff, held on only by the dieing roots of a plant, or the awkward jitterbug of running, accidentally, into someone known in another life. Bartops were pounded to...
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the word of the day is resignation.
I drove to Vermont with my mother yesterday. A friend is going to watch Nadja for a few months until I have a place of my own. Vermont was unimaginably sad. I lived there for about four years. We all lived in a house down the hill from school and went to the caf every morning to drown our hangovers and ringing ears in coffee...
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Im tired. Im tired of everything I do feeling like an uphill battle against money, against memory, against my own better judgment. Im just tired. Im tired of communication and of the lack of communication. The other night, like a switch was hit, I went into a hibernation of sorts. I dont feel any differently about my life or anything in it, but all I...
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fenianone:
i know exactly how you feel. i just can't express it through words like that. i'm exhausted and society has failed humanity.
fenianone:
thanx for the recomendation. i will have to check it out.
Through the windswept coastal trees, where the dead come rising from the sea, with a teddy bear clamped between her knees she says Where can my loverman be?
The most amazing storm clouds came suddenly at work. I hung out the drive through window to look to see if a customer had pulled around and my hat was blown near clear of the parking lot....
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The most amazing storm clouds came suddenly at work. I hung out the drive through window to look to see if a customer had pulled around and my hat was blown near clear of the parking lot....
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signalnoise:
i was in providence this spring, and i sort of dug it. it felt very new englad - old and lots of character and stuff. but with enough people that it was still sort of cool.
fenianone:
man, hot. you should try this god foresaken place. they say "its a dry heat". yea cause it is so fucking hot all the water in a hnudred mile radius has fucking evaporated and long since vanished. i fell your pain. i am in a similar stuation, regarding the whole indecision ting..... i have nothing. no answers. what i do is ignore. i am a pro at pretending nothing is wrong and putting off the inevitable(i wish i could ucking spell). go where your heart takes you, so long as you are true to it.