February 2009
Word of the Day
Adumbrate
To very gently suggest. I very gently suggest you take off those boots. I very gently suggest you drop that vain tone. I very kindly suggest that you don’t take one for the team. I very gently suggest that I understand how you feel. I very gently suggest to myself that she is like me. I adumbrate you to take off that dress. I very gently suggest that you kiss me. I very gently...
AIM
havent-got-a-prayer:
So I am getting it, and would love if you guys could reblog with your own screen names. I will need some chat buddies to fill the gaps in my day.
xylophonkiddd is my AIM.
January 2009
A Novel Thought
Feeling pretty small right now. There isn’t much to this feeling besides hoping for new horizons where the sun is blocked out and you’ve got to find shelter soon. There isn’t much to a feeling that makes your insides go numb and force you to resort to reaching deep down to find that little thread holding you up. There isn’t much to a feeling that makes you feel weak, lost...
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but...”
– Julius Caesar (Act II, Scene II)
“There is only one way in the world to be distinguished: Follow your instinct! Be...”
– William Bliss Carman
A Novel Thought
You’ve got to grab hold or you will be lost in the shuffle. The motion is too strong for you to preach yourself precariously over the line between average interest and pure dedication. Find your suit and pack up. This will not be the last journey you must take. You are created to preserve your own morality. Enforce it! Don’t be scared to embrace something. No, you aren’t...
Attn: winns (?)
dontbelievethehype:
I’m so intrigued and interested in your blank page project and really want to be a part of it. Just unsure of what to contribute at the moment. But I love it when people attempt original projects that allow other people to be involved and basically allow their inclusions to be shown to so many people that would otherwise never see it. Good luck with it, and I am very willing...
Currently Reading
Rabbit, Run by John Updike.
I’ve got a week until I go to my next book. Any other suggestions for good reading?
Déjeuner, puis classe anglaise. Au revoir!
New material from the band, Beirut →
Babys - Bon Iver
My favorite song besides Blood...
Things I could use right now;
havent-got-a-prayer:
-Writing inspiration -A cigarette -A lover -Some tea
I need the same right now. My writing has been annoying me lately and I cigarette and tea sounds wonderful. “What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.” I need that and a ‘her.’
A Novel Thought
Touch hair. Rub eyes. Kiss check. Touch face. Kiss lips. Read lips. Think big. Kiss lips again. Touch cold. Find shirt. Touch button. Look at her. Stare. Touch bed. Red rush. Kiss lips once more. Touch cheek. Look at her. Find socks. Cup falls. Feel wet. Touch mirror. Brush teeth. Touch tie. Touch toast. Look at her. Kiss lips. Kiss long. Tough hand. Tough cheek. Look at her. Tough briefcase....
A Novel Thought
The Blank Page Project
Please, please, please, tell everyone you know to add that link and to submit as much as you can. We are trying to good amount of submissions by the first due date, February 16th, 2009. Tell everyone you know and interest people because we feel like we can make something great happen! Reblog for more coverage!
A Novel Thought
I jump, but nothing could get me as high as I wanted to be. I want to be part of the stars. The place where lights is constantly being transformed, bended and twisted, and confided and released, and that is enough for me. Birds pass over head as I longed for wings that would keep in suspended in the tense air. The ground would just become laughable and trivial. I am not commanded by you! I jump...
Jackson Pollock
“The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”
- Jackson Pollock
“When somebody asks me a question, I tell them the answer.”
– Jamal Malik, Slumdog Millionaire
The Blank Page Project →
Please reblog this and send this to as many people as you can. This is a little project I was thinking of and I would like for great minds to come to together and see if we can accomplish it. The magazine will be my baby and we will make it grow. Submissions are due on the weekend of Valentine’s Day. Thank you for your time.
“A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been...”
– John Updike (RIP)
A Novel Thought
I am at a different wavelength right now. I am suspended between adjacent times. I bare heights of mass quantities, fishing for the cloud of mist that rains over us in the light of day. Draw from me a happy time. A time riddled with no-end stories, laughing fits and the time without rays would never finish. A broken piece of time. An endless sea of what-ifs. A fabulous uncertainty that dazzled me...
A Novel Question
I am trying to finish as many books as I can this semester and I have a very obviously set up question:
Got any book recommendations?
Anything would be fine, but if you pick something non-fiction, make it interesting. Most of them don’t pull me right away. I’m sorry. I am fan of fiction. I AM going to school for English Literature.
One book a week! I can do it.
“Hold the phone like a call on the other line
I’m on the phone with a bone...”
– I’m Mikey by The Cool Kids
This was the first song I heard from them and this part of the first verse just sucked me in.
A Novel Question
What happened to The Cool Kids?
They are wonderful. I saw them in June last year and it was one of the best shows I’ve been to in a while. It was high energy, powerful and promising because I thought they would have controlled the world by now with their dope style and bumpin’ beats. I want more of them in my world and in everyone else’s world. I loved their album, but I need...
A Novel Thought
I was talking to a friend last night and reminded me about how much I hate my name back when I was little. It had a ‘W’ in it which you didn’t see much in your average kindergarten vocabulary. Nobody else had it and it was harder to write than others. And oh did the horrible nicknames haunt me until high school. Losefast being my personal favorite in the bunch. I think that is...
“Hopeless emptiness. Now you’ve said it. Plenty of people are onto the...”
– John Givings from Revolutionary Road.
That line hit me very hard when I saw this under appreciated movie. Michael Shannon some award from his scene-stealing performance in that great movie.
“I have existed merely to perform tricks for you, Torvald. But you wanted it like...”
– A Doll’s House by Ibsen (Act Three)
One of my favorite plays and the ending just kills me.
“Yes, I’m drunk. And you’re beautiful. And tomorrow morning,...”
– The Dreamers
Skinny Love - Bon Iver
Nothing more must be said...
A Novel Question
What is/was your favorite dream you’ve had since the new year has started?
A Novel Photographer
One of my best friends, Becky, made this great work.
She is one the dearest and most genuine person I know and it shows in her work.
She did a photo series with fortune cookies and I had to share after reading up on my own fortunes. Her work can be seen here on her flickr and on her blipfoto, where you can upload a piece of your photography each day. It is like a continuous ‘365 photo...
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Truly Lost
I feel sorry for/laugh at people who say their favorite show is ‘Lost’/say ‘Lost’ is the best show on television. J.J. Abrams is still a genius; a genius for making you believe so.
FUCK
This hurts a lot, fuck people
