January 2010
11 posts
Hair-raising
via magicmolly, who I just adore:
Some people won’t sit with their back to the door in a restaurant or café. They’ll maneuver like mob dons to sit facing the entrance, so that they can examine every element that enters. This makes sense for those who live dangerously.
Sometimes when I sit with my back to the door, which is often, I enjoy the feeling that my head is going to be unexpectedly cut...
“now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful...”
– Frank O’Hara’s poem Mayakovsky via Don Draper, Mad Men
something I don't understand
Why anyone would want to ‘get back to nature’ and go somewhere untouched by humans. What immense and unfathomable self-deprecation!
No, give me a city, someplace where everything in sight has been put there by human will. I want to be surrounded by humanity and all its traces, to glory in its curiosity, its hubris. How dare you revel in its absence!
the pictures
That’s what Keith calls them. We don’t go to the movies, we go to the pictures. And boy did we see a lot in the last few weeks.
Avatar I really enjoyed it. All the second year lit kiddies seem to be deriding it for its ‘racist fantasies’ but I thought its sheer beauty and technological advancement made it completely worthwhile. And damn, Cameron knows how to use the big...
sitting on the couch
Me: You ever been to Orlando?
Him: [silence]
Me: You ever killed a man?
Him: [silence]
Me: You ever beat Godzilla?
Him: [silence]
And thus is my afternoon.