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i have things on my mind but i don't even see the point in trying to compete for your attention when up against a. b. schwarzenbach. i got his mailed response but i feel uncomfortable scanning and posting on the internet (especially with out permission) so if you're interested you'll have to come by some time and see it. it's not that i want to hoard it to myself, i'd like to show as many people as possible because it's a damn gem. he's hillarious. and sad. (of course) and clever (naturally) and completely badass. he even sent one of his agitprop stickers! yeah... it glows. just incase there was doubt.
i really liked his "beat" poem. i mean, i really, really liked it.
This is my favorite time -
between the love and the curiosity -
when the violent trespass of day
is caught sleeping and beautiful.
pfffffffff
puddle. if you need me i'll be that puddle by your shoes.
no teeth though! (zak? anyone?)
it now seems silly that i'm still considering not going to hunter. why the fuck not? i mean... you only live once. unless youre a character in this burroughs book i'm trying to plow throuhg. in which case i don't know what the hell you are or how many lives you have to live (including negative numbers.) still, i believe that immortality is the only goal worth striving for. immortality and being taught english by blake schwarzenbach. champion of the sad ones and young ones and old ones and recycled paper ones.
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| YouTube |
[20 Aug 2008|05:57pm] |
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Hey Everybody!
My friend and I just started a youtube account with some hilarious videos. Please check it out. More will be coming soon. :)
http://www.youtube.com/user/SandJcompany
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[20 Aug 2008|05:56pm] |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARA!
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[20 Aug 2008|05:51pm] |
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today is one of those days where i am so sick of living in squalor. most days i can kind of ignore it, but every once in awhile it just puts me in the worst mood. nothing in this house is going to get better unless i work on it, and most of the squalor was here before i moved in, so i feel like it isn't my responsibility to clean it up. but i can't bug oliver about it because he's having a rough time right now plus i owe him a lot of money still and my roommates are in the same boat and/or are non-confrontational. but now its the busy season, and i have so many projects to do and shows i'm working towards, and so i really don't want to spend my free time cleaning up other people's filth. bloomington would be ok if i could find a steady job that i liked that paid the bills, and if i lived in a house that i actually wanted to be in. but neither of those things are going to happen, so i need to start working on a plan to get out.
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| Thanks Sage, Stephanie, and Theo! |
[20 Aug 2008|05:23pm] |
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We've been getting some loverly zine donations lately, and have two more on the way.
Stephanie ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mcmillan sent two envelopes full of goodies including delectations like Chatty Pig and her own early zines and minicomics.
In exchange for $10 shipping, Sage Adderly of Sweet Candy Distro and the now defunct Zine Library gave us as many zines as could fit in a Priority Mail Flat Rate box. We got some old and new gems for both the archives and the stacks including, but not limited to:
- Girl Swirl
- Glossolalia
- High on Burning Photographs
- I Want My Baby: the Miscarriage Zine
- The La-La Theory
- The Making of a Femme
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Trannie
- Trampoline (a 24-hour zine challenge by zine librarian Jessica Bublitz)
Then yesterday, Theo, a CUL library worker I'd never met just walked in with a stack of zines--some classics, some new to me, and even a few 1970s vintage zine precursors (that I'll probably end up sending to Duke, with their broader collection parameters). Other highlights from Theo's donation are a stacks copy of From Our Chassis to Your Undercarriage, The Down-and-Dirty, Do-It-Yourself Moviemaking Guide for Film Girls and Video Vixens, Gretchen #s 1 & 2, and Reproductive Rights, which ends, "have great healthy sex. and reproduce accordingly and if necessary to your only! don't let anyone tell you it's not your body or your choice. grab a speculum and tell them to fuck off!"
Thank you Stephanie, Sage, and Theo!
Folks, when it's attic, basement, or closet cleaning time, and you've got a bunch of women's zines you want to see preserved in a library, give us a holler. We reimburse shipping.
PS LiveJournal's spell check doesn't recognize the word "speculum." But hey, they don't recognize "LiveJournal" either.
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| Sun Kissed Lips |
[20 Aug 2008|05:45pm] |
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Originally published at Death or Glory. Please leave any comments there. And by sun kissed, I clearly mean burnt.
It’s possibly one of the most annoying places to get a burn. My lips are constantly tingling and in some parts there’s no feeling.
What’s the worst place you’ve had a burn?
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| I need your help |
[20 Aug 2008|02:40pm] |
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It seems I've depleted all the local thrift shops of scrabble games. So, if any of you come across any in your thrifting and they are less than $2, I would gladly pay you to get it for me and pay you to ship me the letter tiles. :)
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| Latent psychological complex |
[20 Aug 2008|04:28pm] |
Last one I post, I swear. I just enjoyed this moment too much not to share it.
"How long are the dogs going to stay hanging there like that?" asked Yulia, snuggling up against Tiger Cub again. "I want to make friends with them. Otherwise I'll be left with a latent psychological complex that's bound to have an effect on my personality and my sexual preferences." - Nightwatch, page 351 by Sergei Lukyanenko
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| funeral |
[20 Aug 2008|10:24pm] |
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Today I took HM over to my mum and dads to be buried. She was buried under the apple tree and there were some nice flowers on the grave. The cats and the dogs followed me out and stamped all over her grave but they were just being weird...lesbo looked confused when I got home, I guess its weird for her because HM was not dead when she was taken away from her, but all she thinks about is food anyway.
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| Maybe I caused an 8 year old to get on the Terrorist Watchlist, i dunno |
[20 Aug 2008|05:14pm] |
Thanks to roter_terror for pointing this out:
Apparently I might of caused an 8 year old some misery when he went to fly
I hope I'm not the James Robinson they had in mind when they put those people on there. Everytime I've tried to fly since early 2005, I've run into the same problem these people did. The kiosk people at the airport would tell me I'm on the terror watchlist, and they needed to call in a special code to get me cleared. at first it pissed me the fuck off and I wrote a bunch of letters. But then, after a while, I thought it was kind of funny, since it really was just an inconveinance and I wasn't getting put in jail or anything.
the last two times I've flown, I've had next to no problems, so maybe it got worked out or the FAA got lazy. It was just extremely weird that the first time it happened was when I was going to a conference of student-labor activists..........
Is the news just here to amuse me somedays?
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[20 Aug 2008|02:11pm] |
Orders sent to
♥ Erin
♥ Heather
♥ Jennifer
♥ Kelly
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[20 Aug 2008|05:12pm] |
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| some complaints |
[20 Aug 2008|04:53pm] |
i got my enchanted forest almost all set up and then the hanging chair pulled down part of the ceiling
it's not that the screw came out, it's that the chunk of board it was screwed into separated and crumbled
i'm getting overwhelmed by my to do list again
i went to the temp agency with ed and i can't work there cuz i have misdemeanors and outstanding warrants
and i might not even be able to go to massage therapy school because of the background checks
but the annoying thing is that most of my background check problems are the kinds of things that go away if you throw money at them
there's no true justice in the world: it's just, if you have money, you win; if you don't, you lose
and tim came over to my house at noon yesterday and woke me up and took me to lunch and told me he doesn't want anything to do with supporting me or being there for me and if i ever need anything, don't expect help from him because that's not where he is right now emotionally
it will all be okay . . . if i could just find a place for the hanging chair . . .
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[20 Aug 2008|01:48pm] |
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the goblin shark is the weirdest thing i've ever seen 0_o
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| wisdom sucked from decades back |
[20 Aug 2008|04:35pm] |
days back merely. months. wise old woman on the verge of a breakdown whispered to herself and to the digital world: there is always more there is always more there is always more there is always more there is always more.
and mercy me if there isnt always more and more and things keep going and i should really start worrying about all the things beyond my control. worrying only makes it worse and worrying about how worrying will only make it worse makes it even worse than that.
exactly 10 days til the move. til a new home. til a studio and my own space and a view of the lake and maybe a deep breath. 12 days til school. til meaningful constant creative challenge. til i have something to occupy my mind other than "how will i while away the next 8 hours while still making it look like im working" and all of our old friends will be there and we will feel warm and welcomed again and i will have things to think about other than the tortures of the recent past.
you're going to miss me. i'm going to be so happy and so busy and hopefully fulfilled.
i need to call the tai chi people before its too late. i need to tell my boss at curries that i need TIME OFF. (she's gonaa be pissed). i need to finish packing and not go crazy and not hate you because i start to lean towards that when i get this frustrated.
deja vouz. 20 minutes to go. 20 minutes is nothing in the grand scheme.
i will miss down town, i think. this is some strange other world. but i am happy for the changes that are coming.
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| A moment from the great war |
[20 Aug 2008|03:15pm] |
Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko, page 305
"But once you got to the borderline, the invisible borderline where the watchmen stood between the Darkness and the Light...It was war. And war is always a crime. In every war there will always be a place not only for heroism and self-sacrifice, but for betrayal and backstabbing. It's just not possible to wage war any other way. If you try, you've lost before you ever begin."
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[20 Aug 2008|12:43pm] |
i'm not going to have heat in my house this winter
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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| Few things are finer than sitting in a pub, talking about great novels. |
[20 Aug 2008|10:53am] |
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I've signed up for a water aerobics class through Metro Comm. College. The class is held at Morton Junior High, which most of you know is so close to my house I could spit on it from my doorstep. Not that I go around spitting on things, of course.
I'm not really nervous about it, so much as I'm sort of appalled at how long it has taken me to get back into working out. I care about my body, but I get easily defeated and distracted. (Shiney! Come back here...) But to have a class that requires me absolute attention is good. I'm glad I found it. It begins on September 3rd, Ryan's birthday.
I also discovered a book club that I am thinking about joining if I can find maybe someone else to go with me. I am a coward. I know. It's called The Book Pub and held at the Dubliner downtown. The next meeting is September 9th at 7pm. They are reading The Watchmen this month, and will be deciding what to read for the October meeting at the September 9th meeting. Anyone interested in going with me?
I am thoroughly enjoying Nightwatch, unlike the first time I tried reading it and it just wasn't doing it for me. I am pretty sure my next book is going to me Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. I can't believe how few people enjoy Virginia Woolf. I love her prose. It's so...atmospheric. I can actually feel how Virginia must have felt as she sat in her dusty room, smoking and drinking as she wrote. God I just love it. I will commemorate my reading of Mrs. Dalloway, which I have been wanting to do for a very long time, by watching The Hours, one of my favorite movies.
Speaking of movies, I recently rewatched Pan's Labyrinth. This is one of the single most haunting movies I've ever watched, and I just loved it. I was trying to paint and watch at the same time, which was a huge mistake. Still, the movie was just as lovely and frightening and sad as I remember it being. Now I am waiting for the second season of Bones to start coming to me through Netflix. I am anxious.
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| Nerd News |
[20 Aug 2008|09:18am] |
Fox seeks to stop WB's "Watchmen" after court win Twentieth Century Fox said on Monday it will seek an injunction to block release of the Warner Bros movie "Watchmen" after a Los Angeles court ruled a copyright lawsuit against Warner can go forward...
In his decision released last week, Judge Gary Feess of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California wrote that Fox could hold some of the rights to the material, even if it did not hold all rights.
Fox argues it acquired motion picture rights to the "Watchmen" graphic novel in the last 1980s, and that even though it relinquished certain rights to the material in 1991 it held onto the right to distribute the first movie. As though I needed another reason to say "Fuck Rupert Murdoch".
McCain Doesn't want the D&D vote It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war from the comfort of mom's basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from the memories of men who suffered on behalf of others.
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