July 2009
26 posts
Customer #2
You have decided to call her Gisele, and will not verify this if she ever pays with a credit card.
Gisele has the most perfectly sleek, silver bob cut. Is it a wig? You hope not, it is nice to think of such uncompromising hair.
Gisele’s eyes are cartoonish in both size and makeup.
Gisele is entirely dressed in black.
Gisele’s lipstick cracks when she smiles at you. She sees that...
June 2009
50 posts
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Lyre Of...
Customer #1
Alex tells me his name is Mike.
Mike has one arm.
Mike likes my Sid & Nancy messenger bag.
Mike smells really very bad.
Mike walks into the grocery store as soon as he has exact change.
Mike drinks Heineken.
Mike always carefully picks the warmest bottle of beer.
Tom Waits - Dead And Lovely
an actual serious problem
I saw a movie that made me think about a lot of things. Not the things that the movie was trying to get me to think about (I think), so I decided to write a review of this movie, which I never do. My inability to write a review of this movie that actually really reflects what I think of it and what it made me think about led me to try to explain why I don’t usually review movies. There are...
“It’s not just sadness the way one feels sad at a funeral or film. More a...”
– DFW, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
I finished reading it this afternoon. Feel all discombobulated.
Cat Power - Nude As The News
Because this is the...
M. Ward - Fuel For Fire
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Shortz quandary
I started doing crosswords a few months ago, and have since discovered that many people can’t finish even an easy, Monday puzzle. However, I still have difficulty finishing anything past Tuesday, and just looking at the Sunday edition fills me with abject terror*.
So, if I can finish the Monday and Tuesday NY Times crossword puzzle, and occasionally the Wednesday one, where does that place...
Clues - Remember Severed Head
Because Alden...
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Digging for worms
Husband- Look! It’s your boyfriend.
Wife- What? What are you talking about?
Husband- Look. Isn’t this what you saw in our back yard?
Wife- Are these raccoons?
Husband- Yeah.
Wife- I saw a raccoon.
Husband- Well, but, is this the animal you saw?
Wife- Well, yes, look at the sign.
Husband- And it looked like this?
Wife- Are these raccoons?
Husband- Yes.
Wife- So, it’s...
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Deanna
DEE
AY
...
Remedies.
I want to dissolve into jelly and ooze around for awhile and then be collected and wrapped in rich velvet and fed rice pudding* and watch a sunset on the orangey colour scale until it goes away.
*I’ll settle for bread pudding, I guess.
Give me all yer words.
I feel sluggish, limp, crusty, scattered, absent, dizzy, vague, slow, grey. I feel like I have the consistency of oatmeal. But mostly I just feel blah.
Andrew Bird - Fitz And The Dizzyspells
Got the...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Moonland
And...
Wintersleep - Weighty Ghost
I can’t...
Name this feeling
You are standing in a big bookstore, there is a book you specifically want but they (the bookstore, as in the people who make decisions about it) have redesigned the floorplan since you were last here. You used to know the exact shelf-space that each of your favourite writers occupied but now the fiction section has been condensed and the romance section has expanded like a foam dinosaur in water...
Tom Waits - Gun Street Girl
I just realized that...