“Through the gutters there’ll be water running wilder than the sea…” That was a quick Mark Lanegan William Topley break, before I proceed to the topic of this post, which is the green Parkette Deluxe Butch let me pick out from one of his many junker boxes. One man’s junk is another woman’s new favorite …
Month: July 2008
My past has been quite present, lately. Mr. Mercado, founder of Basic Advertising, the man who used to throw me into various metaphorical bodies of water with a beatific smile and high hopes, passed away eight years ago. His family invited us to his death anniversary mass, followed by dinner, last Friday. It’s been many …
I HAVEN’T BEEN TO A BEACH FOR A WHILE I haven’t been to a beach for a while. The last time, it was newly night. Sand found its way between my toes, wet with its daily dose of sea. There were pieces of moon abed on blue, a deep blue I didn’t know before but …
Sand and fire make glass. I think of this while looking at Chiqui’s gift from Venice, a glass pen that looks like amber, with a surge of turquoise sea and gold foil inside. Glassworkers stretch the glass on iron rods while it’s hot and taffy-like; they know to the second how it will twist and …
“Taxi, taxi, hotel, hotel, I got the whiskey baby, I got the cigarettes… ” Morphine, corrigible two-string slide bass, maculate sax, Mark Sandman’s voice like someone threw a lit match at a rag dipped in kerosene and honey, welcome back to my playlist. Twinemen just wasn’t the same. I have liked Elbow for some time, …
It’s a rainy gray day.
But oh, how impatient it makes me. I want this season to be over. I wanted last season to be over too, with its shapeless baby doll madness, but it just cascaded into this season, dripping with ruffles. What is the point of women lining up for laser lipo, only to submerge the results in …
I don’t do this very often. Reincarnation is a tricky business. Especially if, technically speaking, you’re still live. I’m dropping wordpress.com and starting over using my own domain. After mucking about with mamp and agitprop (thanks to this tutorial at bioneural.net), I’ve also succeeded in exporting my iBlog entries from 2004 onwards into the WordPress …