December 2011
1 post
Caprichosa
“HOW THE HEART LEAPS UP MORE EAGER THAN PLANT OR BEAST”
- Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband
I keep mine in a cage.
September 2011
2 posts
Silencing the ticking of the clock
Romantics
By Lisel Mueller
Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann
The modern biographers worry
“how far it went,” their tender friendship.
They wonder just what it means
when he writes he thinks of her constantly,
his guardian angel, beloved friend.
The modern biographers ask
the rude, irrelevant question
of our age, as if the event
of two bodies meshing together
establishes the degree...
Notes
His climax
“As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself up to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself - so like a brother, really - I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish...
August 2011
3 posts
You are a cinema →
Hm. Some people know how to keep me hooked.
Am I capable?
We’ll see, I suppose…
The arrival
I just got back from the office — a little early, I know. Although I concede that I should probably be worried by my absenteeism, I will uphold that I have made significant progress in other areas. The ride was instrumental in the advancement that occurred, and was carried by the recurring theme of the summer, cinema.
Deviating slightly from the usual route, I stopped at Coupa Café for a...
And then a strange thing happened...
Woman with a Fan, Picasso, 1908 Portrait of Apollinaire, 1910
July 2011
13 posts
"the peculiar manifestation of paint in my...
Jennifer Cronin
“The paintings themselves grapple with the fact that they are merely paintings. The characters within the paintings confront their existence as merely painted figures. Painted figures struggling to make sense of their existence within seemingly meaningless structures and confines that they are brought into. Painted figures trying to find their way within the backdrop of...
WatchTom Vek: Aroused on Nowness.com.
“Todo se resuelve.”
– Cuban philosophy
Rihanna, Niki Minaj, this is not ok. →
My favorite cinematic cliché
injurious partitions
varicose apertures of solitudinal victories,
synthetic assertions of pathological fears,
pretentious vexations of stale aspirations,
serpentine appeals and fastidious lapses,
concurrently blurring the line of fire.
The Problematic
Low self-esteem.
I augmented my physical self esteem once. Hell, I can do the same with my intellectual self esteem!
… I hope.
Nocturnal Symmetries
Progressions / July 17th, 2011
Cross-section of a vein, 2:1:1.
Remaining scars, ephemeral.
Concentric assertions of desire, sensual.
Avaricious in flames, enthused.
Immersed, yet superficial.
Te las mando con el pensamiento,
y las que se me botan por impaciencia,
y por miedo a que nunca lleguen
te las tiro, aunque no las quieras.
Were they too sharp?
Dull knives, to the same effect,...
So long
Keats, Yeats, Wilde… Hand me now a pen of my own!
The nth dimension
where n >= 3
Today, I tore down the curtains and let the sun in through the windows. I played and dreamed in my room as though I were amidst waves in the waters of a sun-bathed beach. The rocks at the bottom hurt my feet, but the water was clear, and the sight of my bleeding toes was energizing.
June 2011
1 post
SSDD
I don’t seem to learn.
April 2011
1 post
Overwhelmed
— in so many ways.
It’s strange to say that when I have the most people interested in me (be it for friendship or more), I am overwhelmed and rather unhappy.
March 2011
1 post
February 2011
3 posts
On the avenue of solitude
I allow myself to dream.
Experienced, to say the least
I have done it all, from the pitiful and the shameful, to the laudable and the scholarly. I can say that I have swum in waters that have been tepid and glacial, calm and restless.
The corrosion is apparent on my eroded skin.
December 2010
1 post
1 tag
August 2010
5 posts
4 tags
Chuck Close on Colbert Report →
I really enjoyed the discussion with photorealist artist, Chuck Close — I am a fan, after all. Skip to the last segment, because that’s where the goodies are.
Enjoy!
PS: He has a wondrous beard. :)
“You have to stop living through your (or someone else’s) camera lens. Life...”
– Me.
Love
She had reluctantly accepted suffering as an inevitable component of deep passion, and was resigned to putting her feelings at risk. If you asked her what it was she was gambling her emotions on to win, she would not have been able to say. She knew what she didn’t want…
Maria Elena used to say that only unfulfilled love can be romantic.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
January 2010
3 posts
“Mon coeur est un luth suspendu,
Sitôt qu’on le touche, il résonne.”
– “Le Refus”, de Béranger
October 2009
1 post
September 2009
2 posts
When pigs flew...
Pittsburgh. The weather sucks, which is to be expected, and the swine flu is slowly getting to me, even though I am consistently fighting against it. I hate the flow of things here, or the lack thereof. I want to be home.
But home is nowhere?…
“This is my line, this is eternal”
August 2009
5 posts
Connections
I have such intense connections with most people, that I sometimes feel like I might be under some sort of trickery.
“Feminists don’t wish they were men; they celebrate their womanhood.”
– Why Anti-Feminism is Illogical, Unnecessary, Evil, and Incredibly Unsexy, by Regina Barreca, Ph.D.
Departure
I listen to your music to feel you.
July 2009
7 posts
Nomenclature
Dear potato,
Your face has faded.
Sweet (No Shave) November
“Oh what a glorious month it shall be!”
Indeed… Indeed.
“The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.”
– Interesting.
Conflagration
Inside me burns a fire that I wish to spread, a fire whose heat I wish to transfer, a fire whose warmth I wish to put in your direction.
Initial momentum
Life is pretty sweet.