August 2009
14 posts
“My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.”
ways to wake up (to be picked before we fall asleep… we will practice before bed)
• ear nibbles • cheek drags with lips • forehead kisses • breathing over lips without touching • body blanket • tooshy squeeze • squinty eyed “I love you’s” • butterfly kisses • eskimo kisses • footside nudgie rubs
Kurt Halsey
Unusual (and fun!) Date Ideas
Go on a search for as many good climbing trees as possible, climb as high as you both can in all of them, compile photo evidence
Go to a major chain bookstore, and leave notes to future readers in copies of your favorite books
Have her dress up as a ghost and you dress uup us Pacman. Walk around downtown holding hands, and whenever anyone sees you two, pretend to...
small things you can do to change your perspective
(an ongoing list)
1. Change the height at which you perform everyday tasks. (i.e. brush your teeth while on your knees.)
2. Look under every object you encounter for a week.
3. Wear sunglasses all day (inside and outside). Notice how it feels to take them off.
4. Alter your body somehow so as to impede your motor function slightly. ...
“‘You’re a rotten driver’, I protested. ‘Either you ought to be more careful, or...”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Many, many years ago in a sad, faraway land, there was an enormous mountain made of rough, black stone. At sunset, on top of that mountain, a magic rose blossomed every night that made whoever plucked it immortal. But no one dared go near it because its thorns were full of poison. Men talked amongst themselves about their fear of death, and pain, but never about the promise of eternal life. And...
Lester Bangs: They make you feel cool. And hey. I met you. You are not cool. William Miller: I know. Even when I thought I was, I knew I wasn’t. Lester Bangs: That’s because we’re uncool. And while women will always be a problem for us, most of the great art in the world is about that very same problem. Good-looking people don’t have any spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but...
“Someday you’ll find the right person, Mari, and you’ll learn to have a lot more...”
– After Dark, Haruki Murakami
July 2009
17 posts
Portugal. The Man - Guns & Dogs
“No bullshit, but I never leave a house without a mix for anything: Falling in...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“Never take it seriously, you never get hurt. Never get hurt, you can always have fun. And if you ever get lonely, you just go to the record store and visit all your friends.”
“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful...”
– Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
Bob Dylan
“And then it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they’re nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere.”
Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
Well then let them hate you but let it be because you are a good person in a bad world and bad always hates good.
I Wrote This For You
“People don’t realize this, but loneliness is underrated.”
“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. it’s not true. the future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where...
Dear Reader,
Thank you for coming to this book. It is an honor, and a surprise, to have the frenzied thoughts of my youth expressed in Chinese characters. I sincerely appreciate the efforts of the translator and the publishers in bringing this curious work to your attention. I hope you will find it useful or amusing.
When I was young, my friends and I read and admired the old Chinese poets....