A Softer World; Review
"Late at night, drunk, our language changes. Our adjectives shift, becoming stronger, more romantic. Our verbs become more clear, more specific, occasionally more desperate. They change even when we're talking of simple things, like eating an apple if you will excuse my example. In the day we simply eat an apple, but late at night, while my wife sleeps, I tell another woman how I am piercing the apple with my teeth. Then I am cutting flesh from it and laying those pieces on my tongue. I am imagining that its flavors are hers." - Joey Comeau, Overqualified
So, even though I've taken this paragraph way out of context, this really turned me on. I had to take a moment to myself. It's part of a resume sent to Apple in a series of gloriously uncouth resumes called "Overqualified". Written by Joey Comeau, the authour of A Softer World and lots of other seriously awesome shit. Read all of them. Every single one.
His writing style is something I've loved from day one, and I've been a "friend" of his on LJ for years even though I never comment on anything. I guess I'm a little shy that way.
Anyway, his writing is at times hilarious and terrifying, in the way that you bump into a serial killer in your backyard late at night and even though you know he's likely going to kill you, he's still really hot and you wonder if he likes cats or dogs. An "I feel naughty and can't figure out why" kind of thing. Did that make any sence at all? It did to me.
I reccomend The Girl That Couldn't Come and Math Stories. Tell me what you think! And then tell him at untoward .
-KD