I feel like a creepy internet stalker person because I keep commenting on your entries, but I am procrastinating, OK? And that St. Theresa book reminded me of this hilarious (tho kinda sad) interview with Ginsberg that one of my lj friends posted a while back. Only tangentially related, but it is too funny/pathetic/awesome not to share.
I wish I could sing bad opera! I cannot sing any opera at all, or really anything. Instead I lip-sync & dance around wildly. It is not nearly as satisfying. :(
Terminal candor! Hahaha! That interview is unbelievable. I also have a book of St. John of the Cross' poetry somewhere. Maybe I have a date with Blake!
You're definitely not creepy. I am usually lax at replying to comments or commenting on others' journals, but I read everything that comes my way and I always like Ginsberg links or opera anecdotes.
Oh yay! I'm not creepy! Hahaha, I wish I could get that on a certificate or something...
OMG, I love Blake so much--or at least The Marriage of Heaven & Hell, which is his only major work that I'm deeply familiar with. I quote it to everyone I fuck.
What kind of opera do you like??? (I am so obsessed!)
I used to quote Margaret Atwood to people I had sex with. There are few ways to faster disconcert a teenage boy.
I am not a discerning opera listener, unfortunately; I did listen to a lot of Fleming and Callas for a while. I was trained as a classical soprano and had some brief illusions of operatic prowess (judiciously crushed). I'm a sucker for madrigals and English folk ballads.
I am not a discerning opera listener either! I only really started listening to it when I was... well, about your age, actually. (So, not long ago.) The point of that question was really that I have been obsessed with Janacek's Jenufa for months & am desperate to recommend it to more people! But I do not know any people who would actually listen to it! So I will foist it off on you. (I found it here in a version that involves commentary by a really irritating drag queen. But if you download the links you can skip that part, at least. I could even give you the start & end times for each act if you want. Just be warned that it is a VICIOUS EARWORM.)
Anyway.
(I discovered Blake when I was in middle school & papered my walls with pages from a paperback called Major British Poets, only to discover that the verses
Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs & flaming hair But Desire Gratified Plants fruits of life & beauty there
In a wife I would desire What in whores is always found The lineaments of Gratified desirehad
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I wish I could sing bad opera! I cannot sing any opera at all, or really anything. Instead I lip-sync & dance around wildly. It is not nearly as satisfying. :(
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You're definitely not creepy. I am usually lax at replying to comments or commenting on others' journals, but I read everything that comes my way and I always like Ginsberg links or opera anecdotes.
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OMG, I love Blake so much--or at least The Marriage of Heaven & Hell, which is his only major work that I'm deeply familiar with. I quote it to everyone I fuck.
What kind of opera do you like??? (I am so obsessed!)
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I am not a discerning opera listener, unfortunately; I did listen to a lot of Fleming and Callas for a while. I was trained as a classical soprano and had some brief illusions of operatic prowess (judiciously crushed). I'm a sucker for madrigals and English folk ballads.
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Anyway.
(I discovered Blake when I was in middle school & papered my walls with pages from a paperback called Major British Poets, only to discover that the verses
Abstinence sows sand all over
The ruddy limbs & flaming hair
But Desire Gratified
Plants fruits of life & beauty there
In a wife I would desire
What in whores is always found
The lineaments of Gratified desirehad ( ... )
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