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Jul 17, 2008 09:27

I found these phrases written on a piece of paper in my room yesterday. I can't remember what they mean, or if they are connected. I don't think they are ( Read more... )

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anonymous July 17 2008, 21:15:37 UTC
Sometimes, when I'm alone, I cry, just to make sure I'm still able. When I'm not, when I'm no longer capable of producing tears, I become a god. And that terrifies me.

I am developing a fear of punctuation. Every comma, period, and dash, providing structure to its sentence, touching each lonely word, only reminds me of what I lack. I cling on to all the marks I see, hoping that they can guide me, like they guide their sentences, desperately needing that guidance in my own life. But then, finding their comfort empty to all but cold, verbal entities, I release them, dreadfully secure that nobody can reach me in my loneliness, nothing can stop me from falling off the tracks.

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mr_ethanboy July 18 2008, 12:24:47 UTC
So, I lied. I actually know where a couple of those bullets came from.

"She's wearing too much lipstick tonight" is a line from the Dismemberment Plan's "Gyroscope".

"Hungry ghost" was almost certainly inspired by Wolf Parade.

"Kid A in Alphabet Land!" was a weird book involving socialism and letters, and was alleged to inspire the title for Kid A (but Thom Yorke denies this).

I suspect the sheet was written last summer, and I was probably listening to Radiohead when I jotted this stuff down.

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mr_ethanboy July 18 2008, 12:25:17 UTC
But I maintain that I need to reduce my use of parenthesis, and experiment with more diverse sentence structures.

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mr_ethanboy July 18 2008, 12:25:38 UTC
Also, I am totally not that *emo*, man.

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anonymous July 18 2008, 13:53:05 UTC
I hate how it labels me
"(Anonymous)"
Damn you LiveJournal
I am a person too!

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mr_ethanboy July 18 2008, 13:55:42 UTC
For some reason, this whole dialogue reminds me "humans"/"hummus" incident at Brown College.

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anonymous July 18 2008, 15:09:31 UTC
The lights that go by on the wall at night when the cars drive down your street.

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mr_ethanboy July 18 2008, 15:32:39 UTC
The wheels on the bus go round and round.

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