Comments | greygirlbeast: "Peel the scars from off my back. I don't need them anymore."

greygirlbeast

"Peel the scars from off my back. I don't need them anymore."

Jan 05, 2015 12:47

The sky is...blue. It's windy. All traces of the snow has melted away. The brief "warmth" of yesterday is gone and much colder weather is on the way. The stark delineations of bare limbs and rooftop silhouettes. Grey shingles and razor-white walls. A wisp of cloud. The world outside my office window ( Read more... )

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Working outside in the wind ext_1285666 January 5 2015, 17:02:35 UTC

I had some property work to do today and my fingers were frozen within 15 minutes. The wind. I can't believe the cold is yet to come.
I sent a story to the newspaper yesterday. Sleep is elusive here too.

andrian6 January 5 2015, 18:58:39 UTC

I'm betting the saxophonist will be identified in short order, but I almost want him to remain nameless. And the pattern of the breaks- it's like the glass is trying to bury his face in scar tissues.

greygirlbeast January 5 2015, 19:04:10 UTC

but I almost want him to remain nameless.

Yeah, I know the feeling.

setsuled January 5 2015, 19:00:12 UTC

Or this photograph, behind shattered glass, of a saxophone player whose name I don't know.

It's hard to say since the broken glass distorts the face but I'm pretty sure that's a young John Coltrane. It looks like he's wearing the same outfit in this photo.

Nice pictures.

greygirlbeast January 5 2015, 19:03:44 UTC

Yes! Thank you. I knew who it was, right there on the tip of my tongue, but it wouldn't come.

setsuled January 5 2015, 19:19:08 UTC

No problem. I listen to Coltrane's album with Johnny Hartman all the time and his collaborations with Miles Davis. It's a cool photo.

greygirlbeast January 5 2015, 19:30:28 UTC

It is. It may have been there since the 1960s. I wonder when it was broken.

martianmooncrab January 5 2015, 20:23:57 UTC

I wish that there would be a different drug than S for you, one without the hangover effects..

or better yet, no drugs at all...

greygirlbeast January 5 2015, 20:50:28 UTC

I wish that there would be a different drug than S for you, one without the hangover effects..

Well, there are. I have quite a few.

sovay January 5 2015, 21:19:22 UTC

December was the best December I've had in a very, very long time, and it's impossible not to spend these days back in Providence missing the cabin in Woodstock.

I hope you can spend time there soon. And find a way to put some of those lost things back into your life.