singing you're one of my only friends who knows my love

[porphyre]

Good morning to the new lunar year. On the Chinese calendar it's my year, the year of the Dog.

The roof of my mouth feels lightly of electricity. Yesterday was falling backward, a door opening accidently, opening onto a room full of people I never see and don't think about often enough. I have a new ring, a silver thing like the branch of a

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[porphyre]

I miss when people tried to make every day things pretty instead of making them of plastic.

[hentooth]

dear george clinton's adorable caucasian kid sister,

i love the UK electronics ads. thanks for posting that.

-mr. paunchy middle aged man child.

[porphyre]

dear pretty boy,

i had you specifically in mind when i decided to pass those on. glad they hit the intended mark.

~ms. going to see afrikaa soon

[hentooth]

bullseye! i love the special cells one with the bees. i need to get myself some special cells. i'm losing my spark.

[abmann]

You are begining to resonate Gibson and Murakami in your entries. Though the latter could be that you quoted him. It des feel like Hard Boiled Wonderland, though.

It's been interesting watching entry style evolve over the last year or so.

[porphyre]

Beginning? You've accused me of both before, *grins*. Lone time ago now, actually, but I understand. My mind vanished there for a long time.

[canadian_lakini]

your words are liquid poetry

[porphyre]

Nice icon. Heh.

When shall we get together?

[glummdead]

I love Murakami.
Since I read Sputnik Sweetheart.

[porphyre]

I've only read what short stories I've found on-line. Things like the Bakery Attack. If I could find where I put all my old bookmarks, I could lead you to a wonderful page that has a grand collection of them. Alas, no.

... & I'm terribly sorry, but I don't recall who you are? Am I simply too exhausted for thought or have we actually never been introduced?

[glummdead]

Nope, never been introduced.
I followed a link from from uminthecoil and said I liked what I saw, and you invited me to stay, so I did.

I have read some of the short stories - the ones collected in The Elephant Vanishes and The Second Bakery Attack and Sleep were my favourite stories.

If you've never read a novel by Murakami, I suggest Norwegian Wood or The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. Murakami tends to tackle a lot of the same themes, alienation and isolation, feelings of being lost in a strange and confusing world. Norwegian Wood is the first book I have read by Murakami that leaves out his normally blatant surrealism, while at the same time maintaining the sense that something oddly supernatural is going on. I liked it a lot. Wind Up Bird goes for the jugular on the bizarre though, and is such an enormous sprawl of a book, it has everything in there. So, both are recommended.