"He hadn't known how stupid pain could make you and he thought it should be the other way around or what was the good of it?" from All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot about solipsism, catharsis, and purging. Livejournal makes sense if you think about it in the contexts of those words. My recent horrible, immolating need to create, share, and perform makes sense in the same context. The need to make a break from painful realities by linking yourself to others and giving up the solitary ( Read more... )

I'm deciding between using this or xanga to start reposting and editing all of my poetry to be internet peer-edited/reviewed. So until then, here's a brief synopsis of my life since my last post ( Read more... )

It took me a few tries to remember my password, but here I am... on livejournal. How ridiculous. I'm wondering how many people on here would be interested in whether or not I keep this thing or delete it. I just lurked a bunch of people I haven't talked to in too long and I would still be reluctant to lose this last way to keep in touch. So if you ( Read more... )

maybe you can never really share anything.

i joined the school paper. on accident. in over my head? never.

im going to go fend off the squirrels and sleep under a tree.

i miss some folk.

there were a ton of fish hatchlings at Ponce the other day. (fishlings?)

also i jacked my back surfing some NONSENSICAL waves.

nothing to share.

"It is a durable, ubiquitous, specious metaphor, that one about veneer [...] hiding the nobler reality beneath. It can conceal a dozen fallacies at once. One of the most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that it is the opposite of primitiveness.... Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of ( Read more... )

carly listens to Isis. and that rules ( Read more... )

hello there. i posted a myspace blog, but i will post some brief updates here. so you can say "oh. thats what chris is doing." and then continue on with your lj reading ( Read more... )

i was going to delete this today. and my myspace. but am keeping both ONLY for use as conduits of communication. so if you need to get ahold of me and dont have my real email (why dont you have my real email?) then comment.

I attended the counter-protest yesterday and went home excited and inspired by the community response against racism. Until I turned on the news. The only story ANY news station seems to have gotten out of such a large protest is that a handful of people were arrested. The arrests occurred before the bulk of the protestors arrived, so we didn't ( Read more... )