it's so funny how being away from boston, my home for a year, created its own emotional associations that releases itself like a strong fragrance when listening to specific songs. i just started listening to jezebel from iron and wine, and immediately got a sense of myself getting off the greenline from the C train at 10 in the morning, walking in ( Read more... )

I wish I wasn't such a clothes whore! My roommate came back last night with the most beautiful dress that was $15, and as broke as I am right now (seriously, I've never been this poor) I'm actually considering going out to flatbush to buy it!

I miss eloquence. I feel like I've been sorely lacking it lately. There was definitely a time I had it, even if for only a little while, I believe, and in retrospect, any time in my life where writing has been a compensation for deficiencies in any other corner of my life. For example reading anything that i've done two years ago or the year ( Read more... )

I just found out that there is a movie made out of Lady Chatterley's lover and it's being played in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Probably my favorite novel of all-time is Lady Chatterley's Lover. Or maybe The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Both have always had resonant significance for me, because I've always been drawn to the aesthetic of two ( Read more... )

What a bleary day. I like that word: Phonetically, it matches the timbre of the air you're trying to describe, because it sounds smudged, as if it's spoken through a whining sigh of water. And I use it when looking through my window-- gives the sensation of blurred vision ( Read more... )

my awesome window fan broke last night and so now i am experiencing what living in nyc in the summer could be like without such a godsend.
and it's only may!
today i go shopping for an air conditioner.

SO ( Read more... )

I've been getting some strange B-movie dreams lately ( Read more... )

Half Nelson
Volver
the Children of Men
Pan's Labyrinth
300

I wonder in the future how many more Christmases will be spent like how I will be spending this one. This used to be my favorite holiday, but this year I'm looking forward to it with dread, as I have to spend all day tomorrow, as well as Christmas day, as well as New Year's Eve and Day working in the restaurant. The pro is that at least I'll get ( Read more... )