July 2009
# 2- Vicente Fernandez – Volver Volver This is...
HAI ALEX
thesusieq:
If you wanna snuggle with me just say so.
Just don’t mind if I make funny faces.
I’d demand that face happen. Best face ever.
#1- Okkervil River - John Allyn Smith Sails. In...
On the power of showers.
In the summer of 2006 I experienced the worst heart break of my whole entire young life. I had been hurt before, and would be hurt again but never like this. While I wont go into details of the event I will go into details of the misery that seemed to envelop my life. Have you ever tried to get up but not been able to get up at all because everything seems so pointless and drab. Its how I felt...
A promise to myself
It was on a day much like today, I was 16, and broke. I was always broke then. I never enjoyed the idea of a job, and what money I did get I would blow through in no time. In reality I was happy being broke, and most of the time I still am. Its only adult responsibility that has made me want money. Money was always merely an object to the means I wanted, whatever it was I wanted. I still no matter...
I wish that I could push a button
And talk in the...
“So I took her to the river
believing she was a maiden,
but she already had a...”
– From Federico Lorca’s The Faithless Wife.
When I was younger, before my parents divorce, my dad use to read this poem out loud in Spanish, probably before I was able to fully grasp just how wonderful it is in Spanish. I heavily associate this poem with him. My father and I aren’t...
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be...”
– From T.S. Elliot’s Four Quartets: Little Gidding
“Last night I drove a car
not knowing how to drive
not owning a car
...”
– Last Night I Drove A Car by Gregory Corso
I’ve always felt Corso is the most under appreciated of all the beat writers and that’s really a shame.
A confessional.
I use to be sure of myself, not because of an over inflated ego, and not because of some unrealistic sense of self but because I knew that whatever it was I was suppose to do, wherever it was I was suppose to do it I would and that everything would be okay.
I use to be able to sit over a page and pour myself out over it. I could write books and books full of poetry and stories. It never was a...
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“I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further...”
– from The Democratic Forest introduction by William Eggleston.
Okkervil River - A Stone
And I think that I know...