DecemberDec 9 Wednesday 09
"Cash wrote ['I Walk the Line'] for his first wife, Vivian Liberto, and he swears to her, 'Because you're mine, I walk the line.' If only wishing, or singing, could make it so. The song's crucial line is its first: 'I keep a close watch on this heart of mine.' As any …
DecemberDec 1 Tuesday 09
bonnie and clyde were subsequently returned to the bin
It's just...I mean, what am I gonna do: carry this around for the rest of my life?- Helena, contemplating the perils of buying a DVD for $5.
NovemberNov 19 Thursday 09
...and then into a blog post
"I have never believed that everything happens for a reason. But I do feel very strongly that everything happens so that it can be turned into a column."- Gail Collins, from her op-ed piece, "The Breast Brouhaha"
NovemberNov 2 Monday 09
"decorative" dummies
Found downstairs at the Battery Park Book
Exchange and Champagne Bar in Asheville, NC
worth keeping
by Jill Andrews
(find it on her new EP OR this stellar Everybodyfields Daytrotter Session)
Capo 3
Em C
say you're tired, say you're busy
Em A
you can lie to me, should come easy
C A/Am
for you have been doing it, for a while
Em C
look away when I'm talking
Em A
please don't say, …
OctoberOct 20 Tuesday 09
oh and--
After I sent my parents photos of my pumpkins! of win, I sent them a one of me carving. I mean it's a cute picture, it shows off my new hair cut, and i don't look like a zombie in it, which is a plus. Maybe this is why Mom decided to forward it out...or maybe it's …
OctoberOct 18 Sunday 09
meta pumpkin is meta
oh! and allow me to present:
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (the halloween pumpkin edition)
OctoberOct 10 Saturday 09
"What is the book of life itself, but man's war with nature?"- The Storyteller in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (1942)
SeptemberSep 24 Friday 09
the revelation
by William Carlos Williams
I awoke happy, the house
Was strange, voices
Were across a gap
Through which a girl
Came and paused,
Reaching out to me--
Then I remembered
What I had dreamed--
A girl
One whom I knew well
Leaned on the door of my car
And stroked my hand--
I shall pass her …
SeptemberSep 22 Tuesday 09
"And you know what's so good about the truth? Everyone knows what it is however long they've lived without it. No one forgets the truth, Frank, they just get better at lying."- April Wheeler, Revolutionary Road
