January 2011
Speed Dating
Unabashedly and obscenely single
Nude of companionship
Exhibitionist of solitude
A sheer pornographic loneliness
Couples writhe in disgust
They vomit fragments of love
Clutching each other desperately
Clutching what was never theirs
And clutching
What was never there
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a...”
– Friedrich Nietzche
aafrophone asked: ooooh yeah, how's it going, Will?!
“Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman...”
– Henry Miller
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
– Virginia Woolf on the importance of eating, A Room of One’s Own.
Ayo Ms. Woolf, thanks for making this clear. Eat well my brothers. And eat often. (Whoa, did something relevant just come from this Required Reading lit101 book?)
Yiheeee!
Henry Miller. Holy shit. (Pun intended).
“There are some of us so cowardly that you can’t ever make heroes of us,...”
– Henry Miller
aafrophone asked: who is this again?
“On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of...”
– Henry Miller
and fear has left me
But simultaneously has never been more real
I walk through the darkened halls
they moan and shudder
and in me there is only a dazed sense of curiosity
for some reason, i am forced to bow my head
even as the walls around me dance
and the night itself serenades me with a lovely dirge
I retreat
the fabric of space has not stabalized
at any moment, it could dissolve
and I would be thrust into another reality
into another precariously factual fantasy
and again
and again
And then the convulsions
“WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING”
the road, it just flickers on and off
Here and There
and the big empty gaping void in between
is where we live
is where we die
nowhere to go
but later
The dark around thee shall converge
Through every vein its might shall surge
And every light its hate shall purge
And so will go thy lovely dirge
“I remember I was told there’s a new love that’s born for each one...”
– Dream Theater
CREATE SOMETHING
“My promise is made, but my heart is thine…”
– Opeth
“Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am...”
– Pink Floyd
No Experience Necessary
So I was just watching a Porcupine Tree interview. It turns out none of the band members were very technically skilled starting out. But they kept at it, because they loved the romance of music. For being not that skilled, they sure make some ambient ethereal atmospheric awesomeness.
Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth, also in an interviewed, said “I don’t know shit about music theory”. After nine albums...
