1. Ellen Page

2. Jodie Foster

3. Penelope Cruz

4. Scarlett Johansson

5. Mary-Louise Parker

6. duh, Angelina Jolie

7. Aimee Argote from Des Ark

"The basement was dull and dreary. Plus, it was very dark. (. . .) It was disgusting, but Ricky loved it. It was a place for relaxation, a place to get rid of worries and cares."

"Ricky thought about all the times he had crawled under the sofa. How could he have missed it!"

"It seemed to be more like a change in goodness. For instance, the air seemed to get hotter, stuffier. As if something was there. Something evil, and Ricky didn't like it.

     And then it happened - quick as a flash. Ricky screamed. For there, looming in front of him with a giant head and no body, was the very face of his math teacher, Miss Trimborne. She growled, and her face was even uglier than usual. It was all bloated up, and covered with spots and warts and ugly, disgusting pimples. Plus, it was gigantic, so all the pimples were about an inch big!"

"And why was his math teacher's blown-up head floating around below his basement?"

I couldn't make this shit up if I tried, folks.

Florence and the Machine - "Between Two Lungs"

"Briefly, in my explorations of the chronologic flow, I have discovered something dreadfully amiss within the fields of human time. My sojourns in the stream of being have convinced me that our own material Universe, its past, its present and its future, is but one plane of a splendorous and infinitely greater structure that comprises nothing less than the totality of all Existence, manifested in both physical and spiritual dimensions. You will guess my horror, then, when I discovered that there seems to be a vast, near unimaginable hole torn in the fabric of Creation, and that certain atmospheres or entities are leaking through this dreadful and apocalyptic pit from somewhere else!" - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Florence and the Machine - "Postcards From Italy" (Beirut cover)
 

I gotta tell you about the time traveling dream before all the pertinent/touching details are gone. Remind me to do that.

Aimee Argote of Des Ark at a small unadvertised house show in Philly the other night completely floored me. Pained, intimate, drunk, using her boot as percussion & rocking forward in her tiny wooden chair until we were afraid she'd fall out of it. Bull owned the house, & became marginally distraught when guests set their bags & beer bottles down on the unlabeled garden in the poorly lit backyard. "We're growing raspberries here, & that's a fig tree over there." Somewhat surreally, he was babysitting a moonbounce. Aimee had an anchor tattoo on her ring finger. She's gay. The anchor showed up in some of her song lyrics. I accosted her afterwards, a little tipsily, & demanded at least five of each of her CDs. I could only pay for two separately. I didn't find out she was gay until later. I keep hearing one of her lyrics as "I've got this anger on my finger now," but it's really 'anchor.' I guess it works both ways?

". . . i gave my heart but then you took my lungs from me

baby, get on an aeroplane to Napoli
let's buy some land and start a family
whatever you ain't never had

honey, we could stay in bed for hours
talkin' shit and tellin' stupid jokes
and working on our garden
where we will sow all of our restless hope"

Youtube here

 Des Ark - "Two Hearts Are Better Than One"

When I was soused on red wine I told him I wanted to know everything about him, even the things he didn’t know yet, that no one could possibly know yet. Things like who he would marry, what color eyes she would have, how many children he’d have, their names, how he’d look opening doors (if he opened doors) for her, if he opened doors (for her), where he’d live, what the rest of his entire life would be like. Either he was too drunk to care or he took this all in stride, because he only laughed & held me tighter, but I’m surprised he didn’t recoil. I’m glad he didn’t recoil. Really I just want to know this information about everyone. Is this type of yearning for knowledge a pure or information-to-further-my-knowledge-of-the-human-condition-ally-lascivious one – lascivious? Does that even work in this context? – and it will never be satisfied.

Sam Lipsyte's funny.

[	mood	|	recumbent	]
[	music	|	Mountain Goats, everything	]

Some principles I find important: we are all going to die, we are all dying, all the time, we must live this way, as if we are constantly dying. I AM DYING. I will file these papers in this office because people need affordable houses & I need cash monies & so, Adam Smith, you win again, but in reality, we are all dying, we are all going to die, I will go home & play my acoustic guitar.

AND SURF OKCUPID.

Once I thought I could write beautifully. Having a Time is fine, but having a love like the kind you can hear in Carla Bruni’s “Quelqu'un m'a dit” is Egyptian cotton sheets, threadcount 400+

1. The more I sleep, the better my dream hugs get, from people I know & don't

2. Why am I not getting what the movies promised me?

The movies promised me things

I'M NOT GETTING

no one ever told me not to read too much into the movies

only comes with age

OBLITERATEDbyenametoodrunktoremain (2:13:38 AM): what we could do is go to the symphonytiems, then go get trashed and listen to said concerto on the itunes

I NEED TO IGNORE MYSELF AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE

Also this guy's art takes my breath away every time:

khaleyev_boris 

"To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business - not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything else is flaking away into . . . rhetoric and plot" (114-115).

~ Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

When Stephen was ten years old, his father Herbert, a distant figure in Stephen's life, abandoned him and his mother. Stephen "famously despised" Foxy;^[1] he once wrote a thank-you note to close friend Mary Rodgers that read, "Dear Mary and Hank, Thanks for the plate, but where was my mother's head? Love, Steve."^[2] When Foxy died on September 15, 1992, Sondheim refused to attend her funeral.

(If I don't put it in quotes & attribute a source, does the above tidbit seem more mysterious, or is it obvious that this is a pure Wikipedia de lite? Because this tidbit is completely unrelated to the topic I'm 'researching,' & I'm going to fail this final.)

Sincerely,

In Conclusion