Saturday, April 15, 2006
This Mozart story I wrote.
Because I love this idea of Wagner (or X genius) born at the wrong time and having to write the music of his historical moment and unable to write what is inside him driving him mad because the foundations haven't been laid for him to build on.
posted by Scout |
6:42 PM
Sunday, April 09, 2006
heathcliff's hooker [9:14 PM]: is that you sleepyhead? heathcliff's hooker [9:14 PM]: out of bed sleepyhead heathcliff's hooker [9:14 PM]: i love "whimsy." wonder word. i tried to write a story based around that word once and i just corrupted it. heathcliff's hooker [9:14 PM]: goin invisible. sleepyhead [9:29 PM]: i am here! are you still here?
heathcliff's hooker [9:29 PM]: yip
heathcliff's hooker [9:30 PM]: love sindy
sleepyhead [9:30 PM]: hey how's lifes sleepyhead [9:30 PM]: cool i think it's okay sleepyhead [9:30 PM]: it's limited tho sleepyhead [9:30 PM]: o/c sleepyhead [9:30 PM]: i'ts good for what it is? dunno sleepyhead [9:30 PM]: you corrupted it in the story? sleepyhead [9:31 PM]: it is a bit you know meringue castles or something i suppose heathcliff's hooker [9:31 PM]: what, what?
sleepyhead [9:31 PM]: whimsy
heathcliff's hooker [9:31 PM]: yeah exactly... this girl sunmits and assignment, and heathcliff's hooker [9:32 PM]: its a creative writign assignment, and her teacher writes "a delightful whimsy to this story Niccola" on it, and she's horrified. sleepyhead [9:32 PM]: haha
sleepyhead [9:33 PM]: blue novelty pencil sharpeners heheh sleepyhead [9:34 PM]: i'm dreaming about experiemnntal techniques in brain surgery heathcliff's hooker [9:34 PM]: did you read? heathcliff's hooker [9:34 PM]: joy. heathcliff's hooker [9:34 PM]: do you think maybe sleepyhead [9:34 PM]: just now heathcliff's hooker [9:34 PM]: i was was inwardly punning ont he irrelevance of shit employment to you? sleepyhead [9:35 PM]: but eveerything is relevant! everything! shiver.
sleepyhead [9:35 PM]: :-) sleepyhead [9:35 PM]: o shit that is a freaky emoticon sleepyhead [9:36 PM]: i hate emoticons heathcliff's hooker [9:36 PM]: evrything is relevant, isnt it. i despise them. i hate it when heathcliff's hooker [9:36 PM]: computer converts colon bracket to face sleepyhead [9:36 PM]: i know, it hijacks meaning sleepyhead [9:37 PM]: i went to the archibald and the photography portrait whatever it is sleepyhead [9:37 PM]: the photography portrait is the typical nasty with, artists by artists sleepyhead [9:37 PM]: very upsetting sleepyhead [9:37 PM]: heheh heathcliff's hooker [9:37 PM]: it takes away nuance of your smile and replaces it with someone elses smile. the coolon braacket is so expression-neutral. sleepyhead [9:38 PM]: winner of archibald very good sleepyhead [9:38 PM]: i agree heathcliff's hooker [9:38 PM]: you can populate its meaning acording to your knwoledge of the person. sleepyhead [9:38 PM]: yes that is very trues sleepyhead [9:38 PM]: *true heathcliff's hooker [9:38 PM]: i liek it from glances ive had. i tried to go see with george, but corwd thwarted us (first weekend it was open) sleepyhead [9:38 PM]: my smiley faces always have dahses for noses. sleepyhead [9:38 PM]: i KNOW sleepyhead [9:38 PM]: i know, it was impenetrable today sleepyhead [9:38 PM]: i decided i will go back sleepyhead [9:38 PM]: when the seething mass departs i heard the most awful comments. sleepyhead [9:39 PM]: one woman told her male companion irritably "i scratched my pimple" and he pulled down the back o fher dress and looked at her bare back sleepyhead [9:39 PM]: a fat man on weaver jack "like THAT'S a portrait" sleepyhead [9:40 PM]: but small child i heard in parental tow "great show i say! i say, great show!" sleepyhead [9:40 PM]: :- ) heathcliff's hooker [9:40 PM]: LOL LOL you made a poem heathcliff's hooker [9:40 PM]: LOL LOL LOL heathcliff's hooker [9:41 PM]: i wish i'd been there. sleepyhead [9:41 PM]: it was ogod sleepyhead [9:42 PM]: been rereading byatt sleepyhead [9:42 PM]: what u reading heathcliff's hooker [9:42 PM]: which? heathcliff's hooker [9:43 PM]: as in, which byatt? sleepyhead [9:43 PM]: little black book of stories heathcliff's hooker [9:43 PM]: me, reading nothing! heathcliff's hooker [9:43 PM]: was reading "the idiot" - gave itover. sleepyhead [9:43 PM]: unlikely scenario! heathcliff's hooker [9:43 PM]: read "disgrace" - so fucked. sleepyhead [9:43 PM]: yeah fuck that heathcliff's hooker [9:43 PM]: since then... just some beatrix potter! heathcliff's hooker [9:43 PM]: you have to read "the tale of timmy tiptoes." it changes from childhood. sleepyhead [9:43 PM]: i actually wrote you a paragraph describing "the life and times of michael k" or whatever it was i read i will find it for you sleepyhead [9:43 PM]: really how? sleepyhead [9:43 PM]: does adult mind molest it heathcliff's hooker [9:44 PM]: totally - no, no, no actually sleepyhead [9:44 PM]: is he a grey squirrel or somesuch heathcliff's hooker [9:44 PM]: no it is pre-molested. even the drawings are wrong. b-grade. and this chippy hackee guy! it's wonderufl. heathcliff's hooker [9:44 PM]: do u own? yes it is, well done. sleepyhead [9:44 PM]: ok cool that'sa ll i remember sleepyhead [9:45 PM]: diod you see the one with the photograph portraits heathcliff's hooker [9:46 PM]: ay? heathcliff's hooker [9:47 PM]: no i didnt see any... only one th enews... sleepyhead [9:47 PM]: ok
heathcliff's hooker [9:48 PM]: any good? heathcliff's hooker [9:48 PM]: i hate tv. but i need it. sleepyhead [9:49 PM]: can't find that fucking thing i wrote sleepyhead [9:50 PM]: no it was v crap. the subject of this photograph studied fine arts blah blah blah a close friend of the photographer for many years blah blah collaborated on many projects in the past blah blah blah sleepyhead [9:50 PM]: what do u use it for honing your critical faculties sleepyhead [9:50 PM]: ? heathcliff's hooker [9:50 PM]: when you do, sne dit - id liek to hear. someone else praised that book to me. heathcliff's hooker [9:51 PM]: photograpyh can be qannoying - so little effort. heathcliff's hooker [9:51 PM]: you could do a betert portrait of you than anyone else. heathcliff's hooker [9:51 PM]: the following written.. you like?
moth
lost lifelorn wall moth at rest on the plaster, large, like a wallmounted souvenir, or a badge of courage dark, soft, a soft barnacle of sleeping wings, laced with eyes and lines like spires, a gothic filagree and tiny threads like the dipped lashes of a child's embarrassed eyes your dulcet chocolate dusk brown musk-silvered iridescence, there on the tarnished plaster. the air hangs with cooking smells, you, perhaps sense differently to the human beings that occupy the sofa with their saucers and ignore you.
he moves through mothlight mothdark eyes meet mine, aspiring to alight upon my kiss. in this white bed we keep no secrets, we spread limbs like wings, and let the television blur away our nerves and silence with its fizz of static (bad reception) and its noise of American voices, dialogue, snappy, idiot, quick-and we're undressed and I think this is how I like you best and the woman in heels says this could be the end of western democracy and vanishes into an a sleepyhead [9:51 PM]: i read some novel by him about this really poverty-stricken guy, who i think has a harelip, who is like a raker of leaves in a park or something. then his mother is dying and he wheels his mother in a wheelbarrow to try to get to the place where she insists she might have been born but she dies on the way so he like tips her into a ditch or something. then he goes on a strange journey of desperation and meets many psychos or sociopaths or idiots or whatever, some of whom may have been hippies. i think he ends up at the beach with some freaky woman trying to fuck him or teasing him and he bursts out laughing or wets himself? cant remember. but the whole time he hans't really eaten and then he like, profoundly transcends some sort of physical limitations or achieves enlightenment through his mental illness. it was very deep and philosophical, that is all i can remember of it. i did not understand it at all, because i am either far too borderline gifted or simply lacking in education. but i think it was widely respected and won the booker prize? heathcliff's hooker [9:51 PM]: and vanishes into an ad break.
moths whirl up, drop, outside when I'm cooling myself on the street in my bathrobe and distantly, I hear the beat, beat, beat of someone's subwoofer, belting out the bass loop of a hoon's confusion, beautiful to hear the gorgeous boredom of this sound drown in the wide grey maze of soulless houses. sometimes I wonder if the purpose of double glazing is to keep the sounds out or to keep them in (for privacy). many things are like that, double adapted. like humans moths serve no purpose. they crowd in a flutter of flat eyelets, blinking on the window, bellies peering through at the light inside. they shake and shiver on the glass, and, within, perhaps you have recovered from the shivering that shook you when we kissed.
heathcliff's hooker [9:52 PM]: LOL harelip poverty... heathcliff's hooker [9:52 PM]: he wins the booekr for everything heathcliff's hooker [9:52 PM]: fuclk him. and now hes got australian citship, he'll win allt he prizes here too. sleepyhead [9:52 PM]: he is a strategist sleepyhead [9:53 PM]: will read poem now heathcliff's hooker [9:53 PM]: better than peter carey winnign even more though. i have never read PC btw so i cant judge, i think ppl enjoy bagging him out a lot heathcliff's hooker [9:53 PM]: and i liekd a para i read of ned kelly heathcliff's hooker [9:53 PM]: kelyl gang sleepyhead [9:53 PM]: oh yes god i read that heathcliff's hooker [9:53 PM]: yes, stragist. using language liek a job. sleepyhead [9:53 PM]: heheh heathcliff's hooker [9:53 PM]: i thought maybe u did. any good? sleepyhead [9:54 PM]: no it's ridiculous you can hear him all the way through sleepyhead [9:54 PM]: and he goes on all that stuff in the beginning pages about great editors still existing blah blah sleepyhead [9:54 PM]: only byatt is allowed to do that re national library or whatever haha sleepyhead [9:55 PM]: it's ok ned kelly character is endearing and some decent magic realist bites in it but just u can see how far short it falls or something. peter carey is there all the time that's all, it's unsuccessful sleepyhead [9:55 PM]: imho heathcliff's hooker [9:56 PM]: LOl great editors stilll existing. fucl him. fuck em all. i keep typing fuck fucl. fuck that! heathcliff's hooker [9:57 PM]: i would screw ned. heathcliff's hooker [9:57 PM]: in a brickyard only, though. sleepyhead [9:57 PM]: me too but he would have to shave his beard sleepyhead [9:57 PM]: heheh brickyard heathcliff's hooker [9:58 PM]: yeah! well they shaved it to hang him. sorry, foul. i would not sleep withj deathrow. heathcliff's hooker [9:59 PM]: i HATE capital punishment i dont care the crime. better to let victim's parents shoot you for revenge than cold institutionalised "termination." sleepyhead [9:59 PM]: cool poem
sleepyhead [9:59 PM]: moths are beautiufl i think heathcliff's hooker [9:59 PM]: kinda old hat, the poem. but i like moth. sleepyhead [9:59 PM]: well i like both heathcliff's hooker [10:00 PM]: i didnt describe the moth though. it had yellow bee stripes on the back of its neck and red globe eyes. it could have been threatening, but it wasnt. actually thjey werenet red eyes. it was a red bauble on its back. never seen same. quite big. heathcliff's hooker [10:00 PM]: glad u like. sleepyhead [10:00 PM]: tehy are colourful
sleepyhead [10:00 PM]: i don't like capital punishment either sleepyhead [10:00 PM]: oh and i don't agree with prisons either sleepyhead [10:01 PM]: i don't know if i have any real rational justification of these opinions perhaps i picked them up from someone with more knowledge thani.s sleepyhead [10:01 PM]: i agree with flowers and rainbows sleepyhead [10:02 PM]: i think i told you one of my previous death fantasies getting sentenced to life imprisonment where i would be brutalised to death heathcliff's hooker [10:03 PM]: thats... heathcliff's hooker [10:03 PM]: so worrying, actually. heathcliff's hooker [10:03 PM]: when i was seven i had a with torture fantasy. sleepyhead [10:03 PM]: yes well depression selfhatred etc sleepyhead [10:03 PM]: really? heathcliff's hooker [10:03 PM]: witch, that should say. heathcliff's hooker [10:03 PM]: yes, i get put on this rack with a compression function. wrong for a kid, i think. sleepyhead [10:04 PM]: u have gt to start early if you want to achieve any thing in this life sleepyhead [10:04 PM]: bwahahahaha heathcliff's hooker [10:04 PM]: a machine to flatten my abdomen, bizarrely. SQWUAAASSH. sleepyhead [10:04 PM]: bad jok sorry sleepyhead [10:04 PM]: ow heathcliff's hooker [10:04 PM]: LOL. well, i've achieved flat abs! BAD JKE SORRY. sleepyhead [10:04 PM]: :-) heathcliff's hooker [10:10 PM]: what is sleepyhead [10:10 PM]: ?? heathcliff's hooker [10:10 PM]: only justificaton for prison heathcliff's hooker [10:10 PM]: is if someone is seriously likely to dangerously reoffend. heathcliff's hooker [10:11 PM]: it just jams poor ppl into a loop when it/s e.g. drugs, stealing. sleepyhead [10:11 PM]: agree heathcliff's hooker [10:11 PM]: the whoel drugs thing propels itself - should decriminalise, get more control. even heroin. sleepyhead [10:11 PM]: but u got to keep the fuckrs down heathcliff's hooker [10:11 PM]: "regulate", dont criminalise. heathcliff's hooker [10:11 PM]: kick the shit outta them. sleepyhead [10:11 PM]: the boot in the face sleepyhead [10:12 PM]: i was overcome by flourescent lights on the bus tonight, they are cruel sleepyhead [10:12 PM]: and when u close your eyes and put your face down you still see them sleepyhead [10:13 PM]: im better tonight tho heathcliff's hooker [10:16 PM]: on bus? so dull though? or bright onmes? heathcliff's hooker [10:16 PM]: i am pretty good. a few tearful fits but brief. nearly emailed you in angst yesterday heathcliff's hooker [10:16 PM]: restrained self. sleepyhead [10:16 PM]: bright and cruel sleepyhead [10:16 PM]: u shouldn't worry about that!! heathcliff's hooker [10:16 PM]: those arent the fluros you still see. it's your own hell mouth. or your doomseye. sleepyhead [10:16 PM]: lol. sleepyhead [10:17 PM]: yeah i know sleepyhead [10:18 PM]: the hellmouth is v creative
sleepyhead [10:18 PM]: cause life is v messy heathcliff's hooker [10:18 PM]: if your skin pores were hellmouths for bacteria. if the bacteria were afraid of them. sleepyhead [10:19 PM]: or something sleepyhead [10:19 PM]: heheh sleepyhead [10:19 PM]: my eyes are hellmouths for my brain heathcliff's hooker [10:19 PM]: yes bright and cruel. at lawschool, in the lifts, i look so old. i hang my head but the afterimage of my reflection is in my head. grey and cruelsick. heathcliff's hooker [10:19 PM]: that's bad. for your brain. for your eyes. sleepyhead [10:19 PM]: did u know max martin wrote 4ever by the veronicas sleepyhead [10:20 PM]: i think there is an evil mirror on the back surface of my skul sleepyhead [10:20 PM]: *inside sleepyhead [10:20 PM]: what that poem u wrote about ur skull sleepyhead [10:21 PM]: omg i bought a siouxie and the banshees cd it was terrible i tried to sleep to it but it kept waking me up it was so bad heathcliff's hooker [10:21 PM]: my dad has one of them, im no fan. i love the word "banshees" though. heathcliff's hooker [10:21 PM]: what was the poem re my skull... scraping soul down off sides? sleepyhead [10:21 PM]: i thought i would make a good banshee sleepyhead [10:21 PM]: yep sleepyhead [10:22 PM]: i can't summon the necessary tears tho and i hate to look careworn sleepyhead [10:22 PM]: it is dreadful! sleepyhead [10:22 PM]: i have a cover of mother mother by the veronicas hahahaha sleepyhead [10:23 PM]: i never realise how much shit music i download heathcliff's hooker [10:25 PM]: really, a lot. i try not to.... i pay for it. sleepyhead [10:25 PM]: i am convinced that things wil lget better heathcliff's hooker [10:25 PM]: liek some paranoid law school weirdo. heathcliff's hooker [10:25 PM]: any recommendations, that will have emotional pull? sleepyhead [10:26 PM]: it's so difficult to find music that actually makes me emotional sleepyhead [10:26 PM]: i'll burn u something i hop e heathcliff's hooker [10:26 PM]: they help purge, forme. sleepyhead [10:26 PM]: i mean music that actually recognises my emotions sleepyhead [10:26 PM]: yep heathcliff's hooker [10:26 PM]: which tori amos songs are good? i have never "listened" to her. sleepyhead [10:27 PM]: dresden dolls album is pretty good sleepyhead [10:27 PM]: ok i'll burn u some tori amos heathcliff's hooker [10:27 PM]: yeah that sort. maybe your emotions magnet to the song and get pulled out like a beesting. heathcliff's hooker [10:27 PM]: hey, iamgine if the thorn actually hurt the rose. digging into its side. into the stem.
posted by Scout |
5:29 AM
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