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the cool down

In Music, neuva york on 11 June 2008 with no comments

I made a playlist on Monday, because it was 95 degrees and I needed to hear music that reminded me of ice cream.
Happy summering.
the cool down muxtape.

the exhange.001

In Music, blogs on 11 June 2008 with no comments

I’d recently began to think of musical assimilation and was trying to find the context to write about it in, the process by which people begin to slowly influence one another’s musical taste and broaden their musical horizons. Especially when they happen to be people with whom we communicate largely through the internet. But then […]

More Bolano

In books, letters, quote on 9 June 2008 with 1 comment

Still wading through The Savage Detectives tonight.  My favorite part of reading is coming a passage that you love so wholly it becomes impossible not to want to share it with everyone:
And then comes the funny part…they just stood there and asked me whether I wrote love letters. Everything, boys, I told them, setting the […]

why i love new york summers part III

In Uncategorized on 9 June 2008 with 3 comments

the heat wave.
I know its hard to find something to love in 95 degree weather that feels like 100 and makes everything stick to your skin. Yes, I’m smelly, sticky, sweaty, uncomfortable and at times bordering on miserable, especially during the times when I didn’t have ac, but there really is something about […]

why i love new york summers pt II

In neuva york, personal on 8 June 2008 with no comments

Let’s do something different: spontaneous moments.
We emerge from the bar at five am. Both sober after a long night of talking. The sky is lit on the horizon. I turn to my friend, ‘let’s walk across the manhattan bridge.’
There isn’t a rhyme or reason to the decision, but the night is young and endless, and […]

why i love new york summers pt I

In neuva york, personal on 8 June 2008 with no comments

Rain.
Its 95 degrees all day. Sweltering and skin feels sticky to the touch. Everything is utterly uncomfortable and the only respite is finding somewhere air conditioned and enjoying it for as long as possible.
Then comes the summer rain.
The air stays hot and the rain stays cool. We walk through the streets huddled under my yellow […]

whiskey river is my guidebook to life

In Uncategorized on 5 June 2008 with no comments

“What I point out to you is only that you shouldn’t allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need to, without further hesitation or doubt. People today can’t do this - what is their affliction? Their affliction is in their lack of self-confidence. If you do not spontaneously trust yourself sufficiently, you […]

Sentience

In Uncategorized on 5 June 2008 with no comments

And you can look back, remembering the exact moment when you first put down the pen. Stopped feeling certain things. Pushed all of the important issues to the back of your mind. Packed your bags, hopped on a plane and moved to across the country to run straight from one thing and into another. Because […]

Museum Mile

In Events, art, culture on 4 June 2008 with no comments

Yesterday evening I went to museum mile, thereby crossing another New York event off my ever growing list of things to be done. The festival covers the mile long stretch between 82nd and 105th on Fifth Avenue that includes free admission to the Met, Neue Gallerie, Goethe Institute, Guggenheim, Jewish Museum and a few others.
This […]

small worlds

In poetry on 3 June 2008 with 1 comment

make my world small.
with hidden things and corners and tiny spaces,
closet rooms and corridors.
give me nothing to feast on everything.
take my quiet moments and make them resound,
with peaceful noise that fills the silences;
windowsills that look out to our vacuum;
finite ceiling heights and a floor of grass;
and a bed of flowers to sink my teeth into,
night […]