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baby i’m a fool

In Uncategorized on 22 August 2008 with no comments

my favorite song Melody Gardot performed last night
(get past the quality of the video and appreciate it)

mi familia makes it happen

In Uncategorized on 6 August 2008 with no comments

Over the past few months I’ve been attending the monthly event that Ajana helps organize and promote “Where Hip Hop Meets Poetry” hosted at the Water Street Cafe in DUMBO. Its become my guaranteed good time at the start of the month, sort of a three hour hip hop poetry extravaganza that brings out […]

more and more

In Uncategorized on 31 July 2008 with 1 comment

I posted a quote a few weeks ago about being preoccupied with thinking.
I thought this related to that passage very nicely.
Human beings have a tendency to ‘live in their heads’. This phrase covers several facts. First, men have a tendency to overtheorize. Some things are ruined by too much thinking on them, things which are […]

i am much too alone in this world, yet…

In Uncategorized on 27 July 2008 with 2 comments

I’ve been reading a large amount of Rilke lately, which happens in phases. I pick it up and find myself so completely in grossed with his words its easy to spend hours lying in bed reading each poem two or three times. I always want to share it…maybe beneath a Sycamore tree in prospect […]

good morning

In Uncategorized on 22 July 2008 with no comments

I’ve been a quite the errant blogger these past couple of weeks. I blame summer, birthdays, beaches, bbqs, stoops and rooftops. Trying this week to get back to a more regular schedule.
Until then…
I went to see Wall*E last week, which I thought was excellent and magical…not to mention a bit of a tear jerker. I […]

nostalgia

In Uncategorized on 12 June 2008 with no comments

Tonight I spent the evening on my old rooftop, at my old place. It, of course, inspired a bit of nostalgia…but not the type I had expecting at the time (or maybe the type expected in retrospect, since it didn’t dawn on me that those memories didn’t rush back in a flash till much later […]

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 […]

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 […]

Another Paris Snapshot: the boy in the café

In Paris, People, Uncategorized, french on 23 May 2008 with 1 comment

There are endless moments in life you want to capture, so picturesque and ideal, that the world, conspiring against you, makes an impossible task. So instead we commit the moment to memory, determined to explain it as best as possible when the opportunity arises.
I nearly forgot about him, the boy in the café, until I […]