July 2011
57 posts
listening to "Violent Femmes - Johnny" →
listening to "ERYKAH BADU - DANGER (INSTRUMENTAL)" →
repper like pepper
spit, sweat & blood: I put my body in these projects
skyscrapers coming from my brain; nerves are my lifts
veins are on the loose and my limbs are in a new city
new block, new coast: I’m building up that new gritty.
#stylin
fuente de la juventud
In an attempt to better understand the significance of water that I can’t get out of my head these days, I am pulling as many stories as I can about water from my past. It has been a messed up couple of days, but I think that this is a good way to keep my feet from floating to the moon.
Yes, I am also mourning future trips to space - my great-grandfather worked for NASA for a long time....
cigarettes
The first time that I had a cigarette was at Schweinfurt Elementary when I was about 11 or 12. A boy named Patrick stole a pack of his father’s West cigarettes, and he handed them out to a group of guys at recess. There were five of us in attendance; each of us admitted that we were tobacco virgins as Patrick went around our circle to light up each one.
“You know these are called...
“…I want to cry because I feel like it-
the way children cry in the last...”
– From the Double Poem of Lake Eden by Federico García Lorca
consistency
I keep calling this summer ‘my rediscovery of water’ - for a few reasons that I’m interested in writing out tonight. Water has always had the wonderful ability to change properties, something that I am starting to understand and transition into and out of. Water is one of those exceptional wonders that has so much nourishment and refreshment associated with it - it’s...
space talk under the sea: A Note About... →
manybothans:
I had a really great pride this year, but I was also troubled by comments I heard over the last week from a lot of people in both the mainstream and radical queer communities. I want to say a few things about cissexism, specifically towards trans women and other MTF spectrum…
timetravelingdandy asked: I've decided queer is the most liberating definition there is in the spectrum of sexuality. I love it.
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