… notes and thoughts …

non-sequential idea

August 26th, 2010 ethereal

video idea:

fuzzy fragments of late summer neighborhood life
song: life’s fading light by the sight below
script read and cut into sentences, not sequntial

script:

Listen to this
Doesn’t it just break your heart?
It reminds me of how the days pass
The 24 hour cycle is so cruel
I see markers pass with no way to slow down or speed up
Circadian rhythms mismatch with my ethos, ego, centric point of view
I am at the center
Its the only circle I have ever known
We spend our whole lives searching for ourselves, its ironic
I AM RIGHT HERE
Doesn’t this just break your heart?
Maybe I was already this way before I heard this song
I am here on borrowed time, aren’t I
I love you, I never say it anymore
Listen to me
I am about to break your heart
You are already gone
I had to break my own to leave
I am already gone

walk on wednesday

August 22nd, 2010 ethereal

passing through my neighborhood on a evening walk, i saw a middle-aged man sitting on his stoop, garden hose in one hand and a can of beer in the other. he arced a single stream of water over the green grass, back and forth, and stared somewhere just beyond. he wore black plastic headphones that just covered his ears, and had a cd player perched on his lap. i noted the absence of ear buds or iPod. the moment registered to me as a habit, carved into his daily life. he didn’t look up and i kept on walking. i thought about the things i do daily as i circled the last block to my home, again.

aglow

August 20th, 2010 ethereal

state fair, summer 2010. i had a grand time, albeit short. we closed the last day of the fair with funnel cake and fireworks. i felt like something was unfinished and left feeling vaguely like a missed opportunity was hiding in the gears of the ferris wheel.

lamps

for rebecca, in flight to the east coast

October 11th, 2009 ethereal

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roses

June 23rd, 2009 ethereal

i walked past the burned house just now. four cats waited for dinner that will not arrive on time. the house is empty, in many ways. charcoal and smoke have taken the place of red paint and trinkets. there were roses in the fence the city put around her house to keep everyone out and maybe, to keep what is left inside. i assume the flowers were for the woman who died there. twenty-four hours ago she was inside, now she is gone. will i see her ghost in the alley?

first veggies of the season

June 9th, 2009 ethereal

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postcard from the back door

May 22nd, 2009 ethereal

the night birds were singing. i miss them in the winter. the delta breeze brings in a delightful chill.

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time capsule

May 20th, 2009 ethereal

this evening i sent a piece of myself to be encased in concrete and buried in the foundation of a new building. an old cell phone will be my contribution to the time capsule placed by a certain group of art professors at a college nearby to here. with some hello kitty stickers, a note explaining a cracked display, a phone charger and a memory card containing text messages that serve as cryptic chronicles of my first semester of my first year of graduate school, i said goodbye a farewell to an obsolete piece of past technology that contains a bit of who i was at that time. godspeed to your dark holding bin … metal/message/missive.

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lolz from kmmk

April 7th, 2009 ethereal

like layer tennis, i tossed a cut kitten pic to kmmk and she tossed it back all lol’d up and super fab typophile-geeked out. designer lol-dom fur realz!

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and anyone who knows me knows the coincidence here with cats in pink casts after akzidenz. : )

packaging i like

April 7th, 2009 ethereal

i have a million things i want to post … but by the time i get home i am too tired of sitting in front of the computer to do so. but, i have been collecting some images of fun packaging and tonight i thought … i will just post one, and start to form a little blogging habit again.

here is a fabulous popcorn package from the local low-budget grocery. seriously, this place is zero frills. but, it has cheap food. and snacks that bring jolly happy fun yum times for everyone!

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