June 2009
15 posts
May 2009
12 posts
“I am just a laugh whore today.”
– Judy Ivey, backstage
Moleskine. →
This is what it takes to get me inspired these days. Eh, I’ll take it. I’m in tech. I can’t expect the moon.
The Nascency
MICHAEL Have you ever been to Russia, Lazarus?
Pause.
MICHAEL No? Well, lucky for us, I have. In fact, I was born in Russia. That right there you’re holding- be gentle, she’s fragile, like all hollow women- is a nested doll. A nested doll. Or, to those of us in the know, a matryoshka doll, named after my mother Matryona, who was an enormous fucking bag who liked to eat other smaller,...
Family Hour
MOTHER
Be a love and check on my drink, would you?
Father doesn’t hear her and exits.
MOTHER Never mind, I’ll do it myself.
She picks up a bouquet of flowers sent for the funeral.
MOTHER
I love to throw away roses.
She opens the window and throws them out before exiting towards the kitchen.
The Cost of Living
SAM: I don't want to put a price on my life, but if I did I would say my life is worth at least that. I'm worth it. I have to be or this is all for nothing.
HARRIET: Be careful, Narcissus, or you'll fall into the reflecting pool and drown.
“MATILDE
Hello.
VIRGINIA
Hello. You are the maid?
MATILDE
Yes.
You are...”
– shut up, Sarah Ruhl. You’re a genius.
Ecopsychology
The basic idea of ecopsychology is that while the human mind is shaped by the modern social world, it can be readily inspired and comforted by the wider natural world, because that is the arena in which it originally evolved. Mental health or unhealth cannot be understood simply in the narrow context of only intrapsychic phenomena or social relations. One also has to include the relationship of...
April 2009
21 posts
“Don’t just do something, stand there.”
Happy belated Earth Day
I’ve got a little over a month left in (this round of) Connecticut and I just realized that I haven’t had to replace a light bulb in my apartment yet. I’m going to stop turning on the lights and see if I can make it to June 7. I’ll probably cut the electricity bill in half.
“Traditionally humankind has sought the answer to Aristotle’s question from the...”
– Robert McKee
Hamster in a Wok →
I feel like this hamster sometimes.
You know, white.
Re-Reading the Journal
Three shots fired,
Three shots gone.
Two shots wild,
He only needed one.
“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.”
– Jack Kerouac
Finding Ourselves
YouTube: Dear Perfect Stranger, I am Otto a feral cat born in a Brooklyn alley. Two years old. Neutered. Male. Full of love with no place to put it.
Petal: That sounds like me.
YouTube: But I will give my love to perfect strangers.
Petal: That sounds like you.
YouTube: Will you love me back?
Petal: That really sounds like you.
“I suppose that the psychologically inclined could find grounds for narcissism in...”
– my girl, my girl Julia Cameron
Which is which?
Sarah: It's 38 degrees out and cloudy. You know this is going to make my phlebitis act up.
Nora: Oh, I better put on some Cetaphil.
Inspiration, third from the last →
Back to the City
Precious: Can you print this for me?
Petal: You mean I should stop watching Mulan?
Precious: YES! You're like an eight year old girl that has to stay home from school because she has diarrhea.
Petal: Who has ever had diarrhea so bad they had to stay home from school?? Have you?
Precious: Sur- No.
Petal: Why wouldn't you just take an Immodium AD?
Precious: Maybe 'she' had a stomach flu or something.
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Re-Reading the Journal
Inhuman to write humanely, time to distance myself. One day spent alone simply leads to another. Inspiration while the laundry turns, scrub the dirt away and reveal an idea.
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