“Just do your thing, man. It’s all yours,” he bellowed, dramatically gesticulating towards one empty white wall of his new condo’s dining room. It wasn’t furnished, yet. In fact, the place looked like it needed a lot of work. The wall-to-wall carpeting spanned the living and dining rooms, decorated with insolent [...]
Published by December 4th, 2007 in Dating and Personal.Author Archive for Toothpick
The word ‘ethnomusicology‘ carries with it certain connotations that may make one squirm: tokenizing, misappropriated cultural anthropology, exoticism, etc. However, after watching Itsushi Kawase’s three short documentaries on how music is interwoven into the fabric of those who live outside the fringes of conventional comfort, I am left refreshed that [...]
Published by September 23rd, 2007 in History.The needle gently cajoles a tune out of the scratchy analog of the vinyl LP. A non-descript instrumental slowly makes itself comfortable within the dingy confines of the studio basement that I have casually convinced myself to call a home. A very lose definition of said ‘home‘ is a rickety futon, [...]
Published by July 22nd, 2007 in Personal and Social.A Play in 2 Acts
act i: this half-lit world
wake up! technologies of alarms take knowledges of my dreams where i’d anchored my rancor and it flees … at dawn surreal fabrics of comfort undone unraveled at the seams it seems i awake from marvels not ever wanting to – not ever having to need [...]
01:00pm
“rubbish!” she said, laughing, rinsing the last dish, accented first syllables with british pouts: “you mean you won’t?” no i won’t. wont. want.
02:42am
the altar swayed as i prayed banter brayed as i stayed in front heaven lurked in the bays of her cunt but it’s the hell in her heart i couldn’t depart from.
