great for a melodramatic run

florence + the machine

when smartass meets smartass

student: "i am apathetic about the fact that you think i'm apathetic."

me: "it's probably best you don't care what i think of you."

troublingly good.

midnight city

le saxaphone

rose rouge

songs for

tuesday

fear

as this thing starts to take shape, feel real, become, i find myself wanting to sabotage it. all sides of a mind on a page, on many pages. is it worth it?

best word in the english language

benign.

trying, regret, etc.

had we not gone to the courts, we never would have known it was too windy to play.

trite

be generous. the alternative--often greed, not always frugality--is so ugly.

words i'd like to utter.

"Here. I wrote you a book."

air, or something like it

i suffocate by the absence of necessity.

subtelty, opposite

the subtext is screaming in my ear. though i think i may've invented it.

on giving up

"she was ready to dismiss the crew of her soul from the deck of her body." -kundera

tempting, i admit. but i've tried it before and it proved unpleasant; far worse than the suffering that comes with having your soul permanently lodged in your throat, adding flavor to everything you swallow while at the same time choking you.

i am reminded that masochism is self-imposed pain whose by-product is pleasure.

bombastics

The more i live, read, encounter, the more brilliant does Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" become.