an unequal marriage is like a wagon with one wheel too small–never gets anywhere new, but deeper into ruts
Read morelike all artists
“Like all artists, she is selfish. You just hope that she’s a good enough artist to make the selfishness worthwhile. There’s nothing worse than a mediocre artist who claims the prerogative of selfishness. Twice damned and no fun to be around.”
Read morea kid watering his garden out front
squirting the water gun nozzle intermittenly in his dogs jowly mouth, who would then try to chop the water with bites of drinking in the air, snorting.
Read moretoy in a basket outside a stoop
with a note that read, “Please take this before my daughter returns from camp today!”
Read morethe minus time diet
because it’s time passing through your gut that actually kills you.
Read moremusic’s mimicry
Music is the only satisfying–therefore only fitting–response to this existence we find ourselves in. It reminds of the wonder of it by matching it for ineffability. Filmmaking, as it springs from the genius of music, is a kindred response. But only real filmmaking. A film as a response to this all. If I’m lucky and…
Read morebath vs. stew
the warm bath of self-regard vs. the stew of resentment. Inclusion in either group lends insight on the other, though not on itself.
Read moreBoth Sides Now
The Judy Collins cover is touching, but shrinks in comparison to Joni Mitchell’s own version. It’s a useful comparison for revealing something commercial and calculated for mass appeal (and now dated and tacky sounding) in the former, and the totally original and spellbinding utterance of the latter (by the composer herself), which really is timeless….
Read morethe physics of wealth
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Read moreparanoia x 2
A couple whose spasms of paranoia were cyclical, and woe betides he who crosses their path when both husband and wife’s cycles coincided in a wall of paranoia and vituperation unbreachable by mere mortals.
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