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rhyllFirst off: thank you thank you thank you to all of you who came all the various capoeira events of the last few days. i think you are all excellent!
how do people who are interested in haiku and such feel about this plan:
come to my house (west perth) on friday night. you must pretend you are a beatnik. i am not sure what this involves, but it might be berets. i shall feed you, because i am delighted that you all gave me such excellent support this weekend, and made me feel special (of course feeding is the appropriate response to this, i'm greek). if you don't want to write stuff (not mentioning any names) you are still quite welcome to come. hands up?
alternatively, we could maybe go to the moon or aida or something, which could be fun too, i hear.
???
next:
books!
i did not like just like that, by lily brett. it was neurotic in a way that reminds me a little of don delillo, but while he seems to have an underlying sense of wonder and amazement the underlying feeling of just like that was fundamentally unpleasant. which may or may not have been her aim, but i didn't enjoy it.
i've also just finished nightwood, by djuna barnes. it was written in the 20s/30s, and has an introduction by t.s. eliot, which seemed to bode well. i am...undecided. i think i found it a little too pretentious, but then at times i was wavering on the edge of finding it hard reading, and odd, but still worthwhile. i think i'll need to reread it in a year or so and see how i feel then.
that is all!
oh! also:
I HAVE MY GREEN CORD! I AM SO FUCKING HARDCORE!!!!
how do people who are interested in haiku and such feel about this plan:
come to my house (west perth) on friday night. you must pretend you are a beatnik. i am not sure what this involves, but it might be berets. i shall feed you, because i am delighted that you all gave me such excellent support this weekend, and made me feel special (of course feeding is the appropriate response to this, i'm greek). if you don't want to write stuff (not mentioning any names) you are still quite welcome to come. hands up?
alternatively, we could maybe go to the moon or aida or something, which could be fun too, i hear.
???
next:
books!
i did not like just like that, by lily brett. it was neurotic in a way that reminds me a little of don delillo, but while he seems to have an underlying sense of wonder and amazement the underlying feeling of just like that was fundamentally unpleasant. which may or may not have been her aim, but i didn't enjoy it.
i've also just finished nightwood, by djuna barnes. it was written in the 20s/30s, and has an introduction by t.s. eliot, which seemed to bode well. i am...undecided. i think i found it a little too pretentious, but then at times i was wavering on the edge of finding it hard reading, and odd, but still worthwhile. i think i'll need to reread it in a year or so and see how i feel then.
that is all!
oh! also:
I HAVE MY GREEN CORD! I AM SO FUCKING HARDCORE!!!!
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on 2005-09-26 02:29 am (UTC)Yesterday someone asked me to come to a party, and I replied, "No, I'm going to compose haiku with some people I met on the internet."
They gave me a funny look.
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on 2005-09-26 02:41 am (UTC)I once wrote a nonsense song lyric that went - 'Haiku writers are rarely depressed.' You can see its inherent nonsenseness by looking at the line that came before it 'a group of apes with marshall spirit' and the one that came after it '100 days inside a model hospital.' The chorus went - 'You are not from the sun!'
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on 2005-09-26 02:08 pm (UTC)That's the koolest. It sounds just creepy enough to be plausible, and just bizarre enough to be a lie. :D