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Zen for the day:

Part I
We try to control life because we think it will establish an order we desire. But control does not create order. Conversely, it generates tension and chaos. Let go and let life arrange itself naturally.

Part II
No one outside yourself can give you anything of value. Be alive to yourself in all your joys and grief. Harsh reality...
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diamond:
ooh very interesting! smile
fred:
Re-reading sober now...
Are those your own quotes? I really like that.
I know all kinds of books you might be interested in.

Rather than rehash old journal entries here, I'll just give out links if you want to check it out.
Volume I
Volume II

I dig your feedback. Thanks wink I'm curious what people's reaction and interpretation is.


[Edited on Sep 16, 2005 9:42PM]
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fred:
I like how that looks.

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Renovated Bungalow

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I am in a renovated bungalow.
There is a revival in the streets.
The natives are pungent -- banana leaves, tripe and gravy.
All the words sound like "bok gok" and "mana ling ding"

I'm laying here, sweating on this cot.
The air is thick with the sounds of insects and marching music.

I'm just so glad I have this cool silver nozzle in my hands.
It's cool and heavy for it's size -- chrome plated.

I'm going to hose down my sister-in-law now.
The sedatives should kick in any minute.

Tommorow is another day with heavy machinery.
The blisters should heal by then.
When my mind is fuzzy I like to align things with a large mallet.
I like to grab things with my hands and feel the click when it fits.



Freedom

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I've been fading lately. It happens -- every day, every where, always.

I'm walking backwards in the gutter in slow motion.
I'm doing a soft shuffle in the leaves and garbage.
I'm singing "doot-doot doo... doobee-doobee" .

Ninety five more dollars and we make it back to my Aunt Grelda's ancient mayan temple.
The grimey manicure. The crumpled, empty cup. Life.
Three dimes, a quarter and twelve pennies.
A dead stinkbug, nine tic-tacs and a cigarette butt.

I'm looking back on blue lighting, echoes across the drunken neighbors pool.
Thoughts reverberating underwater.

I'm waiting for my fireball, my lifeline artillery detonation.
That'll wake me up. Then the band-aid comes off.
My black and orange incineration bath time. I love that shit.
Life affirming like a sock in the gut.

I'm thinking of freedom.
Freedom is telling everyone that bugs you to fuck off.
Freedom is throat cancer.




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vivid:
O.O thats the first time Ive seen myself in a favs bar ... its a good feeling.
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I'm feeling so much better.


After losing my temp job on Friday, I spent the rest of the weekend getting shit-faced... staying up til 6 am, watching as the sun peeked over the pier and sunlight bathed the trees in morning, while I painfully nursed myself back to sanity from a wild night of well-needed debauchery. I just needed the R&R if you will -...
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fred:
So you had something of a lost weekend huh?
You look all hedonistic and nihilistic in that photo. wink
Do you ever go to sunshine co? I went there a few days ago.

You only lost a temp job? C'mon... temp jobs suck.
I wouldn't worry about it.
How about a pro-freakazoid?
leavemehere:
All that drinking and you didn't even think to call me?
I am genuinely hurt. frown
wink
Hope you are doing well.
lmh
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scheisskopf:
Thanks for the post. It is important that it doesn't sink into the deep recesses of our memories. Sorry about your job.
bhpanda:
hey! I live there! i went to Central park today, and it was some bullshit >: (
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I just lost my job. I'm gonna cry my eyes out now.


frown


UPDATE: I'm doing ok. I was feeling sooo damn shitty last night though. Drowned my sorrows in liquor and cigarettes. Then I had a horrible nightmare about my job. Err... ex-job. Man, just when I think things are getting better, life SHITS ALL OVER ME. Gah. It's my karma, I know it.



this...
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fred:

Doh! That sucks. Sorry frown

fred:


Detonation -- Nine-thousand pounds of explosives -- Unreeling the cord.

A crazed mexican scrambling in the desert dust on all fours. Shots fired into the air.
Bottles of hot sauce.
Ay muthafuckin curamba!
Everything is empty and exploding at once, on fire.

Looking out from a furnace.
The grace of losing concern
the freedom of destruction.

Yeah...
It's all metaphorical and shit.

We dare to drink in the flames of desire.
Yet the man makes you clean up the soggy ember remnants.
As you lie in last night's damp firepit,
it's only your smudged face,
the coarse wet grit grinding in your teeth,
left to instruct you.




Every day is an empty question mark.

I sat on a fine burgundy leather couch.
The coffee table had an intricate pattern of swastikas set in tile.
I was offered a cup of coffee in a tiny cup.

The thickness of the glass ashtray distorted the images of the pornographic cartoon magazines underneath.
My eyes were steady on the building code addendum.
Sanskrit instructions on mountain traversal.


Nowadays I'm waking up on the beach.
My face is always sunburnt.
I drink beer while wading in the ocean.
I identify with the hermit crabs by the rock where I loiter.

My personal assistant left town, so it's back to the bus.
The freeway underpass is wrinkling my suits.
I've found a carwash where I can bathe.
I'm always sure to leave the valet a five dollar tip.




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I was reading about my zodiac sign today in a bookstore (I love astrology!)... I'm every bit an Aquarius: idealistic, unconventional, free spirited, truth-seeking, eccentric, humanitarian, open-minded, loyal, progressive, unpredictable, detached... and even better, I'm ruled by the planet Uranus, yes! haha. I still don't understand what being "ruled" by a planet means exactly... whatever


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I saw it happen. Ten pounds lost...
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zenhell:
"A naked lunch is natural to us,
we eat reality sandwiches."

- ginsberg-


hi

i like this wild and extravagant experience you've got going here

quotation from burroughs

name-link to your personal phantasmagoria,

beatific girl

a pleasure

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fred:
This was a good time to read your journal stoned.
The painting made me appreciate the poetry a lot more. His painting are tripped out too. In this case it's the inspiration that's more important than the technique, even that's good too.

Art is what makes it all worthwhile.
Otherwise we'd just be like termites struggling for food supply.
See, even though we like animals. They're actually pretty dumb.
If you show a squirell a painting he just looks for a nut or something, but if you a show a stoned hippy a painting they go, "wow... dude".
tonguewink

Check out
astro.com and get a full reading. That shit is interesting.
I'm a Libra sun, Cancer moon among other things.



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WHAT THE FUCK is going on around here lately??

First Sicily leaves, and I just found out that Dusty's left now too. I loved their sets so much. Sicily wrote such intense and interesting entries, and Dusty always had such a killer sense of humor. They were two of the reasons I joined this site in the first place. frown


Coi on my friends list...
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likwid_todd:
i'll miss dusty as well.

i like the new pics! wink

ARRR!!!
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photomares:
hey i'm just taking a wild guess but do you belong in this group?



Latinas

smile
synfull:
hot.
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When you get an answer, it's time to hang up the phone.

~ Timothy Leary
bhpanda:
uh-oh :o well if anything ull have some "bangin ass photos" of ya self for christmas cards... :0
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noone03:
artwork is beautiful in it's nature.

sorry your job is so dull. i'd trade if i could. so do you work full time then?... since you don't have time for school.

anyways... have a good one, and remember to smile. wink
fred:

How are you doing?

Hey, I'll give you a chance to read some older journal entries because it's easier than writing new ones.

This is about some dreams I had earlier this year
This is some silly ass bullshit

Hope you're doing allright. You seem kind of troubled from that last entry. It looks like you're going through a transition. Yeah, me too.

I can pull out some poems proper if you don't mind later.