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Merry Christmas!

HOpe all is well --

take it light,

ph

Aw Steve your making me all mushy!

You are the man, no doubt.

Found that mountain yet?

Be well,

ph

Wheres the love, Steve?

be well,

ph

man, you're missed.

check it:

the datsuns have a new album, "Outta Sight/Outta Mind" produced by none other than John Paul motherfucking Jones of Led Zepplin.

i know i havent seen you contribute to the writers group in a while
i was trying to goad you into it

and wondering if membership should get cleaned out
?

Pulled from SomethingAwful.com

Take care man

yeah, you didn't read the one i was referring to in my last post, but i'm glad you liked what you read. i keep going back to the idea of clocks because at my new job(which i like) we have clocks on every wall and if you're doing one of the more tedious jobs you start to notice that every five minutes you're looking at the clock literally. in an eight shift i don't even want to think about how many times i look at that fucking thing.

at one job a friend of mine wrote in magic marker on their wall clock "messiah". a strange egg, but a good one.

heard about that'un. you need to write more, it will make you feel better. i'm a firm believer in "its never too late" but then again, i'm 23. the equation scares me. bukowski once wrote "think of how many times in your life you put on your underwear. horrible." and its true. the only blessing is we sleep- what is it a third? i think we sleep a third of our lives away. well most people. i apparently have forgotten how to be tired unless i'm at work.

yeah, man, you can't chicken out like that. you can't just say "brillant... moving on." where was yours? you should've just posted that journal piece. it has a drum beat in it like something... i don't know what i'd call it, somehow those words sit on my brain and fall into a natrual rhythm, something like... a ramones song, maybe? a very simple natrual rythm that can't be faked. you know what? i think- possibly because i've been listening to them all day- the beat reminds me the most of the white stripes' "the hardest button to button" just that duh-duh-duh-duh-duh. that driving force works so well in your writing. its weird if you want to create memorable lines you can't look at it in a visually aesthtic way you have to think of how it will sound in the head of the person reading it, make it sound memorable and as weird as it is, it reads memorable. good stuff. post something to the writers thread, or you die. and fucking submit me something soon, bastard.

best of luck.

I think, in that case, then, it would work better spoken. I know that what you bring to the table as a reader isn't always what the writer thought you would, or intended. However, I still think that a good piece is multi-functional, working on many levels, at least I hope so. And I never called it bad. Really, I didn't. I just said it wasn't what I expect from you. I've seen good things, really good things and just wish I could see more of them. This just didn't work for me. That's all. My internet was down tonight when I got home and it made me write ten pages before my computer started fucking up and had to be restarted, not its back up and I probably won't write another damn word tonight. Too many distractions for all of us. I like your line, really. I'm going back and skimming it and I'm reminded of my friend Mikhal, who one day snapped at me "why don't you like anything I write?" At which point I had to explain to him that I love everything he wrote, that's why I was so hard on him to do better. I love your line, but fucking work that craft, man, perfect it, you have the heart and talent for it. So. Yeah. Coffee and cigarettes all night and Detroit Cobras on the stereo get me all fired up. Wed. night is Rev. Horton Heat and Detroit Cobras. I'm all fired up for that. Glad your back, don't take me too harshly, or too seriously, man. Sleep good.

I get pissed thinking of you saying you didn't know if you were a writer or not.

Find that mountain!

great journal

take it light,

ph

Wow, pure poetry in prose form. You don't even need to tell a story but it reads like a novel. That's the way I try to write fiction.

I like it , better than anything I've ever done by far, reminds me of henry miller, but not

howdy, sent ya the rest of the third chapter finally. Finally got a female perspective on the first chapter at least. She said 1. it made her angry and a little depressing at the same time and 2. that she thinks it would be best adapted as a screen play.

Very nice...keep writing...I'm interested.

heads up: FAQ got send. if you didn't get it and wanted to lemme know. if you got it and didn't want it lemme know.

it was sort of like a warm up for a story i was working on, but i got distracted and didn't finish the story. oh yeah, i should have my zine finished by the end of this month, tho.