somuchrain

I think I was exposed to Mark Twain at too early an age. I adored the thought of cleverness on riverboats, a linen suited aristocracy, and dirty-kneed girls with hair in their eyes. Also, I read southern horror in elementary school, Anne Rice, and much much more so, Poppy Z. Brite, in elementary school and quickly began to associate the south with sexy alcoholic boys....
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fuck.
arab strap is breaking up.

in other news: you know what i absolutely adore? working at burger king. really. i mean. wow. what could possibly be a better way to spend eight hours of my day than getting covered in grease and shake while serving disgusting food to loathesome people? i truly live a charmed life.

i am so young. like the young between high school and sophomore year in college. i am that young.

... i have no earthly idea what i meant when I wrote the above last night ... I was very drunk.

If I were pressed to tell where I go when I 'go out', that is, where I am, other than work and my mother's apartment, there's a park I sometimes sit in, but really there's CVS. I spend any free time that's not at home (or this little park by the library) at CVS, intentionally, and not. I mean, fuck, it's open 24 hours and...
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"If I'm a Cassanova, than you're a supernova!"

So, despite that it doesn't come out for six days (I think) I've got a copy of the new Justin Timberlake album and it's sort of bloody amazing. I mean, I love "Justified" and all, "Cry Me A River" is one of my all-time favorite songs and whatnot, but I think this album, overall, is far far...
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I'm convinced, half drunk, at 4.19 and all, that most of the important moments can be summarized by showing a person the Cat Power "Lived in Bars" video - that's just sort of it. There's a back-story to this, that involves a dinner conversation with my mother about "hope" and "despair" and " ....... 'revolution' ....... " and my trying to convince her that however...
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I was going to write a big post about how utterly brilliant Jamie O'Neill's At Swim, Two Boys is, as I've been intermittently re-reading it for the summer, but that would be enjoyable, I figure, mostly for me. Not that I particularly say anything on here of note to anyone, at least anyone who doesn't actually know me, which is one person ...

I've been...
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I read Mick Jackson's The Underground Man last week. I can't really recommend it enough and I actually think that the fact that it was both a first novel and was short listed for the Booker makes sense (though, it probably shouldn't have won, which it did not). It's such a brilliant use of character and narrative. It's utterly hilarious at times (the most elaborate...
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It's now been two full months of homelessness, and by homelessness I don't mean the lack of a place to stay, but rather, the lack of a home. This - why do all of the figures of speech for being shocked involve solidity? floored, grounded, etc? - this did not ground me, nor am I floored, rather I feel like I've been floating and time's...
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edited for deminished fucktard quotient.