Saturday, September 12, 2009

060

I can't make mix CDs, and I'm sorry if I have ever told you more than once that my CD/DVD drive died in some way in the fall of 2005.

Today is one of those days I really want to [make one], or at least rip some of my CDs to make a playlist to hear while I work on revisions and fix parts of the space in which I live.

What I can't include so far:

. Nada Surf: Happy Kid
. Jane's Addiction: Jane Says (Live)
. The Preshure Point: August and a Last Goodbye
. Deftones: Good Morning Beautiful
. Brand New: I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light
. something from Birth of the Cool
. something by Explosions in the Sky
. something by Mandy Moore, not consecutive with the She & Him
. something by She & Him, not consecutive with the Mandy Moore

It has to have "Happy Kid," and I don't have that on my iPod, so the whole project is ruined.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

057

...because Louise Glück uses the phrase "a hot fifteen year old" in the first poem I open in my reading of Meadowlands this morning.

I wanted to say hello, and that I love that poem.



In "The Rescue" by Alison Stine, the frail girl volunteers, or maybe she's not frail, but that's what I see in the poem; she wants to participate, or does she, but she changes her mind but it's too late. And the rest of the class sees that.

Alison Stine tells it better, but anyway, I love that poem, too. I must have read it first in the New England Review, but you can read it on Verse Daily:
http://www.versedaily.org/2009/therescue.shtml.

If you wonder why I miss Ohio, look at this picture:
http://www.alisonstine.com

No, I did not spend time in pictures like that in my Ohio. I don't know if I could for so long, but aren't all fetishes like that?

I can't tell if the HTML code is all fucked up on purpose, but aren't I one to think that's cool either way?