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07:34 pm
kore
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you're as sure as there's a sun
playing with my hair, listening to prince's parade album
(braxton got me the record ♥), making pasta salad
for dinner (organic wheat rigatoni, olive oil, s&p, diced tomatoes,
pine nuts & basil from our plant that lives on top of the window
box air conditioner) & going to watch the tudors on netflix
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03:16 pm
kore
[Link] | have been rereading miss macintosh, my darling. lots of lines
pop out & i realize i read them before & really remember them...
i was in college when i read it the first time, a copy from the ojai
library. i didn't remember that the sentences are so long. they
are amazing, snakelike sentences; railroad tracks. when you've run out of breath
they keep on until yr blue. but there is something really
complete about them; reading byron & shelley, the clauses
get really complicated and doubled over, and i forget what is going on,
but with young the length of the sentence is mostly repetition of image,
so you're trapped on that one idea until she's exhausted it.
"The great, sea-blackened house with golden spires and cornices and towers peeled by the salt air, dark allees, hidden interiors, the empty drawing rooms where the hostess had not set foot for many years, as many drawing rooms as tideless years, the rooms too many for mortal use, chambers within chambers, the gilded, mirroring ballrooms where no one danced, the hangings of scaly gold and rain-stained velvet, the heathen monsters everywhere, the painted, clouded ceilings illuminated by partial apparitions of the gods, the silken, padded walls, the ropes of rusted bells, the angels and the cherubim and the immortal rose, the dream of heaven, the lily-breasted virgins sporting in fields of asphodel, the water-gurgling gargoyles coated by dust, the interior and exterior fountains, the broken marble statues in ruined gardens sloping towards the sea, the disc throwers, the fat cupids, the thin psyches with flowing curls, the mute Apollo Belvedere, the king’s horsemen, the life-sized chessmen seeming to move against the moving clouds that moved above the moving waters, the sea light lighting their wooden eyes, the seagulls perched like drifts of snow upon their heads." [9-10]
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03:23 pm
kore
[Link] | i love heather ross' fabric.
it is really expensive tho, i dunno if i should get it.
this one, too. less $.
i haven't made anything since the skirt class; i ordered pinking shears &
i need to wait for them. plus, i go to CA next week and i think i might
just take my stuff with me so my mom will be around to help
if i get messed up. she has a singer sewing machine she got for her
high school graduation.
going to the movies with marream.
it's been hot & lethargic; not doing much
but watching masterpiece theatre productions
of british melodramas. i particulary like
wives and daughters, the way we live now
& under the greenwood tree.
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02:28 pm
kore
[Link] | the pug's owners came to get her today, so no pug.
i was going to go to work at the botanic gardens today,
but it has been thundering and waffling about rain.
i should go to the post office, though. and last night
i read bhanu kapil's humanimal -
wolf girls entwined, carrying their heads low. one image
that stuck, a knife spinning in jar of blue water. i wish i could look
in the kitchen sink and see that.
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08:19 pm
kore
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found pug
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02:50 pm
kore
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dailywear
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04:37 pm
kore
[Link] | our friend dani ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) becauseshewas passed away on tuesday.
i haven't seen her for a long time, but i remember walking around with her in the
fall & that she carried a little salt shaker to put salt on her apple. and
watching episodes of land of the lost with her & ryan in costa mesa.
and going to see joanna newsom & devendra banhardt with her
& some friends in hollywood before i moved to providence; we
were standing up front and dani let kate hudson stand in front of
her cause kate was too short to see the stage. and they shared a beer. she
used to send me explosive & fabulous emails, like this one from 2005:
Choirs marred by mauve sheets of ice, leading each into the sky in
a row, a column of continuum reaching out while passing; all their
hands seem white, their eyes teary, and gasping. Each voice is
luminous to the makeup of the day, peeling into the orange sun,
crowded around a barrel fire at the turn of a corner, fingerless
gloves and the ruin of thousands of careers, spilled with the fall
of the markets, the roads ripped up and voicedover by palindromes
and prize-winning outbound hopes; each of them are still waiting,
still filling each moment of time. "I remember everything." We're
still sitting, but moving foward, leaving what behind?
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08:14 pm
kore
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- i went to the denver art museum with marream today; on the way there some guy stopped me in the street and asked to take my picture. i guess it will show up on his site http://www.iheartstrangers.com ; he is doing a project where he takes a photo of a stranger every day and writes a narrative about it. i think he told me that he'd just bought some purple jeans, & at one point he asked me to wipe an eyelash off my face, but i just realized it was part of my bangs, cause i trimmed them before i left the house. it is hard to keep them triangular
- yesterday i bought 40 limes to makes lots of limeade
- and went to the dentist; i have to go back to get a cracked filling replaced. hopefully not a root canal. it is the same stupid tooth i had problems with 3 years ago
- teeth are the most disgusting things ever: they are BONES that stick out of yr flesh. ughggh i am glad that the cracked filling is all that is wrong tho. i get nervous that i will have 5,000 cavities but i didn't have any! yay.
- at the art museum there is a really cool piece (Fox Games, Sandy Skoglund) that you walk through that is like... grey foxes prancing & leaping & having a party in a restaurant where everything is red, with a sing red fox and an old, 1930s 3 headed lady's fox stole draped over the back of a chair. it was magic, especially with these star trek sounds coming from a nearby video exhibit, and the sounds of drums from the african exhibit in the balcony above. oh, & a piece that was 4 super long purple velvet robes handing against a slanted wall so that their shadow was even longer behind them.
- last night poly jumped out the window (she gets out on the roof and climbs down the tree) and we couldn't find her for awhile, but then she climbed back up the tree and came inside. her feet were all damp cause the sprinklers were on outside
cell phone photos:
my get-up for walking around in the sun
fox games
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05:24 pm
kore
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Starcherone Prize Finalists Announcement
some of you all already saw this, but now it is official, so:
These are the titles of the five manuscripts that are finalists for the 6th Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction:
> 200 Pieces
> The Balloon Comtaining the Water Containing the Narrative is Leaking
> Glamorous Freak: How I Taught My Dress to Act
> The Orange Eats Creeps
> Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
These manuscripts, with the authors' names remaining undisclosed, have been forwarded to Final Judge Ben Marcus, who will select one winner of the Starcherone Prize for 2009. The winner will receive a $1,000 prize and be published in our 2010-11 season.
The Final Judge has the option of selecting additional manuscripts from which to make a selection.
This year's contest began with 210 entries, and our decisions to date have been extremely difficult, owing to the high quality of the submissions. Many terrific books had to be eliminated from contention, simply due to the limitations of the contest and what we are able to accomplish as a small press. In order to help promote some of these worthy manuscripts, a number of other entries will be designated with Honorable Mentions. These will be announced when our final decisions are announced, in early August. Please check this blog for an announcement in late July or after.
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04:26 pm
kore
[Link] | i spent awhile listing all the books i own on goodreads.
http://www.goodreads.com/persephassa - let's be friends!
i only have 173 books! i got rid of a ton last summer
when we moved from providence to denver. and i still have a bunch at home in california.
maybe when i go to ca later this month i'll catalogue those, too,
so i can remember what i have. i might also add all the library
books i currently have checked out. yes, lazy summer days.
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04:09 pm
kore
[Link] | my mom read me this book, amazing maisie and the cold porridge brigade when i was little; i remember it fairly well, but i didn't realize it was so odd: "A young girl from the African town of Timbuktu buys a talking camel and together they enter the Christmas Camel Race and beat the Wicked Wallah Wellibhut at his own game."
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