From the monthly archives:

November 2007

conga drums

by johnford on November 30, 2007

Down at the kava bar the florida versions of the hipsters are beating the drums. I can see a school of flesh surrounding the festivities from my kitchen window. “Helpless” is playing on my ipod. Beer, wine, sodas, cigarettes, pipes, chairs and umbrellas… lights a sign across the way. My god I need to connect with something tonight. This is close as it’s gonna get. A fucking typewriter. It just ain’t gonna happen. Jeff Tweedy is asking me if I have any ‘blue eyed soul.” nope. Only the the piercing eyes of white fleshed assassins risking nothing. I wish I could sleep.

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random line of the day

by johnford on November 30, 2007

“pelican’s think they are the most beautiful creatures on God’s earth.”

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the best line from the best song ever written

November 29, 2007

“Name me someone who’s not a parasite, and I’ll go out and say a prayer for him”
Well I don’t know if it’s the best song, but it’s in my top 10. The production is so damn sparse and perfect. Robbie Robertson’s guitar just walks around the song with quivering imperfection.

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dave van ronk is dead

November 29, 2007

But they named a street after him. Over by that triangle they call a square where the homosexuals had a riot once. Don’t think any buildings burned down though. Not like Detroit where they had to send in the Airbourne or anything. Never met the man. Saw him on the street a time or two, [...]

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a wednesday kind of thing

November 28, 2007

Been a wednesday kind of day. Can’t get wifi in my flat today, so I’m posting from my phone. Did the laundry and unfortunately washed one of my moleskins. Oh well. Hope the cure for cancer wasn’t jotted down in the damn thing. Opened the dryer and little pieces of paper went flying everywhere. The [...]

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tell me

November 28, 2007

about your heart

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The letter you never sent

November 27, 2007

today i burned the letter you never sent
which sat on my desk for days
and floated across the room
when the ocean breezes strayed
through my sunrise window
leaving me to find it
laying on the dusty floor
each day when i come home
today I burned the letter you never sent
in an old coffee can
full of ashes and tobacco
and watched the [...]

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Uh Huh

November 27, 2007

One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where [...]

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stars

November 27, 2007

my daughter says there are no stars. there is no space. it’s just an illusion. an invention on a hollywood set. holes poked in a big cardboard box, set atop the flat plain of the earth. might as well be the truth. after all, this illusion is just as romantic as the one [...]

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old songs come back to haunt

November 27, 2007

It’s an old song I wrote for “nobody.” At least I thought so at the time. This morning as I picked up the guitar, it came back to haunt me. Hurt my hands to play it. Just had to suffer through the couple of bar chords.
old mp3—> Lovin’ You
Lovin’ you
is sweepin’ leaves on a [...]

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the whole night sky

November 26, 2007
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big silver moon

November 24, 2007

There’s a big silver moon over the horizon tonight. I guess there will be a big silver moon on the horizon everywhere sometime tonight. Sat up on the roof and picked at the guitar for a while, watched the barflies milling about on the street. The wind has kicked up a bit and I can [...]

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