Thursday, July 29, 2010

Futurama

"Why was that the first thing to come to mind?"
"Little Pussy?"
"Yes! Why was the ghastly fuzzy creature put into your mouth from your head, from your tiny little brain cells, in which small cheesy grits slip into holes filling out words in an elimination process. Whever the sheesy grits land is where a letter won't be produced because the letter cannot fall through the hole because of artery clogging cheesy grits."

....


So for college essays

works of art for common app:

>> my first run in with Paul McCartney

>> Microcosmos

>>first Dr. Seuss reading experience

>>Andy Goldsworthy

>>Levi van Veluw

>> Cross Creek


Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Traveling Sleep

Bad dreams in a strange bed as your neighbor sleeps on and on. You turn on the tv, you turn it on, only to here its static song. Telephone lights of people in far off places, with nothing to do but send you the messages about their life. Wanting attention. Your stomach rumbles as you get up and walk around quietly, shuffling your feet, groaning, blurry eyed with sleep and bad vision. The clock glows a red six o four. The silence is too grave for sleeping, outside is too dangerous for waking. Washing your face off in the mirror you stumble back in bed, which is cold now, unbearably so. Your mind drifts. Complimentary breakfest, ha, that's what we're all waiting for.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Soc(her)

I may have drunk thirty gallons of water. Ah water, tasty water.

And it was watching 30 boys sprint into dorms for bedtime.

And today soccer camp was done. It was my first taste of the insanity and training that are involved, (and skill) of these superhuman girls that I was going to camp with. They were man fast, they didn't look down, they dribbled past you in a flurry of adidas climate cool shorts and generic soccer t-shirts, doing pull backs and volleys and turns until your calves grew weary from your controlled watch on the ball (and their hips) and you melted to a puddle on the turf with heat and despair. But then you got a water break and you did it again. With a positive additude and some pizza in your stomach.

So now I'm reading Ender's Game, staying up late after a midday nap, blogging, listening to Frank Zappa and watching parts of Heathers that I can't remember word for word... because it's on Youtube. Tomorrow consists of evening out my soccer tan, packing for Tennessee and working. Not very interesting for now, but I must prepare myself with the uninteresting so I can savour the interesting, the incredibly interesting familia road trips. I'm dissapointed hat the Grand Ole Oprey isn't in refurbished yet. :[

Tonight I had a long discussion over how old farmhouses rank over most new houses for "livability". I find them very attractive. Sort of like black and white stenciling and leather couches.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Summer song.

Summer is many things. An escalation of heat mirages. A dip in the creek of a neighbor. A heat stroke mid July.

It's when the flowers of the roadside are grey with dust, and so is the sky, an orange haze sweeping over the mountains in a gauzy fog, blurring out their crisp silhouettes from the dimming day.

When the oil runs like water, a heated syrup dripping from every nozzle of every gas pump for miles and many more miles.

It's the popping of the ears in a pool ten feet deep, with skin drenched in chlorine.

When the tanning oil babies run to the sand, and lay there, throwing their bodies on the Earth, belly down, their skin sizzling.

The sound of chalk dust on concrete. The sound of bicycles whirring away down hills at night. The taste of Kosher hot dogs on the air.

It's a midnight sparkler.

A heat filled room. Stifling, with no breeze.

It's sandals full of well... sand.

The late night shindigs thrumming a house up with yellow light and conversational voices, echoing out across a star filled lake.

It's slippery when wet. It's a flash flood. A downpour that was unexpected.

It's the night bugs rasping out their Summer song all night long.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Jahahahahaha (Mexican Laughter)

Best Facebook Message I've Ever Been Sent Goes Something Like---

"Yeah so I deff just face book stalked the hell out of you lol, went through trevs friends just had to say sorry about being short with you to day I was late to getting my rabies shot. Nice seeing you tho..."


I appreciate this. The nice touches like, getting his rabies shot. Must be protected from those crazed mooses.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Rolling.

When I'm on the road, little ideas about how to describe the things I see, feel, hear, smell and lick are so much easier to think of because I have so much time, and since I fail at thinking of things on the fly, those little fleeting thoughts just get sucked out with the raging wind coming in the car windows as everything flies by at 75 miles per hour.

And.

When I'm on the road everything seems so far away. It's almost as if I'll never see the same people or places, because all I can see is this new land roling past me.

And.

When I'm on the road and I'm away, it's as if somebody pushes a reset button in my brain. It used to happen all year, never settling. But I don't know if I like it now...

And.

When I'm on the road at night, anything seems possible, and it is. But I have to deal with the consequences, especially if it was trouble that was playing its hand. So I can store them away, those consequences, and try and forget them in he morning. But fate never really likes to be forgotten. And there is always a road near at hand. Ready to make or break you.

And.

When I'm on the road, I always want to take you with me.