December 2010
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PIZZA-INDUCED NIGHTMARES
things to be happy about
carrotsoup:
• sunshine and weekends • making cozy provisions against winter • diced potatoes • gothic novels • returning library books • tying colourful ribbons around things for the fun of it • workworkworkwork • getting a swing twisted and then untwirling • holiday smells • rice pudding
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This is the kind of dense reading I feel like I...
tumblr, you get all the shit I want to post as statuses on FB but won’t because of fear of judgement. yayyyy you’re my garbage collection and i love you.
i just ate some maybe expired 5-layer dip from...
I have a paper to edit. The time between now and when I start feeling sick is 10 minutes- 1 hour, probably.
I just set the body timer. Gotta finish before i start puking. Ready and set and go now!!!
“[The museum] was criticized for its presentation of artworks as universal and autonomous objects devoid of any social, political, and economic values. By presenting itself as the guardian of a separate realm of aesthetic experience, a neutral space for the disinterested contemplation of art, the museum supposedly conceals its status as a political institution whose main function is to...
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glass staircase (post-spring)
when you held me it was gold dust and jasmine suspension in wax petals spinning on threads the emptiness of potential groping the space in between clawing at midnight intervals at my three copper hearts
my organ’s traced outline the hollow now wrinkled a deep apple sunk and rot soaked through with inky sweat tentacles grope in and out of it murky cloud like a hasty scab an earnest trashcan...
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more
to-do lists, to-check-out lists, and countdowns than output. It was a night and then it was a morning.
When I Make It Through This: Cycles →
I also used to listen for comfort in the ticking of my watch. This is a pretty little thing.
makeitthroughthis:
I sleep and I dream poorly.
Lovers after me, knives in my gut. I can see her face, and I want to remember it, because I imagine that in life this might be a worthwhile bump in the night. When I wake I feel as if I’ve never closed my eyes. Sandpaper and fire leach under my lids.
The...
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synAesthetic art practices as effective catalysts...
I have never seen a work by Tania Bruguera in person. I cannot describe the emotional impact of the different aspects (location, sound, sight, smell, audience reaction, occasion, moment in time) coming together, coalescing and clashing as the performance is absorbed. I have read reactions to her work, interpretations of her work, read about her work placed within certain political contexts; these...
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i haven't slept/finals/concerta
So I was thinking about the idea of “sexile” (a.k.a. being forced/guilted into finding somewhere else to sleep/be when your roommate’s partner is around) and had the most awful idea (that’s mostly relevant to college campuses, though I could imagine other communities where this could happen) where you agree to lend someone your room/bed/whatever in exchange for money. This...
