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self-defining.
number 4. i broke into the railyards in prince george when i was nineteneleven. it was raining and cold and everything peeling; the city all sprawling low in the gut of the country, the belly of the land, like an unborn child or a poisonous fruit. o! the gravel under my feet and all the wheat cars waiting to go! disused and disuseful and all raw and red like my small, panicked heart. how the lanterns swung from the eaves of the warehouses! how the blackberries pushed through the fence! how the crows startled from their perch on the telephone wire, and how my shutter stuck open and left me a single streaky negative to remember by.
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where to find me. Sep 6
livejournal - yours_in_revolt (friends only)
writing&poetry lj - ask me, i'll probably tell you.
polanoid - yoursinrevolt
something awful/awful yearbook - polaroid.deathtrap
last.fm - yours_in_revolt
criticker - yrsinrevolt
i.
mountain goats, okkervil river, a hawk & a hacksaw, weakerthans, tom waits, andrew bird, beirut, hold steady, m.ward, devotchka, nick cave, sleater-kinney, del shannon, neutral milk hotel, blitzen trapper, southern pacific, cat empire, gregory & the hawk, roxy music, babyshambles, slint, the strokes, the magnetic fields, tom waits, einsturzende neubauten.
iii.
extremely loud and incredibly close, catch-22, been down so long it looks like up to me, on the road, the rum diary, empathy, morality play, the unknown soldier, gut symmetries, griffin & sabine etc., riddley walker, slaughterhouse-five, my collected modern european poetry, circa 1979: (mayakovsky - i'm looking at you).
v.
&&&&ersands, aesthetes, afternoon tea, alexander the great, american highways, androgyny, art nouveau, bad seeds, battered old muscle cars, beautiful boys, bisexuality, black satin ribbon, brave young idealists, brie, camaraderie, comic book heroes, con men, cross-cultural mythology, dandies, dawson city, decadence, desert highways, dirty boys/thirties suits, dirty white eldorados, doing things properly, dorian grey, dust&grit&engine oil, dusty roads, easy rider, emerald allies, fleurs de lis, gale force winds, heading north, historically-themed picnics, home (wherever), in defense of broken hearts:, independent coffeehouses, irrepressible girls, izzy stradlin, j.w. waterhouse, jeans, joan jett/leather jackets otp, june on the west coast, lomography, looksha iv, mary renault, masefield's collected works, megan whalen turner, midnight on the interstate, military history, mixtapes, mysteries, necky kayaks (plastic), nostalgia, obscure cinema, old adventure films, other, overcast days, pencil/paper/ink, poetry, polaroids, possible futures, postcards, ptolemy, raw emotion in others, , redeeming qualities of humanity, revolutionary thinkers, road movies, rocker chicks, running away, sailboats, sleeping in my car, small craft warnings, smoking jackets, social democracy, soft rounded edges, still not a scenester(sorry), style not fashion, swallows & amazons, t-tops, tail lights, tall ships, tea&cakes&my very best dress, the crue & co., the cult of cool, the hold steady, the maple leaf forever, the weight of history, the west (fuck yes), too many cameras, unrelated and unexplained, walking on the breakwater, weakerthans & other such creatures, west coast rain, writing, you (unconditionally).
dusty.
or hel. dusty to her friends. sweet, bitter seventeen. photographer, poet, polaroid kid. lazy. desperate. sharp-eyed. unhappy. openhearted. free.
words to live by.
"I am invisible [...]. And Exempt. Immunity has been granted to me, for I do not lose my cool. Polarity is selected at will, for I am not ionized, and I possess not valence. Call me inert and featureless but Beware, I am the Shadow, free to cloud men's minds. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? I am the Dracula, look into my eye." --From Richard Fariña's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me (1966).
credit where credit it due.
bg from s.f.