love in the age of office superstores Oct 10
Last night Lou and I attended the Coupland talk *in celebration of The Gum Thief* at the Bloomsbury Theatre.
I've seen Coupland talk at this venue twice previously, for the releases of Hey Nostradamus (the boy I was with at the time, fell asleep during this one) and J-Pod ...
lucero, jawbreaker, against me!, death cab for cutie, jimmy eat world, brand new, murder by death, get up kids, american analog set, saves the day, afghan whigs, postal service, kevin devine, jets to brazil, bright eyes, cory branan, buffalo tom, lifetime, alkaline trio, weakerthans, REM, defiance ohio, nada surf, braid, weakerthans, minus the bear, sufjan stevens, good life, cursive, ryan adams, gregory & the hawk, pony up!, dolorean, jim yoshii pile up, drag the river,
girlfriend in a coma, life after god, microserfs, generation x, sex drugs and cocoa puffs, chuck klosterman IV, killing yourself to live, love is a mix tape, I was a teenage dominatrix, david boring, ghost world, summer blonde, optic nerve, clumsy, any easy intimacy, unlikely, every girl is the end of the world to me, haristyles of the damned, true porn, 100 strokes of the brush before bed, story of O, hot water music, post office, coloring outside the lines, pretty in punk, stolen sharpie revolution, dance of days, our band could be your life, god shaped hole, kitchen, all my friends are superheroes, everything bad is good for you, me talk pretty one day, dress your family in corduroy and denim, pussy king of the pirates, catcher in the rye, frannie and zooey, wet moon, everything bad is good for you, easy riders raging bulls, a low down dirty shame, spike mike slackers and dykes,
all the real girls, jaws, chasing amy, reality bites, threesome, slacker, before sunrise, before sunset, halloween, the omen, empire records, breakfast club, st. elmos fire, ferris buellers day off, beautiful girls, texas chainsaw massacre (original), american hardcore, tape, dazed and confused, top gun, armageddon, death race 2000, cannonball run, lost in translation, gas food lodging, the virgin suicides, the amityville horror, blade, the lost boys, american werewolf in london, the wolf man, dracula, nosferatu, goodfellas, thank you for smoking, sideways, little miss sunshine, clerks, from dusk til dawn, mallrats, love liza. godzilla, nowhere, the doom generation, totally fucked up, the living end, et, lovers of the arctic circle, igby goes down, all over me, nightmare on elm street, waking life, brick, adaptation, con air, splendor, everything's gone green, die hard 4.0,
heroes, twin peaks, millennium, the oc, my so called life, gilmore girls, six feet under, buffy, party of five, dawsons creek, criminal minds, friday the 13th, supernatural, sex and the city, dr. katz, sarah silverman program, 24, gossip girl, dexter,
going to shows, books, comic books, writing, drinking, smoking, friends, hanging out, coffee, conversation, pop culture, social critique, fiction, collecting, geeking out, trivia, cross referencing, wiki, being passionate
tara mcpherson, kurt halsey, esao andrews, adrian tomine, nate powell, daniel clowes, jeffrey brown, leah bell, miss led, oli barrett, jamie mckelvie, chris ware, david lachapelle, jenny holzer,
It gets loneliest at night.
Down at the liquor store.
Beneath the neon sky.
Our moonlight.
Six A.M., the floor comes alive with lice.
The pan's dried up so tight.
With hardened beans.
We're hungry.
So I lean on you sometimes.
Just to see you're still there.
Your feet can't take the weight of one.
Much less two.
We hit concrete.
How were we born into this mess?
I know I painted you a prettier picture, baby.
But we were run out on a rail.
Fell from the wagon to the night train.
I kissed the bottle.
I should've been kissing you.
You wake up to an empty night.
With tears for two.
Cigarettes they fill the gaps.
In our empty days.
In our broken teeth.
We're jonesing.
Say mister, can you spare a dime?
Some change could make a change.
Could buy some time.
Some freedom.
Or an ear to hear my story.
It's all I've got. My fiction
beats the hell out of my truth.
A palm upturned burnt blue.
Don't call it sunburn.
You've been shaking on the job.
Just one drink ahead of your past.
There's a white light coming up.
You draw the blinds hoping it'll pass.
I kissed the bottle.
I should've been kissing you.
You wake up to an empty night.
With tears for two.
I kissed the bottle.
I should've been kissing you.
You wake up to an empty night.
With tears for two.
I kissed the bottle.
I should've been kissing you.
You wake up to an empty night.
With tears for two.
partiallyblind says:
I only just noticed Cannonball Run on your movie list. Your status as my favorite person to talk shit about rubbish movies with is restored. Yay!
posted Feb 1