December 2010
41 posts
Diamonds in the rough
I’m an inconsistent journal keeper. Since I started writing as a job I mostly stopped journal keeping on a daily basis. Writing just has a different meaning now, so even my personal writings have more of a form and process. But when I’m very sad, and decide to write as therapy, I’ve always ended up writing things that are meaningful and beautiful when I reread them later, in a...
More Cormac
Anyone who has been reading my nonsense for a while will know of my obsession with Cormac McCarthy. I’m currently reading his first published novel, The Orchard Keeper. His earliest and most recent works speak to me most of all. The writing is the kind of beautiful which makes me want to read it aloud. Sometimes I do. It also makes me never want to write my novel or any novel. This...
“Music is a dreadful thing. What is it? I don’t understand it. What does it...”
– Beethoven’s dialogue from the film Immortal Beloved.
I always loved this passage. Perfect.
“It’s the wrong time and the wrong place
Though your face is charming...”
– Cole Porter, you were a very clever man.
Mucinex FUCKME
Generally I’m a pretty capable, reliable person. I have that male quality of “getting shit done”…like, talking to hostesses at restaurants rather than hovering hoping for a table. Stuff like that. I’m good at it. You can rely on me. I’m rarely late, I always answer my phone unless I’m in the subway, asleep, or having sex. However…despite all...
Cormac
When I am very depressed there are a few things that will always bring at least a small spark of joy into my heart, and remind me that the world is beautiful. One of these things is Cormac McCarthy’s writing. It’s so meaningful to me that almost no other writer’s work matters.
On the second page of his FIRST novel, The Orchard Keeper, this passage appears:
“Far down the...