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shiny objects

Saturday, July 24, 2004


These late nights are starting rot my brain . . . and I LIKE IT.  I wake up every day between noon and 2pm, encrusted with dried sweat, reeking of other people's cigarettes.  Wearily, I brush the scum from my teeth and settle down with a cup of overly-sweetened tea. 
 
What transpired the night before?  My memory refuses to place events in linear order.  I recall sipping wine from a box, racing down the highway, hopping from cafe to cafe, telling a girl how to prevent implantation of a newly conceived embryo by raising her blood pH to toxic levels with household chemicals, singing along to David Bowie in the car, getting ash in my eye, reading tarot cards, walking around a residential area in my underwear, dancing dancing dancing . . .
 
This is the life, man.  This is THE LIFE.


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I always knew Arielle would beat me to the altar, but I didn't know it would be this soon.  My 16 year old sister has tied the knot with her beau of 5 years, Jason Freston.  She left our household for Provo, Utah at summer's beginning, never to return again.  Well, except maybe Christmas.
 
Dad says if Ari and her new husband come home for the holidays, he'll go elsewhere for the duration of the visit.  Smashing!  We wouldn't have to deal with him for a week at least!
 
Wedding video pending!


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Wednesday, July 21, 2004


The things I love best are those which do me most harm.  Destruction's chaotic romance hypnotizes me as the cobra entrances its prey; I must follow.  Forget the frying pan - I crave the fire.  I want to burn and burn and burn away until there's nothing left of me but a tough black core.  Through absolute destruction, I shall become invincible.


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Monday, July 19, 2004


THINGS YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT
 
Something important on your desk:  my photo albums.  therein lies documentation of love, travel, and friendship  
 
If you could afford it at the moment, you would buy:  1)a really badass club, complete with the best sound system ever created, ambience lights and lasers in various shades of blue, a fountain, a fully stocked bar, and all assortments of blue couches, lounges, waterbeds, tuffets, and chaises to sit on.  2)a bodysuit of exquisite tattoos  3)vacations around the world   4)weekly massages, facials, manicures, and bikini waxes
 
Something you don't have a lot of:  security and stability  
 
If your house was burning and you could only save 3 items what would they be:  my laptop, my stash, and my cd collection  
 
MORALS
 
If there were no side effects, you would enjoy being addicted to:  Sex  
 
A time when you purposly hurt someone emotionally:  seduced a friend's love interest to bring down her swiftly bloating ego a little bit  
 
A time you accidentally hurt someone emotionally:  Didn't tell my mom that my 13 year old brother had been smoking for some months before she caught him mid-puff.  Unintentionally, I betrayed her.  
 
One person you have killed in your thoughts:  My dad.  
 
FRIENDS:  
 
Three traits you look for in a friend:  intelligence, open-mindedness, passion  
 
Who makes you laugh most often:  Alec, Zane, or Cody  
 
A friend who you can tell anything: Keith, Alyssa, Zane  
 
A friend you can go to for advice:  Keith, Mom, Zane  
 
The best piece of advice you had been given:  "Larkin, stop being such a pussy and show us what you got!"  
 
The friend who uses most of your energy: Shadi  
 
EGO
 
Your 3 best qualities:  eloquence, cunning, charisma.  
 
Your 3 worst qualities:  psychological manipulation, chronic distrust, nymphomania.  
 
Describe your Ideal self:  poised, deliberate, and unafraid of everything  
 
You are embarassed when:  people think I'm much younger than I really am
 
The greatest physical pain you ever endured:  potassium drip IV to restore my electrolytes.  It hurts so much that you can feel every drop sliding through your veins, creeping into your tissue, wriggling and pulsing into the tissue of your organs
 
The greatest emotional pain you ever endured:  my lover of almost a year and a half dumped me.  Over email.
 
Moment you are most ashamed of:  love interest A waltzing into my house and finding me asleep in bed with love interest B.
 
Your best physical feature:  eyes, lips, neck/shoulders
 
Who/What makes you happy:  A raring party, fabulous trance music, physical gratification with someone i'm close to,  sushi, long walks through city streets, shopping
 
Who/what makes you sad:  being told i can't fulfill my whims, injustice, being stabbed in the back
 
EMOTIONS
 
Emotion you hide most:  rage.  I'm apt to stifle it and wreak passive-agressive revenge later on
 
The emotion you tend to experience most: lust
 
One of your most tragic memories:   extrodinarily heinous physical abuse during my adolescence at the hands of Mormon zealots. 
 
One of your happiest memories:  post-coital cuddling
 
One of your angriest memories:  unearthing rumors about my sexual behavior
 
A memory that makes you laugh:  John wearing my bra on his head and crowing like some kind of panty-snatching snipe
 
A memory that makes you happy:  running around Toronto both on my own and in the company of a best friend
 
Something someone can say or do that you find extremely attractive:  make full use of vocabulary, show kindness to someone/thing weaker than themselves, display confidance
 
Something someone can say or do that you find unattractive:  Exhibit bad manners, swagger, torture animals
 
Two things appealing about people:  weaknesses, passions
 
A personality trait you find appealing:  a capacty for uninhibited joy
 
Your secret passion:  Ceramics
 
What you enjoy most about having a committed relationship:  regular sex, always having someone to hug at the end of the day, inside jokes
 
RELATING
 
A place where you want to have sex:  a public bathroom
 
A strange place where you have had sex:  an airplane
 
What music is on when you have sex, or is it the tv?:  Hooverphonic, Paul Oakenfold, NIN, Orgy, Sneaker Pimps
 
Favorite song to have sex to:  Orgy - slept so long without you
 
Describe your mate physicaly:   build anywhere between average and very slender, hair either black or blonde, expressive eyes, soft lips, (if a girl) small breasts. 
 
Describle your mate's personality:  inquisitve, possessed of a sense of wonder for the world, adventurous, sexually experimental, confident, ambitious, affectionate, irreverent
 
You feel most attractive when:  I'm dressed in a black outfit with flowing skirts and shocking stockings
 
Favorite thing you like to see your mate wear (clothing wise don't say naked):  short skirts (girls) and button down shirts (guys)
 
What would you like your mate to do more of:  i want someone who initiates intimacy as often as I do
 
FINALLY
 
 If you had more time alone you would:  practice more yoga
 
If you had more patience you would:  become politically active
 
If you could change one thing about your physical appearance what would it be:  I'd get rid of all the baby fat on my body until i look as raw-hide taught as Sigourney Weaver in Alien Ressurection
 
If you had no committments what would you be doing:  partying at night and sleeping off my hangovers until dusk, when i'd do it all again
 
If you could have one super power what would it be: telekinesis.  very powerful telekinesis.  you could kill people in really creative ways - crushing their heart, propelling their eyeballs back through their brain, that sort of thing.
 
If you could start all over....: I'd keep my damn mouth shut.


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Sunday, July 18, 2004


i'm in slytherin!
be sorted @ nimbo.net


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Twenty years or so from now, I think I'll go under the knife for a massive body rehaul.  Chin lift, liposuction, tummy tuck, ass . . . whatever it is they do to your ass.  (Yeah i just left that one wide open for jokes.  Don't even start, you bastards.)
 
I may be vain.  I may be massochistic.  But hey, neither one has had a negative effect on my personal life.  In all truth, plastic surgery is just another body modification - a modification markedly more extreme than piercing or tattooing or even scarification.
 


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When the underground army of raging dominatrixes comes to power and overthrows the current establishment, everyone who enjoys vanilla sex will be thrown into cages and beaten until they like it.


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Friday, July 16, 2004


I've got nothing to say.
 
I write this entry more for my own piece of mind than anyone else's.  Yes I'm still here.  Yes I'm still breathing.  I think.
 
But I've hit a void. 
 
Absolutely nothing to say.


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Monday, July 12, 2004


I've been told to expand my poetic vocabulary. Here, therefore, is my latest attempt at beat. Don't wet yourself with excitement, now.

Beatnick Theater

Lover

The morning of wilted pancake batter
Oh georgie oh georgie
Oh.
You in your cigarette shoes
Like a cripy diamond
Sucking on bacon,
Sweet Jesus,
No more I sed
NO MO!
Mo don't live here
Or so i'm told.
I hate poprocks -
The smell of burning sugar -
your mom.
That's right man, your mom
Last night.
Like this:
WHOO!
I'm gonna kick you in the yarbles.
Later, maybe.
The young and the restless is on.


*coffee house snap-clapping*


Man, i'm like some kind of god. This is hot stuff.


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It is my belief that the new generation of body art will feature the body's own natural color.

Mom and Dad won't let you get a tattoo? Try patterned bruising! Specialists could strike and batter you with a variety of tools to achieve the look of your dreams. Best of all, it's lasts only a few weeks! Available colors: black, blue, purple, and that weird yellowish green.

Or what about genetic skin changes - a combination of strategically induced hyperpigmentation and vitiligo.

Oh yeah man, with ideas like this, I'm gonna be rich.


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Sunday, July 11, 2004


Just a brief missive, gentle readers, to let you know I'm back in the vicinity. I took a 3 day trip to St. Louis for preregistration. It went well. Not only did I get all the courses after which I had been lusting, but I made a few dashingly intelligent friends too. This bodes well. I can't wait for August.

Got some new Hooverphonic CDs through the mail. They kick my ass. Damn. Bring me to my knees, sweet trip hop! I supplicate myself before thee! Make the next 40+ days go faster faster faster!


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Wednesday, July 07, 2004


Quite often, the only defining factor between genius and madness is how much money the man makes.

Even your sanity has a threshold - it's just a matter of determining what, where, and how fragile it is. Ever wonder what might send you over the edge? Just how much would it take to make you go insane? Probably less than you think. I'll wager that a single particular event, if witnessed under the proper circumstances, could rend your delicate understanding of reality limb from limb.

Human minds are weak . . . so very weak.


That's why I'm going to become a psychologist . . .

. . . so that I may capitalize on man's inherent frailty.


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Tuesday, July 06, 2004


Things I Learned At The Beach Today:

- the ammount which a woman complains about her figure is directly proportional to said figure's desirability.

- no prop is more versitile or effective for spur of the moment humor than a clump of kelp.

- riptide, bad. sunscreen, good.

- there is a good reason for the expression "like rubbing salt in a wound."

- sand, previously thought to be an inanimate particulate amalgam, is in actuality a bacterium. It has the power to infiltrate any barrier before multipling at an exponential rate. No matter how much sand you remove from your shoe, there will always be more.

- if you ask the waiter to dance at Joes Crab Shack, he very well may do it.

- I like the Eagles

- I like Counting Crows

- I DON'T like seagulls


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Monday, July 05, 2004


Love. It's nothing really - just a neurochemical cocktail designed by evolution to ensure procreation. That burst of happy-go-lucky sentiment, rushing giddily through your synapses, is just a spurt of dopamine. Your adrenal glands shudder to norepinephrine's programmed cadence; a pounding heart ensues. Any sudden bliss you may feel is, was, and always will be phenylethylamine.

Awash in a sea of autointoxication, your brain can no longer coordinate reason, logic, and action. Your limbic system kicks into overdrive. Your emotions surge, warp, and flow. Think you can't live without your significant other? That's oxytocin for you. But let's face it. You don't care any more. You're after those post-coital endogenous opioids, the body's natural equivilant of heroin.

Once a junkie, always a junkie.


Me, I just want my fix.


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Sunday, July 04, 2004


Ah the fourth of july - my favorite time of year. Today I brooded moodily over my family's holiday dinner, demolished a half pound of shrimp cocktail, and toyed with the notion of consolidating the black powder from 200 black cat fireworks into a single home-made directional explosive.

I grow restless. These summer days leave me with too much time and too little to do. I'm a mercenary without a contract.

To top it off, my latest short work in the making evaporated into cyberspace when one of my family's computers caught a terminal illness. Fuck.

My instincts scream for change, but on what front?

College college college college college . . . .



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Thursday, July 01, 2004


Dance, my pretty, DANCE!


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Hey. You. Yeah you, ugly.

Fuck you, man.


FUCK YOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUU!






Man, I'm cool.


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Last night I indulged in the corse, surreptitious pleasures of insomnia. Around 2am, I left my house on foot for the sterile flourescent ambiance of Walgreens. I sought only a pack of Marlboro menthols, but left with a few rich nuggets of wisdom courtesy of Albin, the big, black, graveyard-shift cashier. While I stood dumbfounded before the counter, he discoursed on smoking, psychology, emotional upheaval, and God. Aparently, God has some big plans - and even bigger surprises - for me in the future. I say to God: "bring it on, biznitch."

I exited into the landscape of alien night: looming trees writhing in the breeze; dank pools of mist, natural gas, and fermented rain water; swift, skittering shadows; roaches and bats; the calls of sleepless birds, toads, vagrants.

With a flourish, I lit my first cigarette and trotted into the courtyard of Klein High School. A drainpipe enabled access to the covered walkway's sturdy roof. There, I smoked for over half an hour, periodically blowing rings of blue vapor that hovered and spun like so many delicate thoughts.

Some time later, I was overcome by the need to pee. Seeing no one about, I let fly on the side of the pavillion. Never before have I known such vulgar satisfaction.

Never again need I tread those halls. I think I've finally internalized that fact.


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