Sunday, September 19, 2004

everyday is like sunday

cold coffee mornings
330 partys
worlds colliding- in a good way
gay west siders
east siders who will change the world
bob avakian on film
the cold hurts to much
but i still love both
and the fire- is still burning

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

fun and games

this is just self-indulgance, but what can i say, im an english major =)
Bold the novels you've read, italicize the ones you've read part(s) of:

Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid's Tale
Auel, Jane M. - Clan Of The Cave Bear
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Babbitt, Natalie - Tuck Everlasting
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dahl, Roald - The BFG
Dahl, Roald - The Twits
Dahl, Roald - The Witches
Dante - Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote (el Ingenioso Don Quijote de La Mancha)

Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury

Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Hansberry Lorraine - A Raisin In The Sun

Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey

Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady

James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Jester, Norton - The Phantom Tollbooth
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
L'Engle, Madeline - A Wrinkle in Time

Leroux, Gaston - The Phantom of the Opera
Lewis, CS - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien anos de soledad)
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Milton, John - Paradise Lost
Mitchell, Margaret - Gone With The Wind
Moliere - Tartuffe
Montgomery, LM - Anne Of Green Gables
Morrison, Toni – Beloved
Morrison, Toni - Song of Solomon
Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
O'Brien, Robert C. - Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - 1984
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Sachar, Louis - Holes
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William – Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William - Taming of the Shrew

Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Simon, Neil - The Good Doctor
Smith, Robert Kimmel - Chocolate Fever
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John - East of Eden

Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Tan, Amy - The Joy Luck Club
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple

Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass

Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilder, Laura Ingalls - Little House on the Prairie
Williams, Tennessee - A Streetcar Named Desire
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie

Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard - Native Son

Random thoughts- that realy wasnt as much fun as i thought it would be. some of those werent novels in the first place (shakespeare, williams, anybodys collected stories), and some of it was just filth.

Monday, September 13, 2004

no time no mood

it doesnt matter what time
nor what mood
this keyboard is mine
all the time
because i pore it out
for no one at all
this free verse style- all my own
that belongs to the world
cause theres no time
and ive got no mood
but im here
all the same
write.... write... write...
to stay alive
to survive
keep the fires burning
"To put it another way, there's nothing about the present order of things in the world that's tolerable to me. It's completely intolerable. I can't stand it. And I don't want to make my peace with it, I don't want to find a way to make it within that world, or to try to make it. I don't want to be part of the established order. I don't want to turn a blind eye and pretend I don't see what I do see. I don't want to stand on top of the rubble of broken bodies and the suffering and destruction that this system brings down on people and never look down and see what I'm standing on while I'm stuffing my face. That doesn't hold any attraction for me; I'm repulsed by the idea of that and I just have no interest in doing that."
- Bob Avakian

tell me why

i still cant deal with this
why does the music make me feel the same way
but the people dont
how come i can still dream of things
so impossible
but they dont ever happen
and how come their not here
but i still am
tell me why
neil young still makes me cry
but you dont
the only fire i have left
is the only one that matters