cool is the new uncool is the new cool.
this is what san francisco looks like from oakland:
6+27+1982=2015
2+0+1+5=8
picnics, breathtaking views, playing music, screenprinting, taking pictures, discovering the inner workings of the FCC, coloring in 15th century woodcuts, bikes (oh, gross), making lots of stuff, thinking really hard, drinking really hard. not losing my mind. not selling acid to little kids. not quitting law school. not walking out of the bathroom with my skirt tucked into my pantyhose. writing letters and sending them far away. learning how to kill mold and other household pests. cat psychology. memorizing Cock Sparrer lyrics, not alienating the people i love. fortune telling and the magical portal (IKEA).
CURRENT MOON lunar phase
PASCAL'S AMAZING TRIANGLE (math is fun):
egon schiele, george perec, louis XIV, and you because i already know you. also...
you don't have to die before you can live.
dial-up internet connecting, pay phone dial tones, the loud screech the BART train makes when you go under the bay, synthetic animal sounds, wind chimes, water fountains, toilets flushing, ears ringing, oven lighting, street sweeper, aural hallucinations, the sound of wind from the 12th floor.
don't tell mom the babysitter's dead, wild zero, ghostbusters (I and II).
naomi wolf's The Beauty Myth, Kurt Vonnegut, robin lakoff's The Language War, autobiography of Assata Shakur, Mary Daly, Botany of Desire, Secret Life of Plants, the Mists of Avalon (changed my life).
"What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there." The truth is she went to Paris for thirty years and when she came back her childhood home was gone. It really wasn't there.
I assure you there is a here here.