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About Me

BEAUTY IS MYSTERIOUS AS WELL AS
TERRIBLE. GOD AND THE DEVIL ARE
FIGHTING THERE

AND THE BATTLEFIELD IS THE
HEART OF MAN.
The road from intensity to greatness passes through sacrifice.
-Kassner
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything,
it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
-Sylvia Plath
Poets are damned but they are not blind,
they see with the eyes of angels.
-William Carlos Williams
To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem,
perhaps more.
-Walt Whitman
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to
himself -- and another to the multitude, without
finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends
on what or which finds us first. We are always
ripe and ready to be taken.
-Charles Bukowski
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most
difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work
for which all other work is but preparation.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
&spades
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously) her first rose
or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands
I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words..
...AND IN THAT MOMENT, I SWEAR
WE WERE INFINITE.

My Interests

smiles. laughter. dancing. djembes. adventure. romance. addiction. literature. music. swings. chess. old maps. traveling. england. in-car concerts. fruit snacks. smoothies. playing in the rain. spontaneous road trips. surrealism. hugs. passionate people. comfortable silence. holding you in my arms. club hopping. mixed drinks. metaphors. photography. good grammar. binary oppositions. intentional fallacies. stars. colour. tennis. football. nostalgia. letters. random tshirts. analytical turmoil. poetry. writing. mystery. eyes. philosophy. art. psychology.

I'd like to meet:

Music:

chris garneau. sleeping at last. needtobreathe. lovedrug. sufjan stevens. littlelostdavid. ray lamontagne. ryan adams. e.s. posthumus. remy zero. shearwater. iron and wine. jon foreman. ben sollee. copeland. emily wells. veda hille. david condos. jose gonzalez. damien rice. imogen heap. laura veirs. aron wright. mutemath. dave matthews band. alexi murdoch. hollywood undead. acceptance. family force 5. death cab for cutie. fort minor. linkin park. travis. backstreet boys. justin timberlake. missy elliott. phantom planet. guster. regina spektor. kill paradise. ultraviolet sound. benny cassette. gnarls barkley. the beatles. simon & garfunkle. sarah mclachlan. journey. joshua radin. snow patrol. frou frou. ross copperman. gavin degraw. barcelona. coldplay. john vanderslice. paper route. coheed & cambria. aerodrone. johnathan rice. starfield. rascal flatts. dc talk. tobymac. kevin max. matt pond pa. the shins. robert francis. paper rival. the gray kid. muse. sigur ros. matthew mayfield. hanson. wild sweet orange. shane & shane. 30 seconds to mars. seabear. angels & airwaves. obfusc. 3OH!3. band of horses. young love. intruder alert. dizzee rascal. darren hayes. paramore. lyrics born. william fitzsimmons. sea wolf. paleo.

Movies:

meet joe black. the village. unbreakable. american beauty. memento. the island. into the wild. moulin rouge. a guide to recognizing your saints. tsotsi. the net. step up 2. ms congeniality. donnie darko. crash. back to the future II. beauty shop. the holiday. the butterfly effect. paper moon. the number 23. kingdom of heaven. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. august rush. the last kiss. finding neverland. juno. titanic. scoop. transformers. the rock. conspiracy theory. stranger than fiction. little miss sunshine.

Television:

Books:

harry potter. emerson's essays. the perks of being a wallflower. the bible. written on the body. the bell jar. the catcher in the rye. the picture of dorian gray. blue like jazz. the oath. a separate peace. on the road. shopping for God. ficciones. mere christianity. the great divorce. watchmen. waking the dead. paradise lost. songs of innocence and experience. the marriage of heaven and hell. hamlet. macbeth. the merchant of venice. goblin market. leaves of grass. the scarlet letter. the oxford english dictionary. norton anthologies. confessions of st. augustine. mark strand. rm rilke. wendell berry. ee cummings.

Heroes:

My Blog

the end

where will you bein the end, the startof something you leavebehind to finishsomewhere else.what will your lastbreathe echo of your life?will you be proudof what you areand what you've left?where will ...
Posted by flash on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:08:00 PST

picture perfect

he and shenow weso pictureperfectin the mindof the timebut somedon't seethe pictureor the perfectand are leftto livein hollow framesno namesin a draweron thefloor...
Posted by flash on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:08:00 PST

note to self

hands cracked from underworkyou hold to fumes, call itfaith and do just enoughfor people to believeyour bluff, complainto the sky, you're justgetting by, for now safe, facein the mud, running througho...
Posted by flash on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:06:00 PST

punchdrunk

your words turnto fists poundingin place,if a heart's a punchingbag, you've wonthe round, spilled bloodon the ground. put me onthe shelf, shine me upwith smiles, happinesswas never so vilearms are rai...
Posted by flash on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:07:00 PST

wine tasting

i sip you like wine, slowlyand carefully to my lipsyour scent drops inwhat a sin, to tasteand tether the comingof the blossom, springingfrom antiquity into thefuture of my arms, so sweeta surrender in...
Posted by flash on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:06:00 PST

from Shadowlands

The DarkWhen I sleep, the dark creepsin, blanketing my skin.Dipping into the pockets of my soul,replacing dreams with nightmaresof what I could be. I'm surroundedby this scoffing night, this swaddleds...
Posted by flash on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PST

love.live.act.

I am tired. inspiredby this reckless road i walk.they say to live is to dieto die is to livebut i am stuck betweenthe sky and the dirt, the liesand the truth. i come ungluedfrom the faint whispers of ...
Posted by flash on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:03:00 PST

xii[the challenge]

Your eyes stare Down the barrel Of my mind, challenging Any fear that love May be gone, prolonged Is the silence of the screaming Chasm your lips compose To torture my skin With innervation, slip Of ...
Posted by flash on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:34:00 PST

xi[puppet show]

puppet show errant whispers mountas indignation creepsslowly inlike poison trails in the bloodstrangling the veinswith deadening causehanding life to anotherstiffening smileswith a jerk,...
Posted by flash on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:31:00 PST

x[sex, drugs and homo snuffs]

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.-Fyodor Mikhailovich DostoyevskyA friend and I were discu...
Posted by flash on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:00:00 PST