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About Me

how i got here: i grew up in a snow globe. my mind collapsed the moment i left for the real world. this is where my chronicle begins...
anyway, the poetry of train stations. like a forever mildy-drunk heart, heavy with happiness and sentiment and wisdom-in-progress, you can never just be normal in a train station. even if you are not the one getting on the train.
anyway, you are contemplating the poetry of train stations when a strange thing happens. a tall man like a gorey sketch with snow for hair leans over as if he is trying better to hear the musings of his invisible companion and with a silent push from gravity goes tumbling down onto the cold marble platform. everything turns over a line like you have just entered a movie and have encountered the protagonist (you are of course an extra). the world opens like your mind has just found a door and whereas before there was nothing to think about or write about now there is everything. but it is too large a task to know where to start, like in the phantom tollbooth trying to move a mountain of pebbles with a pair of tweezers, and so the meaning is all lost in the end anyway.
your heart is racing--from the cold or from this opening, you do not know.
it is all settling now, like a snowglobe.

My Interests

chasing the world, making myself happy, old vans, highway 50, real democracy, losing myself in books, finding myself in music, doing everything mediocrely over doing one thing well (the modern renaissance woman)

I'd like to meet:

my soulmate(s)

Music:

anything with cowbell or fuzz guitar. right now i'm also newly obsessed with electrelane and re-obsessed with air. neil young is my hero but i have a super-soft spot for donovan. he wrote my cat's theme song. and if i was trapped on a desert island equipped with a stereo and only one cassette to play on it, and of course, deep amusement at my own cliched situation, it would probably be tom petty. also: devendra banhart, wolf parade, jason molina, will oldham, jesse sykes.

Movies:

all about eve, arizona dream, midnight cowboy, august 32nd on earth, the adventures of baron munchausen, where the green ants dream

Television:

deadwood! oh, how i yearn for the lawless old west...

Books:

hunter thompson, kurt vonnegut, nikos kazantzakis, bukowski, marquez, infinite jest, kundera, grace paley, beth steidle, and, okay, i hated siddhartha but i loved steppenwolf

Heroes:

hunter thompson, my father, homer simpson, neil young, john lennon, hoyt axton, john yankee, john stewart, patti smith, robert fisk, jennifer saunders, cynthia mckinney, dominique pinon, jasper, paul madonna, giulietta masina

My Blog

litost

litost, according to kundera, is a czech word that designates the synthesis of grief, sympahty, remorse, and indefinable longing. he says the first syllable is stressed in such a way that it sounds li...
Posted by Josie on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:02:00 PST

greed and google existentialism

in the midst of filing for unemployment and preparing to apply for food stamps, i am simultaneously raking the internet for information about buying loftspace in san francisco and checking the etrade ...
Posted by Josie on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:45:00 PST

when a distressed insomniac, blog

i have nothing to say except the heart hurts. how is it we continue to emote and engage after crossing paths with loved ones who have erased our existence and realizing over and over the utter fact th...
Posted by Josie on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:44:00 PST

a lament for the emotionally unstable

is it not our time? must we all move to southern italy where wild gesticulating and horribly uneven temperament are signs of trustworthy humanity? where is it written that we must let go of loved ones...
Posted by Josie on Thu, 25 May 2006 08:13:00 PST

things i've learned continued...

new orleans is the new symbol of this country. voter disenfranchisement of minorities. de facto diaspora of entire races in not-quite-subtle-yet-somehow-owning-plausible-deniability ways. i feel i mus...
Posted by Josie on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:37:00 PST

pick your poverty.

this is my new theme. your poverty is your choice, be it mental, spiritual, financial, what have you, it goes on and on. i am happy to choose economic poverty if i'm to choose one at all. because i am...
Posted by Josie on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:14:00 PST

things i've learned...

1) those who say that people like howard dean, michael moore, and al franken are obnoxious loose cannons are simply trying to fool people into ignoring the plain fact that men like these SPEAK THE TRU...
Posted by Josie on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:23:00 PST

fake bands on the internet

okay, people. it's the best i could do. i'm on myspace music now, www.myspace.com/seldomseensound. just a couple lame things up but hopefully this will now shame me into creating some new and awesome ...
Posted by Josie on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 04:51:00 PST

christ

well, not really. holidays are an arbitrary marker, these days. but in the spirit i want to officially wish everyone well. now, how do i post my own music on this site? i am such a hopeless luddite, i...
Posted by Josie on Mon, 26 Dec 2005 02:52:00 PST

the epileptic bicycle gang

plugging utah here, because did you know that it's, like, beautiful? i am amused to even be on these online venues anymore as i am so far from the majority of my friend lists, but you gotta reach out ...
Posted by Josie on Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:32:00 PST