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justin cory

we must be open and vulnerable and trust that risking will never lessen us

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Elliott Smith, just for one drink and a hug goodbye.

and her...

and Portland...

Music:

elliott smith, city of caterpillar, stephen malkmus and the jicks, mogwai, heatmiser, matt & kim, meneguar, quasi, jason anderson, alliaceous, mary timony, helium, indian summer, pavement, clikitat ikatowi, excuse 17, broadcast, the kinks, andrew jackson jihad, rapider than horsepower, racebannon, the smiths, morrisey, dilute, ruins, gregor samsa, ghastly city sleep, behold... the arctopus, stay fucked, estradasphere, weakerthans, defiance ohio, devendra banhart, joanna newsom, sonic youth, a silver mount zion, jerome's dream, do make say think, neil perry, an albatross, pink and brown, lightning bolt, deerhoof, existi, tortoise, wax vultures, carol ann, dystopia, at the gates, usurp synapse, a days refrain, sleeping people, rumah sakit, graves at sea, black sabbath, the pixies, unwound, john vanderslice, Leonard Cohen, sea of deprivation, the shins, al green, welcome the plague year, neil perry, this ship will sink, john coltrane, charles mingus, god speed you! black emperor, ludicra, explosions in the sky, pg 99, botch, cave in, isis, daughters, As the Sun Sets, akimbo, bob dylan, belle and sebastian, the faint, the redlight sting, blood brothers, the rapture, david bowie, iggy pop (and the stooges), neutral milk hotel, portishead, sleater-kinney, le tigre, converge, team dresch, fagatron, limp wrist, the gossip, curl up and die, chupacabra, velvet underground, krs one, the coup, sage francis, brian eno, roxy music, the dandy warhols, hella, the great redneck hope, orchid, blonde redhead, blur, interpol, dose one, aesop rock, why?, interpol, the strokes, joy division, the white stripes, erase errata, the clash, the rolling stones, the beatles, t-rex, doves, pinback, at the drive-in, q and not u, coldplay, propagandhi, minor threat, the evens, fugazi, beck, ani difranco, fiona apple, submission hold, radiohead, broken social scene, daniel johnston, arcade fire.

Books:

...can be amazing. i need to read more but i love to read. favorites are autobiographies, socio-political feminist-queer-anarcho-environmental stuff, philosophy, poetry and bizarre fiction.

Heroes:

no heroes...just zeros

My Blog

"This is it... it's going to be gone soon." "I know." "So what do we do?" "Enjoy it."

bonjour mes amies.the title of this blog is from "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". In the scene where Joel's last memory of Clementine is being erased, they share a dialog of acceptance that wh...
Posted by justin cory on Fri, 18 May 2007 04:34:00 PST

sometimes i feel like only a cold still life that fell down here to lay beside you

"good is comming just hold on. clouds are parting after so long. to the faces we love to see. re-awaken and simply BE. rain down on me (hold on) into silence softly (so long) feel the strength buildin...
Posted by justin cory on Tue, 08 May 2007 12:44:00 PST

selling our souls and our city to the highest bidder

So, on Thursday a large group of Phoenicians with soul met up at the City Council Parks and Recreation meeting to resist the privatization of Patriot's Square Park, and its morphing into a yuppie out ...
Posted by justin cory on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:34:00 PST

10 things I hate about...

or love about... ok. not working out. but i was trying to be savvy.So, my friend Chris "tagged" me to fill out ten things about myself that are weird or random... I usually don't do these and I wasn't...
Posted by justin cory on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:46:00 PST

show me right where your heart sits

so i was showering the other day and I was thinking a lot about how I was an art student for three years and how I used to feel so compelled to make art works (visual two-dimensional ones) that it was...
Posted by justin cory on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:33:00 PST

tell me all your secret smells secret ardvark

so this adventure has been so fucking incredible. los angeles, san francisco, portland, seattle... all sooooooo good. Jon and Jeff are the raddest friends ever and i am having a blast traveling with t...
Posted by justin cory on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:51:00 PST

if only i could walk through walls

then maybe I could learn how to fall...mmhhmmmm. love blond redhead. i think it has become my pattern to start a blog with some sort of musical reference. nerd alert. So 2007! welcome here new year. I...
Posted by justin cory on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:55:00 PST

overcast

trumpets singing and guitars swelling in delay and reverb saturated bliss... do make say think spiraling out of old speakers with old memories attached to old deeds of adventure once lived and twice f...
Posted by justin cory on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 02:15:00 PST

I heard somebody say that the war ended today but everybody knows its going still

devendra banhart is awesome. Yeah!!! So I am ready for this December month!!! Money has been good at work and I am getting all caught up. Shane and I have been crafting some awesome new songs. I am go...
Posted by justin cory on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:51:00 PST

where words don't mean a thing

there is a place inside where words don't mean a thing. we can run and sing and the words are all syllables that touch us where we need to be touched. There are no police or life guards, just onlooker...
Posted by justin cory on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:59:00 PST