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mandreas

king of the impossible!

About Me

i read a lot. i'm fond of things.

My Interests

well-documented failure.

I'd like to meet:

a quitter. must be trustworthy. apply inside.

Music:

silver jews and smog and the mountain goats and gram parsons and waylon jennings.

Movies:

apocalypse now. apocalypse, no!

Television:

marquee moon. adventure.

Books:

Hearing the languishment in that voice, [he] wondered idly if she were bud or bloom; or perhaps a petal blown off and having nothing to belong to anymore. It was difficult to tell--getting more so every year--and he did not know if this were old age beginning to creep up on him at last or some flaw in the generation itself. His own had budded, bloomed, and, sensing some blight in the air, folded its petals up again like certain flowers at sunset. Would it be any use asking her?

Heroes:

we are all tired. we are all true of heart. but mostly, we are tired.

My Blog

untempered altruism

wait for the very end. wait for it....
Posted by mandreas on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:37:00 PST

addendum

as an addendum to the entry below, hallie figured out the answer to my question:the difference between misery and depression is that you can buy misery on vinyl and depression in a bottle.thank you, h...
Posted by mandreas on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:42:00 PST

the most singular difference

who was it that said the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid?i'm inclined to think it was salinger, but maybe, and without googling it, ...
Posted by mandreas on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:26:00 PST

baby cakes.

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Posted by mandreas on Sun, 25 May 2008 12:38:00 PST

lost limbs await you in heaven

funny story, i got really, really drunk on a 14 hour plane ride. now, hungover in southern california en route to mexico, i'm amazed by what all i wrote in my sketchbook. i really ought to scan it in ...
Posted by mandreas on Mon, 05 May 2008 12:46:00 PST

ghost mansions

the other night we camped on the beach at the very edge of the rain forest. we were right on the water, so that at high tide you could have rolled over in your sleep and gotten wet. directly behind ou...
Posted by mandreas on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:29:00 PST

simple as a bird’s heart

i wonder when things will be okay. or if they ever were. i dreamt i was riding up to the house where i grew up, right on the water. only instead of a lawn there were rows of corn and wheat; all of it ...
Posted by mandreas on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:11:00 PST

it was like a magnet

so it’s been roughly 24 hours since my head made direct contact with a car’s bumper and then, subsequently, with the street. i stopped bleeding out of my ear late this morning and my eye i...
Posted by mandreas on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:54:00 PST

tim o’connor

this actually caused me to laugh out loud. tim, referring to how pancho wanted to beat him up:"We were snowed in at my house during an intense game of Street Fighter II where I kicked his ass with all...
Posted by mandreas on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:21:00 PST

what can you say?

what can you ever say? best, most likely, to simply shrug your shoulders and move along. i don't know how that helps, though. say you're depressed (which, i suppose, i am. very), what can you say abou...
Posted by mandreas on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:36:00 PST