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Slaughter on Tenth Avenue

spare me your moonshine

About Me

*i rain in silver and laugh in gold
*i write. i paint. i draw. i laugh. i love. i learn.
*i'm experimental in things i do and dont do
*give me a car and a tank of gas. that's the best.
*ask me how many stars i have tattooed on me

My Interests

*art, photography,photoshop, reading, writing, music, music, music, coffee, driving, drawing, adobe illustrator, dreaming, sleeping, laughing, loving

Music:

jefferson airplane, wolfshiem, 30 Seconds to Mars, ralph stanley, judy garland, tom petty. those are the big ones. if you hit shuffle on my ipod, you'd probably be really confused... oh, and anyone who has HEARD of Ralph Stanley on here, better let me know!

Movies:

old ones. classics, underground. if it's black and white, chances are good that i'll like it.

Books:

lately, i've challenged myself to crossword puzzles. not exclusively, but enough to keep my brain from rotting.

Heroes:

judy garlandmickey rooney.

My Blog

what i could

i did what i could when i could do what i didbut i feel there was more of i"i should should should."a scarf cut in half and shoes placed with carea yellow death machineand no one was therethe cityscap...
Posted by Slaughter on Tenth Avenue on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:19:00 PST

step next

so cramped, sinewy sweat down the tendrils of my muscle strandsslimy slipping down the sides of mountain hillsthe view from the top aint so badthe decent decline is the rewardthe eye's focal point cha...
Posted by Slaughter on Tenth Avenue on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:11:00 PST

shouldve caught the 9

the road roar of raging bussesand the city smells like saltytears from all our eyessafeless sleepless nightsand wakeless fearful morningsdays on end that months compete to beatand my feet can hardly d...
Posted by Slaughter on Tenth Avenue on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:04:00 PST

hollow box

like a hollow box, i float along,bobbing on the water's shallow. sometimes i feel the current,changing slightly in it's pattern.i hold my edges close together,preparing for the tide's surprising path....
Posted by Slaughter on Tenth Avenue on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:20:00 PST

slowly september...

i find that slowly september is sneaking up,the weather i crave and the moments i am fond of;so soon that i can feel them in the night drive home.  
Posted by Slaughter on Tenth Avenue on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:23:00 PST

ralph stanley

ralph stanley. is coming to newport. on sunday. to the folk festival. and i'm working. i'm sad about this. i don't think ralph stanley is everyone's cup of tea, heck, half of his music is religious......
Posted by Slaughter on Tenth Avenue on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:26:00 PST

a magician's disappearing act

still and silent, i wait for the magician to finish his final act, so that i may, too, disappear amung the crowds... crawl into spaces so small and waste into nothing but peoples' memories. i ...
Posted by Slaughter on Tenth Avenue on Wed, 16 May 2007 09:14:00 PST

the sensory five

i see you driving a boxy red jeep,listening to bluegrass or the Who. i see you inside a waterside cabin,creating secrets beneath your magic dark.   i hear the fights we have when we're trapp...
Posted by Slaughter on Tenth Avenue on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:39:00 PST

fog

so many hours left to go 'til spring,i wonder if my energy will lastmy mood becomes frostbite on these winter days,and nothing seems to thaw my raw hands anymore.no touch becoming,no laughs remaining,...
Posted by Slaughter on Tenth Avenue on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:55:00 PST

co-respond

heh. i filed him under correspondence like he was just a letter... it's wierd that i even have a filing system to begin with. but how do you categorize life-changing moments into a section of a floral...
Posted by Slaughter on Tenth Avenue on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:39:00 PST