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...the Real is a construct
it's the raw nerve's private zone
it's a personal sunset
you drive off into
alone
-- from Passing Strange, Stew/Rodewald/Dorsen
Use blood for ink, and write the world anew:
The untouched line, the story without end.
The sacrifice on which all tales depend.
Upon your skin, write out the book of you.
Each moment, hour and day scribes who we are,
The unmarked page unknowing what's to be,
The future writ in words we cannot see,
The past blocked out, unchanging as a scar.
Bind up your life in memory and dreams,
And for the spine, choose all that you desire,
The touch of ice, the bitter kiss of fire...
The tale is yours. Yours also are the seams.
Use blood for ink, and write the world anew:
Upon your skin, write out the book of you.
-- "The Book of You," Seanan McGuire, 2005
How I read the journals I "friend," and how I rather hope you will read mine:
"It's your journal, after all. What you share is your prerogative; what we see is our privilege."
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volund, July 2003I maintain that "friends list" is a misnomer; think of it more as a reading list, gathered together for convenience's sake. What it says about the people here is that I read their journals in one group. There are other journals and weblogs that I read regularly that are not grouped here. (You might also want to read these -- http://roadnotes.livejournal.com/343349.html, http://roadnotes.livejournal.com/387751.html, http://roadnotes.livejournal.com/469203.html, and http://roadnotes.livejournal.com/528262.html -- for some of my thoughts and feelings about the "friending" process.)
Given those parameters... I am a woman of a certain age, born and raised in New York City, who has moved (as of April 2011) to the Pacific Northwest. I read, I sing, I contemplate the world around me... and I try to make myself a receptacle for the transcendent, for joy, and for good, because I am on the side of Good by accident and happenchance.
This is the online equivalent of a personalzine, and should be in no way mistaken for a complete person. What I write here is only a fragment of what goes through my head, and is translated twice: first into words, then out of my personal language and into more standard English. Contents may settle. Dilute! Dilute!
5th dimension, aimee mann, al stewart, anaïs nin, aslan, ayn rand, babel-17, baldanders, barbes, binderized nibs, bisexuality, bondage, bronze chrysanthemums, brooklyn, burgundy, café tacuba, café tacvba, carol queen, changes in wallingford, chris butler, circlet press, cobalt blue, covered in bees, cspc, cursive italic nibs, darden smith, david ignatow, dodie smith, dorothy allison, edna st. vincent millay, elliott smith, emma bull, erotic fantasy, erotica, etty hillesum, evil herbivores, fernando pessoa, fountain pens, gene wolfe, gilbert and sullivan, gilbert sorrentino, ginger, grant mclennan, greg aaron schlotthauer, greg brown, gregg swann, gregson and collister, grey, harmony, harriet the spy, henry threadgill, i capture the castle, italic nibs, janis ian, jessamyn west, joan armatrading, joel forrester, john coltrane, john d. macdonald, john m. ford, john wesley harding, joni mitchell, josephine baker, julia fordham, june tabor, karaoke, kate and anna mcgarrigle, kate bush, keri hulme, kirsty maccoll, kristian hoffman, l. frank baum, laura nyro, leering drunken stoats, leo sayer, livingston taylor, local hero, louisa may alcott, m.f.k. fisher, margaret atwood, marilyn hacker, mark aaron james, mary maclane, musical theater, narrow-ruled notebooks, neil gaiman, new york city, next to normal, november project, october project, p.g. wodehouse, pamela dean, parsnips, passing strange, pat califia, patricia a. mckillip, patrick califia, patti smith, paul taylor, people like us, peter blegvad, piano bars, pilobolus, polyamory, port, power pop, pretentious british art rock, radical sexuality, rainbow flava, richard thompson, robyn hitchcock, rose's turn, ruth m. arthur, sake, samuel r. delany, seattle, sexual freedom, sexuality, sherry, shirley jackson, single malt scotch, small batch bourbon, spoon, stephen sondheim, stephin merritt, stew, sushi, suzy bogguss, the beautiful south, the bone people, the book of disquiet, the dismemberment plan, the go-betweens, the magic garden, the magnetic fields, the negro problem, the thirteen clocks, the well, theodore sturgeon, ursula k. le guin, weird romance, wesley stace, william browning spencer, xtc, zenna henderson, zilpha keatley snyder
