two day's worth

parking garages remind me of you.  you, the red atm machine in the bar across the street, your first draught guinness, the take of whit beer and pizza on your breath in the hotel bathroom.  i used to stand still, but then i met you.  we can see every parking garage in every small city in the country, honor.  the lights will illuminate oil spills in fresno, burnt rubber in charleston. or anyone.  we cuddled on a bean bag once, and i hadn't slept.  you still say you were unsure of things back then, but i can't believe that. you held me by the pinkie once, on the floor of your dorm room. you kissed my ignorance after i quit.  and what of us now?  we're stains on a capet, cigarette ashes down a shower drain, a replaced street sign between worcester and berry.  i forget these things.  sometimes you mind and others you don't.  but to me, none of it matters so long as we're turning double plays. <$3

scribble a few things off the list, but it still goes something like this:

days in june without rain: one

dollar bill airplanes: two
pages left in book: fifty-eight

new album i've never heard: au revoir simone - still light, still night

record from jerry's collection: this rediculous album

linkity-links:

song: defiance, ohio - the list

purchase at no idea or download the entire album for free at archive.org, because the band is just that awesome.

ten things

1. i will spend june counting the days when it doesn't rain, and folding dollar bills into dollar bill airplanes.
2. i will read a minimum of 50 pages a day. this should be especially easy on days i work, considering i can read 18 pages between the silver spring and chinatown metro sations.
3. i will buy and build a new bookshelf.
4. i will write every day, with no set goal on word or page count.
5. i will right every day, with no set goal on soul count.
6. i will take one picture a day, with each ilaria and my phone.
7. i will remember july 1st, early august.
8. i will watch my sodium, and more beautiful things like FM airwaves and moving pictures.
9. i will listen to both sides of one pre-1985 record, and one newer album every day, from start to finish.
10. i will share at least two of the following things with the world every day: music, moving picture, still photography, my words, garbage.

i've made this list to keep my mind active, so active that at any given moment i might have an aneurysm or seizure. because right now, all we have is time, time, time, and someday, that time will run out.

that's the only thing you can be absolutely certain about.

"there's nothing more boring than a well-traveled person."

linkity-links
photo: my good friend daggar slade of san marcos, texas. his flickr.
music: paul baribeau - ten things, purchase at amazon or
quote: from don delillo's great jones street. save the publishing industry, or save some dollars.