I am Jane Goodall's Tanzanian monkeys typing about bananas. My fingers are Santa's little helpers. My hope is a sporadic rainfall - yet a torrential downpour in all creative environments. I am Theseus, unspooling golden yarn. Sisyphus, sweating uphill. Bukowski, scribbling away in rooming houses. A river always flowing. I am the nightmare of stagnancy and a God of Imagination.
Friday, February 06, 2015
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Friday, January 30, 2015
Tuesday, January 06, 2015
Dear Samantha, this year didn't start off as well as I expected but I'm going to take it and turn it all around and think about it as a positive experience and not a negative one. No details needed but...the overall lesson is for all of planet Earth to not be a Dick York about small things and if you catch yourself being a Dick Sargent about small things then...STOP BEING A DARRIN STEPHENS. Because that's a big thing.
This applies to all of us mere mortals.
This applies to all of us mere mortals.
Sunday, January 04, 2015
You ask me to play more classical music...
I say to go through my records and pick something that you've never heard before.
WU-TANG?
Well played, Grasshopper.
Well played.
WU-TANG?
Well played, Grasshopper.
Well played.
Saturday, January 03, 2015
I went for a drive again...
I came home three hours later.
Southern California/OC is a strange, strange place.
It makes no sense.
Alaska makes sense.
It's probably a lot harder to drive around aimlessly in certain parts of Alaska, I bet.
That's about all that I have to say.
Southern California/OC is a strange, strange place.
It makes no sense.
Alaska makes sense.
It's probably a lot harder to drive around aimlessly in certain parts of Alaska, I bet.
That's about all that I have to say.
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Tuesday, December 09, 2014
Memoirs of a "Latch-Key" Kid 1984-2014
How many years is that? I can't even do the math though it's right on top of my head, or at least in the heading right on top of the what I'm writing's heads head.
I didn't hyphenate, I usually do - but sometimes when I hyphenate, it makes me hyperventilate...so...I...use...da ellipses......instead......
There's a tablet to my left. It's making me not write right now. If I could stop the Home Depot commercial - I could write about it forever. It wasn't necessarily bad. Most of you wouldn't even notice how bad it was. It easier to share in real life. I will write and maybe it will come back again. Fuck. I'm playing stuff on the tablet via Hulu Plus. You, know? The thing that I pay for for more content and less ads? you know. The thing that I'm writing about right now? I shouldn't be doing this right now. I should be smarter, writing about smart things.
..........waiting for the Home Depot commercial.......ellipsesssssss
still not here
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Listen To Books. Read Music. See Feelings. Hear HERE.
I'm clearing my throat.
For whatever I'm about to write/say, apparently.
I'm here. Still here. Writing stuff.
Sometimes that's enough.
HERE.
Knuckles dug/deep/burrowing into my eyes.
Wiping away the crust of days gone past, every night. Everything.
Here are my ears opened.
My head starting to turn.
Creaking sometimes. Sometimes snapping quickly left to right.
Like old parts in a factory that work best with age.
Like new parts that need to be broken in.
My eyes have seen enough but...I'm a baby. I'm a newborn fucking baby.
Every blink of mine is a lifetime, wanted/used/wasted.
I think that I'm at the toddler's stage now.
My teenage years are going to be a shit show.
GET READY.
Get ready FOR WHAT COMES AFTER THAT.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
So...
You came home stoned from watching sporadic meteors and appreciating their presence.
I've been hand-feeding a stray kitty for hours tonight but really in the last month, in the hope that it stays in my backyard so that it doesn't get eaten by the coyotes that have been hanging out with me in MY FRONT YARD recently.
Apparently, homeless kitties are like Kryptonite to you, you space cadets.
For shame. Before you look up, Josue and Jen - you've got to look down. Meow.
Before you look up?
MEOW IS ON THE GROUND.
Your reaction to a homeless kitty was gross.
I'm elevated and looking down on you.
Meow.
I hope homeless kitty wakes you up when you sleep tonight.
A cosmic, saber-toothed, fucking tiger that bites you deep in your hypocritical heart.
Her name is
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
The Dreams Were So Vivid, So Haunting, SO REAL...
and then I woke up.
Like, a million times.
I chose not to work today.
I didn't want to.
So, I didn't.
I'm not spoiled.
I work hard and put up with a lot of shit.
I work hard and revel in an overabundance of beauty.
I love it, but...
I chose not to work today.
I didn't want to.
I saw a movie.
I ate crap food.
I went for a drive.
I drove so much that I almost ran out of gas.
I got gas.
I went to the grocery store.
I bought firewood, curry powder, a lottery ticket, TIME Magazine, a lemon, paper towels, orange juice, toilet paper and a packet of blue ink disposable pens.
The movie that I watched was still orbiting around in my head.
I got a text from a friend.
He wasn't doing well/not doing well.
I came home in five minutes.
We talked.
I made a fire.
We talked longer.
and longer...
I chose not to work today.
I'm glad.
My work, my play, does not define my life.
MY LIFE is defined by YOU.
You come to me.
You guys always do.
I'm okay with that.
YOU make MY LIFE BETTER.
By a million times.
and then I fall asleep.
Art by JOCK
Monday, October 20, 2014
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
All Together. In A Room.
Rocky Balboa
Peter Quill
Strunk and White
Henry Chinaski
Sailor Ripley
Richard Hawley
Hemingway
And James Nachtwey
Ahab
The Old Man
Nemo
And James Cameron
Sorry. It’s late.
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
EYE
erased everything that ive written on this
and now im writing this
with no capitalization
or punctuation in this
the 2 things that i wrote before this - i had to save
i had to wrap my head around what i was saying
or TRYING to say
so i saved it
i saved it
it saved itself so
that i can
write more on it
it will be much more
much more than this
because i what i hover over is
not THIS
but the things that i think
the things that you miss
and sometimes what i save
is sososo
much better than this
so i save it
and now im writing this
with no capitalization
or punctuation in this
the 2 things that i wrote before this - i had to save
i had to wrap my head around what i was saying
or TRYING to say
so i saved it
i saved it
it saved itself so
that i can
write more on it
it will be much more
much more than this
because i what i hover over is
not THIS
but the things that i think
the things that you miss
and sometimes what i save
is sososo
much better than this
so i save it
Friday, August 29, 2014
Part of my other job is writing shit like this...
***** ******* Interview Questions
Let’s talk shoes.
Give me old school or current celebrity crushes, and why?
If you were going to be a TV show – what would it be?
A movie that you wish that you played a part in?
Fashion mistakes?
Last best meal that you just had?
Song in your head right now.
Underrated band.
Overrated band.
Last book that you read.
You get one week for a vacation in The United States –
vacation.
International, Where?
Why are you going to Hell?
Why are you going to Heaven?
What do you do well?
ADD?
Describe yourself in High School?
Do you do your own laundry?
I’m eating almonds and am going to open up a bottle of
champagne while I write this. It just started to rain. I just opened up the
bottle of champagne. How does this make you feel?
If you had one thing to carry in your pocket for all time.
Only this one thing. Not a wallet or a cell phone or keys – what would it be?
Catcher In The Rye?
What teen-idol are you?
Frank Sinatra/Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis
Last person that hung up on you?
How do you know me?
One word about you.
Two words.
Your epitaph?
You wind down at home after a lot of work – what’s that
like?
What do you love about what you do?
Three best friends. Explain. Why?
If you would dress me right now – like, you’re my fashion
guy – what am I doing right? What am I doing wrong? Do you want to trade
clothes?
One book to carry with you to take on a desert island. One
book that you’ve always wanted to burn.
TV, magazines or movies always. WHY?
Buying a girl something very expensive. What would it be?
Innocent or diabolical?
Phone or texting?
What’s a gentleman?
What’s a lady?
What’s fatherhood like?
Last vacation?
Aims?
How well would you fare in a zombie apocalypse?
If the 13 year-old you would tell you now something now –
what would he say?
Star Wars?
If you were a political figure from the past or the present?
What bugs you?
If you could ask one question to you, twenty years from now
– what would you say?
Favorite movie. Not Scarface.
Getting tired. Time for sleep….
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Monday, August 25, 2014
Walking around in my backyard...
Looking up at the chemtrail Kanjii in the sky.
Time's passing.
You are too.
All of you.
In and out, back and forth.
Sometimes here for a while.
Sometimes never to be heard from again.
I'm still here.
I think.
Time's passing.
You are too.
All of you.
In and out, back and forth.
Sometimes here for a while.
Sometimes never to be heard from again.
I'm still here.
I think.
Friday, July 25, 2014
Every Night For Years. Written By Kevin Malone. Filmed by Evan Schiefelbine.
About 3 years ago I bought this Tomaso Albinoni record that skipped on a five count halfway through a song. I liked the idea of something that looped...organically?
--- Evan Schiefelbine
All we ever heard was the same record playing over and over again. Was it the little old lady who played it or the rarely-seen, dumpy-looking son? Every night, exactly at 8:30. A skip in-between to flip the record over and then the music continued. Every night for years.
One night, there was no music. We checked our watches, glanced up at our clocks. The neighborhood slowly trickled out into the street. Murmurs, whispers, nervous glances. Why wasn’t the music playing? The front door opened. The dumpy-looking son walked out, wiped his eyes, shut the door quietly and shuffled down the street.
--- Kevin Malone
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Fat Free Milk A
Another day or
Another year
Another beat of the heart is
A-Okay
A bad relationship
A working relationship
An unfathomably-hard-to-believe-how-good-it-is relationship
A certain amount of
Ak-ruh-moh-nee-uhs NESS makes sense
And I hope to continue to make more sense of this nonsense before my
Absence...
...
..
.
Another year
Another beat of the heart is
A-Okay
A bad relationship
A working relationship
An unfathomably-hard-to-believe-how-good-it-is relationship
A certain amount of
Ak-ruh-moh-nee-uhs NESS makes sense
And I hope to continue to make more sense of this nonsense before my
Absence...
...
..
.
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