February 2012
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DAY 10= HAVE ONE ON ME →
and a very nice walk on this very nice spring day.
January 2012
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DAY 8= Free-write
My best thought from today’s very very very rough draft.
Emily lead her out of the lab, and back to their apartment, where she pulled out Julie’s ponytail and made her coffee. They talked about the city. Emily the whole time fell over herself gossiping.
Did you hear about Joseph?
Julie’s ears perk up at the name, No.
I heard decided to stay in Chicago. She mumbled, dropping...
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DAY 6= CLEAN MY SHIT →
And, buy a subscription to Daytrotter’s website because they are broke and the most fantastic recording studio in the whole wide world I love them so much.
I Buried a Bone from the Blind Pilot session here is my favorite.
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WEEK 1= FIGURE OUT MY SHIT
This is a sad place; students here know that. I missed it on the visit. (I also visited on 4/20. It happens.) I know in my quiet self that at it’s most unbearable, that heart-in-ankles loneliness I experience is not a weight moving will lessen. That said, I’m an emotional sponge and it’s useless to think I wouldn’t be happier in a happier place.
Very simply, I need to...
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DAY 4= AN ANNOTATED MIXTAPE of songs I listened to...
1. MIKE MCDERMOTT/ SHARON VAN ETTEN
I fell in love with Sharon Van Etten last Christmas Eve in a sort of irrevocable way— the wrestling in her voice, the lyrics. ‘Because I was in Love’ got me through a lot of impatient nights. 2. WANDERING STAR/ POLICA 3. SEND HIS LOVE TO ME/ PJ HARVEY 4. COUNTRY AIR/ THE BEACH BOYS As a child, I hated the Beach Boys. 5. DOES NOT...
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“Lazer bowed slightly and turned and went out. A gust of night pushed its way in...”
– DAY 2 = READING ANNE CARSON (whose writing I fell in love with at a Bard College reading earlier this year) Quote from Autobiography of Red, Distances.
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