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2010-10-08T02:44:00.000-07:00

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RIP

2010-10-08T02:41:00.000-07:00

my dearest shmancy,

you've have been quite good to me over the past couple years. remember the time when we did that one thing without telling you know who? omg, so. much. fun!

you will be missed!

fondly,

your best and only friend.

die antwoord

2010-10-07T01:31:00.001-07:00

playing oct. 13th @ paramount and free show @ sonic boom ballard. wanna go?

die antwoord - $o$

enjoy

cocorosie

2010-10-06T13:08:00.000-07:00

i really do love these ladies, beards and all.

CocoRosie - Lemonade from Souterrain Transmissions on Vimeo.

la masion de mon reve - 2004

enjoy

noah's ark - 2005

enjoy

the adventures of ghosthorse and stillborn - 2007

enjoy

coconuts, plenty of junkfood - 2009

enjoy

grey oceans - 2010

enjoy

zomg! AnCo battle continues...

2010-10-05T16:26:00.000-07:00

avey:

deakin:

this time the contenders are sir avey tare vs. "i left the band but i'll still collab with yall" deakin. when will all this madness end?

wcwt.com

2010-10-05T16:00:00.000-07:00

c.lo in markus lupfer. shower curtain by martha stewart for kmart.

ride some lo-fi wavves(esque)

2010-10-05T03:39:00.000-07:00

beach fossils - self titled

enjoy//buy

avey vs. panda: whose side ru on?

2010-10-05T00:14:00.000-07:00

avey tare - luck 1

VS

panda bear - bros

rapper by 4, shaving his forehead by 5

2010-10-05T00:12:00.000-07:00

i miss you, heroin. by laura lang

2010-09-25T13:31:00.000-07:00

I am a normal person. I wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night. I come to work and I read the paper. I know what's going on in the world and I clean my house. But this is not really me. This is my new life. Synthetic normality is where I have ended up.

I have not been born again, and I didn't die of an overdose and come back to life. I simply decided that if I kept shooting heroin everyday I would eventually become a serious junky. What most people don't understand about heroin is that there are two kinds of heroin addicts. First there is a "junky", which is what most people think of when they think "heroin", thanks to Nancy Reagan and the War on Drugs. A junky is someone who will sell their (or steal your) TV for a shot. They'll rob the pharmacy without considering getting caught, and they'll sell their bodies for one more sweet shot. Junkies are everywhere, but you probably think they're just homeless people. They're not so hard to recognize if you just look for tinny tiny pupils, needle scars, or a ferocious hunger.

Enter the second type of heroin addict, me, the functional addict.

If you think junkies have a ferocious hunger for heroin, consider spending every single day pretending not to be a junky. It's incredible work. You see, junkies live outside the law; they need heroin, period. A functional addict needs heroin more. A functional addict doesn't rob and pillage for heroin because there is a risk of being caught, and if you are caught you don't get a reduction cure, you get sick and are then forced to quit. So instead the functional addict gets up every morning and goes to work. They work overtime. A functional addict operates the same way as a junky in regards to needing heroin. The difference is that a functional addict has the ability to wait.

For a functional addict time is something that isn't shown on a clock. Before I quit heroin two years ago, I got up twenty minutes earlier than I do now. I never needed an alarm clock because I knew that it was time for a shot. I never hit snooze and I was never, ever, late for work. I would open my eyes and be in the bathroom fifteen seconds later. I went to work until lunchtime, when I would speed home for a midday shot. That shot would send me reeling, and I would head back to work to make another half days worth of pay so I could buy more junk that night. When I was at work, much like anyone else, I would look at the clock and count the minutes. But as a heroin addict, not only does time slow down, time stops if you need a shot. Working in a world where heroin is generally considered bad stuff is a bit tricky; you can't exactly be high.

A functional addict has to have the ability to separate themselves from heroin enough to appear to be completely normal. Hiding my addiction was not very hard because most people have no idea that someone can be a heroin addict and have a job. People don't recognize heroin addiction in a functional addict. The best way to hide your heroin addiction is to blame your symptoms on something else. A functional addict is a Hollywood film crew rolled into one person. I am an actress, a makeup artist, a director, and an editor. When people noticed I never ate, I acted as if I had an eating disorder. When I had done too much on my lunch break and had to throw up, I blamed my rush to the bathroom on my period or diarrhea or a vaginal problem. I didn't give a fuck what people thought of my hygiene, as long as they thought it was a physical issue.

As a functional addict you must be very proficient with make up in order to cover track marks. Do you really think Aunt Sally and Cousin Susie aren't going to notice if you're wearing long sleeves in the summer heat? Of course people notice that kind of shit. You'd be surprised at how often people see things that are out of place. Being functional means not getting caught and not getting caught can take some creative measures. When people would notice something askew about me, I would change whatever they were noticing. I never had anyone pinpoint what, exactly, was wrong, but people came close. I had to play director in my own life. I had to be able to see myself as other people saw me, and edit out all the things that might jeopardize my supply of heroin. An addiction is a sickness in itself, but being sick because you don't have whatever you are addicted to is infinitely worse. So I worked at being an addict.

Being a functional addict gave me an entirely different perspective on life. I mean, besides the fact that I didn't have a savings account, looking into my life you would have thought I was just a girl. I wasn't just a girl though. I did something everyday that no one ever knew about. Who I was at work and socially was my alter ego. I was pretending to give a shit about life because I needed and wanted my heroin supply to be constant. I was not an addict that surrounded myself with only other addicts; that's dangerous business because junkies are much more common than functional addicts. In fact, I've only ever known one other functional addict. Most of the people I knew and talked to and hung out with had no idea I was addicted to heroin. I faked my entire existence just to maintain my addiction. If I lost my job: no heroin. If my family or friends found out: instant intervention and no heroin. If I didn't pay my bills: no place to shoot up. Suffice to say that besides paying my bills, all my money went to heroin. I didn't buy new clothes and I didn't go to the grocery store. My secret life was flawless, and quitting wasn't because I couldn't afford it, or someone forced me.

Whenever I think of heroin, I think of it fondly, but then I'm lucky. I was a functional addict, so I knew when enough was enough. I knew I couldn't continue shooting heroin forever, and I know now that I can never be addicted again. I've seen what heroin can really do to people, and while throughout I've been saying it's possible to be a functional addict, it is not possible to be a functional addict and accomplish anything. In order to be a functional addict forever, you cannot have dreams. You can't think of a better life. You cannot be successful at the same time. You have to go to your crappy job everyday, and no matter how much you hate it, you can't quit. You can't look for a new job because you have to buy junk today. The best you can hope for is moving up within your company. With heroin it's either all-in or all-out. Whether you are a junky or a functional addict, heroin runs your life. There is no time for anything else.

I hate myself for missing heroin, but I just can't help it. Every summer I wonder if anyone notices my faded scars, to which I no longer apply makeup. Every morning I think about that purple Crown Royal bag I used to keep my works in. Every afternoon I wonder if Josie has oxycontins, morphine, heroin, or diladid today. I don't remember every shot of heroin I ever took, but I remember taking a fucking shitload of them. I remember shooting up with a plastic spoon and saliva in the parking lot of a bank. I remember spurting blood all over a hotel room before a Jane's Addiction concert. I remember using the electrical cord from a curling iron in my moms' bathroom to tie off. I remember heroin. I remember how fucking great it made me feel. I mean, there were some bad points too, but the bad don't add up to that one perfect moment; that moment heroin addicts live for.

It's been two years since I shot up, but there are a million reminders everyday. These little insignificant things that my mind associates with heroin are everywhere. Walgreen's and I have a very special relationship thanks to their acceptance of my bullshit diabetic card. When I can't turn left, I always check to see how long the street is, and if it isn't very long, I go the wrong way, just out of habit. I run red lights even though I'm no longer rushing to buy heroin, and I shake with excitement when I see confederate flag stickers on the back of trucks. I've spent more time waiting in front of a 7-11 than you've spent riding the subway. With all the time I've spent waiting for, chasing after, or shooting in heroin, I could have written twelve books.

I wish I could videotape myself writing this because I am shaking. It's been two years since I last did heroin, but I know if someone were to walk in with works and a bag, I would have that needle in my arm before you could say HIV. I miss it. Sometimes I wonder how I have gone this long without even dosing once. And I look forward to a time when I can dose again. I even know when that day is, and I am counting down. It's not until April though, so I have a while to wait. You might ask, "Why would you quit for two years only to take another shot?"

Well the answer is obvious. I miss heroin. I miss the routine. I miss waking up everyday and knowing exactly what I need to do that day. I didn't even realize how much I missed it until just now. Just now while trying to put into words what I think about when I think about H. Besides, you don't get addicted in one shot. I figure since I haven't had one for two years I can have a couple, and be ok. But that's a saga for another day. Actually I'm pretty interested to find out what it feels like after all this time. I'll probably puke my guts out.

I'm not going to pretend that heroin is okay -- most people who develop a real addiction to heroin never quit. I don't know the exact statistic, but I know this previous statement is true. I am lucky to have been born with the willpower I have, and as stated previously, I only know of one other functional addict. I'm lucky to remember what I wanted before heroin. And what I want from life is much bigger and better than one small moment of heroin bullshit. But that one small moment of bullshit is something that I can't get out of my head.

Autumn's like Autism

2010-09-24T21:40:00.000-07:00

I recollect my times-a-dwellin:

Screen doors clattering, agitates my sweet escape

Of sugared plums and chrysanthemum

Holler my name and I must wake

(In your ample accent) calling, "Come get your supper!"

"Krokets and paling? I'd rather lick a brick."

'cause that smokey eel quivers my fork

"Eat! You're slim as a besom's stick."

I peer out the pane, at the laboring goldfinch

Plucking twigs and sticks, embellishing her nest with

The most firey oranges, scarlets, and ambers

A home fit to brood her chicks

And the mealy peaches descend from branches

Bruised and battered, just like my mother ached

And the fruit flies gather, to bid farewell

Amidst the over-ripened wake

And the barking herd, interrupts the order

Border Collie tongues drape like salty palls

Digging shallow holes, like catacombs

'tis a sign that autumn's come

I pull my stockings up, up past my hooked nose

Button-down my flannel, a dead-beat's hammy down

I lace my boots snug, so they cannot part with

my soles, why'd he leave our town?

So I tramped down on towards the marshy, mellow

Pond; string, hook in hand and baited by a fly

And I could not swallow the silent stillness

My breath broke the soundless sky

I casted once, then three times over

Hexed with a rat's luck, the hook swam bleak and bare

So I surrendered to the bank's botany:

Watercress, lotus; despair!

And the polliwogs, you will not decipher

Nor myself, for the sun has bit me brown

And my fingertips have sprouted like thorns

I am a man now, halfly-crowned

I'm the kindest king 'cross my kingdom

Just ask the acres, for they have never ached nor sered

For the water runs from the sound of song

That I hum towards her rainier (rain-ear)

And the botched-tailed cat sifts through the woodlet

Harvesting hares like crops, cultivated just for sport

And I've shunned him time, and time over

"The chicory and peas you may floor."

The spaghetti squash, squalls in fever

Under-tended and obtuse, eager to be stewed

And I knew not of my kindred's recipe

So it rotted and I rued

And the nude painted pantry, which preserves my pickles

Jams, jars, jellies, and a broom just in case

Jealousy ensues a pickled-panic

Becoming irate and sure to break

Beneath the floorboards, all slated and cedar

Where the badgers gather to burrow and gossip

Of that coyote's coat that he adorns daily

All outdated and archaic

And so I sleep all day, for my time is fleeting

Setting all the stars, to rouse me like a clock

And when the sun retreats, I hear the twinkling

A snooze button I have not

I can think of all the things you gave me

leaf piles, pies, heaps of figs; I could be sick!

And all this turmoil turns me taut

Autumn can be so autistic

part of a poem i'm working on - autumnism's like autism (tentative)

2010-09-23T22:52:00.000-07:00

The mealy peaches descend from branches

Bruised and battered, just like my mother ached

And the fruit flies gather, to bid farewell

Amidst the over-ripened wake

And the barking herd, interrupts the order

Border Collie tongues drape like salty palls

Digging shallow holes, like catacombs

'tis a sign that autumn's come

I pull my stockings up, up past my hooked nose

Button-down my flannel, a dead-beat's hammy down

I lace my boots snug, so they cannot part with

my soles, why'd he leave without a sound?

So I tramped down on, towards the marshy, mellow

Pond; string, hook in hand and baited by a fly

And I could not swallow the silent stillness

My breath broke the soundless sky

I casted once, then three times over

Hexed with a rat's luck, the hook swam bleak and bare

So I surrendered to the bank's botany:

Watercress, lotus; despair!

And the polliwogs, you will not decipher

Nor myself, for the sun has bit me brown

And my fingertips have sprouted like thorns

I am a man, halfly-crowned

I'm the kindest king, 'cross my kingdom

Just ask the acres, for they have never ached nor sered

For the water runs, from the sound of song

That I hum towards her rainier (rain-ear)

And the botched-tailed cat, sifts through the woodlet

Harvesting hares like crops, cultivated just for sport

And I've shunned her time, and time over

"The chicory and peas you may floor."

The spaghetti squash, squalls in fever

Under-tended and obtuse, eager to be stewed

And I knew not of my kindred's recipe

So it rotted and I rued

And the nude painted pantry, which preserves my pickles,

Jams, jars, jellies, and a broom just in case

Jealousy ensues a pickled-panic

Becoming irate and sure to break

And so I sleep all day, for my time is fleeting

Setting all the stars, to rouse me like a clock

And when the sun retreats, I hear the twinkling

A snooze button I have not

the o.d.

2010-04-02T04:11:00.000-07:00

I slipped and fell so fast,
hard, like an aeroplane crash.
Weekend-warrior turned to
week-long, I would not last.

So take these broken veins
and bones, scrub 'til they
are bruised. Make-believe that
I drowned frail and stale, that
I did not misuse.

Just bury me in a bathtub
with a teacup of earl grey.
Run the water boiling hot
'til my pores begin to pry away.

The joints will appear,
marrow, will porcelainize.
I'll lend thee my cup of tea
Sip, squall out your last goodbyes.

And when that claw-foot friend
and I, finally conjoin, you may
bask and bathe 'til the end of day,
I will swathe you warm.

I will keep you

so sparkling,

I will keep you

so clean.

guess i'm not going to mj's funeral

2009-07-06T00:28:00.001-07:00

my sad sad lyfe

2009-07-05T23:45:00.001-07:00

files this under adorable

2009-05-20T01:29:00.001-07:00

whoa my jesus!

2009-02-03T03:10:00.000-08:00

i forgot about this little blog ditty.

sorry if i hurt your feelings, blog. i'm real sorry.

BLAZE!

so sorry

2008-07-05T23:40:00.000-07:00

i've been a douchey blogger lately. syntax has fucked me over, the new job keeps me busy/fit, and i just got internet again. enjoy this beached fish until the next post arrives.

cheers!

pizza! pizza!

2008-06-18T15:37:00.000-07:00

birthday! party! party!

2008-06-15T17:03:00.001-07:00

so i had to make my own cake for my birthday...

lame!

i went kinda non-traditional with a lemon pound cake topped with strawberries and agave nectar.

overall twas a laid back day.

food porn

2008-06-13T21:50:00.000-07:00

chili lime tofu with shitakes on a bed of steamed baby bok choy and cinnamon quinoa.

i spy...

2008-06-11T23:22:00.000-07:00

a dog collar, a red lighter, trashy tattoos, an asian inspired umbrella, an exposed vagina....

where's the crack pipe?!

graphjam.com

2008-06-11T23:20:00.001-07:00

gloomy days/bathtub nights

2008-06-09T22:11:00.000-07:00

you could tell
by the way
i slipped

into your arms
you held me
so tight

and warmed
bones from all
this agony

that has
puddled up
inside

oh, i
am tired

and i
am spent

i could tell
by the way
you left

down the drain
without my
gratefulness

oh, i
am clean

drug love

2008-06-08T19:56:00.000-07:00

is the best love.