February 2012
17 posts
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You fit into me like a hook into an eye.
a fish hook an open eye
I've been a miner for a heart of gold.
What did the egg say to the frying pan? “You get warm. I’ll get hard. We’ll be done in three minutes.”
Happy Valentine’s Day.
:: Do not make me run! I am full of chocolate! :: →
“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”
– Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
:: sensual classics :: →
NPR’s Deceptive Cadence discusses “five examples of some really steamy classical music. Some of it is brazenly explicit…”
You had me at explicit.
Triptych
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“Having an orgasm is the highest form of civilization.”
– Betty Dodson (b. 1929)
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:: i lived for art, i lived for love :: →
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7 days of sexy OR the Saint Valentine's Day count...
Day One: Did you know that the author of the Kama Sutra was said to be celibate? And the title of that book has nothing to do with tapping that ass? “Kama” means desire, while “sutra” is translated as thread. Harumph. What other surprises lurk behind some of our tales of sexuality, sensuality, and desire? Well, try this one on for size: female sexual fluidity.
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I MISS AMERICA #12
The thing I enjoy most about Superbowl Sunday is the food. Unfortunately, I did not have the forethought to supply myself with the appropriate number of chip dips and chicken wings before the stores were closed (as they are on every Sunday). But at least there was this:
“Two snaps, and your backfield in motion.”
Thank you Joshua Bandy. Thank you David Alan Grier.
Schnee macht gluecklich!
a good day is seventeen emails looking for a new place to live, an audition where I kill the fucking high C, and a walk around historic Berlin in the sun and snow.
January 2012
34 posts
I MISS AMERICA #11
I can’t wait to be old. And know this: part 2 of this interview must also be watched.
i have always depended on the kindness of...
I’m hoping that Strangers in a Song will become popular enough to create an online parody called Strangers in a Thong. That’s my greatest wish. Two people sharing a thong.
“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again;...”
– Anais Nin (1903-1977)
He must know something, but don't say nothing...
From back when the veil between popular culture and classical singing was thinner.
“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
– William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (1564 - 1616)
me time
After a successful day of auditioning and comedy shows, I’m chilling out with some me time.
audition mantra
I have an audition for an agency tomorrow. I hope it goes well. But if it doesn’t and they try to hate on this? Well then, I’ve only got one thing to say…
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“If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my...”
– Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
i am as constant as a northern star
:: Epistemological Hovering :: →
“You’re really not on a journey here. You’re here for some messy reason or reasons, and maybe you don’t know what it is, and maybe I don’t know what it is, but anyway I’m happy to be invited.” — Tyler Cowen, TED Talk
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“I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where...”
– Mitch Hedberg (1968-2005)
follow/fallow
“Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad of...”
– David Mamet (b. 1947)
like mother...
Can I please turn into this when I’m older? Goddamnit, Mother, you are fucking gorgeous!
express yourself, don't repress yourself.
Thanks for the reminder, Nate Blanchard.
And here’s to my first real night of stand up comedy. First time alone on stage—no Tim Whelan to help me. Like a virgin, making jokes for the very first time.
The River Bank
“He thought his happiness was complete when, as he meandered aimlessly along, suddenly he stood by the edge of a full-fed river. Never in his life had he seen a river before — this sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal, chasing and chuckling, gripping things with a gurgle and leaving them with a laugh, to fling itself on fresh playmates that shook themselves free, and were caught and...
Hello, Marilyn Monroe
“Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don’t mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden. I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.
I think that sexuality is...
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:: MODERN LOVE :: →
A couple days after David Bowie’s birthday, I find myself reading this NY Times article entitled Modern Love: A Place to Lay My Heart.
“During my traveling years I wasn’t exactly running from relationships, but the pleasure I took in moving dovetailed neatly with my fear of them…”
“No one who is not himself divine can successfully worship a divinity. Having...”
– from the Gandharva Tantra quoted in Joseph Campbell’s Primitive Mythology
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I don't think you're ready for Miss Betty
Betty Dodson, you are a revolutionary.
Viva la revolution.
Reggie Watts
Reggie Watts is coming to Berlin! January 29th, 2012.
johnny 5 is alive
Noam Chomsky is the author of over 100 books.
Joseph Campbell is a literary god.
In 2012, I want to be better read. What’s on your reading list?
:: all the single ladies :: →
“In the months leading to my breakup with Allan, my problem, as I saw it, lay in wanting two incompatible states of being—autonomy and intimacy…” — from The Atlantic
golly gee, miss peggy
From the “Private life/Gossip” section of her Wikipedia article:
“Peggy Guggenheim’s first marriage was to Laurence Vail, a Dada sculptor and writer with whom she had two children, Michael Cedric Sindbad and Pegeen. They divorced following his affair with writer Kay Boyle, whom he later married.
She married her second husband, Max Ernst, in 1941 and divorced him in...
what sin, anais nin
As a bigamist she balanced two marriages for 11 years…
She called it her bicoastal trapeze. And she set up these elaborate facades in Los Angeles and in New York. But it became so complicated that she had to create something she called the lie box. She had this absolutely enormous purse and in the purse she had two sets of checkbooks. One said Anaïs Guiler for New York and another said...
“It was not until the 20th century that Americans evolved an understanding of...”
– NY Times, Dan Savage on the Virtues Infidelity
holy shit, eartha kitt
So, in the vein of new year’s resolutions, I’m going to fill this week with quotes, stories, and videos from people I admire. Because in lieu of actually trying to do something remarkable myself, I’d rather talk about remarkable things other people have done. Or maybe I’m just looking for inspiration. However you wanna see it, here it is: HOLY SHIT, EARTHA KITT.
In...
“If people would realize how much they can do, they would do it.”
– Katherine Dunham (1909 - 2006)