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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Just read an interview with Steve McQueen, who won the Turner prize in 1999. He was asked what love feels like...he answered "for ever." Somehow that is just beautiful to me. I hate it in a good way (like you might secretly hate a fuzzy puppy for stealing all of the attention, even though you just want to hold it and play with it like all of the other people in the room) because it is so simple and just so so right. Maybe that is a working title to these three pieces (see the next two entries). He also says that his best kiss of his life was yesterday...that is churning in my head as well. Churning like thunder...(sorry to be melodramatic, but I couldn't resist).
I have been trying hard to be tough for a long time, but I am such a sap and a sucker sometimes and I just can't resist that either. The other working titles have been some lyrics from some songs I have been listening too lately. I won't really repeat them here since they probably sound like shit compared to the bare, poetic, beautiful words I already mentioned here. But I have to remind myself now to lay off the hip-hop a bit and to start listening to some Christm
round...
as music here and there. Also "pulling my face off" is another title I have been churning a
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