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IV. Death By Water

  • Jun. 21st, 2007 at 11:03 AM

AFTER the torchlight red on sweaty faces 
After the frosty silence in the gardens 
After the agony in stony places 
The shouting and the crying 325
Prison and place and reverberation 
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains 
He who was living is now dead 
We who were living are now dying 
With a little patience 330
 
Here is no water but only rock 
Rock and no water and the sandy road 
The road winding above among the mountains 
Which are mountains of rock without water 
If there were water we should stop and drink 335
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think 
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand 
If there were only water amongst the rock 
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit 
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit 340
There is not even silence in the mountains 
But dry sterile thunder without rain 
There is not even solitude in the mountains 
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl 
From doors of mudcracked houses
                                 If there were water
 345
  And no rock 
  If there were rock 
  And also water 
  And water 
  A spring 350
  A pool among the rock 
  If there were the sound of water only 
  Not the cicada 
  And dry grass singing 
  But sound of water over a rock 355
  Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees 
  Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop 
  But there is no water 
 
Who is the third who walks always beside you? 
When I count, there are only you and I together 360
But when I look ahead up the white road 
There is always another one walking beside you 
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded 
I do not know whether a man or a woman 
—But who is that on the other side of you? 365
 
What is that sound high in the air 
Murmur of maternal lamentation 
Who are those hooded hordes swarming 
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth 
Ringed by the flat horizon only 370
What is the city over the mountains 
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air 
Falling towers 
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria 
Vienna London 375
Unreal 
 
A woman drew her long black hair out tight 
And fiddled whisper music on those strings 
And bats with baby faces in the violet light 
Whistled, and beat their wings 380
And crawled head downward down a blackened wall 
And upside down in air were towers 
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours 
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells. 
 
In this decayed hole among the mountains 385
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing 
Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel 
There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home. 
It has no windows, and the door swings, 
Dry bones can harm no one. 390
Only a cock stood on the rooftree 
Co co rico co co rico 
In a flash of lightning. Then a damp gust 
Bringing rain 
 
Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves 395
Waited for rain, while the black clouds 
Gathered far distant, over Himavant. 
The jungle crouched, humped in silence. 
Then spoke the thunder 
A 400
Datta: what have we given? 
My friend, blood shaking my heart 
The awful daring of a moment's surrender 
Which an age of prudence can never retract 
By this, and this only, we have existed 405
Which is not to be found in our obituaries 
Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider 
Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor 
In our empty rooms 
A 410
Dayadhvam: I have heard the key 
Turn in the door once and turn once only 
We think of the key, each in his prison 
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison 
Only at nightfall, aetherial rumours 415
Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus 
A 
Damyata: The boat responded 
Gaily, to the hand expert with sail and oar 
The sea was calm, your heart would have responded 420
Gaily, when invited, beating obedient 
To controlling hands 
 
                      I sat upon the shore 
Fishing, with the arid plain behind me 
Shall I at least set my lands in order? 425
 
London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down 
 
Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina 
Quando fiam ceu chelidon—O swallow swallow 
Le Prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie 
These fragments I have shored against my ruins 430
Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe. 
Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. 
 
            Shantih shantih shantih

IV. Death By Water

  • Jun. 21st, 2007 at 11:00 AM

PHLEBAS the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, 
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell 
And the profit and loss. 
                          A current under sea 315
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell 
He passed the stages of his age and youth 
Entering the whirlpool. 
                          Gentile or Jew 
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you. 

III. The Fire Sermon

  • Jun. 20th, 2007 at 2:45 PM


THE river's tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf
 
Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind 
Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed. 175
Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song. 
The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers, 
Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends 
Or other testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed. 
And their friends, the loitering heirs of city directors; 180
Departed, have left no addresses. 
By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept... 
Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song, 
Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long. 
But at my back in a cold blast I hear 185
The rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear. 
 
A rat crept softly through the vegetation 
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank 
While I was fishing in the dull canal 
On a winter evening round behind the gashouse 190
Musing upon the king my brother's wreck 
And on the king my father's death before him. 
White bodies naked on the low damp ground 
And bones cast in a little low dry garret, 
Rattled by the rat's foot only, year to year. 195
But at my back from time to time I hear 
The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring 
Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. 
O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter 
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water 
Et, O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole! 
 
Twit twit twit 
Jug jug jug jug jug jug 
So rudely forc'd. 205
Tereu 
 
Unreal City 
Under the brown fog of a winter noon 
Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant 
Unshaven, with a pocket full of currants 210
C.i.f. London: documents at sight, 
Asked me in demotic French 
To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel 
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole. 
 
At the violet hour, when the eyes and back 215
Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits 
Like a taxi throbbing waiting, 
I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives, 
Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can see 
At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives 220
Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea, 
The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights 
Her stove, and lays out food in tins. 
Out of the window perilously spread 
Her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays, 225
On the divan are piled (at night her bed) 
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays. 
I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs 
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest— 
I too awaited the expected guest. 230
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives, 
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare, 
One of the low on whom assurance sits 
As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire. 
The time is now propitious, as he guesses, 235
The meal is ended, she is bored and tired, 
Endeavours to engage her in caresses 
Which still are unreproved, if undesired. 
Flushed and decided, he assaults at once; 
Exploring hands encounter no defence; 240
His vanity requires no response, 
And makes a welcome of indifference. 
(And I Tiresias have foresuffered all 
Enacted on this same divan or bed; 
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall 245
And walked among the lowest of the dead.) 
Bestows on final patronising kiss, 
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit... 
 
She turns and looks a moment in the glass, 
Hardly aware of her departed lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass: 
'Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.' 
When lovely woman stoops to folly and 
Paces about her room again, alone, 
She smoothes her hair with automatic hand, 255
And puts a record on the gramophone. 
 
'This music crept by me upon the waters' 
And along the Strand, up Queen Victoria Street. 
O City city, I can sometimes hear 
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The pleasant whining of a mandoline 
And a clatter and a chatter from within 
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls 
Of Magnus Martyr hold 
Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold. 265
 
      The river sweats 
      Oil and tar 
      The barges drift 
      With the turning tide 
      Red sails 270
      Wide 
      To leeward, swing on the heavy spar. 
      The barges wash 
      Drifting logs 
      Down Greenwich reach 275
      Past the Isle of Dogs. 
            Weialala leia 
            Wallala leialala 
 
      Elizabeth and Leicester 
      Beating oars 280
      The stern was formed 
      A gilded shell 
      Red and gold 
      The brisk swell 
      Rippled both shores 285
      Southwest wind 
      Carried down stream 
      The peal of bells 
      White towers 
            Weialala leia 290
            Wallala leialala 
 
'Trams and dusty trees. 
Highbury bore me. Richmond and Kew 
Undid me. By Richmond I raised my knees 
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.' 295
'My feet are at Moorgate, and my heart 
Under my feet. After the event 
He wept. He promised "a new start". 
I made no comment. What should I resent?' 
'On Margate Sands. 300
I can connect 
Nothing with nothing. 
The broken fingernails of dirty hands. 
My people humble people who expect 
Nothing.' 305
      la la 
 
To Carthage then I came 
 
Burning burning burning burning 
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 
O Lord Thou pluckest 310
 
burning

II. A Game of Chess

  • Jun. 19th, 2007 at 12:11 PM

THE Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, 
Glowed on the marble, where the glass 
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines 
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out  80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing) 
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra 
Reflecting light upon the table as 
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it, 
From satin cases poured in rich profusion;  85
In vials of ivory and coloured glass 
Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes, 
Unguent, powdered, or liquid—troubled, confused 
And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air 
That freshened from the window, these ascended  90
In fattening the prolonged candle-flames, 
Flung their smoke into the laquearia, 
Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling. 
Huge sea-wood fed with copper 
Burned green and orange, framed by the coloured stone,  95
In which sad light a carvèd dolphin swam. 
Above the antique mantel was displayed 
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene 
The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king 
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale 100
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice 
And still she cried, and still the world pursues, 
'Jug Jug' to dirty ears. 
And other withered stumps of time 
Were told upon the walls; staring forms 105
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed. 
Footsteps shuffled on the stair. 
Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair 
Spread out in fiery points 
Glowed into words, then would be savagely still. 110
 
'My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 
'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 
'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 
'I never know what you are thinking. Think.' 
 
I think we are in rats' alley 115
Where the dead men lost their bones. 
 
'What is that noise?' 
                      The wind under the door. 
'What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?' 
                      Nothing again nothing. 120
                                              'Do 
'You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember 
'Nothing?' 
  I remember 
Those are pearls that were his eyes. 125
'Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?' 
                                                         But 
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag— 
It's so elegant 
So intelligent 130
'What shall I do now? What shall I do?' 
'I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street 
'With my hair down, so. What shall we do to-morrow? 
'What shall we ever do?' 
                          The hot water at ten. 135
And if it rains, a closed car at four. 
And we shall play a game of chess, 
Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door. 
 
When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said— 
I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself, 140
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME 
Now Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart. 
He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you 
To get yourself some teeth. He did, I was there. 
You have them all out, Lil, and get a nice set, 145
He said, I swear, I can't bear to look at you. 
And no more can't I, I said, and think of poor Albert, 
He's been in the army four years, he wants a good time, 
And if you don't give it him, there's others will, I said. 
Oh is there, she said. Something o' that, I said. 150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a straight look. 
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME 
If you don't like it you can get on with it, I said. 
Others can pick and choose if you can't. 
But if Albert makes off, it won't be for lack of telling. 155
You ought to be ashamed, I said, to look so antique. 
(And her only thirty-one.) 
I can't help it, she said, pulling a long face, 
It's them pills I took, to bring it off, she said. 
(She's had five already, and nearly died of young George.) 160
The chemist said it would be alright, but I've never been the same. 
You are a proper fool, I said. 
Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said, 
What you get married for if you don't want children? 
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME 165
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon, 
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot— 
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME 
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME 
Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight. 170
Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight. 
Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night. 

I. The Burial of the Dead.

  • Jun. 18th, 2007 at 11:57 AM

APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding 
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing 
Memory and desire, stirring 
Dull roots with spring rain. 
Winter kept us warm, covering         5
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding 
A little life with dried tubers. 
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee 
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, 
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,  10
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. 
Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch. 
And when we were children, staying at the archduke's, 
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled, 
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,  15
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went. 
In the mountains, there you feel free. 
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. 
 
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow 
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,  20
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only 
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, 
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, 
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only 
There is shadow under this red rock,  25
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock), 
And I will show you something different from either 
Your shadow at morning striding behind you 
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; 
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.  30
                Frisch weht der Wind 
                Der Heimat zu. 
                Mein Irisch Kind, 
                Wo weilest du? 
'You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;  35
'They called me the hyacinth girl.' 
—Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, 
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not 
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither 
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,  40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence. 
Od' und leer das Meer. 
 
Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, 
Had a bad cold, nevertheless 
Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe,  45
With a wicked pack of cards. Here, said she, 
Is your card, the drowned Phoenician Sailor, 
(Those are pearls that were his eyes. Look!) 
Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks, 
The lady of situations.  50
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel, 
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card, 
Which is blank, is something he carries on his back, 
Which I am forbidden to see. I do not find 
The Hanged Man. Fear death by water.  55
I see crowds of people, walking round in a ring. 
Thank you. If you see dear Mrs. Equitone, 
Tell her I bring the horoscope myself: 
One must be so careful these days.

Unreal City,  60
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, 
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, 
I had not thought death had undone so many. 
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, 
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.  65
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street, 
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours 
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. 
There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying 'Stetson! 
'You who were with me in the ships at Mylae!  70
'That corpse you planted last year in your garden, 
'Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? 
'Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? 
'Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men, 
'Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!  75
'You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!'

A Game of Chess

  • Jun. 4th, 2007 at 9:08 AM

I apologize, but I will eventually get to writing about my life, despite that I'm writing more for my sake than anyone else's.

This is just an entry to display a set of chess pieces that I've been collecting for a long time now, and finally finished around Valentine's Day, 2007. I have to say that it's the most beautiful and intriguing chess sets I've ever seen and played with...

I guess it's important to me because some of the pieces on the board represent people who are important in my life...

Sunshine Waters.

  • Jan. 17th, 2007 at 7:32 PM

Today, I devoured an entire book. It was rather short- two-hundred and eleven pages is short for what I'm used to.

But God, it was delicious. 

I am completely looking forward to doing that kind of reading again, and this time, not because I have a class assignment hanging over my head. I was thrilled, as I moved along her simple yet enchanting vernacular. I'm not sure if I'd go back and read another one of her books, but it was an amazing experience. I have never read so fast and comprehended so much...and I loved it.

I also managed, before my British Literature course, to spatter out blood in the Wakehurst bathroom- ironic, seeing as later my teacher talked about the gory reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and 'Bloody Mary.' After using almost half a roll of paper towels, my left nostril still feels sore. I haven't experienced that in a long time, and I'm not sure if I look forward to doing it again in the future. Yet, for some reason, blood is a part of my life, and somehow I have conditioned to respond to it in a contradictory nature.

I will write more about my classes and such when my computer is fixed (which looks like that will be by the end of this week, hurrah). I am looking forward to not have to walk the dark, chilly streets at night to use a computer at the library. I now realize how precious of an item it is to me, yet I have realized that I can survive without it (and without it, I can actually study on my desk for once). 

Things may be looking up, yet I fear they will be spiralling down in no time at all.

Post Scriptum:
Lily- thanks for the card. You brightened up my day.

Oct. 23rd, 2006

  • 3:38 PM

Poll #851534
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: Friends, participants: 4

You all know the reasons...do you think I should get some outside help for my...problems? I've heard different opinions on this.

Yes, you're insane and you need help!
2 (50.0%)

No, they're pointless and they're all quacks.
0 (0.0%)

Um...what? I was thinking about hemorroids and riding dolphins.
2 (50.0%)

Day 03: Rae's Lament

  • Oct. 8th, 2006 at 1:37 PM

Sorry for the lack of an entry yesterday...today I'll try to do two.

When I was a sophmore in high school, I was forced to act in a play called The Hobbit. I met some people, one of which was Rae Rinaldi...or Laura, I don't know what she goes by anymore. I didn't give her, or anyone there, much thought. Neither did she to me.

That following summer, when I started my Japanese Culture Club, I had taken a risk and invited her to watch Spirited Away with me and a few other individuals. From that day onward, we got to know each other better, and I convinced myself of our friendship...and believed in it. I thought the feeling was mutual, as we talked of similar interests, as we interacted in the same clubs, as we did outside activities together over a couple years or so. And...she helped me realize that I did have a chance at friendship, that there was such a thing called hope. I admired her a lot, maybe she never realized that- or how much our friendship meant to me. When you want to die...sometimes you'll believe any sort of light within the darkness.

As I graduated and moved away to Salve Regina University, I watched our friendship corrode. I watched her disconnect me from her life, and not feel bad about it at all. And, here's the real kicker: like so many others, she knows that I can be a very emotionally-driven individual...and she took advantage of them without a second thought, knowing that I desperately wanted to be friends with her, and her allowing me to build the illusion that we were still friends.

I still haven't given up hope on her today, though I'm almost positive that she did a long time ago on me. I haven't seen her in months...even when opportunity was there. I hear that she does that to everyone, though.

Though, I commend her on giving me a reason not to want to be in love...besides my asexuality. My friends and my art mean more to me than anything else in this world...and I refuse to subject myself as a slave of love just to be happy.  Their fortune reinforces my despair. I never want to be released from it. I have never loved her, and I never will love.

I don't think Rae will ever realize how much she has met to me, in all its unrequited glory. When others tell me that we're not friends, even her mother, i will blindly believe until I die. I shall live in the illusion of our friendship, and when faced with the bitter reality of it, will be wounded deeper than anyone could ever fathom.

Rae, when you receive this message, I will send three songs to you, as a sort of mini-Rae soundtrack (you'll have to wait for one song...I haven't received it just yet).

01. Carptree- Manmade Machine
Any kind of disturbance

Moved you like a landslide, you didn't like that?

At any kind of sign,
You would close that section off.
At any kind of signal,
You would shut that system down!

You finally rewired,
And you bypassed everything;
Now look at the state you're in.

02. Sarah McLachlan: Circle
There are two of us talking in circles,
One of us who wants to leave,
In a world created for only us;
An empty cage that has no key.

Don't you know we're working with flesh and blood,
Carving out of jealousy,
Crawling into each other? It's smothering
Every little part of me.

What kind of love is this that keeps me hanging on,
Despite everything it's doing to me?
What kind of love is this that keeps me for more,
When it will only end in misery?


03. Shiina Ringo: Poltergeist
Kimi wo warawasu tame ni, hohoemu de iyou to omoi, kitaemashita.
“Doa no mae ni te!” moshi mo, kono heya mo naku,
Tsuranatteiru kagayaki ga mayakashi de arou to mo boku
Ni osore nado wa nai desu.

Kimi wa hito ashi saki ni hohoende, genshi wo ataemashita.
“Konna boku ni!” ya wo ra, misakai mo naku hoshiku naru
Maboroshi wa izure otoroetemo boku ni wa utsukushiku miemasu.
Kimi dake ni kore wo utaimasu.

Day 02: Ode to Kitten

  • Oct. 6th, 2006 at 11:25 PM

Okay, so the second day is reserved for my twinny-twin-twin, Cat!

What can I honestly say about her? Well...I don't think that just words could do her justice...

So, Cat, when you get this message, I will send you three songs for a mini-Cat soundtrack:

01. The Producers: Springtime for Hitler
And now it's...
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Deutschland is happy and gay!
We're marching to a faster pace
Look out, here comes the master race!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Rhineland's a fine land once more!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Watch out, Europe
We're going on tour!

02.Bjork: 99 Red Balloons
99 Knights of the air
ride super-high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a Silverhero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
As 99 red balloons go by.

03. Olivia Lufkin: Blind Unicorn
I have my own ways that I stride
and I'm not going to stride along the lines
of your fucking guidance
Fsk the apocalypse stars
And let me follow my own natural instinct
Unlinked from your universe
And your curse
Immerse my diverse ways of my mind
You make things worse
When you babble on about staying positive
and being good
and keeping sane
and sleeping right
and removing my dirty nail polish
You don't think I fsking know that?

Day 01: an Ode to Lily

  • Oct. 4th, 2006 at 8:42 PM

Okay, I'm going to actually start the friend-of-the-day thing like I promised:

The first person to comment was my amazing ex-lover Liliana ****** *** . I swear, last year, she was the glue that held me together. She faciliated my interest in CLAMP and amused me all the time with her quirky sense of humour and the occasional ecchiness...

Anyways, I had IMed her only once to ask her a question about [info]clamp_bishoujo, and from there on out, we talked at least once a day after that.

We became really close, and most of the time we talked about random stuff, CLAMP fandoms, and the lj iconing world. It was tons of fun.

I actually listed myself as 'in a relationship' on facebook on Halloween '05 as a joke...and she was my lover from then (note, this was all really a joke). She was an excellent listener and wasn't afraid to tell me that my icons sucked. She was an amazing girl.

Then...she died she went off to Germany (I don't blame her, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity)...and she actually dumped me for Abdul, a Arabic boy she met over there...>_<  And it's not that I mind it so much, but I miss talking to her all the time. The online world is much more quiet without her around...yet, I don't think she knows how much I miss, nor what I plan on buying for her and sending her for Christmas...

Though...

Lily, when you receive this message, I will send you three songs for a mini-Lily soundtrack (no My Humps, since I don't have it...oh well):

01. David Bowie: Chilly Down
Drive you crazy, really lazy, eye rollin', funky strollin', ball playin'
Hip swayin', trouble makin', booty shakin', tripping, passing, jumping
Bouncing, drivin', stylin', creeping, pouncing, shoutin', screamin'
Double dealin', rockin', rollin', and a reelin'
With the mackin' sex appealin'.
Can you dig our groovy feelin'?


02. Natalie Cole: Orange-Colored Sky
One look and I yelled, " Timber!
Watch out for flying glass!"
‘Cause the ceiling fell in and the bottom fell out,
I went into a spin and I started to shout,
"I’ve been hit! This is it! This is it!"

I was walking along minding my business,
When love came and hit me in the eye...
Flash! Bam! Alakazam!
Out of an orange colored sky.



03. Heiland: Schuld
dich hab ich sosehr geliebt
stahl dein herz sowie ein dieb
nahmst den kelch mit süßem gift
ein stummer schrei malt dein gesicht
durch deine träume jag ich dich



If I think of anything else, I'll have to remember to post it.

Lullaby for a Stormy Night

  • Sep. 18th, 2006 at 10:39 PM







September is officially my unlucky month...so, in tradition of last year, Nicole just disconnected our friendship...for the Bible's James 4:4. I just felt the plunge into depression again, for now I have but a single friend on who accepts me and enjoys my company here at Salve. In comparison to the usual college student, I'd say that's pretty tragic.

But, even though she did that to me...I felt an air of hufflepuff brush up against me...for I know now, and I will stick to this belief: I don't judge people. I don't judge people whether they're gay, straight, bisexual or asexual, whether they're black, white or brown, whether they're a 'good' or 'bad' individual. And on that note, I shall never judge someone because they're not a saved Christian or because they're humble about their religious beliefs or because they're 'of this world'.

All this comes from the girl I know who basically loves everybody. As to what she told me, my dad told me, "That's not what Jesus would do."

I just...I feel horrible right now, even though it wasn't my decision. I can only pray to God that Nicole realizes the errors of her mistakes...especially when it comes to taking the Bible too literally.

I know I'm not a perfect person- I'm not by any standards- but I feel compassion for her and I hope that she finds peace in her pathway to find God.

Yet...my depression is more reinforced now that I've lost another person to believe in here. I knew it was coming the moment I met her- I just didn't expect it to come so suddenly. I just wish...I had something to hope for...
made by <lj user="orcapixels">
LJ Friend O' The Day!

Here's how it works:
1. Reply to this post if you want me to tell you what I think of you.
2. Watch my journal over the next few days for a post just about you and why you affect my life.
3. Post these instructions in your journal and give your friends a much needed dose of love and adoration!
 
Ok, so I tweaked it a little, because I am going to be honest with people- instead of just saying 'OMG YOU ROCK MY SOCKS, LOL!' However, that doesn't mean I'm going to say horrible things...I'll tell you the truth. I shall not be a mirror for once. Feel free to comment at your own expense. <3

...and there will be a real entry when I have enough time (and am not drowning in work).

Aug. 29th, 2006

  • 8:20 AM

Elysium is as far as to
The very nearest room,
If in that room a friend await
Felicity or doom.

What fortitude the soul contains,
That it can so endure
The accent of a coming foot,
The opening of a door.


There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any courser like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the pporest take
Without oppress of toil;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears the human soul!


I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.

He questioned softly why I failed?
"For beauty," I replied.
"And I for truth,-the two are one;
We brethren are," he said.

And so, as kinsmen met at night
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips
And covered up our names.

Emily, I've fallen in love with you again.

MT presents; LJ Theatre

  • Aug. 19th, 2006 at 10:54 PM



When I read this, I laughed really hard...I guess, though, it reminds me so much of this journal, it kind of sounds silly in retrospect. Megatokyo = <33333

I'll do a (somewhat) real entry for myself later.

LET ME BE WITH YOU

  • Aug. 6th, 2006 at 8:39 PM

Try this out, I guess. >_>

<b>1.Your Full Name:</b>
<b>2. Age:</b>
<b>3. Single or Taken:</b>
<b>4. Favorite Movie:</b>
<b>5. Favorite Song:</b>
<b>6. Favorite Band/Rapper/Artist:</b>
<b>7. Dirty or Clean:</b>
<b>8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:</b>

<big><b><u>HERE COMES THE FUN...</u></big></b>

<b>1. Do we know each other outside of LJ-land?</b>
<b>2. Whats your philosophy on life?</b>
<b>3. Would you have my back in a fight?</b>
<b>4. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?</b>
<b>5. What is your favorite memory of us?</b>
<b>6. Would you give me a kidney?</b>
<b>7. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:</b>
<b>8. Would you take care of me when I’m sick?</b>
<b>9. Can we get together and make a cake?</b>
<b>10. Have you heard any rumors about me lately?</b>
<b>11. Do you/have you talk(ed) crap about me?</b>
<b>12. Do you think I’m a good person?</b>
<b>13. Would you drive across country with me?</b>
<b>14. Do you think I’m attractive?</b>
<b>15. If you could change anything about me, would you?</b>
<b>16. What do you wear to sleep?</b>
<b>17. Would you come over for no reason just to hang out?</b>
<b>18. Would you go on a date with me if I asked you?</b>
<b>19. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?</b>
<b>20. Will you post this so I can fill it out for you?</b>

Edit: Thanks for caring.

Still to come:
~LIRA: Two: Our protagonist fulfills his death wish with an old comrade. Yay! XD
~The results of the Fight Test: completed.
~and...a new person is reading this journal: [info]jwtwiggy94, my online twin. Let me warn you in advance: this is an extremely depressing journal.

For Whom Death Tolls

  • Jul. 24th, 2006 at 9:47 PM

Lira: Part One is heading on over to [info]pandorasfugue.

I'm aware that I need a update there. This may help a bit...for now.

Coming soon: If you like angst lapping against your ankles on a moonlight beach, then I hope you look forward to reading LIRA: Part Two. I know at least someone...or something...looks forward to reading it...<3

Now, off to a dreamworld for me...may I not wake up, to spare you all from another filthy lunar mood. I'm good at that, right?

(Click, if you dare... to post your own answers for this meme.)

I miss somebody right now.  (I miss all my friends...) I don't watch much TV these days.  (Yeah...T.V. kind of bores me.) I own lots of books.  (Actually, I'm running out of space on my bookshelf...I am a secondary education/English double major, after all.)
I wear glasses or contact lenses.  (Fourteen years with glasses, going strong.) I love to play video games.  (Sometimes, when it's good...like Final Fantasy X was to die for.) × I've tried marijuana.
× I've watched porn movies.  (Unlike the bulk of my gender...I think it's disgusting.) × I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship. I believe honesty is usually the best policy.  (Even if it hurts...I'd rather hear the truth.)
I curse sometimes.  (On very rare occassions...or I find an alternative.) × I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.  (I'm still depressed...just not suicidal.) × I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.  (o_O;;)
it goes on... )

The melody of a Lorelei...

  • Jan. 4th, 2006 at 11:16 PM

Slow and Steady
Your friends see you as painstaking and fussy. They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder. It'd really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur of the moment. They expect you to examine everything carefully from every angle and then usually decide against it.
one more robot wants to be something more than a machine... )

Nov. 21st, 2005

  • 7:55 PM

Per request, here's a pic of my two friends/acquaintances who live upstairs, Kelly and Katelyn. I have no idea who the guy is. They're both really nice.

the secret life of nice girls... )