Saturday, June 10, 2006

I was going to write a couple things in here over the past week and didn't get around. One was about how I was in a supermarket, talking to a friend over the phone about sex and death among other things, and it felt really jarring, that I was there, but also pretty much right. The supermarket is kind of the perfect environment in which to talk about death making you nervous, because of the demented ordinariness of the supermarket. And, right, that's the crazy thing about death?

So I didn't know how to make that an entry, and it still sounds weird in the not cool way, huh?

Then the other thing, it's easy, alls it was was:
Incredibly, sometimes I forget that a peacock lives at a house on my way to work. Then some morning he'll come out to the street to watch the cars go by.

I have 4 more days at that place, that school.

6 Comments:

At 6/12/2006 11:31 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

You're right about supermarkets being the epitome of ordinary... however, I find them to be almost too mundane. Supermarkets are not places of interaction. One can observe, but that's it. I prefer bars... Dank, smokey bars... where people will talk your ear off, where the whisk(e)y flows, where people at least pretend to have something in common so as to feel less alone...

 
At 6/13/2006 10:46 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

demented ordinariness can describe sex too! in that it's completely ordinary, but also, people make it completely demented. And not in a good sexy demented way, but in a bad let's-perform-female-circumcisions demented way, I mean.

Peacock? with the bright feathers and everything?

 
At 6/13/2006 10:34 PM, Blogger Kristi said...

it's funny, i always kind of think of "sc" as, like, the consonant blend sc...like you just got bored typing your first name.
if we lived near each other and hung out, that would be your new nickname. you'd get real annoyed.

oh, i was gonna say: bars are definitely nicer places to be than supermarkets, yeah, but more suitable to death discomfort? ehhh.... should we feel less alone, in our death discomfort?


cam: true, sex can be demented. it might have been less of a good fit with the supermarket locale than death, BUT DOESN'T IT ALL GO TOGETHER, REALLY. LIFE, SEX, DEATH...
that was my capslock of portentous ridiculous pedantics, WHEEEEEEEE.

and yes, peacock with the feathers. it was all relaxed though, strolling along the street, so its...plume thing, it was at rest. what's the term, like half-mast, but no mast?

i am so retarded.

OH PS, CAM: can i, uh, maybe stay with you for a few days toward the end of july (19ish to 23rdish) when i come for my placement fair/superfastfunheartbreaking apartment-hunting? i should probably have asked you by email so you could perhaps reject me in private, but no matter. i will just stay in a hostel otherwise, showering with showershoes, bunking with foreigners...no biggie.

 
At 6/14/2006 6:54 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Of course you can stay with me! We can make snow angels for two hours, then go ice skating, then eat a whole roll of Tollhouse Cookie dough as fast as we can, and THEN: snuggle (that is a quote from the movie Elf, by the way. Don't be frightened. Yes, I am quoting Will Ferrell Christmas movies at you. Aren't you SO EXCITED to stay with me now???)

But what if I hadn't checked your blogger comments! Then you would think I was silently rejecting you and I wouldn't even know it, and it would be all like . . . I don't know, some movie where someone writes a love letter and it never gets delivered and totally ruins the should-be recipients life FOREVER. I can't think of a real-life example off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are movies like that, probably with Keanu Reeves in them. Anyway. Good thing I'm blog-stalking you, and hence all up on the comment-status! Feel free to email me the details or whatever, whenever. Yay!

 
At 6/14/2006 6:55 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Of course you can stay with me! We can make snow angels for two hours, then go ice skating, then eat a whole roll of Tollhouse Cookie dough as fast as we can, and THEN: snuggle (that is a quote from the movie Elf, by the way. Don't be frightened. Yes, I am quoting Will Ferrell Christmas movies at you. Aren't you SO EXCITED to stay with me now???)

But what if I hadn't checked your blogger comments! Then you would think I was silently rejecting you and I wouldn't even know it, and it would be all like . . . I don't know, some movie where someone writes a love letter and it never gets delivered and totally ruins the should-be recipients life FOREVER. I can't think of a real-life example off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are movies like that, probably with Keanu Reeves in them. Anyway. Good thing I'm blog-stalking you, and hence all up on the comment-status! Feel free to email me the details or whatever, whenever. Yay!

 
At 6/14/2006 6:56 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

(sorry, I guess I was overexcited with the publish comment button)

 

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