Monday, October 25, 2010
I am currently in Hong Kong because I'm not allowed in Taiwan all the time like Kyla is because they don't like me as much because I am a jobless bum. I don't have the wires that let me show you images but if I had them I would show you a video of several fish gutted alive, beating bleeding hearts exposed, on ice at a day market.
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imagining it is just as fun.
ReplyDeletehong kong is sparkly, isnt it? do you like it?
Yeah it's nuts. The air is not as clean as Taichung. I feel dizzy all the time and people walk fast and I keep almost getting run over by trolleys. I like it, I think. My friend lives here and it's nice to see him and it's nice to not have to know what's going and let him do that for me. Except he's usually at work and so I wander around without knowing what's going on and then sit in coffee shops trying to write personal statements about why I want to be a writer without knowing what's going on in Hong Kong, which doesn't end up working, so I get up feeling even dizzier from the coffee and walk up into these streams of people and get lost and hear some kind of music and see people with weird purplish afflictions on their face or something, and then think I should drink some water and do that.
ReplyDeleteps i haven't forgotten to send you my novel manuscript, it's just that it keeps changing drastically, i believe i may have been writing "into?" this for the past six months and am only recently figuring it out, and I kind of want to just go with that until it starts to stay still a little bit at which point I will seek criticism, which needs to be soon since I am applying to grad school soon, but maybe won't happen soon, which I'm not hoping for.
hahaha its clear from this comment that you've been writing yourself into cyclical insanity.
ReplyDeletehong kong is a dizzy place.....try to hike to the top of that mountain/hill thing. you can escape the smog a bit.
hmmm...can't think of two many things you can do there besides shop and be overwhelmed....and I think you've got the overwhelmed thing covered and you're not much of a shopper.
what is this purple thing you speak of??? I have no recollection of it.
anyway,
as soon as you are at the criticism point...im happy to help.
im about finished with my thesis book of poetry and am polishing it up in the next few days to send out to writing comps.
then the ars poetica paper (which will probably end up being like 50 pages??)
and Im also trying to make a CD of the lyrical poems as a sort of mini easy to listen to book of poems. a cute boy is helping me put it into music!!!!
i'll send you guys a copy of the cd if/when I make it
and hopefully i'll get published...but who knows.
do you have any reading suggestions for my thesis independent study block?!
I would really recommend Thalia Field's Bird Lovers, Backyards. It is the best book I've read in a while.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it's not poetry, but I feel like you would really enjoy this book of stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya called There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby.
If the CC library doesn't have them you should order them off amazon. They really are worth reading.
What have you been reading?
Oh yeah and good luck with that crazy list of things to accomplish.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah and I don't know what the purple thing was. I saw it once. It was on a face.
ReplyDeleteoooooo There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby sounds totally up my alley, ali.
ReplyDeletehaha
I've been reading Heidegger's essays lately...building, dwelling....poetically man dwells and the origin of art
and i've been reading this collection of what is called "gurlesque" poetry...
gurlesque= hyperbolically performing cuteness and sexualization and femininity in order to expose its dark macabre underbelly...identity deconstruction...etc