03 Sep 06
Originally posted by rbmorrisUnbelievable! I read that just a couple of months ago. Good book, absolutely nothing like ANY of the movies!!
Dracula. Never read it in high school or college. Got the urge to pick it up recently.
I'm currently reading Nick Caves 'The ass saw the Angel.' Bought it cos i was curious to see if a singer could write a book and i have to say he has an impressive grasp of language. It's no classic but it's entertaining enough... 🙂
03 Sep 06
Originally posted by MarinkatombNick Cave also wrote the movie The Proposition. It is very good.
Unbelievable! I read that just a couple of months ago. Good book, absolutely nothing like ANY of the movies!!
I'm currently reading Nick Caves 'The ass saw the Angel.' Bought it cos i was curious to see if a singer could write a book and i have to say he has an impressive grasp of language. It's no classic but it's entertaining enough... 🙂
Im reading Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. Awesome book. I met him one day and he told me he had a book he had written. So i went out and bought it and it is amazing.
03 Sep 06
Originally posted by rbmorrisDang! I know that quote!!! My first thought was Catch-22 or One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Next, but I can't remember if either of them were writtin in first person. That's going to drive me nuts now.
Ok, reader...can you tell me what my profile quote is from? No googling. 😉
03 Sep 06
Originally posted by MarinkatombThat's funny. I've been wanting to read that Nick Cave book too!
Unbelievable! I read that just a couple of months ago. Good book, absolutely nothing like ANY of the movies!!
I'm currently reading Nick Caves 'The ass saw the Angel.' Bought it cos i was curious to see if a singer could write a book and i have to say he has an impressive grasp of language. It's no classic but it's entertaining enough... 🙂
03 Sep 06
Originally posted by wormwoodWhatever Happened?
"There was a man
Who made a boat
To sail away
And it sank."
ah!
At once whatever happened starts receding.
Panting, and back on board, we line the rail
With trousers ripped, light wallets, and lips bleeding.
Yes, gone, thank God! Remembering each detail
We toss for half the night, but find next day
All's kodak-distant. Easily, then (though pale),
'Perspective brings significance,' we say,
Unhooding our photometers, and, snap!
What can't be printed can be thrown away.
Later, it's just a latitude: the map
Points out how unavoidable it was:
'Such coastal bedding always means mishap.'
Curses? The dark? Struggling? Where's the source
Of these yarns now (except in nightmares, of course)?
Philip Larkin, 1953
03 Sep 06
Originally posted by Bowmannwashed-up, on shore, the old yellow notebook
A poem...
...about ME! 😀
out again
I write from the bed
as I did last
year.
will see the doctor,
Monday.
"yes, doctor, weak legs, vertigo, head-
aches and my back
hurts."
"are you drinking?" he will ask.
"are you getting your
exercise, your
vitamins?"
I think that I am just ill
with life, the same stale yet
fluctuating
factors.
even at the track
I watch the horses run by
and it seems
meaningless.
I leave early after buying tickets on the
remaining races.
"taking off?" asks the motel
clerk.
"yes, it's boring,"
I tell him.
"If you think it's boring
out there," he tells me, "you oughta be
back here."
so here I am
propped up against my pillows
again
just an old guy
just an old writer
with a yellow
notebook.
something is
walking across the
floor
toward
me.
oh, it's just
my cat
this
time.
was that it?