28.1.09

my seoul has two parts.



friday night fly-out,
mixed emotions.
yyz,lax,icn
and
twenty
three
hours.
new faces
new places
same
me.

26.1.09

today's special


robert rauschenberg (american 1925-2008)
rebus
1955

13.1.09

(af/ef/in)fect

can a person readily be affected by
time, place, the company they keep..
lighting, blood sugar, a good night's sleep...
synapses
chemicals
diet
circulation
the moon
breakfast
lack of breakfast
wall colour
climate
aromatherapy
undergarments
exercise
precious metals
love
lack of love
hydration
music
digestion
dreams?

or are these just my excuses?

10.1.09

andre jordan knows me.

i found these words by andre jordan:



and then i found this...
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Possibility Girl
Everyone thinks Possibility Girl is possibly a genius. Any day now, they continually agree, Possibility Girl will make it big. Become a star. ‘You won’t forget us when you're famous, will you?’ they always say, as Possibility Girl begins yet another amazing project.

The only person, who doesn’t believe in Possibility Girl's possible genius, is Possibility Girl herself. She thinks they're being too kind. She isn’t gifted at all. She’s a fake genius, bluffing her way through life. She is convinced the moment she tries to actually achieve her full potential, she will fail, fall flat on her face, and the people that once admired her from afar, will admire her no more. And so Possibility Girl never actually achieves anything. She just sits on the edge of her possible glory and basks in the adulation of her potential.
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uh oh...


and lastly, this:


i like him.
maybe you would like him too.
www.abeautifulrevolution.com

crossroads

and i don't mean bone thugs, or britney. i might call it quarter-life crisis territory if i hadn't used that one last year...and the year before...and the year before that.
when is "quarter life" anyway? 25 seems like a nice clean quarter, one fourth of a hundred - but i'm not trying to kid myself into believing i'll live that long. i sure hope not anyway. unless i'm one of those crazy energetic hundred year-olds who still gets around fine, has control of their bladder, and does tai chi...
but i guess actual quarter life is more around the 18 year mark, right? don't they say 72 is the average life...span? 18. wow. and that would make 36 mid-life.
maybe i'll just start looking at sports cars now...
anyway, i'm not in too much of a crisis, just at a point where some pretty weighty decisions have to be made. and i don't think i'm alone. those with me in this mid-to-late 20s boat (who aren't professionals, or engaged, or married, or a parent, or a homeowner - and maybe some who are one or all of the above) will know what i'm talking about when i say it feels like we've just tipped over the time-to-get-serious waterfall.
so what do we do?
buckle down and steady ourselves for the plunge?
jump ship and freefall and hope for the best?
i'm not sure there's a right way to be doing things at the moment...
it's paralyzing
or liberating...
depending on the day.

7.1.09

4.1.09

enunciate.


The habits of life form the soul,
and the soul forms the countenance.
-Balzac