Good Thing Popcorn Is My Fav Food

Paper Heart

This looks beyond adorable. I'm sure there will be a backlash like there is with all Michael Cera films, but for the first two months I will love it and still feel original. Plus Demetri Martin is in it!
500 Days of Summer

Oh Zooey, so fucking cute. And the guy from 10 Things I Hate About You (a.k.a best movie ever). Sorta typical rom-com, but a good soundtrack and wardrobe.
Where the Wild Things Are

SO EXCITED! I loved this as a wee one. I want to sew a Max costume to wear as jimjams/ a Halloween costume.
And LOLZ:
"This thing seriously looks scientifically designed to fuck up the hipsters’ shit. Do the math. Spike Jonze + Arcade Fire + Nostalgia + Magic + Monsters + Divorced Moms + Snowballs + Scribble Font + Shouting Off a Cliff."
— Videogum
Away We Go

Yeah, I'm gunna see it.

Summer Reading

1. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer

-Well-written short stories mainly dealing with racial and feminist themes. She is an Iowa Writer's Workshop grad, and thus living my dream. My favorite was the title story about a misanthrope who goes to college, and then another about a young girl who has a coming of age experience (not what you might think) whilst living with a pimp.

2. The Hours by Michael Cunningham

-The gay literary darling from the early 2000's. It was very good and a surprisingly quick read. Nothing really happens but because the narrative switches between three characters you want to keep going.

3. Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara

-LOVE

4. Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

-Oh, you know

5. Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea

-This held my ADD-esque attention very well. It is about a 14 year old's wild night in a trashy Massachusetts town. I love reading about local things, even though I haven't been to Revere much it was fun. The narrator is described as 'gender-blurring' on the cover. But really she is just sarcastic and drinks beer. Oh wait, I guess that'll do it these days.

7. Some Raymond Carver shorts.

8. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

9. My Mistresses' Sparrow Is Dead: Love Stories

10. Self Help by Loorie Moore

11. The Yellow House

12. Wetlands by Charlotte Roche

sleep.sleep.sleep

I sleep with books in my bed. 

Wordy

My Neighbor

my neighbor wants to teach me

how to defend myself against

meteors, floods and hyperspace activity.

maybe he can sense how susceptible I am

to all of these things

and more.

 

I turn my head

as I walk down our street,

cast in lamp-light and too-few stars,

to tell him I have no money.

 

            how much did you pay to be born?

he calls after me. I couldn’t say.

            ZERO

he shouts.

           

            yet look at how much you got for nothing:

                        eyes, ears, heart, lungs, feet and voice.

            you have so much!

            so what can you spare?

 

I find a dollar in my pocket and give it to him.

he bends down and picks up a pebble

off of the sidewalk we are standing on.

 

he cradles it in his old, old hands

and whispers to it

as if he didn't want to wake it.

he presses the pebble into my palm

and says

            NOW, you are safe.