Monthly Archives: November 2003

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Beethoven – ‘Moonlight’ piano sonata

The last few days have been a physical as well as emotional rollercoaster. All those days of staying up to obscenely late hours of the night, drinking case after case of diet coke on an empty stomach–it’s all catching up to me now. My dad woke me up really early in the morning (eleven, but still, I’d been stayin up till 9AM) and we went to the store. Couldn’t eat, had an upset stomach all day. I’ve been so tired today, I went to stick a CD in my scanner. I’m catatonic. Watched the Upright Citizens Brigade episodes with the audio commentary, those actors are so funny, they kept talking about Comedy Central forcing them be drug mules, and all this great stuff. I can’t wait until they release the second season. The Doom Generation is in my bag, I’m bringing it for Molly. She fixed her DVD player. I was thinking of bringing Crash too, but the book is much better than the movie. My aunt, cousin, and Taggart lost my copy of Crash. I have to mention them all individually because it’s now gone, and they all read it/tried to read it, so I must distribute the culpability equally. Taggart was the only one that finished it, we could philosophize while we watched the movie version of it. He came to the same conclusion as I did, that the car-crash is a metaphor for sex. However, the book is much too complex to put into one sentence. There are so many sub-plots and themes. Anyway, I should stop raving about Crash and talk about my failed love affair. Well, not so much love affair as lust affair. I’m like, completely over the whole situation now, but last night I was freaking out. Basically when he came over (on Friday) we watched movies and he pretended nothing happened. We talked a lot (well, with Kelly there). We ended up pulling out the couch after watching the screen saver on Kelly’s DVD player (the screensaver is my new god, we all agreed it would be our god while watching it for two hours). I’m going to paint the DVD Player screensaver on my new canvas and title it God Is In The TV. I’m going to give it to Kelly for Christmas. But anyway, after we pulled out the couch and were laying on it, Taggart’s hands started to rove. Kelly went to get something from the bathroom and I kind of touched his hand and said “so what did night before last mean?” and he said “inevitability.” It was a ‘I cannot fuck you now’ answer, but yea. The enigma of the universe. My cousin just signed in–perhaps she’ll enlighten me on something, hmm. Nope, she’s not talking. But anyway, I was kind of paralyzed with emotion after that, it got worse as the night wore on. I wanted to like, cuddle with him, but I would have felt horribly rejected if he like, pushed me away. It happened to me before when I wasn’t expecting it (a rejection of that sort [it was Justin, for you who used to go to Del Norte High]) so I have one of those conditioned fear responses. I was so conflicted and tired buy the time I left (the next morning, we stayed up all night) that I had no idea what was going on. I learned later that Taggart got kicked out of his house for staying at Kelly’s so long, and I was the reason he stayed. It was kind of an ego boost, but then I realized that he could have only wanted another orgasm. I slept most of the way back, but I woke up about an hour before we got home and wrote some stuff down in my sketch pad. I wrote a list of the best ways to die (The Doom Generation and Crash have this theme about simultaneous death). Number one was a nuclear bomb blast. I really want to die in a nuclear bomb blast. That would be so cool. But yea, another thing I wrote was this list of contradictions. I’m going to list them:

I want fidelity from a partner but I’m a whore
I want affection but I’m afraid to give it
I want perfection from a partner, but I’m not perfect
How can one have love at first sight without lust at first sight?
I think Mr. Right is actually just a copy of me
I want to love another but can’t love myself.

[then i scribbled in huge letters]

FUCK INEVITABILITY

[in smaller letters underneath]

fuck taggart fuck AIDS fuck love
we’re all going to die anyway

Kelly was really great last night though, she talked with me for hours and I felt SO MUCH BETTER. It was like, the invention of the uncertainty principle, or hopefully the release of Nowhere on DVD. So now I’m kind of in this sleepy haze, at uneazy zen with what happened. Another factor in the whole Taggart thing is that he has a girlfriend. Kelly and I call her Linkin Park Frenchie, I don’t know why, Kelly came up with it, but yea. Taggart has dated some REALLY lame girls (exhibit A: KATIE!!!! [the embodiment of lameness]), so I feel like this is no exception. Kelly and I think that he really likes guys more than girls, and from what he’s told me and the vibes I get, I think it’s true. I don’t think he’s ready to have an open homosexual relationship though. Even if we were going to go out, I don’t think it would last very long. And it can’t happen at all, because he lives in Sacramento. However, Kelly and I agree that he just isn’t the kind of a person for long-term commitment. Although I guess we shouldn’t judge him.

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> Garbage – The Trick Is To Keep Breathing (great song)
> Sheryl Crow – If It Makes You Happy
> Basement Jaxx – Where’s Your Head At?
> Garbage – Cherry Lips
> Red Hot Chili Peppers – Give It Away
> Nine Inch Nails – Deep

I’ve been meditating on a lot of things lately, and one of them is my blog. I think that it’s not healthy to be this open. I think that the characteristic of a journal to be not read by anyone other than myself. I realized that before, my goal was to be as open as possible, but I realize that the struggle towards self-awareness must take precedent over social awareness. I haven’t decided what I’m going to do yet, but I think that this blog’s days are numbered. I felt SO depressed last night, but my internet wasn’t working. I can’t send Molly e-mails! I keep getting “mail cannot be delivered” errors. Evil. Well, I should talk about everything from my last post to this post. I last posted when me, Taggart, and Kelly were watching SLC Punk. I was–hmm–what’s the word–. Something like yearning, praying, lusting, aching–for Taggart’s affection, but I had to play it cool. We finished SLC Punk, and Taggart went out to smoke. He chain smokes, which I am still trying to decide whether is cool or not. It’s funny, he has this shirt he made that says “smoking makes me cool!” which is glorious. Oh, that reminds me of something. My cousin Kelly made these stickers on stickerjunkie that say “it’s not cool to love Jesus.” She gave me like ten and I’ve been putting them on everything. There’s one on the top of my monitor, on my briefcase, and I’m gonna try to get one to stick on my new sachel. Well anyway, back to the setting of my last post. We enticed him to watch In The Mouth Of Madness, me and Kelly’s cult classic. He laughed at our perfect quotation of lines, and stuff like that. He didn’t really like it (he just can’t appreciate its perfection). Oh Jesus, this is going to take forever to type out. I need speech-to-text software. Must finish later, I’m making copies of the music video CDs I got back from Kelly. Call me for the rest if the knowledge of every nuance of my life is essential to your survial.

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Hey my loyal readers, Taggart is over and we’re watching SLC Punk, Taggart’s never seen it. I’ve seen it a million times. Profoundly bored. I’m really sickened with reality, I feel like I’m an unwilling actor in a play, and the script is already written. The play that is my romantic life. I can tell that it’s going to take like six months to stop thinking about him. All that time of moping for one sex act? If I could remove my sex drive, I would in a second. I need a therapist. Like that’s going to help. Everything I do just follows the same pattern. Sex, then rejection. Sex, then rejection. I don’t think I can take it anymore. I’m so afraid of rejection I can’t even sit on the couch with him. Depressing. And he’s pretty much a total stranger. I wonder if I’ll ever get out of this cycle.

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Throbbing purple meat scepter. Just thought I’d throw that in, it’s a line from The Doom Generation

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Correction: I want Taggart to love me. But he’s like, a stranger. I can only love strangers.

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I want to fuck Taggart again.

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Renamed Royce to Isabou, we let her go, went to see my grandpa and his wife Marian, they were okay they didn’t try to convert me. I kind of like them. Depressed about the Taggart incident. I want him to love me. I want someone to love me. Is that so wrong? But god–yea. Got Upright Citizens Brigade on DVD and my mom’s b-day present that she won’t appreciate. I hate her. I’m talking to this guy on the internet who is kinda cool. He’s boring me, I want to ask him how big his penis is so he’ll stop talking to me. He’s being really vague. I think he’s a simulation too. I have this new theory that there are some people are simulations of real people. It’s Beaudrillardian. Must get my clammy hands on that book. I would be Molly’s eternal layout slave if she bought it for me. That sounds a little too sexual for print–oh well–too lazy to delete it. That guy is really stupid, he’s a virgin. I lost my virginity at fifteen, I’m a whore. And I’ve never had a boyfriend. How depressing. We’re watching Event Horizon now.

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> Nine Inch Nails – Heresy

Kelly and I are playing with Royce (our praying mantis). I found out they only live for like six months! We’re going to catch flies for Royce to eat. I’m kinda bored. Talked to Christine and Danielle, they are hanging out ALL THE TIME. I wonder how long it’s going to take before they get sick of each other. She thought it was rude when I asked her if they’d gotten sick of each other. They’ve only been hanging out for like five days. After a few weeks it’ll get waaay to montonous.

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> Nine Inch Nails – Complication
> Nine Inch Nails – Ripe (With Decay)

So anyway, today was weird, woke up after falling asleep watching In The Mouth Of Madness, woke up at like one in the afternoon, we got ready to go to my grandma’s house. We had to eat dinner like, early, cuz my cousin Michael had to go to work. I really didn’t eat much, I haven’t eaten much since we got drunk on Monday–I was nauseous for like three days so I only ate like a bird–and my stomach is really small. I should market it, the vodka diet. I could barely eat any turkey or anything. Well we fucked around with the hammock for a while and Kelly found this praying mantis, I named him Royce after this cool dude that used to live near me. Oh yeah! I’ve got to find out what they eat. We played this inexorably complicated game of tile rummy, then I got all my stuff together and me, Kelly, and Jared went back to Kelly’s house. We’ve been watching SLC Punk and I’ve been blogging. I’m not looking forward to tomorrow, I have to miss out on Taggart time to be with my stupid grandpa and grandma who keep trying to convert me. I’m really tempted to tell them to fuck off next time they ask me what Jesus wants in my life.

“Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.”
–Plato

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> Watching SLC Punk
> Nine Inch Nails – Just Like You Imagined
> Nine Inch Nails – Even Deeper
> Nine Inch Nails – Into the Void
> Nine Inch Nails – Please
> Nine Inch Nails – Starfuckers

Well, Taggart came over, and we started watching The Doom Generation (me and Kelly’s favorite movie EVER). Anyway, Taggart was sitting on the couch, but somehow somebody moved and I moved to the recliner, and Taggart sat down on the the beanbag chair in front of me. He laid his head down on my lap, and was kind of touching my leg. Immediately, I thought: we’re going to end up having sex. Unless you’ve read every post I’ve ever posted since I started this thing, this requires some explanation. I first met Taggart like, years ago. He was so magnificently beautiful–but he was on a blind date with this chick Lacey, it was disappointing. He is now going out with this lame chick that supposedly looks like a boy. But I’d heard for like ever from Kelly that Taggart thought I was hot. So anyway, fast-forward to last night. He kept repositioning his head in my lap, more than would be normal. We finished The Doom Generation and moved on to Crash. We made eye contact, and he eventually got up and sat in the recliner with me, and we kind of cuddled for a while. I don’t want to turn this into a porn story, but we had an interesting experience, and I really like him. I don’t know exactly what it means, but I’ll find out next time I see him. If he puts his arm around me or stands close or something, I’ll know it wasn’t just the acting out of a fantasy, but (being the cynic I am) he probably won’t acknowedge my existence. That would be so cool if we went out, I’ve never had a relationship that wasn’t sado-masochistic. It would be a pleasant experiment in normalcy. Afterwards, we went outside, he smoked a cigarette, I drank a diet coke, and we talked for a while. He told me that he’d waited for that moment for like, three years. I’m not sure whether he was just saying that, but it ws supposedly the best (or one of the best, I don’t remember) orgasms he’d ever had. I think he’s gay, not bi, he chooses the ugliest and lamest girls ever to go out with. He went to Merced today, he’s supposed to be back on Friday. I must stop thinking about him or I’m going to be disappointed. I must not idealize him. And he has a girlfriend, but he had no remorse. I think she’s as lame as Katie. He had to leave at two, which was pretty much after we finished talking outside. I have to see my Grandpa tomorrow, he’s coming down from Placerville. I really don’t want to. I kinda want to say something like, “oh gosh I’ve got to get fucked up the ass by my boyfriend” and leave. But they did send me some birthday money, I should donate some time to them. Eh, fuck altruism.