Newish Blogs

You Were Loved is a Tumblr blog that celebrates celebrities from the yesteryear. It's updated infrequently, so add it to your Google Reader to check for updates.

Dysfunctional Beginnings is a new blog by Jessica Lipman that allows you to post your own stories about dysfunctional upbringings. It's a very new blog, so get your submissions in before it blows the fuck up. Here's the contact page for more information.

Broken Windows

I am appreciative that you have semi-nice teeth. They do not belong to me anymore, but that does not mean that I cannot marvel at them. While we're on the subject, I'm also very appreciative that you have semi-nice skin too.

I remember once someone said that you looked like a Russian doll made of porcelain; I agree, but I am not a fan of porcelain. It cracks far too easy and I couldn't imagine falling in love with a face that needed to be handled with such delicate care.

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I'm going to be taking a break for a little while to work on other projects. Thanks for reading.

Burkett St. Conversations

"Have you seen the way he fucking looks at you?"

"Ughh...it's fucking gross."

"Is he retarded?"

"No, I think it's like Autism or something."

"Yeah, that's it. Autism."

"What are we doing tonight?"

"I don't know but if I run into that retard, I'm going to fuck his brains out, and not call him the next day."

"You're great."

"I know."

Be Good to Your Neighbor(s)

Keep in mind how beautiful it is outside. Although it may rain today (it might even snow in about a day or two) this is all temporary. Spring is coming sooner than you think and it'll be time to skate, date and procreate. There will be trips and bike rides, bars and swimming pools (maybe). There's so much to be psyched about, so much to be hopeful for. Enjoy the misery that is winter for now, because I assure you it all be over rather quickly and you'll soon long for the days when you wanted to stay in bed for fear that you may never dig your car out of the snow or cuddle just one hour longer. Au Revoir winter. Adios my friend.

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If you missed my appearance on Jon Dugan's The Big Surprise last week, here's the podcast.

Also be sure to listen to Mr. Dugan's show at 6pm on:

http://hearnewbrunwick.com/group/thebigsurprise

Bed Times, Car Accidents, and Aunt Patty the Lesbian-(Where the Wild Things Are)

As an adult you read to me like a child. I didn't understand the language. I didn't understand the culture of rebellion: Why on Earth would a young boy run away from a hot meal? Why would he surround himself with monsters? Most importantly why would you always read this to me before we slept together? I do not consider literature--even children's literature--as a proper aphrodisiac, so why this book? Why even this movie?

New Series-At The Movies

I save everything: scraps of paper, old pictures, vhs tapes--I mean everything. This series is specifically about collecting movie stubs. It will be updated daily and it should be just like going to the movies. Check back tomorrow for more.

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Download this demo by Weed Diamond from the Chocolate Bobka. It's crazy good.

http://www.mediafire.com/?xgojknmoym5

Weekend Reading List

Pick-up these articles of rad so you could have a sick weekend--I know I will.





1. Addressse Unknown- Author Unknown -csothbeg144.wordpress.com

2. Forgotten Grin- Marissa Paternoster - forgottengrin.blogspot.com

3. Carne Asada-Naqeeb Stevens/ John Sullivan - anqbs.tumblr.com

P.S. We're going to be on Hear New Brunswick this Thursday, so if you're interested in everything that's cool, please give it a listen, we'll make you laugh--I swear.

Mixtape: "+2" by Naqeeb Stevens

1. "Swim" - Surfer Blood

2. "Red Ford Radio" - U.S. Girls

3. "For Ex-Lovers Only" - Black Tambourine

4. "Exhibit C" - Jay Electronica

5. "Save Da Trap" - Yo Gotti

6. "Lifted" - Lemonade

7. '81 - Joanna Newsome

8. "Metal On Your Skin" - Emily Reo

9. "Teenage Whore" - Dinosaur Feathers

10. "Janko" - Currency

Download "+2" Here:

http://www.zshare.net/download/72823259c11d799a/

or visit Naqeeb's Tumblr:

http://www.anqbs.tumblr.com

Guest Blog-Alan Cano

She always came to see me. Each time she arrived she complained about how I never make the trek to see her. It was pretty unfair but she was right. One weekend I said "fuck it" and told her I would go where ever she wanted me to go. She had a beach house in Margate. I havent been that far down the shore in 11 years. I owed it to her out of guilt and because it would result in sex.

The houses floated in a bay. Probably the coolest house I've ever been in. Pigeons were replaced with seagulls and grass extended out where cement would be. It was pretty cold that day considering it was spring. I have never been in a house like that. I didn't even know they had houses like that. You have to take your time when youre in that house. When you move it moves. if you drop something when you're outside, it's gone.

It didn't have a basement, but the roof made up for it. The patio chairs weren't set up that day, but you could put a towel down and just lay on it. I didn't. I don't need anymore color, but you could if you wanted to. I brought my camera. I didn't know anything about taking photos at that time, so I just pointed and shot. Had I known then what I know now, I'm pretty sure I would have made multiple masterpieces, my portfolio would have been sick and I could have had an awesome show in the New Museum. Maybe that's wishful thinking, but you can do an entire series of photos standing on that roof. It was magical.

I'll never go back there. I can't. She left me half-way through the summer, and rightfully so. She would come up to me all the time, and I never made the time to go down to where she was. Our relationship wasn't the longest one, but I'll always remember that weekend I went down to her floating home and hung out with her on the roof.

Valentimes

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P.S. Go pick up a copy of Butter Loverz Magazine Issue 2.

It's super rad and super cheap. Click the link on how to get your hands on an issue:

http://butterloverz.wordpress.com/

Mars

It's snowing outside. Let's build a snowman together.

Bear

It may be true that we share this life, but I never expected to share each other's nightmares too. Somewhere in the middle of the night, I'd pass my fears of failure to you while you were asleep. I wonder if it was the way we slept? Perhaps our brains were too close to one another, perhaps we were too involved with one another to realize that we were not entirely fit to be adults. We were playing house--acting as if we were fit to play the role of a grown-up; throwing keys, and spending money on things we couldn't afford.

There was some sort of fabric that kept us together, but I can't exactly call it love, maybe it's called dependency. It held long enough for us to realize that just because our bodies were designed for each other, perhaps our minds were not the ones fit for living this kind of life.

Bunny Ears

You've got quite set on you. Everyone knows this, everyone wants specifically this from you. I don't. I'd rather talk about the weather or how to get rid of stains or spots.

And no I've never imagined spending a life with you. I couldn't imagine disappearing with you either. That's a dull life anyway. I want to dress up and dance. I would rather this than anything else.

Pick five of your favorite records, I'll pick my own. I have a few in mind. I won't tell you them now.

And when we decide which gets played first, your's or mine, I want to forget everyone else and lose my shit with you.

Be Still Cody

This is really a day's game. It's like growing a beard. You have to take it one day at a time, otherwise you'll start thinking too far ahead and planning your beard's future. After a few days of this kind of thinking, you'll end up cutting it off. Then you'll regret it everyday afterward.

Take it as it comes.

Laura Loves Rocky

The girl across from me is eating from a bag of sunflower seeds. The way she eats them creates this rhythm: the sound of her hand entering the plastic bag; then the sound her lips make as she separates the shell from the nut. There's also the occasional crack from when her teeth break apart the shell, and of course, the sound her larynx makes as she swallows it.

It all sounds long and laborious, but it happens very quick and very succinctly, as if she were a symphony.

16/2

When we went to the zoo I didn't expect him to try and kiss me. I certainly didn't expect him to take his dick out either. I asked him about his moustache in front of the sea lion tank. We talked a bit about experimental facial hair and how it looks good on boys, then he did it.

He asked me to show him what was beneath my Levi's. I did and as soon as I pulled it out, his tongue was in my mouth. I guess this was a first date.

Ruffled Feathers

Please say those magic words to me,

I wish you were never inside me.

Say them again and with some sting this time.

I regret the day you entered me. I regret our time together.

One more time so that I know that I'm alive.

I'm learning to forget you all over again.

Short Story Sessions

It would have been okay if we had just finished that bottle of wine and said goodbye, but I insisted we dance to the Clash. I wanted it to look like that scene where Mark Ruffalo and Kirsten Dunst dance in their underwear, but I barely made it past her bedroom.

For Jordan

Checklist for Jordan's Seventh Birthday

-Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days

-A smoking jacket

-A Dictionary

-3 Plays by Ibsen

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I know not to trust a wandering umbrella salesman. I know this because I've read The Umbrella Man. I also know not start a grudge with a white whale. And I know not to bargain with suspicious dwarves whose names rhyme with MumpleBiltklin.

If all goes according to plan, Jordan will come to the same logical conclusions. I just hope he doesn't change his name to 'Glass' and decide to start soaking in the tub for days on end. That would be a shame.