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If you don't get this within two or three days, I'll very quickly message you on FB. I somehow lost the password of your diary and you're one of the few whom I read every time I sign in here.

from atwowaydream :

And cooo-pin makes me want to resurrect Mr. Dahmer and finish the zombie apocalypse. Without the love and attachment part or particular religious zeal while incarcerated.

from atwowaydream :

LOVED your latest entry! "a paradise whose skies are the color of hell flame, every now and again, when the winds kick up, and it's fire season in L.A." you have this soft, limber and somehow intense way of wording things, and I'm so glad you're still updating. Love you, my dahling friend. (and thank you.)

from raven72d :

I am in a mood for memories...

from raven72d :

I'm ordering Joico Daily Care and Kevin.Murphy shampoos and conditioner. Those are supposed to be good.

from atwowaydream :

I'm going to email you back soon, my darling Matryoshka doll. Thank you so much for being one hell of a friend. <insert The Smiths Snuggie meme here>

from atwowaydream :

I meant to ask you about your last few entries, but didn't want to seem intrusive. Feel free to email or message me anytime, love. I've locked my diary, but you know you're always welcome.

from raven72d :

I love that you're learning Russian.

from raven72d :

I love ships' registries...and I love the idea of ships.

from gonzoprophet :

thanks, and likewise.

from atwowaydream :

"the keys of his typewriter and keyboard are lodged in my heart." - This is so lovely. As someone who has known you for years, you do have one of the most intense and angelic souls I have ever come across - of course you chase the tails of demons, just like the rest of us, but you're right. . . at the heart of it all, you are a lover of humanity. And the people you hold close to your heart.

from atwowaydream :

Bwahaha. I adore you.

from raven72d :

I have my doubts about the ergot theory...

from atwowaydream :

I received your Warhol postcard with your little and (quite lovely) Alice tea-time drawing! Thank you so much, Constance - you certainly made my morning that much brighter. I'm still planning our Marie-Antoinette head-roll cakes and guillotine party favors.

from atwowaydream :

hugs to you always, love. Always. But you already know that, daahling.

from dangerspouse :

Hey hey, thank you very much for stopping by my place to answer my question! I'm glad you managed to sidestep what would have been a poor choice in attending Antioch. Woo hoo for soon getting that BA at an accredited institution! I'm very happy to hear that. All the best to you now going forward :)

from raven72d :

DiaryLand has been a good place to be since the Year Two. I'm glad to be here, and glad you're back.

from atwowaydream :

Yes, I still adore the fuck out of you and your starlit starlet dreams.

from raven72d :

06 February 16--- glad to have you back here. Love the entry.

from dangerspouse :

Did you end up getting into Antioch?

from raven72d :

25 january 16--- come write here as well as at LJ!

from raven72d :

I always love the things you write.

from raven72d :

12 Sept. 13--- "pale fictions": love it.

from raven72d :

I'll be reading you for many more years.

from stardumb :

thank you. appreciated. stop by.

from raven72d :

I always like your poetry.

from raven72d :

update, darling!

from raven72d :

"...just someone you used to touch": I love that line.

from raven72d :

Keep writing poetry. Always.

from raven72d :

Anytime, darling.

from raven72d :

"Regret" = lovely poem.

from raven72d :

I'll always be there, girl.

from raven72d :

I won't be leaving, girl. Count on that.

from raven72d :

Frances Bean using a riding whip on Kylie Jenner... I like that image.

from raven72d :

I so wish Amanda was having an affair with Cat Marnell!

from atwowaydream :

melancholia was one of those films that haunted for days. Maybe threading through the weeks, i can never tell. but yes, is any of this worth anything? sometimes i say yes, GO, but sometimes i don't think of my life ending in any other way except an apocalypse.

from girl101 :

"I know no other way then to suck the marrow from your bones and grin like a wolf." this is perfect. so glad to have found you.

from raven72d :

deram of futures and travels, and of stars strewn through the sky like drops of blood and wine.

from raven72d :

bells in a winter sky--- i love that.

from atwowaydream :

only violent and delicious souls are worth knowing. Tori taught me that.

from raven72d :

Time always dances around us like a mocking ghost. But I'll be there for you.

from raven72d :

Any time, darling.

from atwowaydream :

thank you, love. i've been so disconnected lately, but like you, i always plan to dust my shoulders off and get back up.

from atwowaydream :

"like your eyes that fabled spring" this poem felt like france and tiny marie antoinette pink and baby blue bon-bons.

from raven72d :

And you are the heroine is so many scenes.

from raven72d :

I'd love to join you.

from atwowaydream :

Thank you, love. It was only a halfhearted attempt at a poem and then kind of just turned into a joke, but it has reawakened by faith in poetry.

from raven72d :

Loved "Missed Connection".

from raven72d :

thank you.

from atwowaydream :

"our breath there on my lips like a warm dash of wind fragrant with possibility." - So lovely.

from atwowaydream :

"nothing seems quite so bright as your face when I held it in my hands and brought your mouth down like the moon." I could just quote the entire piece. Very beautifully written.

from rhetoric :

i really dig "kiss me in paris."

from atwowaydream :

always, always, you and I are both Anne and Sylvia.

from raven72d :

Excellent!

from raven72d :

Love the Anne Sexton idea!

from atwowaydream :

Your last note really means the world to me. I'm new at actually trying to write short fiction erotica, so I'm still trying to find my voice in it. Your note really, really made me smile. Thank you, dahlia.

from raven72d :

I love the 19 Feb. 13 entry.

from atwowaydream :

Aw, C, you always make me smile. The only real poets are the fucked up drunken drug-fueled ones.

from raven72d :

Well, I have changed my name and biography to impress girls...

from atwowaydream :

You can truly appreciate woman's form, whether or not that translates to desire. I'm more referring to girls who *specifically* make out with girls for the attention of guys. It just grosses me out to know someone will go so far as to mimic changing their sexuality for the approval of someone else.

from raven72d :

Like Stratford-on-Avon or White-On-Rice.

from atwowaydream :

aw, my darling dahlia, your note was exactly what I needed. btw: I've read all of your poems and I love them. . . you really are one of my favorite writers on here.

from raven72d :

Let's hope the Year Thirteen goes better.

from atwowaydream :

Have missed your posts. You are always so elegant in the most phantom of ways.

from raven72d :

yours is to be cherished, girl.

from raven72d :

hearts are always there to be cherished.

from raven72d :

afraid of dragonflies?

from raven72d :

I am so imagining EVP erotica.

from raven72d :

you mean so much to me, too.

from raven72d :

i'll always be there for you.

from raven72d :

no, darling! not at all! i have no idea what happened at LJ, but I think I've fixed it.

from raven72d :

we both need to give her good advice.

from raven72d :

minimalism and silence... yes.

from raven72d :

yes! I will bring the stufflings to have tea with the little duck decoy!

from atwowaydream :

Eep. (thank you very much.)

from raven72d :

wuff! your kindness always matters a lot... and i like lovely co-eds with cigarettes...

from raven72d :

Love the 13 July 11 entry.

from raven72d :

hand-holding...yes... small touches on fingertips and wrists... very much so.

from atwowaydream :

Must agree. Lovely entry, as always.

from raven72d :

13 July 11--- beautiful entry.

from atwowaydream :

it's complete hogwash that you don't update very much anymore.

from raven72d :

have you looked up korean fighting kites?

from raven72d :

yes, you do!

from raven72d :

You need a Korean fighting kite.

from raven72d :

keep updating....

from raven72d :

hey, girl--- I have missed you! Do write and stay in touch!

from raven72d :

update here, darling.

from dinahsoar :

Thank you for your lovely note. That poem wrote itself.

from dinahsoar :

Thank you so much for your note. It means a lot.

from atwowaydream :

tea and crumpets and possibly acid/everythingunderthesun.

from raven72d :

it's windy and cold here... a day when you and i should be in Tallinn seducing young cloned models.

from raven72d :

Karen Finley c. 1990... yes.

from raven72d :

thanks for the birthday wishes...and the confetti hearts!

from dinahsoar :

I used to love going to sleep listening to Art Bell! It offered great subliminal material for interesting dreams (as I'd always fall asleep). I think he'd be fun to have coffee with, too. After he left the show, I read about his life on the internet. Really interesting guy!

from raven72d :

alien, yes. i like that.

from raven72d :

wine bars and strangers... yes.

from atwowaydream :

an ocean to walk to--- i could bitch-slap you out of utter jealousy. "the youtube" ::giggles:: I won't ask, but I understand. Dude, I'm in Virginia and people are obsessed with flamingos in their yard. there's actually a house not far from mine that has an entire family of pink metal flamingos gleaming all neon. they look retarded.

from anna-popcorn :

Thank you for adding me as a favorite. Love Anna

from atwowaydream :

If I'm ever in your area, whatever area that may be, perhaps we will metro-meet and have coffee or hot chocolate or really expensive wine.

from atwowaydream :

I'm in the DC metropolitan area, closest metro being Vienna. But the metro scares me, especially when you go under tunnels and you have to see all the reflections that look like ghosts. this is me: [email protected] the aol.com takes the edge off. plus, i've had it for years, and i'm too lazy to do anything about it.

from dinahsoar :

What a beguiling photo!

from atwowaydream :

Here, I will make it easy for you: Atwowaydream- probably the craziest person on Diaryland. (ps: thank you. really)

from raven72d :

alex & edmund are good names.

from raven72d :

yay, small plague rats!

from atwowaydream :

dangerous things are fun. and probably unhealthy. i'm glad you're back, as i adore your writing.

from atwowaydream :

"A boat beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July--" and so on, to spell out her name. I'll be damned Alice wasn't partially inspired by her.

from atwowaydream :

We should start a group for people who love hideous jackets and just don't give a shit about who knows it.

from atwowaydream :

i think we pretty much just get bitter toys. and a more developed ego.

from bethshort :

wow. i left myself a note AGAIN. le sigh...

from bethshort :

you are most welcome tiny hedgehog.

from raven72d :

thanks for the tea tip!

from raven72d :

we must very much watch and note all details of what awaits them in port lamu.

from atwowaydream :

All cool people must go through a phase of horrendous coats. I love that you named it, and I'm sure she appreciated that as well.

from dinahsoar :

Well, one of my favorite books is The Secret Life of Bees ... but I'm a HUGE chicken! Terrified of bees! I do respect them, though! I call my step-daughter a "bee whisperer". She really has a mutual understanding with them.

from dinahsoar :

Chilling!

from raven72d :

i must remember House of Leaves--- must re-read it.

from raven72d :

you and i will always remember how to dream.

from permeation :

love your space..

from raven72d :

e-mails received. and nothing held against you. call soon.

from raven72d :

when you send anything, use AFP's name or band in the subject line.

from raven72d :

no, nothing to yahoo... i hope you'll try again!

from secret-motel :

You are very kind. Thank you for the note. I never thought of anything I wrote as menacing. But, who knows...maybe I fail to see the menace for all the trees.

from raven72d :

where did you send it? to the yahoo address?

from raven72d :

we have conversations to continue.

from raven72d :

send your new email address

from raven72d :

and you know i like the flip-flops idea

from raven72d :

i'm always here for you... and we must talk again soon

from raven72d :

Katie Jane... yes!

from atwowaydream :

Yay for flip-flops that slip off easily.

from dinahsoar :

I, too, have always hidden behind my own face. Where better, as most people don't tend to look too deep and want to see what they think they see anyway.

from dinahsoar :

Thank you! That really encourages me!

from raven72d :

how have you been? what has happened in your life? e-mail me soon...or leave a message via LJ.

from raven72d :

"wear one's own face as a mask"... the classic Noh formula.

from raven72d :

i love the origami bird line.

from raven72d :

are you back?

from atwowaydream :

"origami bird set a flame" --I love this. Welcome back. Perhaps you will take your shoes off this time? :)

from dinahsoar :

Thank you! My diary (if you plan on reading back)is best read in reverse, 'cuz it's authobiographical and kinda sequential. Or, you could just start from today & read as you like. Thanks for adding me!

from dinahsoar :

Just started reading your haunting diary, as you are a friend of a friend of a sorta friend. Beautiful!

from atwowaydream :

you're one of my favorite writers here. it's a bit sad that you're gone.

from raven72d :

update, girl... we have scenes to construct.

from raven72d :

where are you?

from raven72d :

update, darling...

from raven72d :

a pretty blue dress worn next to the skin...perfect.

from atwowaydream :

Love the Rabbit entry. How cleverly Alice.

from raven72d :

i'd never run from you...blue dress or not.

from raven72d :

dreams are key...

from atwowaydream :

love your 'one word' entry. my word was: oven. i got so creative that i forgot how drunk i was. ;)

from raven72d :

update here soon... and do call. i need that voice again. don't forget your assignments...

from raven72d :

19 October 09... lovely entry.

from atwowaydream :

I think your fear is probably felt by many girls who are always afraid of losing their voice out of a fat-cat satiated weariness. . . I know it's probably one of my worst fears. To lose all fragility and power because you can see everything for what it really is. Beautiful entry. "tempest teapot" made me smile.

from atwowaydream :

don't go away. you've only been in my buddy list for a few weeks, and i already miss your writing.

from raven72d :

Gia Carangi...always alluring.

from raven72d :

tell me about your own twins... what did you like best about the Amanda story?

from atwowaydream :

Mazzy Star feels like rural heroin-dens and the last three seconds before falling asleep. Good choice for lovely music playlist.

from atwowaydream :

West Virginia does have that eerie witch-craft twilight thing going for it, I can definitely see what you mean. The wilderness seems to beckon like gnarled fingers, and then out of nowhere, there's two men, shirtless, with matching mullets. Your writing is quite pretty, and I'm looking forward to seeing your world. (yep, that's me, attempting to be both artistic and photogenic.)

from bethshort :

Thank you. One of my most personal, that. Funny I was just about to leave you a note. I LOVED the Amanda story by the way, so sorry I didn't get a chance to tell you that sooner!!! I hate leaving people hanging but I seem to do it a lot out of necessity. By the way...I wrote a scrap down at Melo not too long ago about wishing there was a brilliant hipster girl band named Claire Quilty. And guess what? There is! Where is the magic you thought would set you free? --Clare Quilty, band Reminds me of radiohead. Gotta love the Lolita reference. Now if only there was a band of rogue college co-eds from Birmingham or New Orleans called Sugar Barren...I'd even settle for Sugar Baron, although it's not as clever....By the way...My incestuous siblings were fraternal twins, stuck in the burning hot desert...I created them at 12 out of boredom. http://www.youtube.com/v/iriQuv3Qzmc&hl=en&fs=1&"

from raven72d :

i love the 31 July poem.

from raven72d :

I love your stories... Tell me all the Morocco images--- the most wicked ones. E-mail soon.

from raven72d :

i read the kate moss thing years and years ago...maybe something in Interview... tell me about the images you have for Morocco--- we'll make that happen together.

from raven72d :

you're a favourite of mine, too. i taught at auburn and i spent lots of weekends at Montevallo and Birmingham. what were you doing in Vestavia?

from raven72d :

whatever became of the Morocco story?

from raven72d :

feel free to quote me.

from raven72d :

Thank you for the bite idea... And the 31.07.09 poems are lovely.

from raven72d :

good Emilie Simon video.

from raven72d :

i hope Sylvia would've bitten me... just as i do go through major fantasies of seducing her at 16... Richard Sassoon was "frail", and I'me built on a broad-shouldered frame... I'd love to see Julia Stiles as Sylvia...

from raven72d :

i so need you.

from raven72d :

The photo of the girl in the chair... wonderful.

from raven72d :

The Peace Corps checks student loan debt? That's...depressing.

from raven72d :

her poetry is incredible. her own story no less so.

from raven72d :

i love anne sexton's poetry.

from raven72d :

i like that description... i will write you about my own flat and books...

from raven72d :

i hope you liked "hiroshima, mon amour".

from raven72d :

i always prefer hot 'n' sour soup, though not eating at all is...exhilarating... call when you can: i do need you. Bambara? Did they teach you any?

from bethshort :

you parts of it already. i don't think anyone will ever know it all. too much power in that. please don't think i'm ignoring you or have forgotten about you. life is getting in the way an awful lot right now & it's difficult to breathe. i did however manage to find a full version of hiroshima mon amour online which made me happy for a bit. you mentioned some entries back about taping Chinese takee-outee fortunes to pages of your journal. i'm going to start doing that. won ton soup is very good late at night when it finally starts to cool down a little.

from raven72d :

You can always tell me your life story.

from raven72d :

i did get a Melo acct. young love is a delight, but it's young darkness and violation that should go in your stories. amanda in morocco...? send me story bits... and tell me about your real life and youth, and about the ruined hotels where you live.

from raven72d :

add Emigree at LJ///

from raven72d :

I may get a Melodramatic acct. But you still must call me. Soon. And we must discuss the Morocco story in detail. That's a given.

from raven72d :

you aren't ordinary... you have a dark magic about you...

from raven72d :

don't vanish.

from raven72d :

use the free time to call me. get an LJ and add me... do fall in love with ImaginaryFlower... she's stunning. and talk with me about Morocco. send e-mail.

from bethshort :

deviant art =) I'm getting an account there too, I think. I quit one of my jobs & now have too much time on my hands.

from raven72d :

Love those photos. Where are they from?

from raven72d :

get an LJ *and* a FaceBook..

from raven72d :

I'm told "Painted Veil" is lovely. Netflix will have it for me tomorrow. Add me at twitter as DesertHedgehog.

from raven72d :

tell me the Morocco story in detail...with Amanda and Lissy...

from raven72d :

get Facebook and LJ... Do both. I'm on both. And add photos...

from raven72d :

01 May 09... are there photos not showing up in the entry?

from raven72d :

there's a whole generation of girls being taught that sex with me is a Bad Thing... i really blame feminism for this. and pop psychology.

from raven72d :

look at Moore's "in the cut" for ideas... and do call me. we'll take about Madeleine... and work on that Morocco story for me.

from raven72d :

run away with me to an abandoned hotel on an ocean coast...

from raven72d :

i hope to evil enough in the clever way to hold your interest...

from raven72d :

22 April... I love the poem.

from raven72d :

i love the Mann photos.

from raven72d :

amanda at 17... i like those things... i take it for granted that she'd have owned no underwear. do you think she shaved under her arms at 17? not doing so has become her trademark these days... i love reading to girls and having them read to me.

from raven72d :

tell me the 5 things i'd have liked most about Amanda Palmer at 17...

from raven72d :

i've never used the "shuffle" setting. but i'll see what i can do.

from raven72d :

did you get the e-mail?

from raven72d :

sending an e-mail...

from raven72d :

an e-mail address... yes.

from raven72d :

I love the books on your shelves... And I like the bowl of stones. On my shelves with the books--- jars filled with fountain pens and small Psyduck stufflings.

from raven72d :

I remember Attrition! God--- you and I are going to have long, long talks about music and books. Booklists and playlists are always key. (Are you on LastFM?) So--- come read me, and I'll go look at your booklist entry. E-mail me soon!

from raven72d :

absinthe, Lou Reed, and Butoh dancers--- I may just grab you and run away with you to Tokyo or Berlin. You have good taste, bella.

from raven72d :

I've not read 'Rhapsody'... I must give it a try... I love finding little notes and book recommendations in books at libraries and used book stores...

from raven72d :

Do read Cynthia Gralla's "The Floating World"...

from secret-motel :

Yeah, I read "House of Leaves" a few years ago, as recommended by another Diarylander. I DID enjoy it. Danielewski published another novel a while back, didn't he? I forget the name of it. Have you read it?

from raven72d :

thanks for the info! I look forward to e-mail...

from raven72d :

Do wander barefoot in tiny shorts along a pier on a dark lake while late-summer storms flash in the sky... I'm at yahoo dot com as raven72d.

from raven72d :

"we are always fourteen..." No. The lovely girl is fourteen and I'm her Older Lover. Or perhaps Incestuous Sibling in some Victorian manor house... But the poem itself is lovely. Do e-mail me soon.

from raven72d :

I insist that absinthe rituals be classic. And I love the Neruda poem.

from raven72d :

Obsession is something I do know about.

from raven72d :

I'll listen to them... And do write about your ghosts...

from raven72d :

what parts of the past do haunt your dreams...?

from raven72d :

i'll look for the songs... mono-no-aware: read Kawabata's "Snow Country"...

from raven72d :

write and tell me about you...

from raven72d :

love the new entry.

from raven72d :

I need to see both 'Hiroshima Mon Amour' and 'Last Year at Marienbad' again.

from raven72d :

do update...

from raven72d :

This is beautiful: " i once felt treasured adored cared for. i understand he said. late night phone calls. you will starve & be beautiful. you will go underground. i am your confessor, a dark love. one to adore & admire, one whose skull was full of butterflies & lightning & i could weather the storm. & so it goes that these things must break so their place in memory is cemented." And it has an eerie deja-vu feel...

from raven72d :

drinking does help. i am drinking another glass of Irish before work. it makes me feel very 1959/"Mad Men".

from raven72d :

I'd like to see things you've written...and one day show you my own fiction. If you have LastFM, add me. We'll exchange playlists.

from raven72d :

07 jan 09... lovely entry. lovely imagery...

from raven72d :

06 jan. 09---- do update soon...

from raven72d :

You, too! And do stay in touch--- I'd like to know more about you and your writing.

from raven72d :

Happy Year Nine!

from raven72d :

28 Dec 08 entry: lovely.

from raven72d :

I do love Duras' "Black Hair, Blue Eyes".

from raven72d :

When I lived in Connecticut, I used to love walking along the shoreline at Madison in winter and looking out at the grey seas.

from raven72d :

"waif in white skin"--- lovely image. and i like Latin masses: I love archaic ritual and the sound of ancient tongues.

from raven72d :

I have to listen to Bjork. I've neglected her work these last few years. But Iceland does intrigue me...

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