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messages to frankohara:
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from hermex :
What a lovely suprise! Shyness can stop you from doing all things in life you want to.
from gigabit :
ry... i'm thinking of you and your family. xoxo, giga
from pojken :
and that's why you're my most-favoured nearly-complete stranger.
from pojken :
you'll be a midwesterner soon. and just so you know, when i'm finally successful in the minnesota secession campaign, i'll be taking wisconsin, U.P michigan, the dakotas, iowa, manitoba, the northern bit of illinois and the portion of nebraska that tends to vote liberally and produce lovely [though sometimes obnoxious] bands.
from hermex :
Good lord! Silence is broken by angels of love singing their lungs out. I am so glad you found your destiny. We were only off by a single sometimes-vowel. I hope to see you in your new city. -Brian with an I
from pojken :
egads! but a mere 7 hours' drive from nordeast mpls [less! in fact. i've done logan square in 6.134 hours [actually mathematics calculated in the name of note-age!].]. wow. that's some crazy punctuation just then... completely accurate by my methods though.
from rascality :
happy yr happy!
from katherinhand :
i didn't get a chance to properly say how ENCHANTED i am with you and how i wish we could have spent more time together. i will make a chicago trip, and we can get a little tipsy again. xoxoxoxo
from pojken :
fantastik entry, my friend. bravo.
from katherinhand :
oh, friend. i will be in portland until august 16. will you be around? i'm afraid colleen's on burnside has closed (mere blocks from my apartment!). i remember it being mentioned in your diary. but there are other places! you let me know your plans.
from seat :
add saint cupcake to the list!
from pojken :
not that i take back what i said prior... but, Chcg. means v. little to me now.
from pojken :
egads! a typo. you?
from pojken :
was is it about those damned chicagoites[.?]
from katherinhand :
portland is counting down the days to august.
from jcruelty :
back for selfish reasons... reposting old public LJ entries so google can find them. i want to be adored
from katherinhand :
ach! we need to have a conversation re: mayakovsky. i have been looking for a graphic poem (?) of his forever about two ships falling in love.
from somthin :
Always time for a side of Frank.
from katherinhand :
honored!
from katherinhand :
and! thanks to you, i am absolutely obsessed with little lotte lenya. lotte lenya!
from katherinhand :
dear sir, i have been meaning to tell you that i got your cd. i listened to it for the first time in my car while driving around the city, and it was exactly like what i think you're like: very sweet and kind of quiet and comforting and lovely. thank you very much. i look forward to spending more time with it and returning the favor (soon!).
from seat :
sweet sassy molassy! good to see you in the bay, brother. s.
from hermex :
Did you know I also love Thomas Hardy? Well I do!
from jcruelty :
barcade is the best! look for my high score on the tetris machine. well, probably gone by now.
from mew-mew :
"Hell is other people and airport waiting areas." that sentence reigns supreme. i bought new didion for my dad.
from hermex :
Iris just batted an unlit Bali Shag out of my mouth. Your mix is ready, now onto cover art, I have some ideas. But what I wanted to say was that this is indeed an inscrutable lesson plan.
from jcruelty :
nice pix, but would it kill you to be on flickr like th' rest of us? in any case the gauntlet has been thrown and i'll be upping food pix shortly.
from pojken :
more people should be like you. [[but mulled wine at thanksgiving?! min mormor would be rolling in her grave (were she dead and buried, yet animated). as it were, she'd probably just roll her eyes and talk about it (in a harsh, loud whisper) behind your back (but completely within your earshot). glögg [mulled wine] is more of a christmas thing. then again, i shouldn't judge... we're having blueberry soup ["who wants some hot fruit?"] as a starter for the meal on the holiday that my mum's side of the family has no business celebrating.]
from elsquid :
oh my gosh, you made a mix tape for your parents anniversary. that is about the most adorable (in a good way) thing i've ever heard.
from pojken :
i'm "lulu." i think i'm horrified. [[re: a.berg]]
from hermex :
I had to look up 'discursive', and I still don't understand bullet point 3, but it sounds like you accidentally went to a Xiu Xiu show.
from elsquid :
You would be a wrap-around, very comfortable. Definitely not brand new and probably a deep red color. Good for napping, reading, conversing and lollygagging.
from pojken :
apology accepted! but really... i knew you meant no harm. and apparently, i'm much more prescriptive with my semantics than i think i am. but still.... others have been asking for parenthetical and bracketial explanation. it'll happen. SOON. [[but please don't hold your breath tills dŒ, since my consiousness is quite erratic at the moment.]]
from pojken :
ooo. what's mine? capricorniquarious. .januari14.
from katherinhand :
my dear fellow, so excited to hear you met owen!!! ! ! it's somehow cosmic. ?
from katherinhand :
i just wanted to say hallo, dear ryan. o the adventures you're having.
from rascality :
We are projecting April. We are however lazy and cheap, so nothing has been set. ... I was in Switzerland once, for a span of like three hours in Zurich. It was a Sunday so all the businesses were closed, but ravioli was tracked down. It was the beginning of three days of non-showering, I believe.
from rascality :
I heart ryan. sigh!
from gigabit :
ryan... I love that frank poem... continues to be possible... yeah.
from jcruelty :
dude, i was in brooklyn the last 2 days! and i forgot to contact you and kt! doh. where you live? i was staying in williamsburg first day & park slope the 2nd... beautiful weather. now i'm stuck in long island for rosh hashanah. brooklyn it ain't.
from seat :
may i meet you standing in pdx.
from soperstar :
I can't believe you guys went to breadtanglewood without me. I hate you. love katya.
from katherinhand :
!!!!! !! !!! !!!! ! !!!!!!!!! hurry up and be my frieeeeeeend!!!!!!!!
from elsquid :
"I'm alive, tougher, and a bit tired." Amen to that. I've enjoyed catching up with you via your Paris dispatches, they were updates of the best sort. A. and I have talked about moving to Portland too! And I was convinced after a brief visit that it does live up to its amazing reputation.
from hermex :
Oh yeah, I meant to mention that Frank O'Hara is on my haiku-sized list of favorite poets. And I have often subjected his portrait on the cover of Selected Poems to my male gaze.
from hermex :
I fear that within a year, all my friends and everybody worth meeting, will be in Portland.
from seat :
portland is a possible future city for S and I.
from cinnamontree :
When you move to Portland, I'm going to come crash at your house after the rock shows. And the roll shows too. Fair warning.
from katherinhand :
and the record players play lady stardust morning, noon, and night!! spectacular!
from cinnamontree :
Portland is awesome. They have a really good doughnut place there. And that's all I have to say about that.
from katherinhand :
move to portland! move to portland! i suspect we could be friends of the most dastardly sort. i have a tiny balcony! we could play cards.
from seat :
because sunglasses are le important. hope the happy songs are helping.
from somthin :
Hmmm, thanks for the info. These darn Macs are indeed sexy as all get out. Your experiences are being echoed by other folks and it is very troubling. The place I'm lookin gat offers Apple care for 3 years for $99... I may go for it. Best.
from jcruelty :
springtime in paris! i was only there for a week but i thought it seemed pretty great. on the other hand my friend matthew lived there last summer and said it was loud & full of dog shit. at least the graffiti is good.
from thefunway :
Sorry for not quoting that properly.
from thefunway :
"I once did this performance art piece inspired by Lord of the Flies in my senior high school English class using "Piggy" by Nine Inch Nails in which I wore a black robe and a pig mask and recited my own poem based on Lord of the Flies and the Waste Land and I just felt the need to admit that to someone 8 years on" is one of the best anecdotes I've ever read. I found your diary by searching for people who listed "John Cage" as one of their favourite bands.
from seat :
that was a mom-enforced task. ;)
from elsquid :
Which one is your favorite album? Do tell.
from somthin :
Should be there later in the afternoon -- will in large Mercedes 24' truck and wearing a beard -- probably cranky, but friendly to kindly folks. Cheers! Incidently I work only a few blocks from there -- 107th and Amsterdam.
from cinnamontree :
Ha! Unfortunately, I didn't have time to really take in those soulful lyrics...
from rascality :
I hadn't heard anything about any of that. Dwayne and death-metal Dustin both SWEAR up and down that they saw Jenny biking past us in the Mission District when we were on our way to the pirate shop last year, even though I tried to tell them that lots of girls (and boys) in San Francisco look like that.
from habibi :
now you can both go to rice to riches together! last time the squid was in NYC, I suggested that she ditch that pesky andrew and see what all the fuss was about. but she declined.
from jcruelty :
i like interviews between friends. interesting favorite thing about new york-- i hadn't thought of that but i'm sure it's true.
from cosmokane :
do give my regards to the lovely sheila :) - c
from seat :
Sodomy. while my eyes are tired, your post made them laugh.
from jcruelty :
which one is you? the girl in the lighter green is cute.
from ricka :
they played "strange eyes" last night & also confessed that "Come back from san fransisco" is on the setlist for toronto. so now you know. oh swoon. oh heavens.
from rascality :
<<much envy.>>
from cinnamontree :
Sigh... Well, there's always next year...
from jcruelty :
life is quite here, indeed!
from johnnieutah :
try visiting vancouver sometime. it's like a hemp festival there.
from seat :
"It's not quite as east to explain who Dorothy Parker, Jenny Holzer, and Joseph Beuys are to people who don't know. But it was worth a shot." My fellow Mountain View Library patrons are all staring in my general direction after I unleashed a rather guttural laugh. They hate me. I love you. -s/e ps: if i can find a cheap fare to toronto during the june 5-june 10 time frame, i may be coming your way. c'mon cheap fares.
from cinnamontree :
Thanks for getting me back on the good list. I'm very intrigued by this Joseph Beuys character. Lard AND stuffed coyotes? It must all be so beautiful.
from elsquid :
There are a couple of events in NYC at the end of August that I'd like to come up for. One conference and one protest. Do you think you'd have room for me? I fear that I am growing weary of the punk scene! Feel very old....
from cinnamontree :
At least they're *still* good people? I'm going to have to reproach you for your cultural elitism. Because I don't know who those people are either. Except Dorothy Parker. Jennifer Jason Leigh played her in a movie once.
from habibi :
Oh frankohara! I promise to call you when i make it to New York. Because I do not take offers of Moby tea and ice cream lightly! I just got home from visiting Elsquid in D.C. but do have plans of visiting New York in the not too distant future. And it's good to know that NYC kids are possessive about their socks too... :)
from seat :
dammit. i was beaten to my 5 dollahs. holla! (ok, i *so* can't pull that off as the white boy that i am)
from ricka :
i want a)my $5 and b)a copy of your finished essay. because i am a G-E-E-K. really.
from rascality :
I keep my comments to a minimum: "SMOKED"?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?! [emphasis mine.]
from johnnieutah :
screw up your courage, you only live once.
from johnnieutah :
after reading your entry today, i just want to give you a hug. pete's makes me want to blog, too.
from cosmokane :
i got the punk mix! thank you. it was great - very listenable. a lot of the tunes i hadn't heard since high school. and i made a soup to the mix (see most recent entry). i will try to send you something equally worthy.
from cosmokane :
hey, don't worry about it. i need to get *something* in the mail to you :) don't know what it will be, though [wrings hands]. - c
from cosmokane :
nice punk mix! mine would also have some minor threat and black flag. one could argue that johnny cash was a punk, too. sometimes i wish i were a lil' punker so then i would be forced to have a cute dog.
from cosmokane :
it makes me happy to see you correspond with my cyberfriend (johnnietuah). just wanted to say that. - c
from habibi :
Ha ha! Maybe I will hijack your mix cd songs for the February cd I am supposed to make for my (Falafel's) mix cd club. I love the idea of mix cds, but I always dread actually making them...
from elsquid :
Such a good article! I loved it, and could relate since I was into classical music before "popular" music. I wOuld like to come to NYC sometime soon!
from rascality :
Are you going to Toronto? In June? Sorry I am behind on the news. I heart Toronto. But I think I'm going to burn my two weeks of vacation on London and going on tour up to Winni-freakin'-peg.
from habibi :
well, moving to NYC is on my list of things to do in the long-term. i'm not sure when it'll happen, but i am sure that when it does, i'll take a few bucks to get me there. the plans for funding moving-in-the-not-too-nearby-future seems to be losing out to vacationing-in-the-nearly-now, but i'm definitely going to try making a trip in the spring to see, among other things, the Whitney biennial. in the meantime, i will continue to envy you and your big city adventures.
from soperstar :
have you heard birtwistle's setting of the orpheus story? it's fucking amazing, jan de gaetani and like five bass clarinets--YOW!
from seat :
isn't suspense fun? it's from nvidia... the company i worked for during the past 2 summer. i hate you. love, s/e
from cosmokane :
yes, r, green chard is a "basic" ingredient when one has too much of it left in the fridge, necessitating its inclusion in an omelet. the reason it was there in the first place was that it would give my potato puree soup "oomph" - or so i was told. this soup was the gastronomic accompaniment to the last weekend's debacle in which i sort of tried to win a girl back but failed disastrously.
from ricka :
look, you are back (i am not), i am glad to see you are doing well. i might be moving to your city! also i am reading a lot of kenneth koch lately. that is all. how are you?
from soperstar :
ryan!!! it's going to be SO AWESOME I wish I could come!! *clackety clack DING*
from cosmokane :
oy - "Instead of just being honest about her soul nullifying effects, I try to construct ellaborate descriptions of personal psychosis, which really amount to the fact that we were just a bad combination of two people, enhanced by inexperience and immaturity on my part. That I've realized those problems is also good: that things don't work out and that you don't have to be friends. That at times I hate how I felt around her, but that I don't hate her" - you just summed up my situation! thanks for the comment. it's good to see you back :)
from gigabit :
I will get right on finding a ryan for seth!!! ha ha ha I love it.
from gigabit :
after that note I really do feel like I have no choice!!! YES COLUMBIA REALLY! I am so excited. but please root for me that I get in, first. and I suppose it's okay if you root that I don't get into UCLA, berkeley or MIT, though I would be a little sad if you did that...
from cosmokane :
i, for one, dig the dangerous lives of ny musicologists. say it ain't so, joe :(
from rascality :
I just got a spam message from "qBishop allen"! kai-how played me their CD and it was neat.
from habibi :
hey thanks! but be careful what you wish for. maybe one day we really will show up on your doorstep...
from cinnamontree :
Not to be totally ignorant, but what is musicology? Is it criticism?
from seat :
you did take the picture. i worked some photoshop mojo on it, but it's all you. i'm so blessed you caught the moment. i hope there are more of them like that train ride. calm, s/e
from cosmokane :
burning rings of fire and virginia woolf entries are no good. you should come to the west coast and play. - c
from rascality :
Ry-ry: Dwayne and I were at Mr. Chopsticks for dinner today and two-thirds of Rainr Maria walked in. I remembered our bomb-ass days in Houston and you wreaking smoothie havoc. Then Dwayne reminded me of that poster I sent you. Is it on your wall or is it buried deep in your closet so you don't have to look at the nipples?
from falafel :
Hey mr frank. I have been a closet reader of your diary for some time now. I think I read somewhere that Andy Warhol was jealous of Frank O'Hara or Frank O'Hara was mean to him. Something like that. Anyways, that's all I know. See ya!
from gigabit :
wait, how do you know that's what the real frank would do??? I think he would make everyone at the bar laugh, and maybe flirt with more than one boy, and jot some beautiful poetry lines down on a napkin to put in his pants which will then accidentally disintegrate in the wash.
from seat :
relax, mr. frankohara. seat is still seat. no hedo-like qualities. going to see Fischerspooner tonight. s/e
from seat :
congrats on passing! go to Niagara for me. And spelling... well, these things can be corrected Mr. Musicologist pants. s/e
from seat :
"It looks like I'll get to study Latin at the Vatican next summer with THE Latin scholar in world right now." i'm coming to visit you if you do. talk about going straight to the head of the class. Latin I today, Latin Primo this summer. -s/e
from cosmokane :
i'm jealous of whatever you're studying. question 5 seems impossibly broad. i would like to see your answers to questions 6 and 7 :) - c
from cosmokane :
the poem was pretty nice, i must say. the anti-academic in me objects to the word "semiology." but other than that, i liked it :) - c
from soperstar :
I'm glad you brought us to our senses.
from soperstar :
thanks ;)
from soperstar :
oh ryan, I am frantically catching up on diarylands and I CAN'T WAIT TO MOVE TO NEW YORK. how come I'm not 'amazing' in your favorite diary taglines anymore, huh?
from seat :
i'm sure your flight will be leaving soon from the airport... the wash/tumble dry cycle is about to start... the ... i must stop. the banality of this note grows exponentially with each keystroke. just remember two things: 1) you're a rocker. you rock out. 2) tofu and bebida are both tasty - en moderato.
from rascality :
ARE YOU BLACKED OUT?!?!?! I thought just now that I should call you (even though I'm bogged down by work) but then I remembered that you're a cellphone-only baby, baby.
from seat :
tasted like death... geez. remind me never to date you. :P take a breather and don't OD on medieval European country alt-folk from the 12 century, k?
from seat :
i think you might be right. the xanga drug trip is cratering. your *free* book shopping spree. word. that is so sweet. i just had indian food for lunch. yum.
from ricka :
ooh, a nice write-up in this week's issue of the nation, about kazimir malevich's fantastic black square painting.
from habibi :
Model/prof Brian who made the transvision tvs? Just curious.
from gigabit :
I love 'deconstruction ahead' yay!!!
from elsquid :
Most persistent has been "artificial light." Why is this technology anathema to me? Why is that so caught in my head? For weeks now!
from rascality :
Am I vegan now? A HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAHHHA HA HA HA H AH AHAHAHHH. No. I heart cheese.
from soperstar :
& incidently, isn't your dland alias itself a bit of a self-created commodifiable identity through association with a different kind of cultural object? you could have a link to barnesandnoble.com for 'meditations in an emergency' or something...
from ricka :
why the compulsion, which i have & my brother has & you seem to have too, to put nmh lyrics in all-caps?
from ricka :
AND HERES WHERE YOUR MOTHER SLEEPS AND THIS IS THE ROOM WHERE YOUR BROTHERS WERE BORN
from ricka :
so i was going to keep my white-hot crush on you a secret as long as i could, but it seems the time has come to declare myself, because HOT DAMN anyone who can say things like that about ellsworth kelly and donald judd and the overpowering need for the Right Space ... is just too much for me: as i am the girl who will drink too much wine and lean into your face earnestly and beg you to consider, please, donald judd and how he relates to robert smithson and eva hesse and john constable, because can't you see it? can't you? oh, and probably cranach the elder, i'm sure i could fit him in there too. you're too much! i swoon!
from soperstar :
YAY!!!!!!!!
from rascality :
parents have not yet thrown a fit. I hope this does not mean one is forthcoming. I told my dad and he was nonplussed, but asked if I'd told mom yet. mom brought it up very casually during lunch a couple days later, which I think means she's accepted it and moved on. Or maybe it was just because we were dining out in public. anyway, the only thing my parents were hounding me about was going to grad school. (my dad wishes I'd try out accounting.)
from seat :
a movie quote! write as you like. i hate you. love, s/e
from seat :
you're just like every other man. que valido. but i thought no more dland for relationshipland? ;) s/e
from soperstar :
oh ryan...what a loss...
from boxingnun :
cremaster 5 eh?...i get to see it either monday or tuesday depending on when my friends in the program are free.....did you know that the cremasters will never be distributed widely?...only ten copies of each one will be made with each copy selling for 200,000$....isn't that outrageous....
from rascality :
you are fiendish! $1500 = my rent for three months, or (in my new house once we get vince to move in) my rent for SIX months.
from ricka :
today in someone's car i heard they might be giants' cover of that cub song that goes "the best thing about new york city is you and me," and i thought of you.
from rascality :
Hey, I only now noticed your note to me. When did I get it? Yo, what gives, dland? uhhh... you can call me when you're not hosting a swanky, swanky party, and when I'm not shuttling in between my old duplex and my new housey!
from rascality :
WHOOOO'S GOT THE CRACK??????????
from soperstar :
should I acquire some karen volkman?
from rascality :
!!!!!!!! yay snuggling, I think. shhh...
from soperstar :
inaccesable to women!? "it's a brave thing/to know the cheapness of/the world/and suffer in music/still/admiring a thing you know/or two". inaccesable to women!?
from soperstar :
yay! the azure is smiling.
from ricka :
and it never fails to make me cry. that and the epilogue to _7 storey mtn_ which ends, you know, "That you may become the brother of God and learn to know the Christ of the burnt men."
from ricka :
Your cross and mine shall tell men still / Christ died on each, for both of us. // For in the wreckage of your April Christ lies slain, / And Christ weeps in the ruins of my spring; / The money of Whose tears shall fall / Into your weak and friendless hand, / And buy you back to your own land: / The silence of Whose tears shall fall / Like bells upon your alien tomb. / Hear them and come: they call you home.
from seat :
because it we're floating in space... sun, clouds, palms, BMWs and some superficial people.
from rascality :
hey, is the Postal Service good? The one MP3 is really cool. I downloaded it after I heard the song in URBAN OUTFITTERS, where I always feel so ashamed to be shopping that I always end up not buying anything. The night I said I would get drunk because we were gonna go to war? I didn't, I just had one Smirnoff Ice diluted with gas-station orange juice. Drinking helps me fight the terrorists.
from rascality :
I am going to pack you up and move you to TEL AVIV!
from soperstar :
hi, I'm not ignoring you, I've been in california since two thursday's ago and I just got back last night and am only now catching up on diaryland despite my second piano lesson of the semester a scant few hours away. barber rocks! love kt
from rascality :
leaving THIS DUPLEX for probably a similar one across town or something. Not to New York! besides, I'd live in park slope instead of manhattan anyway. They have trinkets and tea lounges there!
from rascality :
i am scared of beardy.
from boxingnun :
PANSY DIVISION ROCKS!
from seat :
open expanse. yea! yea! yea!
from ligatura :
perhaps, "this paper and my project are both beyond each others' scopes. explaining what this might mean is beyond the scope of this sentence." XX!
from rascality :
What is "being gooned"? I am not familiar with this terminology.
from cheapbee :
I am not being gooned. So if anyone needs any clear thinking they can contact me. I will give them logic largely untainted by emotions. Sure this current outlook is harsh, but it comes with a lot of freedom and is often delightful.
from boxingnun :
i can' t really recommend anything comprehensive but there is a sortof "seminal" text called "this bridge called my back" which is out of print but that is definitely worth getting and that lays down some very important polemics for feminists of color....there's a collection of fem. film theory that i used in one of my film classes @ rice that i think was edited by someone named ehrens; it has mulvey's "visual pleasure and narrative cinema" (but i'm not sure if that is important to you music kids) and some other things...other than that bell hooks's "fem. is for everyone" is pretty good too....i'll keep thinking about it....
from ligatura :
well, i cannot quite help you with a feminist Theory reader, but a collection of feminist writing that i think is pertty good is "Feminism in our Time," Miriam Schneir, ed. just a bunch of 'classic' postwar texts, excerpted etc. less theory, more feminist political movement
from rascality :
Why do you think I'm getting married? To whom? (Dwayne's dad did say he ordered two grandkids for Christmas.) I added you to my buddylist. I really didn't want to participate in it, this whole nebbishy clique-ish diaryland name-dropping routine. I feel like that part in sixth grade where the teacher had each student write down the name of a classmate on a piece of paper, the name of the person they thought was their best friend in the class. The next day she drew on the blackboard a diagram, with circles representing each member of the class (no names of course) and arrows emanating from each circle directed at another circle, to represent the perceived relationships. There were several clusters of circles, with many gravitating toward a central shining star-circle, the idol of the clique; then there were two circles off to the side with arrows pointing toward each other, an inert island of friendship. Here, in adding you and you alone to my buddy list, I'm one of the circles on the outer edges of a big cluster, latching on to you like I'm some kind of lamprey. But, you know, I wanted to be able to access your diary with a mere click instead of a clacky-clacky-clacky-clacky-clacky (however many keyboard clackys "frankohara" gets).
from soperstar :
hey, good call! too bad I already wasted the morning. maybe I'll go before ktru? (ps I'll call you soon)
from soperstar :
I mean, you're still using "cloisters grrl"...what's another couple nicknames going to hurt?
from soperstar :
nooo!!!!!!!!! what are you doing?!?! BRING BACK PRT!!! nicknames are one of the most vital parts of the very soul of diaryland!!!
from seat :
just catching up on your old diaryland logging. "in less fortunate news, coldplay girl seems to have designs on us having abigious coffee. . .eeeeck. won't be ambigious for me, it'll be slightly annoyed coffee" you never mentioned coldplay girl. i'm am saddened that coldplay and annoyed were in the same statement... thought some of their latest cd is rather derivative. anyhoo, our weekend chat was much appreciated. the basement of a library is only so exciting (besides the red and green carpets). so seat returns to diaryland (i wish it was dairyland)
from ligatura :
aren't I the one that recommended No Logo to you? anyway, yes, it's quite yummy. Take Back The Streets!
from soperstar :
what is a "looky-loo"? I want to be in your band too guys!!!
from gigabit :
can our band sing a cover of "if you don't cry" for me to sing? you can be my voice coach.
from habibi :
So maybe he's insane. At least he has better hair...
from habibi :
Psst...
from elsquid :
"find what about yourself you can commecialize" Oh my gosh that's horrendous!! I sympathize. I get to see Future Bible Heroes now that I'm moving to D.C. :) I've been pencilling in shows that are going to be there so that I could easily scratch them out if I didn't get the job. But now...
from gigabit :
of *course* we can start a band... but it will have to at least be a friend-band to my band with cosmokane... I will be a drummer singer for both bands. or maybe we can fuse them at some point! what will our name be?
from soperstar :
yes, lee bollinger...my dad used to golf with him. I want a croissant!!!
from ligatura :
you are "guiless" in your dreams?? if THAT'S not freudian, I don't know what is.... (ha ha)
from seat :
frankohara - you are a superstar. you've got it in you. we believe in you. i hate you. love, seat.
from habibi :
Despite knowing nothing about your recent events, that sounds ridiculous. If and when they "find out," they will discover that you very much do belong. Sometimes, the source of your motivation is not the important thing.
from soperstar :
ryan, you are the rilke to my kappus.
from boxingnun :
i think berkley musicologist was hitting on you...
from habibi :
Excellent choice. Sucks that now I'm cured (mostly) of my food-envy, I've developed acute cases of art-envy and dog-envy. But this is just nonsense to you...
from ligatura :
um.. joan mitchell gets twenty exclamation points? wow.
from habibi :
But of course. Everyone needs a little sinister child to brighten their mailbox.
from gigabit :
ryan, I wish I had you singing for me in a "chapel". love you.
from seat :
hey piano man - danke for the nota. so you're going to put a piano in your room. i assume your futon of death will be moved somewhere else then? the uk puma man came to my door today. fantastik.
from soperstar :
ps I'll mail the parts today, I had this weird nightmare last night wherein I was attending the first performance and the violist was on a total power trip and it all sounded pretty much like crap (don't worry I don't think you were even there)
from soperstar :
I CAN'T BELIVE YOU'RE BUYING A PIANO THAT IS SO COOL CAN I MOVE IN WITH YOU?!?!?!?!?!?
from soperstar :
AAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGH!!!!!!!!! you're buying a piano!??!?!?!? AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
from rascality :
Sir, in reference to your diaryland entry of 2002-9-8 I must indeed say: Dig. Well put.
from gigabit :
ryan I love your 8/29 entry. you are a beautiful writer, lovely.
from soperstar :
good thing my number has no eights in it...
from ligatura :
say, what IS punk, anyway. I've never really understood it, except that people tell me that the sex pistols and the ramones are (or maybe were?)...
from soperstar :
no, ryan, not at the moment.
from elsquid :
What is your favorite art/music experience in the city?
from ligatura :
gouge my eyes out... that means i just slept with my mom. HI!!!!!! (that was six exclamation points, mind you)
from soperstar :
yo, the kids are alright. they really really are. get ready for pie!
from rascality :
I must have hit "done!" twice. Now I just look like a dick.
from rascality :
why am I a monkey butler? I don't get it. do I have to butle chimpanzees? <P>yes you know I will make a magnetic fields mix CD for you. even though you realize that it is wholly unethical and makes me feel guilty besides, I will make for you the greatest all-time compilation of stephin merritt's compositions. after I get off my sorry ass.
from rascality :
why am I a monkey butler? I don't get it. do I have to butle chimpanzees? <P>yes you know I will make a magnetic fields mix CD for you. even though you realize that it is wholly unethical and makes me feel guilty besides, I will make for you the greatest all-time compilation of stephin merritt's compositions. after I get off my sorry ass.
from soperstar :
who, might I ask, is poshdeluxe? is it s.p.? she is pretty elvin.
from habibi :
Hello Mister Man. After you fill you car with your favorite buttery ones, I insist that you take them to HoP and feed them all some fresh peach pie. It's too bad I won't be there. I would have been fun to see you and your leprechaun (!) garb again. :)
from elsquid :
Ah freshman year.... I miss Christine. Maybe you guys could get together in New York? I must tell you how highly I approve of your book, music and movie picks. We are very much in sync. :) My books are just the last five ones I've read, rather than my very favorites because I just can't do it. But I'm glad to here that Chabon's other stuff is enjoyable. Once I get back to a place with bookstores and libraries (in English) I'll go crazy. Woo-hoo!
from soperstar :
I played "crazy for you (but not that crazy)" at ktru this morning...the 69 love songs sampler in the stacks is not enough for me...yeah oh yeah...
from gigabit :
too many people have been mentioning this "old and lonely" thing to me lately. yeeshola! don't worry about it. just think about how much we're going to care about each other after ten more years of this life stuff, and then after twenty... and think of all the new people we'll meet in that time, too, who care about us and maybe will even marry us... anyway I think that raising kids gives the highest percentage chance to really remain unlonely till the end... and how fun kids will be! you can be uncle ryan for mine and I'll be aunt laura for yours.
from habibi :
And don't be grumping about the marriage thing. It could be worse. You could have a "If I'm 40 and you're 40" agreement with someone who's promised to cheat on you.
from habibi :
I would gladly have pie, but I'm going to be in Japan in three weeks. If you like mail, give me your address and I'll send you a postcard. Or maybe a MONKEY!
from gigabit :
I have the beigish one that's out of print. I forget what it's called... it's got a drawing of a naked guy on the front, so I'm always embarrassed to carry it around :)
from gigabit :
I don't have the collected, perhaps I should invest but sometimes the idea of ALL HIS POEMS IN ONE BOOK is sort of overwhelming...
from gigabit :
is that frank poem in the new 'previously unreleased' volume? I think i'll cuddle up with some frank tonight!
from habibi :
YES! The Royal Tenenbaums! Whee hee hee! Friskalate, baby! FRISKALATE!
from habibi :
And in regards to the question: "Is it better to do what you feel (artistically) or 'speak' to an audience?" I still don't understand why it *must* be that the two should be mutually exclusive. I remember Bill and Soperstar and Boxingnun talking about this once, but why does achieving popular acclaim necessarily strip you of all respect within your field? Why? Isn't it possible for the hoi polloi to stumble upon something deservingly great and aprpeciate it? <Mergh>
from habibi :
<sigh> But if I have to defend walking around/sleeping in your underwear to one more person...
from habibi :
And huzzah for reading in different voices!
from habibi :
But I like your notes, Soperstar. And I am nosy.
from soperstar :
well you know, the central mind-fuck of my personal artistic ethos has always been that the music I've written in the past has been largely culturally acceptable in terms of its accessibility and emotional impact on your average audience, but being a good anti-bougie this response then makes me question whether or not I am actually 'doing what I feel' as you say or whether I am in fact simply manipulating traditional musical processes (such as tonality) to a desired end, e.g., acceptance or wide-scale connection: and since when I examine myself I cannot quite bring myself to discount the possibility that I really am moved by this kind of 'bourgeouse' art, I am then forced to question the very nature of my artistic integrity. that's usually when I give up and go to house of pies. actually though, I think it's unfair to label any sort of 'type' of music as 'untrue' (e.g. tonality, atonality, music that does or does not connect with an audience). maybe I should have just emailed you instead of taking up an entire page of notes...
from habibi :
Per *your* question, I have sold my soul to a couple of stockbrokers. Then I plan to take my spiritless zombie shell of a person and... and... Well... I haven't decided yet. It's a crying shame being a professional New Zealand tourist doesn't pay well. Doesn't pay, I mean.
from habibi :
What does this mean? Datei nicht gefunden!
from soperstar :
uh yeah...about our july 4th party...you didn't REALLY think we were going to clean all of boxingnun's laundry off the table did you? plus the hermit crab doesn't like guests. xxoo kt
from boxingnun :
i think art historians are nifty. but i might be biased......TEACH US MORE GERMAN!
from habibi :
I meant "is," as in "is warranted." But you knew that, right? And I do not like putting punctuation inside quotation marks. I think it looks bad.
from habibi :
Well, never you mind that, because if the items on your to-do list are to be completed consecutively, then you might get stuck on 'stop idealizing/romanticising friendships.' Because I know some of your friends and sometimes it's hard for me to distinguish whether my immense admiration for them is somewhat unwarranted or whether it is--because they are simply *that* great. Greatness beyond my comprehension. I think the latter... but if you are referring to the friendship and not the friend, then I will stop pretending that I know what you are talking about and will go on pretending that I am doing work while actually alternating between reading the news and Diaryland and email... And I'll let you know of any money making schemes I think of.
from habibi :
Making money, eh? What about being a medical research test subject? I'm sure you could get at least five bucks for letting someone stick electrodes on your tongue.
from soperstar :
a rollerstake version of 'midsummer'?? how fabulous!!! can I put you and miranda on skateboards? your muse will finally be united with your inner punk...ahhhh...

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