From last month's Poetry ...
Plumblossom
by Eric Ekstrand
The spine is a slide of human marvels; it is a hierarchy of white florets; it is a cult of secret brothers; it is a deliberate list; so look how the spineless relax in their unblushing banality.
I lose my patience in Greensboro where no discoveries are ever made and the only inner lavishment is the bar, occasionally.
The spineless aspire to incessant interludes that never arrive anywhere and that can’t remember wherefrom they came.
Mary is slightly spineless, for instance: her dress is cream her skin is cream her creamy mind is fine and her life will end finely—how sad is that to think of, the finery of a cream life?
It is the saddest of all truths that can be read on a person’s face in a decorous garden that person has planted themselves and of which they are explaining to you the intricacies and expense:
“notice how in the light”; “three pallets shipped last week”; “have complementary attitudes when it comes to soil-type and moisture.” She isn’t wicked; but, also, she destroys the art of her life.
Top 10 Films of the 2000s
- The Lives of Others
- Children of Men
- The New World
- Before Sunset
- I’m Not There
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4 Month, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
- Donnie Darko
- Spirited Away
- Grizzly Man
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I saw Time Out’s list of the best 50 movies of the 2000s so I thought I’d make my own top 10 list. Also, I just added like 20 movies to my Netflix queue.
I am a whimsical child, with all of the egoism of a child, but with none of the innocence.
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Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Bought my ticket to LA today!
Finally going back home for a few weeks. A few newish restaurants I need to try:
1. Animal
2. Pizzeria Mozza
3. Kogi Taco Truck
Am I missing anything?
Wish I was eating fried pickles right now (from new Astoria spot Sweet Afton).
Just in case you haven’t seen it, Agaton and I made a little feature on the fantastic new sandwich shop Saltie, opened by Caroline Fidanza, Elizabeth Schula and Rebecca Collerton (formerly of Diner and Marlow & Sons).
Thanks Chrysanthe for inviting me to this!
92y:
This should be a fun night: Jason Schwartzman and Wes Anderson are coming to 92YTribeca on Nov 10 to talk about Fantastic Mr. Fox and show clips from the film.
(No, Natalie Portman is not part of this event but she’s been here before.)
Ooooh fun. I go to the 92nd Street Y so often that sometimes I think that buried inside of me is an old Jewish man. Who has gas.
