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Weekly Notes from 2010-08-28

Jared Stein — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:25:00 +0000

I've spent two hours working out some rhymes. Now hoping that I didn't waste my times. #
Not much rhymes with "duologue", and it's still two hours before I can take a skate break. #
Yes, ABE Books, you /can/ have $55 for 4 1st/1st copies I've had on my list for a year… #
Early skate break to AF to learn to carve that bowl. #
Logged another 2 hours on couplet rhymes. Rewrote half of 1st stanza. Still need half of the 3rd. Ignoring the 4th and final. #amwriting #
I wrestle with meter and rhyme not in hopes of winning the match, but in gaining from the strengths and weaknesses of my opponents. #
@poetrynews You misled me. in reply to poetrynews #
Finished a short story that's turned out a bit Chandler-esque. Pure fiction that sounds dangerously like autobiography. #
Too enamored by the act of literary creation; quite different from the practice of writing. #

5tein — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:25:00 +0000

“No satire, violence, hatred, drugs, or whoring— / Transgression must be decorous, and boring.” — J. Salemi, "Respectably Transgressive" #
8&c3 #
The cannister can no longer withhold this black tar. #
8&c2 #
Found P Slade's page on British broadsides via @bryanalexander's post on Victorian hoaxes (http://bit.ly/cWtTUo) Love this internet thing… #

5tein — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:25:00 +0000

Watched French film "Tell No One" this morning. A pretty good, if generally derivative, modern thriller entry. #
Great little description of conveniently lost revolver in Greene's "Dream of a Strange Land": "The dark object made a pocket in the snow." #
That reading Hamlet aloud can still provoke tears is my best testimony to it's enduring power. #

5tein — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:25:00 +0000

5tein — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:25:00 +0000

5tein — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 23:25:00 +0000

Taking some inspiration from Peter Gabriel tonight as I revise character traits in Holiday novel: "Be authentic about who you are…" #
Skated the driveway with cousin David. Lots of tail stalls and nose picks on the curb. One kick-flip = big fail, resprained sprained wrist. #

5tein — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:25:00 +0000

5tein — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:25:00 +0000

5tein — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:25:00 +0000

Fists #
Audio archive from the Keywest Literary Seminar 2010 (horrible regrets at missing this!): Mark Strand: http://bit.ly/markstrand #
Tried to use horse glue as a metaphor for love. I /can/ say, like horse glue, this turned out stinkier than I thought it would. #
cactus #
8&c9 (dream) –> 8&c6 #

5tein — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:25:00 +0000

8&c8 #
@cosmopoetica Which have you seen? Orpheus Cycle is a must (though from center-out). in reply to cosmopoetica #
@cosmopoetica First 1/2? Did Orphée bore you so terribly? in reply to cosmopoetica #
@cosmopoetica I'm fond of Orphee beyond reason. Also L'Eternel Retour, and of course La Belle et la ete. in reply to cosmopoetica #
.@cosmopoetica The Man Who Laughs blew me away. Watch it when you have nothing else to do… #
@cosmopoetica I'd start the Orphic Trilogy with Orphee, then Sang, etc. in reply to cosmopoetica #