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Scarlet Letter, Hardcover, Throwback / Neon rainbow turtlenecks for some future protests / I don’t think I can get behind neon, rainbows, or turtlenecks / I don’t think I can say I like any of those things, at all / I want to at least look Utilitarian, like Tom Hayden / There is a difference between purists & idealists / Idealists don’t cry as much, I think / Spilled milk & jazz fills in second-rate studios / “Stoner Rock” is probably the laziest music genre ever / All rock music is for stoners / All stoners are lazy / Generalizations are unfair & that’s why philosophy exists / I do not get offended if people disagree with me / I get offended by singular visions & double standards / I get uncomfortable when people act like someone from MTV is filming them / I get uncomfortable a lot, but you most likely wouldn’t know it / One time, I had to eat Ethiopian food because my ex-girlfriend’s dad told me to eat it / I have a movie idea: Raising Arizona in New Mexico / The last time I was in New Jersey, DJ Twee was spinning “Jock Jams” at The Sex Dungeon / The last time before that, it was Cam’ron, on & on, all night, at The Hamilton Motel / Alien pizza is only a bad idea if you let it be / I used to smoke Camel Lights because they were free / Menthol is an unnerving thing, personally / But hey, big praise for the Fjord Taurus / Introverted Junior Gemini / Meteors despise Communism & Sno-Caps are the worst snacks / Matters of facts / Daddy dawn of the Dead Moon rising / Sun Chips buried beneath the sofa seats, in between the love seats / All it takes is an extra cushion & then you’re out of love & full of snack food, looking down at your mid-life crisis / Christ, you are so condescending / Your tone is almost as deafening as The Bible, book on tape edition / Your opinion is worth about as much as an Unsigned Artist Edition, which depending on the artist, might be quite an expensive opinion / I’ve got some expensive ideas / I’ve got another movie idea: how about a Blinky Palermo biopic, featuring Gerhard Richter as a supporting character / Now I’ve got some news: United States Apparel is the new place to work after you get a BFA / American Apparel was recently bought out by China / China is not expensive dinnerware / Medieval Times can be an expensive dinner / Time can be so ironic / Time (the concept), not Time (the magazine) / When you’re not thinking about time, you might think about signs and symbols / When I think about signs, I think about wanted signs—like what is a wanted sign & what is an unwanted sign / When I think about symbols, I think about Chinatown—like every Chinatown I’ve ever been to & how bad they all smell / When I think about bad smells, I think about stoners—their arm pits, their apartments, their weed, their beliefs, etc.

kjv 05 2013