If you could have one superpower, what would you choose?
Submitted by J.T.
Can't choose one... but three!
Teleportation, telekinesis, and invisibility!
Teleportation so that I could
1) easily check off all of the destinations on my travel wish list
2) not be dependent on gas or have to risk my life on my bike during LA rush hour
3) help my little brother with his homework in Buenos Aires, play a
game of La Crapette with Evelina, watch the news with my mom, and have
a plate of pasta with my pops on a regular basis.
4) always be on time
5) get into sold out shows
6) get dirt on certain politicians (in conjunction with invisibility)
7) rob banks
Telekinesis, so that I could
1) multi task (e.g yoga and prepare a meal AT THE SAME TIME)
2) complete tasks faster...like just think of the reference book,
stapler, shower cap and there it comes a floating to me just as i need
it...and then i put it away WITH MY BRAIN until i need it again
3) do anything by remote
4) rob banks
Invisibility, so that I could
1) get into sold out shows
2) be an awesome P.I
3) hang out & loiter
4) cure people of the hiccups by sneaking up on them (this could work with teleportation too) and scaring the crap out of them
5) publically smear certain politicians by broadcasting the dirt i've collected on them
6) rob banks
with my super powers i would reek havoc and do good...like a robin hood...yeah
The head line that caught my attention and led me to the most
captivating story I've read in the news in some time. Read it here.
My travel wish list, or So many places, so little time, or I should have been a trust fund baby:
(in no particular order)
Domestic:
Portland (to see Jason, Nicole, Penelope, & Nathan)
Austin (to revisit and weep)
Omaha (because I've always wanted to)
Cape Hatteras (to see the promise I never kept)
Global:
Vienna (to see Franco)
Amsterdam (to see Chris)
The Dalmatian coast off Croatia (per Javi's recommendation and because it just sounds fucking awesome)
Russia (Thanks to Mr. David Fisher, my 12th gr. contemporary world
history teacher for his fascinating lectures on the subject, and to the
first half of the film Dr. Zhivago, and to the great Russian poets)
China (Nats pictures are worth one thousand blog posts)
Australia (to visit Eni & Sam)
Africa (to gain Celeb status by adopting a third world baby but
particularly to visit Ethiopia, Kenya, & Tanzinia and also...)
Egypt (to see the Sphinx, duh)
Japan (for a new cell phone)
Beirut (to get in touch with my roots)
Naples (to get in touch with my roots)
Ireland (to get in touch with my roots)
Spain (to get in touch with my roots)
Cambodia (to get in touch with Sooky's roots)
Brazil (I want to learn to Samba)
All the while:
I need to be travelling for work
visiting my family in Argentina
visiting family back east
seeing friends in NY & MIA
weddings & babies start popping up and blocking off calendar dates
Cali camping trips or weekend getaways
When life starts getting in the way of living life one lives life in a vacuum.
For the sheer sake of never resembling a Jeff Koons piece,
may my wishes give way to experience.
Temporary note:
havng trouble with the song...will remedy the situation for your listening enjoyment.
Audio: What song do you listen to when you are sad?
Submitted by Nat.The true 'sad' song is imbued with a sense loss or resignation often intermingled with a bitter sweet nostalgia, an unrequited, unattainable desire, or a passion so blinding that it meets a tragic & inevitable end. The sad song may be my favorite kind of song. On the really grey days I like to draw a bath and listen to the saddest songs I can think of. The dolor echoing in the bathroom transforming the space into chamber of mourners in a Spanish village. My tears co-mingle with the salt of my sweat, the chlorine, fluoride, and rust from the tap water. Tonight finds me on the fence. If I do end up in the tub, I'll be listening to these songs:
Leonard Cohen: famous blue raincoat
Leonard Cohen: Chelsea Hotel No.2
The Cure: the funeral party
Antony & The Johnsons: river of sorrow
The dirty three: I really should have gone out last night
Magnetic fields: Don't look away
Johnny Cash: Hurt
Elliot smith: Between the bars
Kritin Hersh: Me & My Charms
Fugazi: I'm so tired
psychedelic furs: torch
Dire Straits: Romeo & Juliet
The mountain goats: no children
Neutral Milk Hotel: The Communist Daughter
Solomun Burke: fast train
Nina simone: Lilac wine
cat power: wild is the wind
patti smith: we three
prince: purple rain
the smiths: asleep
the smiths: please please please let me get what i want
the velveteen: penning the penultimate
