Reminder


Hey, don't be afraid to check chromewords . I'm making a concerted effort to try to get two new posts per day up there to force my creativity into renewal. Maybe it's just all shit, but I'll let you throw it at me next time we come face to face.


Later,
Chromeeyes

ps On Chromewords I'm limiting my links to other fiction, but if you've got a suggestion let me know.

Two questions: What was missing, missed.


It's a strange sensation, missing something so terribly that nothing seems right. For me the sensation is made more unnerving because of the oscillation that it induces emotionally. A division between holding the light from one star in your hand, a single strand precisely focused from the span of millions; the incredible invigoration and the acute anguish lined with relief of knowing that when you let go that it must not be yours. Angish and relief in the knowledge that that single strand cannot be held in focus for any longer with at its present clarity and that if again you are able to elucidate its true brillance, a new perspective must be established first.


-Erasmus

Looking Backwards (but not by edward bellamy)

I was looking over this thing today and it looks like I took a solid month break in writing this thing. That's good and bad, but I like this outlet and will likely keep it up for some time to come, you know for the sake of the children and all. But, really, I've got to figure out how to motivate myself this way for the rest of my life - some days last forever, some days are timeless, and some days I've got time and time again to do everything that I set out to.

Distasteful


I usually don't get a kick out of those folks who think ripping christians for their prudishness and other beliefs is cool, in fact I think it's probably one of my biggest gripes with the left, but anyway this I really got a kick out of.

Later,
Erasmus

I went out last night to this little basement joint call the artists quarter. Not a bad ride really, did ok considering. Regardless it was quite right to see some crusters rocking out hard to the music that they're passionate about - I respect that. Anyway..............

Out,
Erasmus

Songs that come to mind today:

In Amsterdam - Guster
Burning Photographs - Ryan Adams

-Chromeeyes

Lately I've been taking back routes to get where I'm going. There's something in the redundency of taking the same route to the same place time and time again that irks me. It's enough to break the bordom of travel for me to take a 5 minute detour on my 15 minute drive to work daily. I like to make new connections, connect the city through ways and roads that, while backwards do go places and someday if I need to find one of those places I'll be going by familiar territory in the stead of traveling blindly into an unknown sector. Furthermore, I like to fill in the holes of my understanding of what's around me; the scope of the scape is best understood thuroughly.

I'm not angry anymore.

Short Fiction

After some consideration, I've decided to split my blog. The new site will be comprised of my putrid attempts at short fiction, that way, my life can't be confused with my writing, additionally, those of you who read this to see where I'm at won't have to be innundated by the trash that I try to compose creatively.

Anyway, let me know if there's anything that doesn't work and I'll fix it. Blogger has started putting up new features (I think they support the comments directly now) so I'll see what I can do with that there before I make any additional changes here.

OUT,
Erasmus

Tomorrow I'm going to post a short story that conceptually I've stewed on for some time. It'll be pretty green, but it's something that I've been meaning to put up since I've started this insane art of blogging. Issue being that I want to be held to my deadline here and elsewhere.

pieced out,
Erasmus

News..........focus

This morning on my standby headline news I saw a report on the ooh scary gmos. The report focused on how to avoid eating these demon products. The problem with the report wasn't the information given, but the assumption that a gmo is "bad". This is the kind of thing that makes me go wild mad. Instead of information I got a shopping guide - "buy certified organic." This is precisely the kind of reporting that all the folks concerned with liberal and conservative bias have issue with, though not with this kind of article. Furthurmore it's not only not informative, but not interesting. More pertinent to the topic would be how, if we as consumers deem that we don't want gmos (the real danger is not to the consumer in the short run (ie medical reasons) but danger to the food supply, loss of diversity in the organisms that produce food for us) then we as consumers have the power to show our choice by not buying products that contain those components. The writing assumes too much and the premise is biased; these people are supposed to be professionals(or maybe I'm asking too much from a cable news networt?).

Over,
Erasmus

Weekend notes:

Car Washed
Hair Cut
Oil Changed
Insides torn
Outsides tanned and bloodied(slightly)
Resolve resolved

Out,
Chromeeyes

I've been meaning to touch on this one for a while, but haven't had the words........

It's like this, vivid dreams have left, which is good see my livejounal piece from months ago. Sometimes it take a bit to get right.

.........that's not what I meant to write about for a while, lost the words again.

Search is on. Yo, I'm searching for new work, serious like as of today. Interest rates are disasterously high and I'm not sticking around this mortgage industry to see what the fallout comes to, I've been floundering quite long enough as it is. Anybody got a line in on something that I'm looking for please let me know. That's the hard and fast and long and short of it.

somehow calm, but quite disheveled,
Chromeeyes, aka erasmus

Support

Here's the digs, in these TCs there's some art going down this weekend: check it out http://art-a-whirl.org/ . Anyway, I've never been, but missed the opportunity due to identity issues last go around here and I'll be damned....well anyway, from what I've heard it's a good way to see what's out there, here. Maybe I'll check out a couple of the bands too. Anyway, if there's anyone in the tc who reads this and wants company, let me know, via email, mobile, or otherwise.

Check it at the door,
Chromeeyes

Yeah, so I just got the new This is not a Fugazi T-Shirt - CD1. I'm on track 3 and I just might need to take a ro-ad trip to take full advantage of the music selection. Y'alls should check it out and seriously, the price is right. Thanks, TINAFTS.

"My word is born like siamese triplettes with doctor, lawer, rocket scientist promise." - Aesop rock

Ghettoisms

The other night my room-mate, his girl and I were discussing the dynamics of slang. The word "ghettoer" came into play and there was disagreement in the ranks about the proper grammer to use for the root word ghetto. My call is that one should use the most atrocious varient possible when using slang. The "most ghetto" just doesn't have the ring that "ghettoest" does.

-Chromeeyes

Ban


I had a late meeting last night and I've got one tonight, so I took the start of the morning off and got into work at about 10am. I had a leisurely morning of coffee, headline news, and some dishes that wanted cleaning and drying. Anyway, first thing on the news was an ABC fluff report about how the republicans were ripping Kerry for his "frenchness" - he can speak nearly perfect French and he's got a cousin who's a mayor of some city there. This pisses me off: 1) that any republican would be so stupid as to try and exploit that & 2) that apparently Kerry is going to some measures to elude people to the connection (ABC said that he'd done a q&a there in french and the French network would not release the footage. So I turned ABC off and watched good old cnn headline news. Headline news had an interview with Don King the boxing promoter giving his loquatious speel about how the Republicans were his choice............my brain kinda turned off. How can there be so much bad election press, why does anyone care what Don King thinks and who's really going to be dissuaded to vote Kerry because he can speak French - he's let his views on the whole Iraque thing be well known from the start, what kind of rational conclusion can one possibly draw from the further knowledge that he speaks french.

-Erasmus

I saw the Tripplettes of Bellville last night and it was a cool fresh foray back into the world of the indie film. There's this Isralie(sp?) film coming out (can't rember the name) that looks pretty incredible. As was discussed last night with m, it's cool when you enter the independent film arena and then are tempted by the previews to see more of it.

-Chromeeyes