nina simone

godamn nina simone.

the most incredible performance i have ever seen.

tongue tied

tongue tied and struggling to speak has become
a small side project
ive been recording all my words backwards
and then reversing them right side forwards

http://www.box.net/shared/co6a90hshr
avoid octave doubling as it can cause an emphasis and therefore be interpreted as root of all evil


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this one has all natural english, but its hiding

http://www.box.net/shared/odk70mqvts
i spent hours trying to phonetically write out proper reverse pronunciation and it came out worse than ever.

the end of the summer looked up

by the nth hour i was convinced, sitting in a deep set chair, I had become one of the triptychs. the self portrait of francis bacon, the most terrifying one. even his furniture terrifies me. this surfaced between the hours of cd burnin and book readin. songs like "rockin robin" came to and fro. old and meaningless jingles -- well actually just one -- who's got short shorts!, lightened up the images slightly. I wrote a whole page, wanna turn it into two, if i could only get to sleep......

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?*

*trey barth

hide & seek/you vs me

gabriel orozco's my hands are my heart

improper grammar can really make a girl sound crazy

i'm on tour so i eat pizza

trying to sleep on the hardwood floor is a hard time comin
i took a nap with my head on the kitchen table over a cross word puzzle book.

yesterday the man at the bus station asked if i was attacked by a dog and someone else wondered if i was a chef. pretty fascinating reactions but i never have a good response -- man i would never ask a stranger and would never ask a friend in public -- like hey man whats all over you? (out to breakfast my first day back)

before i left he pulled down my pants and said i want to kiss you maybe it would make you less anxious on the plane i got out of the bed after that while he writes love letters to girls excusing the correspondence as just for fun for make believe what an asshole good thing i left again

we watched a heartbreaking documentary on townes van zandt tonight after the show. it was tragic and worrisome.

ive got the blues blue like a robins egg

the giraffes here circle their necks round and round because they dont even have room to pace
mike showed me on his camera phone and i played it over and over again
we might go and see it because its free: the most depressing zoo in the world, welcome to the chicago world fair

my new favorite image