...there was another pile of green-waste in the front garden which i did not take a photo of, and the green-waste will probably need 2 trucks/skips to be disposed of properly.
...so i found some of my man Christian's old writing on my computer. Thought i would post some of it, and hope he doesn't kill me:
10:25 PM 9/08/2005 Christian Brimo
MY FRIENDS
My friends
walk like Beat poets
talk like dice rollers
reject theory
laugh when i call bullshit
My friends
bitch about girls
wear strange hats
Armani belts
fur fringed coats
My friends
pay lots of money to see bands you've never heard
give me music i've never heard
know the girl on the door
and still get charged cover
My friends
are too nice for this world
don't find me sexually attractive
(except the guys)
are 'only joking' when flirting
don't believe I'm a poet
My friends
are virtual
don't respond when i talk
'heh' to all my jokes
My friends
don't show up at my readings
or that one play i wrote
My friends
are anyone who ever smiled or said 'hi'
My friends
don't call when they have free tickets
are only joking when they dance with me
won't tell me how to pick up
My friends
don't care how weird I am
get the coolness of Victorian poetry
and thrift store cool coat hunting
My friends
don't stay when i leave a place
can't survive distance or a few days away
are too full of energy and 5am Great Barrington stoplight symmetry
Massive Attack Coleman Hawkins Miles Davis bong morning Ginsburg reciting Beat worshiping
pavement pounding shadow trailing legendary jumping
5am half-cup studying nonsense spewing
stepping razor
House of Leaves
Les Mis
Mario Kart
My friends
are stuck
in time
trapped
voices
My friends
are hearing this
(if you count a smile
or Roundhouse beer
or 4 months of dice rolling
as
friendship)
My friends
sleep when i'm awake
wake i'm asleep
buy me beer when I need coffee
Bukowski when I need Bowie
My friends
know Byron matters
My friends
finish my sentences
My friends
are too good for this world
cynical to causes
'cause i'll laugh if they aren't
My friends
are a hardy breed
taking my ramblings
my rants and wild hair
My friends
have stacks of Discworld books
(even if I met them at a punk show)
and Spider-Man comics
(or a gallery opening)
and Darth Vader masks
(or a ballet)
My friends have friends in bands
that you'll hear next year on Triple J
and I'll say 'I know that girl singing that'
and you'll laugh
and call me a wino
but my friends won't do anything
because my friends
don't fight
and I just
run away
...so lately there has been a lot of fuss made about Susan Sarandon's daughter, Eva Amurri and her burgeoning sex-symbol status, thanks to her scenes as a stripper in TV-show 'Californication'. Now what people seem to have forgotten, is that Ms Amurri had already bared-all - so to speak - back in 1988 for avant-garde photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Both photos make for some seriously creepy juxtaposition, i can imagine a seedy old man - Tim Robbins? - telling her, "my how you've grown-up young lady"....:
Eva Amurri, by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1988.
Eva Amurri, in 'Californication', 2009.
Finally we should compare, purely for uhhhhh academic? reasons, Eva Amurri to her mother, Susan Sarandon. Ms Sarandon is most likely the reason for Eva's liberal/european attitude to her body, and definitely had to sign some consent forms back in 1988 to allow that Robert Mapplethorpe photo to happen (see photo above).
Susan Sarandon in 'Pretty Baby', 1978
We will look to Will I Am for the send-off:
"Girl were did you get yr slutty attitude from?";
"I got it from my liberal-actor-divorced-single momma"