ned smith the third.

[jacktellslies]

i just had a really lovely night; it involved frida kahlo, making brownies in a hotel room, and playing a game with words during which everyone squished together on a bed that was only just slightly too small. we all had our own secret rooms, and we filled them with whatever we wished.

i wrote a letter to my father today in my head, because i'm reading ulysses. i'm really enjoying it, and it's eating my life a little, as good books should. i'd like to tell him, though, because it is something about which i've always wanted to talk to him. james joyce reminds me of him, perhaps a bit more than he should. quests for identities and fathers are circular things, probably because they've been mythologized to the point of cliche. such paths are too well worn for my tastes. would that it were not so.

i'd like to read a book filled with your marginal notes. i'm sure i'd fall in love with you then.

if i'm slightly (or completely) nonsensical, i blame the hour.

Comments

[schizometric.livejournal.com]

Sounds lovely, indeed!

I am going to be a Frida Kahlo painting for Halloween. My skin shall be my canvas.

& I still need to read Ulysses...

♥

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

oh my goodness, you're amazing! do you mean you'll be a frida from a painting, or that you'll paint a painting onto you? i cannot wait for pictures! there is a day of the dead parade in philadelphia every year, complete with a frida look-alike contest.

it is a lovely book. i like it quite a lot.

[schizometric.livejournal.com]

I'll be painting it onto me. :)

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

you're lovely! do you know what painting?

[schizometric.livejournal.com]

I haven't decided yet!

Any suggestions, love? I'm going absolutely mad over it, & it's not even October! Hehe.

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

do you want a self portrait, or a something else?

[schizometric.livejournal.com]

A self-portrait would be easiest. :)

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

[schizometric.livejournal.com]

Isn't that first one of her sister?

I'd love to do the broken columns one, but I'm not quite bold enough to go about baring my breasts. Pity.

Thank you for all the pictures!

♥

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

you are right. it is. i'm a bad person.

[schizometric.livejournal.com]

You are NOT a bad person! You should not even say such things, my dear. You are much too wonderful for it.

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

hehe. sometimes i forget that making broad yet silly value judgements based on insignificant things is not something that all people do...

[schizometric.livejournal.com]

Well, the difference is I AM a bad person. An awful person, really. So to hear you say such things is simply absurd, because you're so very neat. :)

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

you aren't at all, silly! goodness!

[schizometric.livejournal.com]

I won't hear a word of it! This is one thing I won't budge on, though believe me people have tried to convince me otherwise. I am a disease.

There is no arguing with the truth, you see. So you may as well accept it & hope you aren't infected!

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

le sigh.

[schizometric.livejournal.com]

It's true! I promise!

[schizometric.livejournal.com]

Although, it would be quite funny if I painted myself like Diego Rivera...

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

hee!