I am falling in love. I know that, I can't help it and I don't want to. People are always trying to get me to worry about how I can't go twelve hours without a computer. How I freak out without my cell and how I've been gushing about upgrading it to a blackberry so as to have Internet access all the time. But see, beautiful, wonderful things happen on the Internet.
Like today.
Here I was, feeling fresh and perky after about my fourth coffee, browsing about, reading 'Pygmy' reviews ( because it is a given fact to anyone who knows me that I have a platonic crush on all that's Chuck Palahniuk) and I stumble upon some site that's going on about authors that are similar the The Mighty in style.
And then I come across the name Denis Johnson.
I very cynically google him up, rush to the quotes section and this is what comes up;
"She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her."
— from Tree of Smoke.
"How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse."
— from Jesus' son.
"Does everything you touch turn to shit? Does this happen to you every time?" The latter struck because I can totally assimilate. Sometimes. More often that I'd like to admit.
And so... if the rest of today turns out to be shit, I'll still be fine because of this.
Yes,I'm off to Amazon.com.
And yes, I'm actually giddy over this.
I very un-sarcastically wish you a happy, happy day.
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Do you know Irvine Welsh? I like to describe him as a Scottish Palahniuk.
"He seems to have a kind of fear in his eyes, as if it's just dawned on him that whatever he's drank it's just not been quite enough to blank out the hideous reality of his miserable life."
- from Filth
DESSS i ve spent the past half hour reading through this!! keep writing!!!
Oh, yes, yes! I've been meaning to read his 'Trainspotting'. Pop culture seems to be happy reading such cheesy shit nowadays. And I'm loving the quote. It's lovely reading something you can, on occasion, relate to.
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