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Internal Flight Plan, Part Three

untitled 1972, kohei yoshiyuki

What makes the work extraordinary are the many levels of voyeurism expressed or implied. Yoshiyuki has trained his camera on his countrymen as an African wildlife photographer might track lions by moonlight, or Jacques Cousteau might descend in a bathysphere to study unusual creatures on the ocean floor. The general tone here is amazed but also tender, one of wonder at what a photograph can and can’t convey about so intimate (and ludicrous) a human act. The sexual gestures are seldom explicit. Genital close-ups, the money shots so crucial to pornography, are nowhere to be seen.

Download: David Sylvian - How Little We Need To Be Happy (Remixed by Tatsuhiko Asano)
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Internal Flight Plan, Part Two

secret escape pod, seattle, wa; 17 may 2003

(transcribing:)
“…but it’s meditative, calming, and if it wasn’t that it’d be something else.

don’t let the brightly colored leaves overflowing in the gutters fool you: winter has begun.”

Download: Siouxsie & the Banshees - Cannons, Party’s Fall, Dazzle, The Last Beat of My Heart
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the pillow book; peter greenaway, 1997

I lost a battle with myself tonight.

But I suppose the fact that I bothered to fight at all is a start.

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Walking Series, Part Four

five alarm, seattle, wa; 09 october 2007

I know it probably seems like I’m obsessing, but I really couldn’t get over it.

It was like I was walking through an ocean of red, orange, pink and gold, an ocean of fire in the crisp Autumn air.

I have dreamt of it all week, and it’s probably the best thing that’s happened to me all year.

(If you’re wondering if I’m at all concerned, I’m keeping those cards close to my chest right now.)

Download: Tim Buckley - Ashbury Park Version 1, Version 2 / Elliott Smith - Angeles, Tomorrow Tomorrow
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Walking Series, Part Three

pattern making, seattle, wa; 09 october 2007

I can focus my attention on a single detail for hours.

There are 40 steps from the bottom of the stairs to my apartment door,

and the edges of my nails all are curved in the same half-moon arc.

Download: Peter Gabriel - Curtains
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Walking Series, Part Two

i have your back, seattle, wa; 09 october 2007

When I woke up my lips were sore,

I had slept with them smashed against my wrist all night.

Download: Pablo Casals / Yo-Yo Ma
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Walking Series, Part One

stage fright, seattle, wa; 09 october 2007

I can crouch down low,

I can flatten myself out, with my cheek pressed to the concrete,

Download: Brittle Stars - No Longer Waiting / The Aislers Set - Mary’s Song / Unrest - Isabel, Soon it is Going to Rain
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For Mr. Eden

somewhere else, ca; 03 august 2007

You inspire me, dear friend.

Download: Ride - Leave Them All Behind / Tindersticks - My Autumn’s Done Come
Buy the Album: Ride - Going Blank Again / Various Artists - Total Lee: Songs of Lee Hazelwood

treasure hiding (jewels and exotic animals splashed across the asphalt), seattle, wa; 28 september 2007

The post marks pile up, but when I find myself here like this, realizing with surprise that it’s after midnight and I’ve spent the better part of a day laying on my back on my bed, watching through my knees as shadows and headlight reflections climb the wall ,

i know part of me is stuck back there kneeling next to the train tracks, hand on the rail,

waiting for the vibration to tell me before the whistle that there’d be hell to pay.

(I still remember sitting in the window at dawn, replaying oneiric phone calls in my head, pocket knife between my stocking feet, cigarette in one hand, a tumbler of bourbon neat in the other, watching 18-wheelers tumble down the highway and the smoke push itself out of the factory stacks in heavy, sad plumes into the pink and grey almost-morning sky.)

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