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HighwayInTheRain

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My Bio
The day is sun-sodden, held in a clench of heat,
a sump of air. Oak canopies flicker,
high overhead. A summer broth. A perfume

of green. If I'm there I'm crouching pondside,
brushing my arms of mosquitoes
and fingering the loam.

The bullfrog keeps its silence. It feels, I think,
the sky's blue-green weight.
I think we both do, the two of us, squatting there, struck dumb

by a sense of a day piled high, too high, sun-flooded,
pressing us to the earth. The bullfrog
shrinks into its puddle, two eyes in the scum,

nothing more, and across those eyes
the whole world bends, wired to a morsel
of fleshy mind, a speck of thought, a little soul-crumb.


I rise, long-nailed and lonesome,
like a soldier watching for any distant shape of Rome.

-- David Troupes


Current Residence: Tucson, AZ
deviantWEAR sizing preference: Small
Favourite genre of music: Anything that sounds good
Favourite photographer: Robert Frank, Robert Doisneau, Sally Mann, Francesca Woodman, Jen Gotch
Favourite style of art: All
Operating System: Brain
MP3 player of choice: iPod Nano 3G
Wallpaper of choice: Paint
Skin of choice: Mine
Personal Quote: Talk nerdy to me, baby!

Favourite Visual Artist
Hopper, van Gogh, Degas, Chagall, Vermeer, the list goes on
Favourite Movies
Amélie, Persepolis, Everything Is Illuminated, Forrest Gump, Les Choristes, etc.
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
The Decemberists, Regina Spektor, Yann Tiersen, Arcade Fire, Said the Whale +more
Favourite Writers
Sylvia Plath, Jonathan S. Foer, Fitzgerald, Vonnegut, Salinger, Nicole Krauss, Shakespeare
Other Interests
Dancing, stumbling upon things, playing pretend, convulsing with beauty
1) Robert Frank. I am awed by his photographs of 20th century America. The ambiances he manages to capture are incredible, and they make you oddly but deeply nostalgic for a time you (most likely) were never even alive to have seen. Like a photographic version of Edward Hopper. http://www.squarecylinder.com/2009/07/robert-frank-sfmoma/ This site has a great bio and a really really good selection of his pictures. 2) Jen Gotch. Quiet, soft, and sosososo pretty. Her first piece in the Defaced series blew my mind. http://www.jengotch.com/defaced_main1.html Really. You have to see this. You just have to. Polaroid FTFW. http://www.jengotch.com/m
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1. You should seriously check out the artwork of Cassandra Warren. http://cassy.alittlenoise.org/work.html I saw her stuff and couldn't stop thinking what an uncanny resemblance it had to the interior of my brain. Or no, that's a bit of a lie, it's rather how I really, really want the interior of my brain to look. Or no, that's not quite it either, it was more like I saw it and got this really strong sense of déja vu because it was like the little halfway emotions and thought insects that got squashed and random images that clutter around my brain suddenly got translated to art. Except really pretty art. Well, that's not the point anyhow
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Stress Blogging

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Agoraphobia + deathly fear of flying in airplanes = aren't you glad you aren't me? I'm leaving for China on the 3rd, and since the flight leaves at 6:40AM, I'll need to get up somewhere between three and four in the morning. My insomnia will probably go completely haywire and I'll probably not sleep at all. To make things a lot worse, I'll have to spend nearly fifteen total hours on an airplane with my crazy grandma, with a six-hour layover in the middle in San Fran. I suggested we go out for a bit while we're in SF, but the aforementioned crazy relative said adamantly no, for reasons indiscernible to human perception. (Okay, she's convinced
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