December 2009
19 posts
I am tired of this weather. I feel like the sky is hemming me in to my bed, one big grey blanket tucking me in tight around my toes.
ah well
books > people
I took a dive under and through a wave, arching my back as I exploded at the top of it and flew backwards, falling on to its crest as it broke beneath me. The wave crashed in to the shore and tickled the dry sand, and then rushed back towards me.
As I touched my feet to the sand I felt my ankles dragging forward, water hands wrapped around them and tugging. The wave disappeared back to sea, to...
She comes out of the ocean and later lays her head on his chest, her hair all fanned out across it. Her skin tastes salty from sea, and sweat, and she listens to his chest like a conch, for the sounds of waves breaking or softer, a heartbeat.
“The water said shuckashucka, and kissed her.”
– Dave Eggers
“Because, in the end, no one will ever give a shit who has kept shit ‘real’...”
– Dave Eggers (via tom armitage) (via unicornology)
“He strips me to my last nakedness, that underskin of mauve, pearlized satin,...”
– Angela Carter, The Erl-King
“A dozen husbands impaled a dozen brides while the mewing gulls swung on...”
– Angela Carter, ‘The Bloody Chamber’
Who, God, or Optus?
meeli: so do you have to pay the 650?
Derek: nonoo.. omg. I'd be on the phone in a split second!
meeli: to who?
Derek: God?
meeli: "excuse me phone company but i don't want to pay this"
Derek: No, Optus.
Derek: Ohhh.. it works!
meeli: what does?
Derek: Calling them and saying "wtf?"
meeli: who, god, or optus?
Derek: Optus.. lol.
meeli: "God, seriously, wtf"
meeli: "what are these nipples for"
meeli: "why do I have foreskin"
meeli: "you made mistakes dude. fix them."
meeli: "oh and BTW god, my phone bill. do something."
