Junkyards - Weeks 11, 12, 13, 14

Week 11
“Wednesday happens seven times a week.” –Charles Bauch
Sunshine in the park (talking about kisses on the stomach, not actual sunshine in the park)
I had a dream you called me and said you were moving to Colorado to live alone and grow a read beard. –a text message from me to my friend Ryan…
“Well, now time passed and now it seems everybody's having them dreams. Everybody sees themselves walkin' around with no one else. Half of the people can be part right all of the time, some of the people can be all right part of the time. But all the people can't be all right all the time… I think Abraham Lincoln said that. 'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,' I said that." –Bob Dylan, Talkin’ World War III Blues
“I’m in my room without pants on.” –Bbram.
12
“Let the silkworm die, let it die, as in fact it does when it has completed the work which it was created to do. …And now let us see what becomes of this silkworm, When it is in this state of prayer, and quite dead to the world, it comes out a little white butterfly.” -St. Teresa of Avila in The Interior Castle
"Feelings of ease, intensity, power, well-being, financial omnipotence, and euphoria pervade one's marrow. But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Memory goes. Humor and absorption on friends' faces are replaced by fear and concern. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-- you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality." — Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness)
“I mean, how many cats can wear boots? Honestly?” –Shrek… in Shrek 2
“I’m think I’m bored without you.”
"But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people." -Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
13
“I’m never as good as when you’re there.” Almost Famous
“All the wax was melting on the trees... He would crawl on balconies, climb everywhere. Do anything for her... My Danny boy. Thousands of birds. The tiniest birds adorned her hair... Everything was golden... One night the bed caught fire... He was handsome, and a very good criminal... We lived on sunlight and chocolate bars... It was the afternoon of extravagant delight... Danny, the Daredevil... Candy the blessing... The day's last rays of sunshine cruise like sharks..." –from the movie Candy
“I think this red bull is broken.” –Bbram.
“I almost wish we were butterflies…”
The sound of you is the smell of hydroponic pot

week 14
“…constantly assaulted by outside voices.” –Brigitte Byrd
“I understand each word but I don’t understand them together.” –Brigitte Byrd
“Some people are just… necessary.” –Matthew Sherling
“And all I found was this bottle…” –Mackenzie Garrot
“What was left to betray?” –Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Junkyard Week 10

Leave It to Beaver Syndrome
shell-shock
"Sometime during my life, toilet paper became bathroom tissue." -George Carlin
"To forget would be to let them be born again in another form." -Sig-Weavie's character in The Village, which I had to watch fo' classe
Fear doesn't deserve us.
"Or dreams about my talking cat telling me where she is. Behind my mom's toilet or writing letters to me from Mexico." -KAITLIN MARIE BARNES.

Junkyard Entries Week 9

"It was the frogs that taught me." -Christopher Anastoos (professor at UWG).. from this essay he wrote (obviously...) that Cara had to read for his class.
"I have been nothing but myself since the day I was born." Big Fish
"Even intimacy comes from the magazines." -R. Hendricks
Sexting is a crime in space
"For the glitter was gone from the eyes of the judge and jury, and, for the moment, they were men again, and knew they were men." -from "The Devil and Daniel Webster" by Stephen Vincent Benét

Junkyard Week 8

What are Freedoms For? - this is a book title i saw in the library... in the wrong section.
ex nihilo - 'from nothing'
"If earth is in heaven, then where is up?" -Lori Lipoma talking about her experience as a child seeing the moon landing on tv
"If there were no clocks, would we know if things changed?" -MK McBrayer
"Did you know time is different from the top of the stairs to the bottom?" -R. Hendricks
"I won't wake up in time to watch you die." -Cara wrote this down somewhere this week which is crazy because of that Trethewey line that popped up in our week's reading "I was asleep while you were dying."

this week's junkyard seems significantly diabolical...

Junkyard Week 7

"I sold my soul on the internet for $6 and an EP. Totally worth it." -Jordan Gore.
"God is Mr. Mom." -Kristen Sims during Satan class
God is not a Republican. - bumper sticker
The Earth is fillin' up and there's mustard on my jeans. (this is a mix of something said in satan class and the fact there actually was mustard on my jeans.)
"I've never heard that sound before." -Jeff said this last week when Davidson's phone rang in class and i really liked the phrasing.

Junkyard Week 6

"You know I can't sleep, I can't stop my brain/ You know it's three weeks, I'm going insane/ You know I'd give you everything I've got for a little piece of mind." - Beatles I'm So Tired
"Chase away the demons and they will take the angels with them." -Joni Mitchell
"Don't stress too hard. Bill Gates won't keep us apart. That's like a famous rap line almost..." -B. Bramlett
"I look like a pregnant man." -KFed. (NEW SEASON of Celebrity Fit Club started next week. I love weight loss. A lot.)
Yetzer ha-ra, Yetzer ha-tov... "God grades on a curve; He always gives partial credit." -Rick Halpurn... an Orthodox Jew who came to speak to my Satan class. It was a really insightful lecture guided by really memorable images and similes. This guy was awesome.

Junkyard Week 5

"Evil is like pornography, we know it when we see it." -L. Lipoma
"Any person who gets drunk off Southern Comfort deserves every pain they get... that's like getting drunk off Vicks 44." -R. Hendricks
"You can't grow up a Tennessee boy without rocks in your pocket." R. Hendricks
How to Disappear Completely
"There are only oceans to catch me." -Adrian Matejka from Seven Days of Falling
"like you always were and I was never."
"Preconceptions are a female dog." -B. Bramlett

Junkyard Week 4

"Nothing good ever comes out of Hickory." (facebook status updates are really interesting. this is a quote by a doctor talking to a nurse about sending a patient to that place for a surgery. such an awesome quote)
12/16 - No men! No men! No men! I am over 50.
He speaks to me in lowercase... (this came from a freewrite, so there's more.)
"But was it wild?" -Marianne Moore
"I wish I could show you my body without clothes on." -hilarious in real life, useful out of context.

Junkyard Entries Week 3

I slaughter smurfs in my shower and leave the evidence in my hairbrush. --- This is pretty easy to figure out if you've seen me today or yesterday or if you've ever dyed your hair blue... basically it looks like that. Smurf massacre.
"What are the words you are born from?" -Randy Hendricks (brilliant man!) said this today in class. I write down everything he says.
I will be 21 in four hours and I told myself I'd be dead by now. -- I wrote this right before we left Poetry today. I write down a lot of these during that class. This kind of came from the mini-chat about the "most significant birthday" and the difference between 16 and 21.
"We have each of us, nothing. We will give it to each other." -Carolyn Forché
"I'm not inside your head. I am your head."

Junkyard Week 2

Peanut Butter Fingernails
"CARA THOMPSON IS NOT A LAUNDRY LINE."
He packed kitty cat breakfast in my lunchbox
they turned Jesus into lunch and asked for his baby face on a cookie cake
snow is a road block, a toe block, a block buster busting blocks like megatron tron tron tran transvestite superheroes swimming stupid, stupid cupid's lucid dreams seem, seems, seams sews snows show, snow block.

Junkyard Entry Week One

"I think something is wrong with me... Maybe it's all that Fanta Orange I've been drinking..."
"Dark side of Romanticism" fathers brothers can you hear me? mania and exuberance the air is so thin and the whole world revolves around me
"This is a room full of English majors. A Carnival of Superfreaks. Same thing."
"Do you think they meant nothing is real or no-thing is real?"
mutation of truth, complicated business.
Katie '04