new skin, raw skin

deep thoughts

which do you find more attractive:

- a woman who looks like a man
- a woman who looks like a man that then became a woman

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itinerary

Tuesday, November 25th : Arrive late night in Somerville, MA

Wednesday, November 26th (AKA MY 24th Birthday!) : 12pm - tattoo appt. After that...wherever the wind takes me, or perhaps more specifically Gloucester, MA with Andrew?

Thursday, November 27th : Turkey Day = cooking and hanging with Andrew's family.

Friday, November 28th : ??????

Saturday and Sunday, November 29th and 30th : Hopefully work brunch shifts at Johnny D's so that I have SOME money to my name. This should compensate the funds spent on aforementioned tattoo. I obviously have priorities. Tattoo > Food/Rent/Other normal living expenses.

Monday, December 1st : Drive home? Must check with work to see if it is ok to miss this day.

CAN NEXT WEEK JUST BE HERE ALREADY?!

there it is

EDIT so for practical purposes i have been convinced that the best idea concerning a tattoo of words in braille is to scale down to just one part of this passage.

i have decided to go with the final part, "behold the perfect pantheon of absence"

it actually looks pretty cool, i have been drawing it out myself, and now i am trying to decide if i want to put that actual quote under the braille....not sure yet though!

body mod

so in my research about a new tattoo idea i have come upon this article:

seriously so sick

more than just looking at that post, if you click their hyperlink refrenced in the text those fucking contact lenses that say "REC"!!!! WTF?!?!?!?

so for my tattoo, i want a passage from House of Leaves that is in braille. the translation is:

"the walls are endlessly bare. nothing hangs on them, nothing defines them. they are without texture. even to the keenest eye or most sentinent fingertip, they remain unreadable. you will never find a mark there. no trace survives. the walls obliterate everything. they are permanently absolved of all record. oblique, forever obscure and unwritten. behold the perfect pantheon of absence."

i really like this passage and i am gonna try to scan the actual braille from the book and post it, it's really pretty. the more i read the translation the more i like it. i think it kind of sums up the entire idea of the book. the way i interpreted the book it is about completely journeying into yourself, it's about love, it's about finding out how to share yourself with someone...truly.

i think that passage while relating to the house in the book very literally because it is a pantheon of absence, it also relates metaphorically to any person. the "house" being our "body"

i don't want to start rambling on about this, i am feeling quite inarticulate at the moment.

more later...perhaps...i'll gather my ideas.

god bless america

i literally chuckled at this for about 5 minutes while waiting for the G train.

call me childish if you wish...