saturday snippets

i was tagged recently by wendy...
and i was surprised
at how difficult this was for me to define.

the question is this...
"try to think of three things that I feel good writing should be"

i can't define what good writing is for everyone
but i can tell you what draws me in, what makes me stay...

lyrical yet concise
wordy but sparse
flow

i don't know if this is too vague,
yet this is truly how i feel...
i go for the punches,
i think in clipped phrases...
i read aloud in my head to a staccato beat.

i don't like things that are too obvious,
too drawn out, descriptive, verbose and heavy with importance...
i like quicksilver writing with a stab of sentence
hitting it's intended mark.

does this makes sense?
or is this napoblomo making me sound like i have lost my mind...
posting every day?
what the hell was i thinking.

i would be curious to see what you say,
what your 3 indicators are...
wherein i will slap my forehead
and wonder
why didn't i think of that!

a spritely friday i'm in love...with a lemon lime twist

because this post drew me
to remembering how much
i love
this song,
i am dedicating today's friday-i'm-in-love
to music...

music-i-forgot-i-loved...


the skydiggers....


radiohead...


grapes of wrath...


grapes of wrath again, which i loved even more than first one....


blue rodeo...guilty of singing this at top of my lungs


leonard cohen....my absolute most favorite song ever...seriously...ever.
you can ask my university roommates...who grew to hate my constant replay
of it...

so many more that i could add
but don't want to make it too long to read...
and i find it strange and odd but in a good way
that i never intend to choose to love canadian bands...
but...it just happens...
as with books, too...
i am drawn to them.

poetry thursday...with lyrics


because it speaks to me...
which is what i want poetry
to do...

When you were here before,
Couldn't look you in the eye,
You're just like an angel,
Your skin makes me cry;

You float like a feather,
In a beautiful world,
I wish I was special,
You're so f**kin' special;

But I'm a creep,
I'm a weirdo,
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here;

I don't care if it hurts,
I wanna have control,
I want a perfect body,
I want a perfect soul;

I want you to notice,
When I'm not around,
You're so f**kin' special,


I wish I was special;

But I'm a creep,
I'm a weirdo,
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here, ohhhh, ohhhh

She's running out again,
She's running,
She runs runs runs runs...
Runs...

Whatever makes you happy,
Whatever you want,
You're so f**king special,
I wish I was special;

But I'm a creep,
I'm a weirdo,
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here,

I don't belong here...
music provided by:
radiohead
sudden memory of a song i had forgotten how much i love provided by:
this hardcore and amazing blogger

what song speaks to you?

5 really good things on a wednesday...

still loving this idea from liz elayne...
give it a shot...you'll like it...

5 really good things...
mail that came that
doesn't say yes, but means that door is not shut...
(sorry for being cryptic, but i don't want to jinx it...)
buttered toast with brown sugar for breakfast


an unbelievably blue sky

12 so happy with new boots...
8 so happy with a new pair of gloves...
that it takes so little to satisfy them...

all the new blog people i have met
through SPC...
why did i not do this a long time ago!

now go.
find five.

SPC (what i wear...week two)


i wear docs.

i bought my first pair about 14 years ago...
8 hole and black.
i wore them with baby doll dresses.
i wore them with frayed jeans.
i wore them with my mcdonald's uniform.
i wore them in mosh pits and climbing
forbidden scaffolding outside of churches.
i wore them on first dates.
i wore them on the last ones, too.


my husband bought me my second pair of docs
in burgandy, also 8 hole...
i wore them with maternity clothes.
i wore them at the bookstore i worked at
which is why the toe of one is so much more scuffed
than the other, because i constantly knelt on one knee.
i wore them on my kid's first day of school
and to my daughter's graduation from grade six.
i wore them when i started my first day of school
for early childhood education.


i bought my third pair from a customer at the bookstore.
he asked me if i wore docs all the time,
(which people asked me regularly)...
when i said yes,
he offered to sell me a pair that he had bought
for his girlfriend
while he was on a trip to montreal
only to find out when he got home
that she
had cheated on him.
he sold me the 350.00 boots
for
fifty dollars.
i wear these boots with cords and
baby doll dresses layered over frayed jeans.
i wear them with business skirts and conservative
sweaters.
i wear them to work and to the kid's dentist appointments.
i wear them while taking pictures
and i was wearing them the day i got my driver's license
at 37.

i wear docs.

see what others are wearing...