If I spy you passing at such regal distance, with your hair loose and your whole bearing august, vertigo carries me off.
—Vincenzo Cardarelli

Washington, D.C., February 2007.

Plateaus, the road ahead, and Google Maps of the heart.

2008 June 24

I’d never torn out a page of a Green Apple notebook before this trip, but if you come across two volumes in my archives missing pages, know that they are neither notes on an assassination nor the map to the holy grail, but leaves burned in service of a fire at Kalaloch, WA, the evening of 8 June 2008, cabin #15 overlooking the Pacific Ocean. I wondered briefly what ideas and sketches were supposed to fill those pages, now given to burn. In a way, I’d burned a lot of good ideas and better judgment to arrive at that cabin that night. Before I left for Portland, she told me that if I lived in LA, things might have been different. Of course.

Echoes

  • Spank Rock and Benny Blanco Feat. Amanda Blank - Loose
  • Lee Moses - Bad Girl pt. 1
  • Why? - The Vowels Pt. 2
  • Robin Allender - The School Field
  • The Deadly Snakes - By Morning I'm Gone
  • The Andrews Sisters - Rum and Coca-Cola
  • Spoon - The Beast and Dragon, Adored
  • Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen
  • The Decemberists - Cocoon
  • Ben Harper - Diamonds on the Inside

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