I have no revolt, I have no style, but I suppose I'm turning into something anyway

[gurdonark]

I finally finished a nervousness project that had lain undone for weeks. I had no good reason why it was unfinished; it was a poetry exchange, and anyone familiar with the gurdonark canon knows that none of my creative writing, including in particular my bad poetry, is blemished by excessive attentive thought. Writer's block, after all, is for people who are blocking out something to say. When one has nothing to say, one can say it ad infinitum, flowing like a river. Now I've said my sweet nothing, addressed the envelope, and e mailed off the requisite "sorry I'm late" apology, so I feel once again like a moral force in the universe.

I discovered that the google folks' froogle.com shopping site is in a much more advanced beta version. What a marvel! One can find literally anything on line. As with google, the problem is that something one can find 20,000 sites with this anything, but it then uses a yahoo-like categorization finder to limit the hits. This is very nicely done, although a bit late to help this holiday season.

Yesterday I listened to the Neil Young Decade album. I think that "Cortez the Killer" is the best Neil Young song, although many other songs compete for this title. I always like the story about how the After the Goldrush album made him too broadly popular, so he determined to aim for niche fame forever after. I'd love to be a celebrity in out of the way circles only. That's the "right kind of fame". My perception is that in the arts many folks became celebrities merely by assuring everyone else that they were doing something interesting. In some cases, time proved them right, but while they lived, nobody got it at all.
It cannot be about getting noticed, this life--it must be about something else. I also like "needle and the damage done" a lot.

I have five little forty sheet mini-notebooks, just a couple of inches high and an inch or two broad. Each has forty tiny pages. They are the bonsai trees of my mind.
They are so dollar-store cute that they deserve an informal on line poll--

If you had a miniature notebook, 40 pages in length, what would you put on the pages?

Comments

[platofish.livejournal.com]

Fame: I love the whole notion of people who are famous for simply being famous. The sort of people who appear on the red carpet on Oscar night. No one knows what they do, except attend functions as VIPs. Seems like a good gig.

Notebooks: I'd sit in coffee shops writing little vignettes. Mostly, espresso length descriptions of what the wearer though when she/he bought that bag/shoes/hat....or what they might have 'done' in the past.....what they might 'do' now.....their aspirations....and so on.

Although, writing in such a small book in public, that might appear a bit 'conspicuous', if it appears to be anything more substantial that jotting down items on a shopping or to-do list. IMHO.

My notebook of choice....the mighty Moleskine http://www.moleskine.com/eng/default.htm

buy one, you won't regret it!!

[iambliss.livejournal.com]

Little sharp pencil drawings. Or pen drawings, if the pen is not gunky.
Short amusing quotes pulled from conversations passed by around campus.
Interesting URLs.
Few word story/poem ideas.
Notes to myself.
Glitter.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_riomaggiore/]

as my script is small w/no capitals and a rare concern for punctuation, i believe i could use such notebooks--at present i use scraps of paper throughout the day to jot down ideas i want to explore further, people who come to mind and what i was thinking about them, music or books that i want to investigate further, short musings of feelings at have at the moment and just plain stuff. i pile it all on my desk when i get home and sometimes look at then or more probably i put them in a box and pull them out and thumb through them--like today. i wonder what some of them mean, discard some and pursue others and mostly then put them back in the box.
i like the idea of these mini-notebooks as i would be more organized in my scattered and random recordings. thanks for the idea.

[voodoukween.livejournal.com]

40 favorite things - words, people, thoughts, dreams

[marstokyo.livejournal.com]

If you had a miniature notebook, 40 pages in length, what would you put on the pages?
Page numbers, nothing else

hello

[cabiria.livejournal.com]

apparently we were listening to the same album at approximately the same time this morning. how odd!!

Re: hello

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I love that song, "Revolt into Style"....with the line, "the mirrors of my eyes are always focused in surprise...my mouth is covered by a smile....you'll never know what lies behind these sunken alibis...I've turned my revolt into style".

But do you know, I am not sure I read the underlying art book from which the title is taken:) I think I did, but I don't remember!

[texas-tornado.livejournal.com]

"If you had a miniature notebook, 40 pages in length, what would you put on the pages?"

A list of all the dates I've turned down or never had..... ;)

~Denise~

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I remember dating. It was a nervous time, as I recall :). I can think of one list of women I would have dated but did not, and another list of women I dated but perhaps was unwise to date, but I'm concerned that blank pages would still dominate the booklet :).

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[texas-tornado.livejournal.com]

LOL! I'm afraid 95% of my pages would be blank! :) It's that list of 'should have dated but didn't' that I regret sometimes....oh well, I can't put the sand back in the hour-glass so....I'll just keep adding to my lists ;)

truthfully

[nancyjane.livejournal.com]

too much pressure. the pages would remain blank, i'm afraid, if they were in my sole possession. i'd enjoy the pristine pages, their new smell, and day dream about the best purpose for them for a long time, and still be unable to commit pen to paper. after they aged, i'd enjoy any yellowness, and musty smell, and lament having unassigned a purpose to their youth.

at any age though, i'd be tempted to leave the books out where they could be discovered by by neices and nephews, and i'd enjoy watching them become excited about the possible uses for the pages, and of course indulge them in their daydreams, whatever the outcome.

[circebleu.livejournal.com]

I did froogle at the last minute... It is awesome!

[scott-m.livejournal.com]

I might fill it with doodles, like the one that appears
by my username. Maybe.

[laruth.livejournal.com]

If you had a miniature notebook, 40 pages in length, what would you put on the pages?

Unusual words (one word to a page). I love the sound of words.

[serendipoz.livejournal.com]

Start at the beginning and go to the end and see what results - pen and pencil drawings and papers and notes, and leaves.

Or autographs, ...