<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803</id><updated>2011-07-31T04:37:46.460-04:00</updated><category term='Academic Papers'/><title type='text'>peelyoureyes</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>81</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-3756962980544195304</id><published>2009-06-03T11:04:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-03T11:12:23.163-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Academic Papers'/><title type='text'>Dialectics of Desire and Revolution: Vienét's 'Girls of Kamare'</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="document-info"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Unpublished&lt;/span&gt;           &lt;p class="document-abstract"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ABSTRACT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="document-abstract"&gt;In the Fall 2008 issue of October, Kelly Baum wrote an article entitled The Sex of the Situationist International. In it, she radically reformulates the accepted art historical understanding of a common “leitmotif” in Situationist publications, that of nude or semi-nude women. Previously, critics ignored the usage either by dismissing it as, in the words of Thomas Levin, “problematic depictions of scantily clad women” or by condemning it, as did Susan Suleiman, as the product of a “men’s club.” Baum, however, asserts that the Situationists, while reproducing some of the gender biases of the time, were actually using these images as a way to critique the alienation of desire as present in advanced capitalism. Baum goes even farther, indicating that the images the Situationists used in their publications of women were not actually images of women, but rather images of desire. Relying on work done by Thomas Y. Levin, Giorgio Agamben and Henri Lefebvre, Baum succeeds in developing an analysis that situates the Situationist use of images of desire as gendered politicization of desire to attempt a “revolution in desire.” In this paper, I intend to extend Baum’s analysis of printed images and a curt examination of Debord’s Society of the Spectacle to a film directed by Situationist International member René Viénet called Girls of Kamare, on which there is little to no theorization available, while exploring the revolutionary implications of this detourning of desire through a psychoanalytic and visual studies lens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://saic.academia.edu/JoelKuennen/Papers/96809/Dialectics-of-Desire-and-Revolution--Vi%C3%A9net%E2%80%99s-Girls-of-Kamare"&gt;READ ON&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="document-abstract"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-3756962980544195304?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/3756962980544195304/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=3756962980544195304' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/3756962980544195304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/3756962980544195304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2009/06/dialectics-of-desire-and-revolution.html' title='Dialectics of Desire and Revolution: Vienét&apos;s &apos;Girls of Kamare&apos;'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-262459731166523154</id><published>2009-06-02T11:31:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-02T13:19:23.815-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Preface to the Journal of Poignant Living (in progress)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/SiVfBb3OkOI/AAAAAAAAAeE/sGBYBz-H03c/s1600-h/The+Shivering+Moment.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/SiVfBb3OkOI/AAAAAAAAAeE/sGBYBz-H03c/s320/The+Shivering+Moment.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342781011208868066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The goal of this record is to record the moments that sometimes, but inevitably do occur within the experience of my life&lt;gdoc:callout calloutshowfull="true" calloutclosed="false" calloutmarkerid="bezu" callouttype="footnote" class="writely-callout writely-callout-data google_footnote" id="evsc" name="gdoccallout"&gt;Right, my life, why should you care about my life? Well, though I am a fan of a certain conservative solipsistic point of view, I do believe experience, and specifically the communication of personal experience a highly subjective and individual endeavor. However, I do believe experience to be mediated by biological and socio-cultural norms and practices, which is why I am writing this, someone will get it, right?&lt;/gdoc:callout&gt;&lt;marker style="display: inline-block;" class="writely-footnote-marker" id="bezu"&gt; &lt;/marker&gt;Specifically moments which have been characterized as "Ah ha!" moments, yet further, "ah ha"s that manifest themselves physically, not just psychically. In my experience, the shivers, goose bumps. An understanding, ultimately provoked from outside the self gets worked into a personal narrative of being and the moment in which the newest puzzle piece to be formed out of ethereal reality is fit into the geometric structure of the 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 completed puzzle story, a physical marker of addition, simplification, complexification, abstraction, what we call wisdom, is affected. A shiver of what some may call the divine is felt traveling like lightening through my system. I'm taking special care to find colloquial expressions of this phenomenon, in hopes that what I am communicating is actually understandable and maybe, just maybe, inspires the 'divine' &lt;i&gt;breath&lt;/i&gt; of 'shivers' of which I speak.&lt;br /&gt;A chronicle of such is important for a few reasons. On a personal level, it is these moments which mean the most to me, that make me love life almost as much as the existence of the feeling of &lt;i&gt;love&lt;/i&gt; does. That's not exactly right, I wish that were completely correct, but it is only a half truth (the part about me loving love). The bastard descendant of Western chivalric love&lt;gdoc:callout calloutshowfull="true" calloutclosed="false" calloutmarkerid="s783" callouttype="footnote" class="writely-callout writely-callout-data google_footnote" id="d2fz" name="gdoccallout"&gt;Ocatvio Paz, &lt;i&gt;The Double Flame: Love &amp;amp; Eroticism&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/gdoc:callout&gt;&lt;marker style="display: inline-block;" class="writely-footnote-marker" id="s783"&gt; &lt;/marker&gt; between a man and a woman that exists today doesn't hold much significance for me personally, however I am compelled by what people will do for the intense feelings of affection that develop between people as a reaction to an innate condition of loneliness predicated upon the solitary nature of understanding (here we see that conservative solipsism I was speaking of earlier).&lt;br /&gt;A second reason for this transcription of phenomena is its seemingly metaphysical nature. This of course brings up the question of where the body ends and the...&lt;i&gt;spirit, soul, consciousness, personality, identity, Ego and Superego,&lt;/i&gt; etc. begins. In my estimation, our culture has been wrong to view linguistically view this problem of metaphysics on a horizontal scale of signification. In other words, to negatively oppose body and mind and this is of course a discussion which has been existent since earliest philosophical meanderings, yet here we are, in a rather advanced state of human cultural production and  we&lt;gdoc:callout calloutshowfull="true" calloutclosed="false" calloutmarkerid="r:q:" callouttype="footnote" class="writely-callout writely-callout-data google_footnote" id="rrro" name="gdoccallout"&gt;Yes, even the most scientifically rational person will find themselves falling back on this distinction every now and again&lt;/gdoc:callout&gt;&lt;marker style="display: inline-block;" class="writely-footnote-marker" id="r:q:"&gt; &lt;/marker&gt; cling to this idea that outside of our body, there, we are. As if pointing from within we can see our reflection outside. Perhaps something like Lacan's mirror. Lacan, Metz, Mulvey have wrote that it is, and this is an intense, but I believe correct, abstraction, that it is within the social that we find the reflection of what we call soul. And once again, we've swung back around to &lt;i&gt;understanding between&lt;/i&gt; as the ultimate goal. But more on this when need be.&lt;br /&gt;So, for right now, we have an optical illusion of selfhood which has produced the greatest metaphysical question of western philosophy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-262459731166523154?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/262459731166523154/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=262459731166523154' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/262459731166523154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/262459731166523154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2009/06/preface-to-journal-of-poignant-living.html' title='Preface to the Journal of Poignant Living (in progress)'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/SiVfBb3OkOI/AAAAAAAAAeE/sGBYBz-H03c/s72-c/The+Shivering+Moment.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-590230839895476993</id><published>2008-06-11T19:48:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-11T19:48:42.175-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/SFBkUct3drI/AAAAAAAAAUc/bPMfSjXRQUM/s1600-h/_MG_6387-low.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/SFBkUct3drI/AAAAAAAAAUc/bPMfSjXRQUM/s400/_MG_6387-low.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210775071336396466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-590230839895476993?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/590230839895476993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=590230839895476993' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/590230839895476993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/590230839895476993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/SFBkUct3drI/AAAAAAAAAUc/bPMfSjXRQUM/s72-c/_MG_6387-low.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-5061035242035410998</id><published>2008-03-12T13:27:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-03-12T13:29:49.752-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Movers and Shakers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/R9gg68Fv7NI/AAAAAAAAASg/VRWD9jya23I/s1600-h/4-dudes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/R9gg68Fv7NI/AAAAAAAAASg/VRWD9jya23I/s400/4-dudes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176923968597126354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Dane in Afro wig, Adam with Band hat, Joel with rockstar glasses, Shane with tattoos&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-5061035242035410998?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/5061035242035410998/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=5061035242035410998' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/5061035242035410998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/5061035242035410998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2008/03/movers-and-shakers.html' title='The Movers and Shakers'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/R9gg68Fv7NI/AAAAAAAAASg/VRWD9jya23I/s72-c/4-dudes.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-6519809973675210811</id><published>2008-03-12T13:25:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-03-12T13:27:25.181-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Culture Shock Costume Party</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/R9ggXMFv7MI/AAAAAAAAASY/EczaXj7gNTY/s1600-h/70%27s-pornstar-something.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/R9ggXMFv7MI/AAAAAAAAASY/EczaXj7gNTY/s400/70%27s-pornstar-something.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176923354416803010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-6519809973675210811?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/6519809973675210811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=6519809973675210811' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/6519809973675210811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/6519809973675210811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2008/03/culture-shock-costume-party.html' title='Culture Shock Costume Party'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/R9ggXMFv7MI/AAAAAAAAASY/EczaXj7gNTY/s72-c/70%27s-pornstar-something.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-3324193288680097820</id><published>2007-12-18T02:52:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-18T02:58:25.533-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Grey, Spiral-y Life</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/R2d9Yp8znCI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/GXAJM5E12Gc/s1600-h/tree-of-life-is-grey.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/R2d9Yp8znCI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/GXAJM5E12Gc/s400/tree-of-life-is-grey.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145218961825307682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/R2d8d58znBI/AAAAAAAAAJw/3lppJMOhvwA/s1600-h/tree-of-life-is-grey.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-3324193288680097820?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/3324193288680097820/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=3324193288680097820' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/3324193288680097820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/3324193288680097820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2007/12/blog-post_18.html' title='Grey, Spiral-y Life'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/R2d9Yp8znCI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/GXAJM5E12Gc/s72-c/tree-of-life-is-grey.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-2040781391399400269</id><published>2007-12-18T02:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-18T02:38:46.847-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Drunken Philosophic Philanthropy</title><content type='html'>Where have I been this last year...living in the moment, every moment, because it's moment to moment, every moment.  That's life these days, decisions made second upon second, always connected to some network of requirements.  Design this, accomplish this, speak this, arrange this, that is my life now. Every moment I make something happen.  I awake, jump.  Run down some crafty stairs to my awaiting Mac portal to the world.  And there I sit, 7 hours, 12 hours, some crazy amount of my life, there I am, sitting, getting things done, doing exactly what I want to working at the speed I think.  And BWAW! something's done. But what do I feel, how do I rate my concurrent experience that is life?  Bored.&lt;br /&gt;Bored.&lt;br /&gt;I still urge to feel other, to know other, to be interested in the conversation that surrounds me....what would it be to know that? To be appeased in just being, in that everlasting moment of which I live repeatedly.  Most likely it would be exactly what I feel right now, with a slight twist (I'm sure) in vocab and significations....but thet grey would remain, that indifference to the actual moment--although, that occurence, that happening which is so disgusting--it's fragmentary nature IS the moment.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-2040781391399400269?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/2040781391399400269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=2040781391399400269' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/2040781391399400269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-4481459816595172534</id><published>2007-07-23T00:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-23T00:57:31.282-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Death</title><content type='html'>Disgust, covered by decorum, masked by want of normalcy&lt;br /&gt;Disgust, a wild sea of untranslatable emotions&lt;br /&gt;Disgust, failure, wanting....waining into wanting&lt;br /&gt;of&lt;br /&gt;something more than I have in me,&lt;br /&gt;something more than can be,&lt;br /&gt;something, something;&lt;br /&gt;nothing here.&lt;br /&gt;-crap-&lt;br /&gt;I haven't been this depressed since&lt;br /&gt;those days when life was still fresh, new, and foreign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven't been this confused since&lt;br /&gt;those nights when I wrote my philosophies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A friend of mine died.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disgust.  Something.  Nothing.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-4481459816595172534?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/4481459816595172534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=4481459816595172534' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/4481459816595172534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/4481459816595172534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2007/07/death.html' title='Death'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-3492812840400278221</id><published>2007-07-04T17:06:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-04T18:01:38.491-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Peacock</title><content type='html'>A few weeks ago, an enchanted night left me with an enchanting woman in my bed who stole my attention and became a muse, morphing into that transparent ethereal object which is most elusive to those of the artistic persuasion.  To tell you the truth, she was the first person to stir my soul since my Colombian ex (a fire brand, she filled all my needs and twisted my person so).  It came at the perfect time; I was not proud.  I needed someone to inflate me and we ran around town, hand in hand like children trying to find some dark corner to play forbidden games.  We played til the morning light.  Then she left and went back home to Chicago.&lt;br /&gt;Round about the same time, I hired a photographer.  From the moment I perused her portfolio, I knew she was perfect.  She had the eye for detail and, and most importantly, an appreciation for visual juxtaposition.  Her photos provoked me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then a few days later, an e-mail came and she unfolded a story like no other.  It seemed horrible, distressing, I sympathized.  I'd been through that, I had my heart thrown to the side.  This bit of information also put me on edge a little though  I was afraid that my photographer would just disappear; a dream that, once again, came so close and then vanished like a morning fog, destroyed by intrepid rays.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, a week or so passed and she came in for a little interview.  As soon as she walked through the door I was struck by that uncanny feeling of closeness.  This feeling, is on eof the great mysteries to me.  Parallels, coincidences, memories, all intersect and play tricks on your mind.  In the time it took for her to walk from the door to in front of my desk, she had already become my friend Mapy (my first real sister, friend, foil, lover that could never be), Lina (my ex, dark, confident, proud, viciously alive, my first drink of fire), Eileen (my aunt, Irish, jolly, acerbic, stubborn, a strong woman who I always revered for just that).  This combination of loves which strode toward me, sat down and I knew at once that this girl was going to be something.  Something to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this same time, the week after I encountered a new muse, my friend from Hungary came back from his cross country tour.  That weekend, I was to take him to Chicago to fly back to hungary and so naturally, we stayed with this girl who had stirred me.&lt;br /&gt;The first hours went by slowly, we drank beer, trying to cloud the line of decorum.  Then, as we strolled through Blues Fest, childish fingers began to play with childish hands.  He kissed, again and again, and the Windy city turned into another romantic locale.  Metropolises do that to me.  I become intoxicated; high off the fumes.  We rolled in her bed, made coffee in the mornings, made love in the afternoons and made dinner at night.  We'd wake up at noon and lay in bed til 3, go on the porch and read til 5.  Go out to dinner and the to a museum.  We strolled the city pretending as if we had known each other forever, dated for years and were slated to get married on the morrow.&lt;br /&gt;Then one morning (round about 3 in the afternoon) I find myself with a backpack on my back, turning the 19th century door handle of the 5th floor apartment, turning to my right, kissing her deeply.  Smiling.  Damn did she have a smile, one that split her face in half with its breadth and cut the world in half with its levity.  I pulled the door open, looked back and walked down the stairs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 days in 2 days later, I found myself slouched over a rust orange bar, taking pictures of that something's fingernails.  My mind was gone, burnt out.  My body lay lucidly still.  It felt as if whenever I didn't move, I would wave, like a flag floating gently on a breeze or a styrofoam cup bobbing up and down in a still current.&lt;br /&gt;We slept together that night.  I remember feeling ashamed for being so dead that night and for the next few days, every time I saw her I felt like I had to apologize for something but she never needed it as I came to find out...I like that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This girl is something; I just don't know what yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See, then there's moments like this, when her presence is missed, where I feel a distinct jealousy of whomever is stealing her presence from me.  It drives me crazy.  I hate the concept of jealousy, based on the idea of ownership (or even worse, based on some sort of mirror of reflection which constitutes my own being?!), it can lead to no useful action, no matter the tragic beauty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am inconstant.  My attentions are always divided.  She was right when she said I gave my love away too early...once, I poured my attention on one and no other...no need to, but that's in the past, far away now.  I just hope it is a cup that can be refilled again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So back to this something; she's an artist, and there, I can identify with her.  She is not a muse to me...although she has inspired this parlay into the realm of words.  So wait, she's now a muse and an artist to me, that could be a deadly combination.&lt;br /&gt;Something is kind, she has a benevolent grace about her which confuses even me.  Must be the Catholicism in her.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-3492812840400278221?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/3492812840400278221/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=3492812840400278221' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/3492812840400278221'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/3492812840400278221'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2007/07/peacock.html' title='The 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Autoportrait'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/RowLuYZFFfI/AAAAAAAAAIk/ogcI64tMRNc/s72-c/kelly%27s+feather.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-801027531675029842</id><published>2007-06-22T23:37:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-22T23:41:28.076-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Photographer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/RnyWXPzN1YI/AAAAAAAAAIc/Img-WQOwX9Y/s1600-h/6.14+173.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-8143090106425211755</id><published>2007-04-16T09:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-16T10:00:58.448-04:00</updated><title type='text'>New CocoRosie album!</title><content type='html'>www.writingwrong.com/img/lol/joel.zip&lt;br /&gt;click the link, hear the music, get childish&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-8143090106425211755?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/8143090106425211755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=8143090106425211755' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/8143090106425211755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/8143090106425211755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2007/04/new-cocorosie-album.html' title='New CocoRosie album!'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-1747349091351905035</id><published>2007-04-14T21:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-14T21:13:40.554-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I am here.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/RiF6lzsEL0I/AAAAAAAAAGA/zOyOY0tDg4s/s1600-h/paris+joel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/RiF6lzsEL0I/AAAAAAAAAGA/zOyOY0tDg4s/s400/paris+joel.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053455046835187522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A crack, just a crack&lt;br /&gt;that's all I ask.&lt;br /&gt;To feel a cool chill,&lt;br /&gt;a sultry breeze,&lt;br /&gt;the heavy weight of a summer wind,&lt;br /&gt;even that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To swing curtained windows wide&lt;br /&gt;'twould be the ideal,&lt;br /&gt;an exapansive view from above&lt;br /&gt;would below unpeal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And from up on high&lt;br /&gt;again,&lt;br /&gt;I could say,&lt;br /&gt;"Here am I. I am here,&lt;br /&gt;Come this way."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-1747349091351905035?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/1747349091351905035/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=1747349091351905035' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/1747349091351905035'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/1747349091351905035'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2007/04/i-am-here.html' title='I am here.'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/RiF6lzsEL0I/AAAAAAAAAGA/zOyOY0tDg4s/s72-c/paris+joel.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-2074946662618013114</id><published>2007-04-09T15:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-09T15:57:28.235-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Charles Diamond about town</title><content type='html'>check out the project!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/czsUOIBfVV0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/czsUOIBfVV0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-2074946662618013114?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/2074946662618013114/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=2074946662618013114' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/2074946662618013114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/2074946662618013114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2007/04/charles-diamond-about-town.html' title='Charles Diamond about town'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-2385309386314054302</id><published>2007-04-08T23:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-08T23:11:48.127-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Mein Lieber Aron</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/Rhmu8yBBkyI/AAAAAAAAAF0/NQAEOELExco/s1600-h/P4060253.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/Rhmu8yBBkyI/AAAAAAAAAF0/NQAEOELExco/s320/P4060253.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style='clear:both; 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What can cause such a love to dissolve into wavy streams of reality, truth and lie, myth and prophetic testament; nothing true, nothing false.  Leadless, lifeless, left to my own devices which have always been destructive.  I never loved myself until I met you.  Not just that, but I loved who I was with you.  I was passionate, awake, alive, constantly on my toes, ready for emotional, intellectual battle and it was fantastic.  You made me bleed and it was a dark crimson red that spoke passion and life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, drained as if a million leaches covered my body.  I feel ashen, lifeless, hollowed out like a dugout canoe, left to float along the river of life without the slightest diversion in course.  I yearn to feel as I did before and that longing for what exists only in fragmentary memory will stay with me.  I know that now.  It can hide itself like a dormant disease; new skin, fresh cells will cover it up, until one day, a slight poke or prod awakens it and it grows with every beat.  Slowly, the cancerous cell swells.  Each memory provoking it until it is met with the resistance of reality, then it sinks back, again covered by new growth, new experiences. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it’s there, and worse than that, I don’t consider it a disease, but in a way, one of the most beautiful pains a person can feel.  The pain of separation; no, of becoming one and then forcefully separated, that pain is cutting, violent, grinding, and finally laced with a sweet glaze of melancholy that makes one lick at the wounds, sucking every last bit of dark crimson from that hole, savoring it for its existence, its plain existence.&lt;div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'&gt;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-7088226115296544670?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-3343569453725730252?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/3343569453725730252/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=3343569453725730252' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/3343569453725730252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/3343569453725730252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/Rc42UqSUZwI/AAAAAAAAACA/X6l2_KGx220/s72-c/P2100227.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-8719001628841657802</id><published>2007-02-08T17:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-08T12:45:16.125-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Web 2.0</title><content type='html'>An amazing video by a professor in Kansas.  Post your thoughts on it, I'd like to get a little forum going about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-8719001628841657802?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/8719001628841657802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=8719001628841657802' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/8719001628841657802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/8719001628841657802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2007/02/web-20.html' title='Web 2.0'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-2539478566172334485</id><published>2007-02-06T18:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-08T01:33:44.549-05:00</updated><title type='text'>SNOW</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://rhetor.vox.com/library/video/6a00c2251caeb08fdb00c2251cb174f219.html"&gt;http://rhetor.vox.com/library/video/6a00c2251caeb08fdb00c2251cb174f219.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was a video that three of my classmates and I did in Winter of 2006 during a class period when most everything was closed by a snowstorm...hence the inspiration of the title but with a 'slight' meta-rhetorical twist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ENJOY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;danke mapyposa! mua!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-2539478566172334485?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/2539478566172334485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=2539478566172334485' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/2539478566172334485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/2539478566172334485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2007/02/snow-real-link-sorry.html' title='SNOW'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-4883227342751651932</id><published>2007-01-31T12:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-31T12:59:21.559-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Detatchment</title><content type='html'>I have always had a certain talent for unfeeling.  Most of us do.  One friend in particular is an asshole.  He knows it and it's his mask.. His favorite facade in which he feels most comfortable.  When confronted about it, his only reply is "Defense mechanism, fuck off."&lt;br /&gt;Another friend, she's constantly insecure, always looking for affirmation, so be it if it comes from across a country through virtual means...actually...it's better that way.  All that you wish it to be it can be,  want to forget about it?  No problem, it doesn't even exist. &lt;br /&gt;Yet, when reminders of an underlying attachment appear, what can be done?  Nothing.  Just try to forget.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-4883227342751651932?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/4883227342751651932/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=4883227342751651932' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/4883227342751651932'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/4883227342751651932'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2007/01/detatchment.html' title='Detatchment'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-4535837806482317296</id><published>2007-01-20T13:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-20T14:15:27.196-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Boss</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/RbJp1iwlAUI/AAAAAAAAABs/t9s9_KQsU-8/s1600-h/P1160159.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/RbJp1iwlAUI/AAAAAAAAABs/t9s9_KQsU-8/s400/P1160159.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5022192903056064834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The confused little boy,&lt;br /&gt;unnatural in any environment.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-4535837806482317296?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/4535837806482317296/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=4535837806482317296' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/4535837806482317296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/4535837806482317296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2007/01/boss.html' title='The Boss'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/RbJp1iwlAUI/AAAAAAAAABs/t9s9_KQsU-8/s72-c/P1160159.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-2323045364905913863</id><published>2007-01-17T10:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-17T10:50:27.498-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Distance, Difference, Imaginaire</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/Ra5FZiwlATI/AAAAAAAAABg/iyLg_oFVkdI/s1600-h/P1140107.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/Ra5FZiwlATI/AAAAAAAAABg/iyLg_oFVkdI/s400/P1140107.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021026939694285106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-2323045364905913863?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/2323045364905913863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=2323045364905913863' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/2323045364905913863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/2323045364905913863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2007/01/distance-difference-imaginaire.html' title='Distance, Difference, Imaginaire'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/Ra5FZiwlATI/AAAAAAAAABg/iyLg_oFVkdI/s72-c/P1140107.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-109770773696963332</id><published>2007-01-16T20:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-16T20:42:26.108-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Levels of Detatchment</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/Ra1--SwlASI/AAAAAAAAABU/BI4xhzsfEvY/s1600-h/P1140102.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/Ra1--SwlASI/AAAAAAAAABU/BI4xhzsfEvY/s400/P1140102.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020808768240550178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-109770773696963332?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/109770773696963332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=109770773696963332' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/109770773696963332'/><link rel='self' 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href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/2362509109262650234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/2362509109262650234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2007/01/blog-post_3475.html' title=''/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/Ral45SwlARI/AAAAAAAAABI/ZIe2YrYF1Vc/s72-c/PC240214.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-652761765360005584</id><published>2007-01-13T19:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-13T19:23:49.043-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/Ral3tSwlAQI/AAAAAAAAAA8/DxGkYDfdlio/s1600-h/P1060012.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/Ral3tSwlAQI/AAAAAAAAAA8/DxGkYDfdlio/s400/P1060012.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5019674879694536962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-652761765360005584?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/652761765360005584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=652761765360005584' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/652761765360005584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/652761765360005584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2007/01/blog-post_3289.html' title=''/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/Ral3tSwlAQI/AAAAAAAAAA8/DxGkYDfdlio/s72-c/P1060012.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-6610710076152941454</id><published>2007-01-13T19:13:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-13T19:13:41.677-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Cultural Diffusion and Choice</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;It has long been debated, whether or not culture is created or reflected by the media.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;However, this type of short-sighted dualism can only be harmful when looking at such a complex and important issue.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Media is at once the shaper and refiner of culture as well as the manifestation of culture.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The nature of media is reflective and creative, not one or the other.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;First, in order to understand this dynamic process, we must examine the way in which Humans perceive this dynamic process, we must examine the way in which Humans perceive culture.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;WE are submerged in culture, we breath, bleed, and sweat culture; in a way, the only “real” identity that we can point to as our won is that mass manifestation of culture, not a personal identity.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The images of our future and past (almost never our present) surround us, and through this reflection it is we who are created.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Stewart Hall’s theory of Encoding/Decoding explains this complex interaction and the way in which culture is both built, transmitted, redefined (or reinterpreted) and then spread further.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The subject reflects upon the cultural identity manifest and transfers their own existence onto the ideological image prepared for it by culture.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Now, as to the assertion that culture creates rather than reflects society, if we follow the logic behind this statement, one begins to see a sort of indeterminism develop which provides the subject with a freedom of creation and self-determination reminiscent of an existential view of life and freedom and choice.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;In a way, I’m a relativist when it comes to choice.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;If I choose to believe that culture is merely a reflection of previously determined material, then I am no longer a subject, but rather a passenger with no say over my destination.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;But this assertion (though I am a relativist) seems to hold little water.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Even if we take Hall’s theory of encoding decoding, once can see that the subject plays an integral role in cultural diffusion and transmission; therefore in the creation itself.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The idea that an origin of creation is long past; all that remains now is a series of imperfect copies which develop mutations (or novel nuances); these mutations become transmitted and ingrained into the pre-existing flux of culture (baudrillard’s simulacra)&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Now the bigger picture is beginning to develop; a picture where culture is subject to eternal regeneration and mutation.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;However, the subject is not left out by this theory.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It is within the mutations themselves where the subject can reappear, reshaping its future through choice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-6610710076152941454?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/6610710076152941454/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-6515497148819765444</id><published>2007-01-13T19:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-13T19:15:40.496-05:00</updated><title type='text'>An old story....</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 200%;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Out to Sea&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;She lay across from me, swaying gently in the colorful hammock.&lt;span style=""&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;A book lay cracked-open, spine severed, on her rolling stomach.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;A salty breeze cooled my face as it came softly in off the endless, blue plain.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I wiped my brow and sat up, somehow refreshed and somewhat eager to struggle against the dense humidity.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;In this place, gravity isn’t what keeps you grounded, it’s the humidity.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;That damn humidity.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;My eyes reached out to the cerulean plain, scowering for something, for an image, a beacon.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;But none came.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The land of water just seemed to vanish into the grey horizon, rolling on, and on.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I lay back into the womb of my hammock and let my eyes be pulled shut by gravity’s surrogate.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I slipped into a dream.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;It began, not so much as dreams normally do, but as one of those blurs in reality that can only be brought on by the shear force of heat.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I saw coconuts being twisted about in dancing chorus lines, floating up through the sky, higher and higher.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Palms and bushes leapt skyward, creating dense jungles of slate sky-scrapers.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The white sands shot out over the ocean, setting down four-lane highways of silica.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The reality of my surroundings was being pushed and pulled by the pendulous weight of heat.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Then I was inside.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It was my home; a home that I do not have and maybe never will, but at that moment it was mine.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;No, it was ours.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;She sat in the cushy Lay-Z-Boy, nursing her tea and watching TV.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I came around in front of her, turned off the TV, took the mug from her hand and placed it gently on the coffee table next to her.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I took her hands into mine, as the questioning look appeared on her face, and pulled her up.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Her left hand I put around my neck.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Her right, I fit into the palm of my left hand.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I grabbed the stereo remote and turned on the burned CD I had made.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It was all the songs that we once danced to, long ago, back in the days when we were still young.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;We waltzed, we salsa’d, we danced for hours around the living room.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I twirled her around the furniture and dipped her over chairs.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Not a word was said, and we never blinked.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;She laughed and smiled a coy smile.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;Then as the music came to an end and our steps slowed, our motions became more deliberate.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The edges of the picture began to blur out.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The walls fell.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Everything fell.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I was standing in the middle of a room that had ceased to be.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;She was gone, the house was gone; there was nothing but falling color.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;I blinked and everything stopped, all was white and then I saw her.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Raised above me, shrouded in an ethereal light.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;She sat there, an unearthly, unbelievable benevolence radiated from her face.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Her features had transformed, her being was perfected in the light of my imagination.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;There she stayed, sitting on her golden cloud, possessed by the winds of time and the light of hope.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;As the awe struck, she began to ascend.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I watched her go and as the figure became a blur, the blur a dot, and the dot a speck I found myself back on the beach.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Both hammocks were there, but she was not.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I walked around the deserted paradise, looking for memories, clues to what may have happened.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I peered out over the endless sea.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It looked clearer for some reason.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I stepped into one of the tidal pools that lined the beach, feeling the warmth of the sun they had collected travel up my legs.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Then something came over me.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;A feeling to run, to move, to change and I sprinted until I was waist deep in the cool ocean and dove.&lt;span style=""&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;I cut through the sun heated upper layer and into the dark, cold depths.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The bottom of the ocean dropped before my eyes.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Endless, bottomless, salient depths.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I swam, and swam, deeper and deeper.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;When my arms began to tire, I just stopped.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I rose up through the water, finally free of the humidity’s pull.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The &lt;i&gt;lightness of being&lt;/i&gt; brought me back to the surface and as my head crested the waves a rush shot through me.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I swam back to the beach infused, enthralled with me, with my life, with all that now surrounded me.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;With the endless possibilities that lay before me on this…new land.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I walked up the beach, shaking water from my ears and running my hand through my hair.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I walked over to the hammock that was hers.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The book with the severed spine lay there.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Bathing in the sun, still open to the page on which she had stopped.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I picked it up, turned it over.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;There was only one sentence.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;“Wake up.”&lt;span style=""&gt;      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-6515497148819765444?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/6515497148819765444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=6515497148819765444' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/6515497148819765444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/6515497148819765444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2007/01/old-story.html' title='An old story....'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-4633283985658914124</id><published>2007-01-13T19:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-13T19:11:58.885-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sea of Tears</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;The door slid open with a pneumatic &lt;i style=""&gt;pssshhh&lt;/i&gt; and the stench (for that could be the only word to give the air the proper weight) of people, packed and crammed, the faint aromatic of piss and the sweetening yet sickening smell of sweat mingled into a perfume of delightful humanity.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I didn’t have a reservation for the train and most all the seats car, cutting through the acrid air.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I slung my hitchhiker bag into the baggage rack and found an open seat.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Put down my other bag with all the gadgets and whistles that modern necessity required of me, stripped off the two coats and scarf that had been suffocating my body the whole walk to the train station.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;I threw myself down into the seat and quickly became acclimated to that all too familiar but unusually concentrated smell.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I stared out the fogged window at a frosty reflection of my own face and I felt the train begin to pull me from behind.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The station slowly started moving away from me and I watched it disappear into the night.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;That’s when it all began to come into me, or rather out of me, out from inside of that ethereal little string that binds me together; it seeped through the cracks, a glowing red of fully oxygenated love. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;I was back in her apartment, the first time in her apartment, the only time in this apartment.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;She was living and studying in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Strasbourg&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:City&gt; at the time.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;She was there next to me, distant but there…at least she was there, that had been a change; or rather I was there; sitting next to her in her bed from IKEA, starring at the bouncing , morphing screen saver on her lap top.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"&gt;“What’s wrong?” she asked.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"&gt;“I don’t know, I feel like I can’t express what I want to express, there’s a wall.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;You somehow built a wall in between you and me.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"&gt;“Yeah, I did.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"&gt;“I feel like I don’t know you, like I recognize you but I don’t know you, or at least you don’t recognize me.”&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Her eyes looked at me solidly slowly, intently listening to my words but with an air of detachment that was driving me insane.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;“It’s like the person I know in here,” I pushed my fore-finger into my forehead and tapped with all my force, “isn’t here in front of me, like I’ve fallen into a gap between two realities…”&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;With that word, all was lost and I sank into the deep dark crevice of suffocating passion.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;My eyes snapped shut, pushing out gallon upon gallon of water until the abyss began to fill with my tears.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The water grew higher and higher and as it came up to my knees, my waist, and finally my shoulders, I noticed that my feet were no longer touching bottom.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I began to float upon my tears.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"&gt;I can still smell the dried salt cling to my face or maybe it’s that smell horrible smell of people, salty, sweet, oppressive, ugly; but without those tears upon which I float, I would have sunk, long ago, to the bottom of that bottomless abyss.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-4633283985658914124?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/feeds/4633283985658914124/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5491439501002280803&amp;postID=4633283985658914124' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/4633283985658914124'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5491439501002280803/posts/default/4633283985658914124'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://peelyoureyes.blogspot.com/2007/01/sea-of-tears.html' title='Sea of Tears'/><author><name>joel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16799123341488097266</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491439501002280803.post-8095350074502602594</id><published>2007-01-13T19:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-13T19:04:58.319-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/RalzViwlAPI/AAAAAAAAAAw/gHI_qf5ivhY/s1600-h/IMG_0429.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2FaSblunVU8/RalzViwlAPI/AAAAAAAAAAw/gHI_qf5ivhY/s400/IMG_0429.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5019670073626132722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5491439501002280803-8095350074502602594?l=peelyoureyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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