21 September 2009

Disappear here


"Susan is wearing a white T-shirt with the words LOS ANGELES written on it in red handwriting that looks like blood that hasn´t quite dried, dripping."

"Rachel steps out of the darkness, wearing sweats and a revealing T-shirt with the words LOS ANGELES on it, the flower from earlier still in her hair."

"Danny is wearing a pair of khaki shorts and a FOOTLOOSE T-shirt he got the night of the premiere party at the studio his father is executive in charge of production at."

"He´s waering a Polo bathing suit and a T-shirt that has CALIFORNIA written across it in bright-blue letters, a T-shirt I bought him last year, and he has glasses on and doesn´t seem surprised to find me standing outside his door."

"The cameraman says 'Smoke machine busted' again and one of the girls from outside walks in and if anyone has seen her KAJAGOOGOO T-shirt lying around anywhere and then if Martin needs to use her anymore."

"I get out of bed and put on a pair of Bermuda shorts and a FLIP T-shirt and take the elevator down to the lobby, put on my sunglasses since my eyes are puffy."

"I wipe sweat off my forehead and watch as the girl, unfazed, walks over to a palm tree and leans against it, her white T-shirt with the word CALIFORNIA on it soaked with sweat [...]."

(Ellis, The Informers)

17 September 2009

Tame and Work

"Depression, in most of its manifestations, is the healthy suspicion that 1) there may not be an aim or point to existence, and/or 2) that the life people have actually created, the 'structure of society,' is not one worth participating in. The objective should not be to kill this suspicion, but to tame it and work with it."

16 September 2009

Another Area, Part 2


"I stand up, sit down, stand up again, pull on my shorts and walk out to the balcony and stand there with my hands on a railing, staring at Century City. The sun is setting and the sky is orange and purple and it seems to be getting hotter. Take a deep breath, trying to remember when Christie and Randy came over, when Martin let them in, when the turned on MTV, when they ate the first pineapple, when they lit the second joint, the third, the fourth. But now, inside, the video has changed and a boy gets sucked into a giant cloud shaped like a television." (Bret Easton Ellis, The Informers)