Staring Across the Water, Looking For the Light in Your Eyes

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			Staring Across the Water, Looking For the Light in Your Eyes - De File Does Collecting Make You Feel Dirty?

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	Staring Across the Water, Looking For the Light in Your Eyes
	From New Order, "Temptation"-- Each way I turn, I know I'll always try To break this circle that's been placed around me From time to time, I find I've lost some need That was urgent to myself, I do believe Oh, you've got green eyes Oh, you've got blue eyes Oh, you've got grey eyes And I've never seen anyone quite like you before No, I've never met anyone quite like you before Bolts from above hurt the people down below People in this world, we have no place to go Oh, it's the last time Oh, I've never met anyone quite like you before Oh no, I've never met anyone quite like you before Tags: autobiography, everyday, health Current Location: 85719 Mode: saturnine Muse: "All of My Love" over the speakers at Café Luce

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	From: flw	Date: August 22nd, 2008 12:03 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

What is that you... Why are you always flying and driving all over the place?

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	From: cbertsch	Date: August 22nd, 2008 01:55 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

The second person is a flexible instrument.

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	From: flw	Date: August 22nd, 2008 02:07 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

I have no idea what you are referring to. This is going to bug me all day long. And in the end, I am not going to get it. Ahh, I take it that my question implies that you, yourself, personally are flying and driving all over the place. Without the aid of machinery. I shall imagine that this is the case. That you can fly and somehow travel on motorways at great speed without the aid of machinery.

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	From: cbertsch	Date: August 22nd, 2008 06:01 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

You always bring joy to my day, when you post or comment. So does "you," but that's a story for another day.

In two weeks or so, my schedule should have firmed up enough to make it possible for me to contemplate a rendevous.

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	From: flw	Date: August 23rd, 2008 12:47 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

"firm" "contemplate rendezvous"

hmmm...

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	From: masoo	Date: August 22nd, 2008 07:50 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

My very favorite song of all time. I even wrote a short story about it once.

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	From: cbertsch	Date: August 22nd, 2008 01:54 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

I wanted to read that story.

And, yes, I do like the second version, even though you don't. That said, I prefer the first.

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PROFILE


User: cbertsch Name: Charlie Bertsch

CALENDAR

LINKS (INCLUDES NON-LJ BLOGS)

FEATURED LINK

Elliott Berry

PHOTOGRAPHS

Picture of the Moment

PUBLICATIONS

Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life

Printculture

io9 (a sci-fi blog)

Other magazine

Morphizm

McSweeney's

Left Business Observer

The Believer

DEGREES OF SEPARATION

Steven Rubio's Online Life

Joel Schalit

Super Bon! (Jonathan Sterne)

Annalee Newitz's column

Mark Sussman

Justin St. Germain

I Cite (Jodi Dean)

Michael Bérubé

Eensy Weensy (Ann Powers)

Jill from h2so4

Jessica Suarez

Mike Kolakoski

Fredoluv

K-Punk

Ted Friedman

Scott McLemee

Catfish Vegas

MUSIC

Zoilus

Simon Reynolds

Boblog

Flaskaland

RockCritics.com

LITERARY

Ron Silliman

ACADEMIC

Intellectual Affairs (Scott McLemee's Column)

The Valve

Crooked Timber

POLITICAL

CNN Political Ticker

Blog Left

Nathan Newman

GENERAL ENTERTAINMENT

Tim Goodman (SF Gate)

Culture Blog (SF Gate)

ABOUT DE FILE

You're looking at content from my Live Journal, which I have been keeping since 2003. I consider it a personal blog, though it lacks stream-of-consciousness revelations that typify that genre.

That said, if you manage to discern the confessional mode within entries that are superficially tight-lipped, I will reward you handsomely. Or at least pretend to do so.

In addition to reflections, however mediated, on my daily activities, De File features periodic excavations of material from my "files," a revelation sure to disturb anyone who has seen my garage. It's an experiment in integrating past and present, perhaps with a little redemption along the way.

Politics is always on my mind, but rarely explicit here. I’m working on a theory about what personal writing like this does to literary identification and why some people resist its pull so powerfully. But my goal is to make that theory dissolve in my practice, a density in liquid.

You'll note that I have links to blogs not on LiveJournal directly above, as well as assorted websites of note. The blogs I read regularly on LiveJournal itself fall under "FRIENDS" at the top, for those of you unfamiliar with LJ’s workings.

You can write me. I'm "cbertsch" before the circle-a and "comcast.net" after it.