... i got all my brethren with me
what can i say... every time this DJ uploads a new set, i feel like taking pictures again. music is still my only guide
ground control boomeranged...
... as so many of them are wont to do.
The passage of time has its advantages, among them, acquiring the sure & certain
knowledge that, if it was good for me, it was amazing for him; if I felt
passionate, he felt even more so. No matter how they behave after… especially if they behave badly
afterwards.
A
year after Ground Control brought my spaceship back to earth, he materialized
once again out of the welter of being and nothingness. In a club, of course. Where he cornered me, and the following conversation ensued:
Ground
Control: Do you remember me?
Stef:
Of course.
Ground
Control: And… do you remember… last year… in the morning… I gave you my number?
Stef:
Uh-huh.
Ground
Control: Yeah, so… I was wondering if… maybe… you lost it?
Stef:
No. Why do you ask?
Ground
Control: Because I waited for days for you to call, and you never did. So I
thought maybe you lost my number.
Stef:
You said such awful things to me as you were writing it down, that I threw it
away as soon as you left.
Ground
Control: You’re kidding… what did I say!?!?
Stef: You said… blablablabla.
Ground
Control: I did not.
Stef:
Did too.
Ground
Control: Jesus. I can’t believe I was such an asshole.
Stef:
I couldn’t either. Especially since I thought we had a nice time.
Ground
Control: I had a great time. In fact, it was the best I had before or since.
After meeting you I went back to Paris and I broke up with my girlfriend.
Stef:
C’est la vie…
Ground
Control: I'm thinking about moving to BA... do you have a boyfriend?
Stef:
How beautiful you are… sorry gotta split!
Ground
Control: Give me a call if you’re ever in Paris!
vintage girlontape, for a friend who recently broke up
The Intergalactic Space Traveler's Return
Jumping back into the ring after five years of marital fidelity is akin to an astronaut’s re-entry after a long, arduous intergalactic mission: the blue planet is coming up fast, and as I punch in the landing sequence and pray that ground control hasn’t lost my coordinates I worry about my fate in a world grown unfamiliar in my absence and in which, hampered by a now quaint skill set, I'll inevitably be quarantined into geekdom.
My first discovery is that my knowledge of the boy-beastie is far from obsolete, because evolution has been a non-issue in the light years that I’ve been away. Case in point, the friend who hits on me four days into my separation, ergo while I’m still on the ground, visibly hemorrhaging from multiple and aggravated wounds. I explain that look I’m really not up for this I hope you understand etcetera. He replies somewhat huffily what do you take me for, besides I’m madly in love with so-and-so and anyway I consider you a friend repeat friend stop and drops out of sight.
Anyway: What is a man…what’s a kiss…what’s sex? I wonder as, much like an amputee feeling her missing limb, I become aware of a blank, curious gap: something essential has been taken away, and while it doesn’t hurt, its absence, I know, makes me a cripple. Don’t worry, you’ll snap out of it. You just have to give it time my friends tell me kindly, in the tone people use to recommend chicken soup for a lingering cold. I nod, faking agreement, then run home to check my intergalactic space travel instruction manual anyway. God forbid I missed some key point in the landing sequence or, worse, an entire section titled MIND THE GAP. But all it says is: thinking is pointless, dancing essential. Like what I need right now is a freaking fortune cookie,
like I have a choice. Cut to 5am, my favorite nightclub and the stranger who lives by the motto my heart belongs to my girlfriend, but my body belongs to me. Since here I am floating in a tin can, convinced that my circuits must be dead, at first I overlook the signal coming in loud and clear that THIS IS GROUND CONTROL. He’s locked on to my ship, and he’s bringing me in. He's hot, he’s articulate, he gets me, I get a thrill, yes, cab, home:
as I step gingerly over the threshold with another man I’m fully expecting the earth to open up under my feet but the dreaded crossing is smooth, flawless, delightful, for ground control with his verve and grace, movie-star looks and wicked rock 'n roll hair, deep sexy kisses and whipsmart banter, has unquestionably been designed to spec and flown in from Paris exclusively for me, solely to be deployed at this precise moment and no other. (con't)
the passion of lovers... the glory of bauhaus
if Lord Byron, Keats and Shelley had had electric guitars... they would be Bauhaus:
A gut pull drag on me
Into the calm gaping we
Mirrors multi reflecting this
Between spunk stained sheet and odorous whim
Calm eye-flick shudder within
Assist me to walk away from sin
Where is the string that Theseus laid?
Find me out in this labyrinth place
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