11/10/15
i’m thankful for [redacted].
i’m thankful that the bee that landed on the corner of my mouth while i was doing yoga in the arboretum did not sting me. i’m thankful for all living bees, especially those that don't sting me.
i’m thankful for our next door neighbors' witch-house/darkwave/gothcore band, even though at first i found the sound of their rehearsals intrusive and annoying. i’m thankful for the chance to hear their band hone their craft and develop their sound. i’m thankful for the rapid arpeggiated syncopations their bassist uses at the beginning and end of bars and how the rest is locked into a tight groove. i’m thankful that mostly all i can hear is the bass, because of the physics of sound and the thickness of the walls and the space between the rehearsal and my ears, but i’m also thankful for moments like last night in the bath, when i could hear the faint echo of an ian curtis-ish vocal and a guitar feedback apocalypse.
i’m thankful for my next door neighbor on the other side, who i see through the edward hopper light of his windows as we both rummage around in our kitchens in our underwear at 6:30 in the morning.
i’m thankful for leigh alexander always and for the essay "the new intimacy economy" in particular.
i’m thankful for the walking dead, which is the television equivalent of a fast food hamburger, with all the good and ill that entails. i am thankful for my tuesday morning chats about it with j at work.
i’m thankful that i noticed so many girls wearing birkenstocks and socks on campus yesterday—i'm thankful because it was so funny to me, that every corner i would turn, i would see another girl wearing birkenstocks and socks. i'm thankful that when i mentioned this to d, she found an article about it from last year in the daily mail and said that indiana was a year behind trend.
i’m thankful for the way kanye pronounces "handkerchief" as "handker-CHIIIFE" in "sanctified". i am thankful for all false rhymes.
i’m thankful for being reminded of how good whiskey is, even if i drank a little too much of it last night.