tags: The Cure
2001
February
- 2001 Feb 23
- Without Rhyme or Reason
Am I a moron or what? My life is like a diluted, bawlderized version of Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s. (My other role model is, megalomaniacally, José Rizal. Frighteningly, I would say Céline’s life is the cheerier of the two.) I would probably never make it as a writer, though. I can always seem to find a Cure song that precisely expresses my misery.
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August
- 2001 Aug 20
- Trust
The Cure's Wish is an excellent album for the pining heart. Besides the obvious songs like "To Wish Impossible Things", "A Letter to Elise", and "High", there's this beauty, which is likely to completely unman me if I get drunk enough.
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2002
January
- 2002 Jan 9
- An Excerpt from Dhalgren
Then sometimes you just have to appropriate a passage from someone else’s masterpiece because it all fits so well.
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- It Wasn't That the World Changed…
More thoughts about Dhalgren and the nature of synchronicity.
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2011
January
- 2011 Jan 17
- random song lyrics
If only I had thought of the right words
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I could have held on to your heart
If only I'd thought of the right words
I wouldn't be breaking apart…
2015
February
- 2015 Feb 5
- better than a time machine (reprise)
Driving through Old Town Pasadena, my iPod plays the first track of the album "Wish" by The Cure and suddenly it's the summer between my sophomore year and junior year in high school again, and I'm feeling nostalgic about all that existential angst.
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