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Exobiology


Sicily

Not Asleep

A few people have been concerned that I have dropped off the face of the Earth since I haven't been writing any fiction. I still have a creative outlet; I've just turned to more visual projects. Specifically, I'm doing a lot of collage work. I'll post new pieces here from now on, but you can see a pretty complete collection here:
Flickr Set: Art(ish)

 

10ACS - justspring

Mixchange!

01 - Rosemary Clooney - Come On A My House
02 - Moloko - Fun For Me
03 - Bjork - One Day
04 - Example - Watch The Sun Come Up (Joker & Ginz Remix)
05 - Magic Arm - Daft Punk is Playing At My House
06 - The Bug - Poison Dart (Skream Remix)
07 - Rinocerose ft. Bnann - Cubicle
08 - New Young Pony Club - Lost A Girl
09 - Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
10 - Lady Gaga - Teeth
11 - Jace EVerett - Bad Things
12 - Lily Allen - Fuck You
13 - Groove Armada - Drop The Tough (The Twelves Remix)
14 - Monosurround - Mushroomed (Sir Khan Dub)
15 - Empire of the Sun - We Are The People (Shazam Remix)
16 - Linus Loves - European Vacation (Roadtrip Mix)
17 - Silver Columns - Yes And Dance ( Weirdo Police Refix)
18 - Fiona Apple - Waltz

 

09DCS - Treehouse Soundtrack

Next mixchange is up, yo!

01 - Shirley Bassey - Big Spender
02 - Classixx featuring Jeppe - I'll Get You - Gigamesh Remix
03 - Burns - In My Eyes - His Majesty Andre Remix
04 - Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger
05 - Kylie Minogue - Slow - MONSTR Remix
06 - New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream - Van She Remix
07 - Soulja Boy - Turn My Swag On - Arajay Remix
08 - Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses - Reflex Remix
09 - Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
10 - Yoav - Club Thing
11 - Bjork - Gloomy Sunday - Live
12 - Flying Lotus - Disco Balls
13 - Neil Landstrumm featuring Profisee - You Can't See Me
14 - Children of Discord - Distro
15 - Birdy Nam Nam - The Parachute Ending
16 - Zero 7 - Everything Up (Zizou) - Joker & Ginz Remix
17 - Royksopp - Happy Up Here - Holy Fuck Remix
18 - Telefon Tel Aviv - I Lied

 

Harvest

I pulled up the tomato plants today. I'd been putting it off, since so many green cherries still weighed down the branches, and tiny yellow flowers still insisted on blooming. But everything had ceased to ripen, the vines were a brown and decaying mess, and my neighbors were probably tired of looking at it all.

Three overgrown plants. Removing them was like cutting down a forest. I filled half the complex dumpster with them. Pulling and cutting and stepping on dropped, popped fruit underscored the sense of death and passing that permeated the last 5 days.

It rained on my way home Wednesday after Amy told me about Kaya. It rains most days in November. There's not enough sunshine, and this is a big part of why things die. She warned me that winter would be hard, maybe too hard for her.

In May, I planted bells, poblanos, serranos, dill, and basil, but all of those were crowded out and consumed by the tomatoes. They were the most vibrant, wild, prolific tomato plants I'd ever seen. The first I'd ever planted myself. They tasted better than even the farmer's market tomatoes. Depending on how widely you stretch the word, you could even say I loved those fragrant plants and the bright red bouquets they gave.

As I cut through the thicket and finally made it through the lower branches, I found three pepper plants. Stunted, but living and flowering, just weeks before Thanksgiving. A small green pepper hung from one of them.

Life. Different, more delicate life, only visible after something more powerful and virile stepped down. I read too much into it, I'm sure, in my need to make sense of tragedy. Nonetheless, maybe she's finding the same in her own garden. I hope she is finding what she needed, after casting what she had aside.

I love you, Kaya. Always will. Keep on growing, okay?