Though you can still call me Lexi Kahn, I'm pulling a Cougar/Mellencamp move and re-identifying. My name is Michelle. I live in Boston, by way of New York, by way of a tiny town in Connecticut. I live with Joe. We're DINKS (dual income, no kids). It's a miracle I have made it to my thirties. Thirties! I am SO a Gen X'er -- go ahead, ask me about the 80s. I love good books, good movies, divine food, leisurely travel, smart comedy and, especially, music. For 11 years ('97 to '08) I was a regular in the local Boston rock scene using the name Lexi Kahn (Google me!) but quit the whole thing to pursue other interests. What those are...is probably what this diary will be about from 2008 forward.
So keep reading! You never know what'll happen.
I told
Scurvyann at the Druid
last week that I was going to start
writing with more...um, I forget how I put it, but whatever I said,
she's now waiting for me to
tell secrets about stuff like who I'm sleeping with. Etc.
Ya think?
Maybe we'll have to work up to that.
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You know what. I forgot how healing it can be to just
write. We used
to call it "free writing" in school. Natalie Goldberg says "open a jugular" in
her book Writing Down the Bones. All it is is, you just let it out, stream of
consciousness, no thinking.
Not here, I don't mean that. I could never do that. Wolf says why not.
I say because. That's for writing
somewhere else. You can't see it. Shut up.
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Joe's girlfriend is coming back tomorrow.
She's been gone for six months. Spain.
That is seriously going to cut into my Joe-time.
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All the girls love Shaun Wolf Wortis. At any one of his shows, there are enough girls there to make it ridiculous. And all of us
(yes, I said us, is this a surprise to anyone, really?) would be, if we were eleven or if
the world was a seventh period study hall, be writing his last name next to our first names over and over
again in the margins of our history notebooks.
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I didn't go to the prom. Wasn't somebody around here
going to throw a prom for all the people who hit thirty, just in case (impending Pretty in Pink reference)
that IS what is missing from our lives?
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I like, in the move 'Seven,' when Brad Pitt says "there' s a dead dog here" and Kevin Spacey says "I didn't do that."
I told