August 03, 2004
dragonflies and nectar of the gods
I've seen two girls, in three days, with dragonfly tattoos. This is good. In Athens, sitting at an outside (a coffeeshop) table, I noticed a girl across the sidewalk. She wore a tank top. She had two huge dragonfly tattoos: tails on the points of her shoulders, angled in toward the centers of her top. The dragonflies were well-tattooed and breathtaking, and I kept staring at them, all the while afraid to be caught staring at her chest, certain she wouldn't buy the explanation that I was taken with her dragonflies. I considered asking if I could take a picture, but I value my never-slapped face. Then today, a dragonfly flying up a girl's spine.
As if this weren't enough, while at a movie theatre with my friend Judah, I looked up at the lobby wall and saw a 10x16 foot poster of Lola. If any of you who live in Atlanta are looking for a job, I promise to get you hired there if you'll get me that poster. Please. I beg of you.
Then, to top off the weekend of the gods' sweet nectar, I was given a lengthy hair-cut by my new favorite hair-cutting friend Roar. It's enough that I love having my hair cut, but add to that being able to smoke during the cut, and it's full-fledged hedonism.
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Then, I was given the privilege(?) of being the first male allowed to participate in my friend Amy's wing sessions. When good friends of hers visit, she lets them wear the wings and light a sparkler and sit on the swing for a photo.
And, finally, Moses and Jesus. I anticipated many adventures with the boys, but as you will see, they got a bit sidetracked, and I lost them for a few days--boys will be boys, I suppose, even old Bible boys.
So I'm back home, and I trust some real writing will commence soon. And some photos, as my new camera arrives tomorrow. Sweet nectar of the gods.
Posted by ghetto monk at August 3, 2004 03:14 PM | TrackBackYou're definitely the most sardonic looking angel I've ever seen.
Posted by: emily jane at August 3, 2004 03:41 PMthat's because there's nothing angelic about me--that's a look of acknowledged guilt.
Posted by: jeremy at August 3, 2004 04:03 PMand now you live forever on amy's coffee table, complete with dragonfly.
thanks for sharing the good bits with us. i'm glad jesus and moses got to see the tree that owns itself.
Posted by: stephanie at August 4, 2004 08:52 AMi know it's a little late, but the photograph of the girl holding the bird a few posts ago is amazing; it's so rare for a picture to actually capture the expression in someone's eyes.
i'm sorry to have missed meeting moses and jesus while they were in town. i would have liked to attach a real person to all this writing.
Posted by: amys at August 4, 2004 10:45 AMhey jeremy - $13.99 for a lola poster at this website:
http://www.publispain.com/super-posters/Foreign-RunLolaRun.htm
i think this is the one you mean??
i think you make the best guardian angel ever!
Posted by: bobbie at August 4, 2004 10:52 AMbobbie, thanks for the compliment?
unfortunately, as delightful as it is, that poster is the standard-sized poster. the one at the theater was literally at least 8 feet tall.
Posted by: jeremy at August 4, 2004 11:12 AMamys, thank you, and i had no idea you were in atlanta. shoot. both fortunately and un, you could probably talk to those whom i met and get all the boring details--i'm much better company behind the screen.
Posted by: jeremy at August 4, 2004 11:14 AMwindows-down, music-blaring driving has never had a better companion. thank you for the visit. (i'm not sorry for any of it.)
Posted by: judah at August 4, 2004 12:23 PMthanks, judah, for the windows, music, chocolate milk, and allowing me to stare at Lola.
Posted by: jeremy at August 4, 2004 12:30 PMwhat theatre?
Posted by: abe at August 5, 2004 07:27 AMmidtown art cinema, i think
Posted by: jeremy at August 5, 2004 12:23 PMtold you abe... not tara.
Posted by: natalie at August 6, 2004 06:12 AMI bet the theatre would give it to you if you asked?
That pic of you with the angel wings on your back and a smoke between your lips is the best thing ever.
Posted by: jamie at August 6, 2004 02:18 PMthanks, jamie. as for asking the theater, well, it's unlikely, the movie having been released in 1999, thus making the poster a 5-year resident. and it's LARGE, and framed. it's probably for the best, as it would not be healthy for me to have a life-sized lola in my apartment.
Posted by: jeremy at August 6, 2004 03:57 PM
i live less than 10 blocks from that theater. i would be inclined to steal it for you, but, alas, i was not invited to frolic with Jesus, Moses and the gang, so i guess i won't risk getting another misdemeanor...
PS: you give good haircut, roar.
Posted by: olivia at August 6, 2004 07:48 PMouch, olivia. ouch, i say.
Posted by: jeremy at August 6, 2004 08:34 PMThat was uncalled for on my part. I was in a pissy mood and took it out on you. And I was sad about that. I'm sorry.
Posted by: olivia at August 7, 2004 06:30 PMthanks, olivia--it's okay. you can piss on my blog as much as you like. . .
Posted by: jeremy at August 7, 2004 09:29 PMso was the movie good? I haven't seen it yet. A peculiar site you have but interesting. i don't know what crunk means. jojo x
Posted by: jolene at October 1, 2004 06:55 AMjolene, do you mean Run Lola Run?
Thanks for visiting. I don't know what crunk really means, either, but I know how to use it.
Posted by: jeremy at October 1, 2004 10:07 PM