12 July 2023
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TEETH THEET THETE TEETH +
I got that mouth sadness
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We all got mouth sadness.
IS THERE ANY OTHER KIND?
Stay golden you stupid fuckin' gob!
I want visible dental work - [AU]RGH
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It's just that I feel I [ROT] create my whole self through my mouth. It's where the talking, [ROT] eating, sex - so much of the self happens in the my mouth. ROT
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I MAKE MYSELF [ROT] THROUGH MY MOUTH
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ROTTED ROTTED ROTTED ROTTED ROTTED ROTTED ROTTED
and when dental work is happening or immanent, I feel existential dread like real bone-pain* existential dread.
VISIBLE MENDING
Stones Corner Dental - from last year when I had a gold crown installed. I got it because I think visible mending is cool. And because I like the phrase "a rat with a gold tooth". And because if it's gonna cost 2K, I reckon it should look expensive. And because so much dental work gets done, and hidden, it has become such an enormous class signifier. Quiet Luxury, is people never noticing your teeth.
And because of Garden State and New Slang - The Shins
Gold Teeth and a Curse for this Town.
Were all in my mouth.
*Bone-Pain is a term I heard when a student dentist was removing my wisdom teeth. I was awake in the chair, they were using a bone saw to remove the root of the tooth from my jaw bone, and their supervising professor lent across my open maw and looking into my face said: "I know you're still feeling pain, I can see it in your face. Unfortunately we've already given you three blocks (anesthetic) and that's all we can give in this clinic. Not that it would help all that much because what you're feeling is "bone-pain", all I can say is - it'll be over soon".
I tell this story all the time, because I'll never forget. Teeth are a monster. Teeth are a blight! TEETH TEETH TEETH TEETH.
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'Do I Need to Use a Dragon?' Available on Amazon!
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This was the big and only release of last year. Do I Need to Use a Dragon? was a challenge in that it wasn’t really fiction. It was all about me trying to write a ‘how to’ book, which several people suggested. Took me a few years to finish it since doubt kept rearing its head. Pretty sure there are those who think I have no reason to write this book too, but time cannot…
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17 FEB 2024
The MCR that exists inside the minds of obsessives (me) is kind of like the holy mother (Mary) -- it's not the thing or even a representation of that thing anymore. It's not even a simulacra (? I might be pushing it with this - because upon reflection I think I might be describing a simulacra quite accurately actually - haha)
it no longer bears a likeness, really at all. An idol is what the k-pop darlings call it, and that makes sense to me. I feel it's closest to an effigy. An item that has had so much projected upon it, it becomes holy*.
Wholly unrecognisable
GIMME ALL THAT PAIN
That Gucci Scent - The Last Day of Summer
*Holy - to the holder, and item of ultimate projection. Like close reading. Like for what you really collect is always yourself**. Like all fan art, is just art, is just a reflection of self and now. A light bent through the body.
**Baudrillard, The System of Objects
I also saw this 30 day song challenge, the other day and I'm thinking I might do it.
God help me, do I have an artists' practice at all? Or is my artists practice just hanging out and participating in the goofy little teenage challenges and what-not. Is my artist practice just being a very online teenager for ever?!
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one thing that so many students forget is that, a win is a win. if you planned on doing english homework but instead you finished your history essay, celebrate that, don’t be upset taht you didn’t sick to your plan, at least you got SOMETHING DONE. a win is a fucking win and don’t let anyone tell you different.
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