belgian gothic

[Nightingale, Milwaukee Avenue below Thomas Street]

music swims back to me

Imagine it. A radio playing and everyone here was crazy.
I liked it and danced in a circle.
Music pours over the sense and in a funny way
music sees more than I.
I mean it remembers better; remembers the first night here.

"Music swims back to me," Anne Sexton

[Between Damen Avenue and Winchester Street, above Chicago Avenue]

it came to me the other day

It came to me the other day:
Were I to die, no one would say,
“Oh, what a shame! So young, so full
Of promise — depths unplumbable!”

Instead, a shrug and tearless eyes
Will greet my overdue demise;
The wide response will be, I know,
“I thought he died a while ago.”

For life’s a shabby subterfuge,
And death is real, and dark, and huge.
The shock of it will register
Nowhere but where it will occur.

- John Updike

[Chicago Avenue east of Damen Avenue]

i want a back porch with a swing and a view

[Chicago Avenue east of Damen Avenue]

lost dog!!!!!

[Damen Avenue below Haddon Street]

jim got kicked in the head by a horse last year

Jim got kicked in the head by a horse last year. He went around killing horses for a while, until he ate the insides of a clock and he died.

"Playboy of the Western World," John Millington Synge; ALSO: Twister (1989), Michael Almereyda

[Damen Avenue above Thomas Street]

there aren't any times but new times

Eighteen years have passed, but have they? By gosh, old times certainly are starting all over again.
Old times. Not a bit. There aren't any old times. When times are gone, they're not old, they're dead. There aren't any times but new times.

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Orson Welles.

[Damen Avenue below Iowa Street]

rain in snow

[Damen Avenue below Division Street]

jessie lee

[Blue Line, Halsted Street at UIC]

searsed

[United 8855, approaching ORD]

headless

[Milwaukee Avenue below North Avenue]

frayed knot

[666 bus headed west]

dawnzerleelight

[Chicago Avenue east of Bosworth Street]

skylines

[Dana Hotel, State Street at Huron Street]

πόλη θεωρείται

[Fullerton Avenue platform, Red Line]

the most common form of despair

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

~ Kierkegaard

[Chicago Avenue west of Damen Avenue]

♫ let's dance

Let’s dance, for fear tonight is all.

- David Bowie

[Chicago Avenue west of California Avenue.]

with the story of the way it should be

It’s got to be fate that’s doing it
A spooky witch in a sexy dress has been bugging me
With the story of the way it should be
With the story of sebastian and belle the singer

"My Wandering Days Are Over," Belle & Sebastian

[Damen Avenue below Division Street]

an intensified feeling of nonchalance

Jazz is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

~ Françoise Sagan

[Milwaukee Avenue at Chicago Avenue]

alph

[Chicago Avenue at California Avenue]