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Crazy Horse
2008-02-05 10:52:00
"He would have preferred, I imagine, simply to avoid them and go on living a traditional Sioux life, raiding, hunting dreaming; but the option of avoidance was not available to him for very long. The whites were too many, and they weren't satisfied with the Holy Road. They weren't satisfied with any one place or one road; they wanted everything. So he fought: on the Bozeman, on the Powder River, on the Yellowstone, in the Black Hills, on the Tongue and the Rosebud, at the Little Big Horn...He didn't win the war. What is hard to judge is how long he really expected to, if he ever expected to. Despite much urging, and unlike Red Cloud, Spotted Tail and Sitting Bull, he never went east, never saw the whites in their seats of power; had he done so, he might have drawn the same conclusion they drew. But he went his own way, travelled his own road, until it dead-ended at Fort Robinson in September of 1877. Looked back on from the perspective of one hundred and twenty years, Craz...
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Oliveira Street - Los Angeles - 11/07
2008-02-03 14:24:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Oliveira Street - Los Angeles - 11/07, originally uploaded by levari.

bedside reading
2008-02-02 15:25:00
"You see, in this world there is one tragic thing: everyone has his reasons."-Jean Renoir
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Kitai (Protection)
2008-01-30 01:08:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Kitai, originally uploaded by levari.

Boy
2008-01-25 00:27:00
If you look closelyyou can see him disappearing(few ever do forbeauty doesseem to havethat effect.)He does not mind, though,not like he thought he would.He does not mind,it does not hurt his prideto be the center of attentionin this way.He does not mind,he has watched othersand studied well...-some with grace-some without-some he loved-some he pretended to love (for reasons he still cannot quite understand)-some he did not even tryWith all this experiencehe did not mind,and pretended to disappearwith nothing morethan his own signature.He did not mind,it was easyeven without a working pen.He did not mind,he would not returnthis much he knewwas right now.No promise,no seed planted,Just his body,Just his eyes,and the impermananet edgesof them seperating himout.Just his positionat the center of the universe,that small and meaningless stage,with his happiness and hatred, finally.But every once in a whilehe does have an urgehe cannot explain:He wants to tell them all.He knows he should, c...

Buddy - Los Angeles, 1/18/08
2008-01-23 00:18:00
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Birthday Letters
2008-01-18 00:40:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Birthday Letter, originally uploaded by levari.
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The Realist Manifesto
2008-01-16 12:15:00
"Language was invented to hide one's thoughts."-Talleyrand
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You
2008-01-14 09:47:00
I'm in the clutches of the livingeven if it will never bequite right.So let the daylight have its formalityas long as you become my mythtonight.9/21/07

figure - Winter, 06
2008-01-11 05:10:00
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To The Notebooks (17 Years)
2008-01-04 09:34:00
meaningless history, clouded photography,attempts at nobility, natural instinct for idiocy,tossed off drawings,the blade of reality,studied lies, fumbling towards honesty,infinite pretense, the sometimes redeeming gift of creativity,endless violence, bottomless delicacy,the hole,the ecstasy,noble cowardice, stupid bravery,infallible fallibility,all the enemies,friends,loves,family, and the only proof of this residencyI've tried to record,(for some reason I still can't understand,)ever so faithfully.Los Angeles 3/1/07
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#1
2008-01-02 09:50:00
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Psychoanalysis Of The Plant - 12/05
2007-12-24 07:28:00
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unexpected poem
2007-12-22 10:14:00
(for some of us)"There arenofrivolous momentsthistime of year."-Judd Trichter
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Famous Gambler, 2007
2007-12-21 09:27:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Famous Gambler, 2007, originally uploaded by levari.

Famous Gambler, 1937
2007-12-20 22:43:00
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Profile - 3/07
2007-12-20 09:31:00
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Metamorphoses
2007-12-18 10:28:00
...My soul would sing of metamorphoses,But since, o gods, you were the source of thesebodies becoming other bodies, breatheyour breath into my book of changes.-Ovid
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Staring At The World Through His Rear View
2007-12-17 07:23:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Staring At The World Through His Rear View , originally uploaded by levari.
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Los Angeles @ 3:13
2007-12-16 08:06:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Los Angeles @ 3:13, originally uploaded by levari. "Los Angeles, come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town."- John Fante, "Ask The Dust"

the subtle, quiet policy of scorched earth
2007-12-12 08:23:00
Unroll our history and,yes, it's true:we have lost much countryin each other,to each other;more than can ever beremembered,much less written down(even if old Homerwas still around.)Slashed and burned the landscape out mercilessly,ripped the dogs from the porchesand the babies from their cribsas we marched through,no regrets/no remorse,sometimes continue to,(for this is all animals with our stripes ever know how to do.)But somehow, through all our battered handsand sutured, unbleachable selves;through all these useless, no longer fitting feetwe have left in our wakewe have yet to surrenderan eye lash, a toe nail, a bone, or a dawnto any of them.Boulder, Colorado - 11/07
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Withdraw - 1994
2007-12-07 11:21:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Withdraw - 1994, originally uploaded by levari.

Girl At The Counter
2007-11-29 06:30:00
Girl At The Counter , originally uploaded by levari.
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Kitai 2/07
2007-11-26 08:08:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Kitai 2/07, originally uploaded by levari.

Percy and Max
2007-11-19 08:02:00
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Kyle
2007-11-14 05:16:00
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The Clock Was Red
2007-11-12 23:37:00
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The Clock Was Red, originally uploaded by levari.

my tribe
2007-11-10 11:56:00
megan's in the bedroom drawing and watching TV,brian's in the garage dreaming impossibility.junk Man's in his bedroomre-painting again,jeff's banging on the backdoorjust trying to get in.danny's on the telephonetrying to calm Jake,adam's in the bathroomthinking about the money he could make.liz went to New York Cityand she ain't ever coming home,now kyrsten drives around L.A.singing to herself alone.judd's in his apartmentnoon on Tuesdaytrying not to think.lee's lying on the couch -he hasn't moved in five hours -drawing humming birds in invisible ink.max is with Natashatrying to make love last.marko's with everyonehigh againfloats on past.mazzi's pouring coffee philosophically,mike's at the gymrehabbing his blown out knee.beau's busy wiping the bar downwatching the world get by,you wonder who will be the last of usto call the betand finally saygoodbyeLos Angeles - 8/02
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Autumn Pages
2007-11-07 01:07:00
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Pipes' Ping
2007-11-06 08:48:00
it's supposed to be winter andi'm officially tiredof all theirgrand gestures,symbolic meetings of solidarity,rallying cries,and statement games.right nowi want the forgotten,the never noticed,the pushed aside,the beetle's wing,the offscreen,bob marley's toe,the surrendered,and useless shadowsat 4 o'clock.it's supposed to be winter, andmy biology'shammeringfor a long overdue hibernationcurled behind closed doorswith you:what we see, feel, smell, tasteand nothing elsefor a while;and down blankets,and snow,and windowstranslucentfrom frost.tonight i turned the heat on for us,listened to the pipes' pingfor a while,pretendedi was waiting for yousomewhere else.Los Angeles - 2/15/06
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