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PK
 2007-11-11 00:34:54
Shiiiiit.
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boxx
 2007-11-11 17:36:30
Just saying..... "HI"....I got here thru a banner.
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vikkitikkitavi
 2007-11-12 11:52:31
Very beautiful post, baby. I remember when I was talking my brother, via long distance phone call, through his cold turkey alcohol/cocaine quit. He told me later that at one point I said to him, "First, you have to stop thinking that this is all so goddamn poetic."
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lj lindhurst
 2007-11-12 13:17:11
I was talking to my very-much-in-denial alcoholic friend the other day, and talking about how much I previously drank and smoked, and she was like, "All the great artists drank and smoked! they ALL DID!" I just wanted to smack her. WTF is that supposed to mean? so what? these great people were operating at only half-capacity? that they had completely fucked-up personal lives, yet somehow managed to create art? It was like she was suggesting that living in the throes of addiction is some kind of magnificent, "Moulin Rouge"-like state of existence, and I was giving something magical up by not living this way. It's just bullshit.
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LisaMcC
 2007-11-12 14:08:30
Nope - nothing "magical" about waking up with a hangover you can feel in your back molars. Nothing especially "poetic" about pursuing something (or someONE) that's shown you nothing but fairly brutal disregard, either.
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vince
 2007-12-02 23:44:57
Hi - Just finished watching 'Beat', a pretty tepid movie about Joan Vollmer Burroughs, although Courtney Love, surprisingly, CAN act. I was wondering if there were any Vollmer diaries / journals / letters published, since she's depicted writing in the film. Where'd you find the letter you quoted, in Ginsberg's collected letters?
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