9: The Most Beautiful Sound in the World – Which I Hope to Never Hear Again
I’ve been reading at the direction of my head-shrinker about why we are attracted to the people we are, and I believe that what I’ve read is true. Continue reading
Archive for November, 2014
Desperate Romantic: My Life as a Stalker (A Lamentably True Story)
Posted in Acts of devotion, Love letters, Observation, Real Men with tags Eurydice, Rodney Dangerfield, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Little Match Girl on November 29, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Desperate Romantic: My Life as a Stalker (A Lamentably True Story)
Posted in Acts of devotion, Love letters, Observation, Real Men with tags 100 Love Sonnets, Ace, Corinthians, e.e. cummings, Eurydice, google, i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart), Joker, Leo Tolstoy, Pablo Neruda, Phi Phi Island, stalker on November 28, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
8: the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart (Continued)
I have moments where I find myself on the verge of tears. One of them was when I read the following: Continue reading
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Desperate Romantic: My Life as a Stalker (A Lamentably True Story)
Posted in Acts of devotion, Love letters, Observation, Real Men with tags Bob Marley, Corinthians, Eurydice on November 27, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Desperate Romantic: My Life as a Stalker (A Lamentably True Story)
Posted in Acts of devotion, Love letters, Observation, Real Men with tags Allen Ginsberg, Bikram yoga, Charles Dickens, Howl, Roald Dahl, Russel Hoban., The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz, The Wish on November 26, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
6: Calm and Huge, Like a River of Violence
This kind of obsessive love is often depicted as torture. Continue reading
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Desperate Romantic: My Life as a Stalker (A Lamentably True Story)
Posted in Acts of devotion, Love letters, Observation, Real Men with tags Ace of Spades, e.e. cummings, rose, somewhere i have never travelled on November 25, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
5. Fifty-One Jokers and an Ace (Continued)
That really knocked me onto my heels. I don’t know if you’ve heard it, but there’s a poem called somewhere I have never travelled that says, Continue reading
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Desperate Romantic: My Life as a Stalker (A Lamentably True Story)
Posted in Acts of devotion, Love letters, Observation, Real Men with tags Ace, cards, Joker, Marilyn Monroe, Windsor Station on November 24, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
4: Fifty-One Jokers and an Ace (Continued)
It’s hard to know who I’m addressing this to, because there is a considerable disjunction between everything up to and including the conversation of the night of day four and the letter that came on day six. The morning of day five, I received a text saying, Continue reading
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Desperate Romantic: My Life as a Stalker (A Lamentably True Story)
Posted in Acts of devotion, Love letters, Observation, Real Men with tags Bali, Cat's Eye, Dandenong Ranges, Margaret Atwood, orgasm, Pornography, sanity, Thailand, Yarra Valley on November 23, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Desperate Romantic: My Life as a Stalker (A Lamentably True Story)
Posted in Acts of devotion, Love letters, Observation, Real Men with tags dancer, Eurydice, marionette, shadow, TAFE on November 21, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
2: The Best Piece of Art I’ve Seen (By No-One Famous)
The best piece of art I’ve ever seen by no one famous was a dance piece at a TAFE one year, somewhere in the late nineties. I went with my then-girlfriend to watch a young ballet dancer friend of hers doing a solo piece. Continue reading
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Desperate Romantic: My Life as a Stalker (A Lamentably True Story)
Posted in Acts of devotion, Love letters, Observation, Real Men with tags Bob Marley, Corinthians, Eurydice, Gregory David Roberts, India, love, obssession, Psychiatrist, psychopathy, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, sex crime, Shantaram, slum, stalking on November 20, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
“If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. Truth is, everybody’s gonna hurt you; you just have to find the ones worth suffering for.”
– Bob Marley
“Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres…”
– Corinthians, 13: 6-7
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Sometimes it’s best to begin a story at the end. Which, in this case, was in the office of my psychologist. Continue reading
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Moral Complexity
Posted in Journalism, Observation, Real Men with tags Martin Luther King Junior, Richard Cohen, Washington Post on November 19, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Martin Luther King Junior was a mad philanderer. Richard Cohen, in an article published in yesterday’s Washington Post, ponders the implications were it more widely known at the time.
Theme Park at its Darkest 