Epilogue
“Forget everything anybody says or does; everything is a cry, please love me.”
-Hafiz,
Sufi poet. 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 Gerald Manley Hopkins, Hafiz, Humpty Dumpty, Richard Wagner, Tristan and Isolde on December 3, 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 21, A Perfect Circle, Adele, Blade Runner, Diary of a Madman, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Love Song, Maynard james Keenan, mobius strip, Monaro, Ozzy Osbourne, Rachael, Replicant, Rick Deckard, Someone Like You, The Cure on December 3, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
12: The Heart of the Problem
“I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited but
I couldn’t stay away, I couldn’t fight it
I had hoped you’d see my face and that you’d be reminded
That for me, it isn’t over…”
-Adele,
Someone Like You
I’ve been driving around in the yellow Monaro with Adele blaring from the stereo (not very rock and roll). 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 Albert Ellis, Bob Marley, Claude Monet, Eurydice, Guernica, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Rothko, Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, Picasso, Tate Modern Gallery, Water Lilies on December 2, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
11: Adventures in the Musee de l’Orangerie
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
-Albert Ellis
After Eurydice’s stalker allegation, I gave it another two months (I figured this showed dedication, but fell safely outside the stalker criteria), and wrote again. 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 Delbard rose, Erin Gill, facebook, intervention order, iTunes, stalker, Valentine's Day on December 1, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
10: The Reason She’s in the Tower
“You need to cut all the ‘knight in shining armour’ bullshit! Look, if she’s in a tower, it’s because someone has put her in there for a reason! She’s been put there because she’s fucking crazy!’
– Erin Gill.
I have been labelled a stalker once before. 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 Eurydice, Rodney Dangerfield, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Little Match Girl on November 29, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
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
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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 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
Theme Park at its Darkest 