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 of Spades, e.e. cummings, rose, somewhere i have never travelled on November 25, 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 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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the hair of thy head is one warrior innocent of defeat
Posted in Love letters with tags e.e. cummings, Rihanna Maggs on September 18, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Thought for the Day
Posted in Love letters, Observation, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags Bob Marley on March 14, 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 going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
-Bob Marley, That canny old Rastafarian.
Thanks to Chris Tate for putting me on to this one.
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nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility
Posted in Love letters, Observation, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags e.e. cummings, flowers, Heather Locklear, somewhere i have never travelled, The Dirt, Tommy Lee on March 12, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
“She [Heather Locklear] showered me with flowers and I learned to love it. Any guy, I decided, who doesn’t like flowers is insecure about his masculinity.”
– Tommy Lee, The Dirt
The title is taken from the poem ‘somewhere i have never travelled’ by e.e. cummings.
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Home-Made Pornography OR, The Girl in the Red Photo and the Trouble She Caused
Posted in Love letters, Pornography, Writing with tags Dickens, facebook, Nietzche, Oscar Wilde, Paul Schrader, Pornography, Shakespeare, the void, Tolstoy on January 30, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
More than anything else, this piece has gotten me into a lot of trouble. And, I expect, will continue to do so. Even though it was inspired by one woman, it has come to involve a number of others, none of whom were happy about it. Continue reading
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Blood-and-Guts Love Letter
Posted in Love letters, Statement of intention with tags Boxing, bullfighting, Carrie Bradshaw, Death in the Afternoon, deer hunting, Ernest Hemingway, love letters, Sex and the City, The Love Letters of Great Men on February 8, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
“Boxing and bullfighting are elevated above other sports because of the blood that is in them.”
– Ernest Hemingway (paraphrased from Death in the Afternoon).
I have posted a few love letters on here over time. I was taken with the idea when I heard about ‘The Love Letters of Great Men’, courtesy of Carrie Bradshaw in ‘Sex and the City’. Let’s face it; we watch for blood. It’s not just ghoulish curiosity; it’s also for catharsis. And if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that I don’t give a fuck about anything that isn’t bloody.
The following is presented for your delectation. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 