The Correspondence

after hours

2007-09-18T23:29:02Z

Somewhere I Forgot This

2007-06-03T00:05:26Z

We swim and lie down together. The remarkable discovery forces itself upon me that I do not love her so wildly as I loved her last night. But at least there is no malaise and we lie drowsing in the sun, hands clasped in the other's back, until the boat whistle blows.

Yet love revives as we spin homewards along the coast through the early evening. Joy and sadness come by turns, I know now. Beauty and bravery make you sad, Sharon's beauty and my aunt's bravery, and victory breaks your heart. But life goes on and on we go, spinning along the coast in a violet light, past Howard Johnson's and the motels and the children's carnival. We pull into a bay and have a drink under the stars. It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh

MOVE TO BLOGGER

2005-04-30T04:03:26Z

This blog has officially moved.

Grand Opening - Grand Closing

I want to have a free blog with links to all my fellow bloggers.
I will miss livejournal.
Bye.

doubletrouble

2005-04-29T03:54:07Z

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Originally uploaded by Marapect.

I am not serious. Oh, by the way, it struck me today that my live journal is not cool at all. And I'm pretty sure that's awesome. There are gonna be tons of posts involving my sister, surfing, my lame friends, my lame self, and very little posts regarding my struggles with deep dark feelings, ex girlfriends and/or new girlfriends. Cool? Great. Let's get started.

marcblackwhite

2005-04-29T03:48:18Z

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Originally uploaded by Marapect.

Marc was awe struck with my song knowledge, amazed by my ability to totally demolish him...

aaronblackwhite

2005-04-29T03:46:43Z

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Originally uploaded by Marapect.

Apparently, Cas thinks I have no fun and never smile and am thirty. So I am posting some pictures from Aaron, Marc and I playing "Name That Song". Aaron went to painstaking lengths, spending hours on categories and playlists...

perfection

2005-04-26T02:09:38Z

"I felt at that moment that it was my chance do one thing supremely well."
Roger Bannister, the first man to run a sub-4 minute mile.

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2005-04-25T01:20:15Z

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Originally uploaded by Marapect.

Air Hawaii back from Oahu. Miss it already. Keep having this dream where I'm paddling with both arms, popping up, banking left, into the pipe.

sadness

2005-04-23T12:41:56Z

alright fine, i'm not really sad, cause it's gonna be pretty tough to break up my good mood today, but....

I'm mad at Mccants, Williams and Felton. Sean May, you're off the hook. Marvin Williams, you really have no excuse and you make me angry.

But not that angry, soon I'll be doing some surfing and that makes me feel better.

Most Amazing Moment Of My Lifetime

2005-04-19T08:00:29Z

Okay, so we're in Oahu, outside Keo's Thai Restaurant, and I walk up and the valet guy is holding the keys to our rental, and looking at us in this strange crouching position, really intense, and he says "okay, listen, your car is the white jeep". We say grey. "Grey, white, whatever, same thing." Then he lowers down some more. "It's in the way back, I'm gonna go and get that as fast as I can. I'll be back as soon as possible". And just as I'm about to comment about the unnerving intensity in this lisping man's eyes, he whips around and breaks into a sprint of such velocity I have never layed eyes upon. Literally, as if God had set fire to his feet, he tore down the sidewalk and was gone in an instant, Prefontaine this man was, and poof, vanished. I almost shat myself. Kali and I stumbled all over the sidewalk dying of laughter. About 2 minutes later he pulls up with the rental, pops the doors for us and starts talking Mariners baseball and how their pitching is week, he grew up in Seattle, the sprinting valet did. We were amazed. A slight sweat glistened on his brow and he spoke plainly, not panting, he hands us our keys, takes the tip, and we make like we're doing something, holding out to see him perform the task again for the next person in line, WHICH HE DOES, with a noticeably lesser amount of vigor, but still fraught with determination. This moment was priceless, this moment will make this trip. This man was my hero.

Pimpness

2005-04-19T03:57:42Z

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Originally uploaded by Marapect.

Let the ruckus begin. Although Kali insists her body is in a really akward position in this photo, it still soundly portrays our potential to absolutely demolish you.

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2005-04-19T03:15:09Z

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Originally uploaded by Marapect.

Returning from pipeline, a glimpse into the Oahu valley, mountains.

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2005-04-19T03:12:09Z

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Originally uploaded by Marapect.

One of the many aformentioned broken boards.

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2005-04-19T03:11:36Z

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Originally uploaded by Marapect.

Huge swells, reports said 8-10 ft, large for this time of year. It would crush you. In the 2 hours that we watched, 3 people came out with broken boards and 2 left in ambulances. Amazing.

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2005-04-19T03:09:18Z

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Originally uploaded by Marapect.

On the way to Haliewa and Pipeline.

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2005-04-18T18:40:19Z

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Originally uploaded by Marapect.

Night time here makes you never wanna go home. Seriously. I think I won't.

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2005-04-18T18:38:32Z

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Originally uploaded by Marapect.

Oahu at dusk. Amazing night. 80 degrees. Why didn't I go to college here? Do you realize you can surf in Long Island? But what a pain in the ass, and besides, it doesn't look this amazing.

Lost In Translation

2005-04-18T04:02:18Z

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Originally uploaded by Marapect.

A poor rendition of Honolulu at night,an amazing city at night. Somehow, Kali bamboozled me into sorta liking Jack Johnson and spending my hard earned money to see him. We did. It was enjoyable. But not before visiting the horrible mexican restaurant "Compadres" at which there was perhaps the most amazingly attractive young woman I have ever witnessed. We had high expectations until I asked for an extra small sleeveless "Compadres" tank top and she took me serious. I told her that was ridiculous, then she kinda finally understood that I wasn't serious. That makes me think that this poor girl enjoys it when men wear sleeveless extra small "Compadres" muscle tanks, and that makes her suspect, despite her alluring beauty.

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2005-04-18T04:01:48Z

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Originally uploaded by Marapect.

View from the balcony. No beautiful women encountered yet, but much surfing was had and much sun was basked beneath.

Upon Arriving In Portland

2005-04-18T04:01:09Z

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Originally uploaded by Marapect.

So... I flew many hours across the continent, arriving at midnight in Portland, where Nick and I ran about for some hours, drinking in the Shanghai Tunnel, talking about Jazz, Nick's dislike for Jay Z, travelling. Nick is a genius and a joy to be around. We then went onto Voodoo Donut which keeps the hours of 10pm-10am which outstanding and we celebrated me being on vacation and ate donuts.

Andre Undercover (morning of departure)

2005-04-18T04:00:42Z

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Originally uploaded by Marapect.

Andre woke me up at 3:30am screaming while watching 24, so obviously, in the morning I must cover his bed with as much things as possible.

Amendment

2005-04-17T18:50:33Z

As soon as I wrote that, I ran into about one thousand very hot polynesian girls. And sadly, was bamboozled into going to see Jack Johnson in Honolulu with my little sister. Yikes. Nice walk home. I take it all back, plenty of very very beautiful women in Oahu.

Me and My Swollen Eye Are Going Surfing

2005-04-16T17:14:19Z

Hawaii. Sun. Mai Tais. I'll let you in on a little secret. One might initially think that there are lots of bronze-skinned polynesian princesses for me to make out with, and that would be well... totally false. THERE ARE plenty of fat, old, middle-american couples, OR girls with bad die jobs and the bodies of a pregnant Britney Spears. So that is exciting.

Mitch

2005-04-13T16:22:10Z

"By the way, you don't have to be sweaty and holding a basketball to like Gatorade, you can just be a thirsty dude."

"I wanna be a Macdonald's owner who doesn't participate in shit. 'Can I have a cheeseburger?' 'NOPE! We got SPAGHETTI!.... and blankets.'"

"Who the fuck am I? Mitch Hedberg, that's right. Whenever I take a hit of the pipe, you fuckers should be laughing."

"I know you fuckers are sick of me, it's a long time to sit up here and say 'Ha, Ha, Look at me! Don't talk or you'll get kicked the fuck out!"

I miss Mitch Hedberg. That's all I wanna say. Of course it makes me feel overwhelmingly dissapointed to have him gone now, and it brings a strange feeling into my chest when I listen to Mitch and miss him at the same time. Mitch Hedberg made me cry laughing. More than I've ever laughed before. I fell over in my chair. I showed Mitch to my family, and they died too. There is something about Mitch that was so innocently amazing, and at the same time, planned, sophisticated and genius. I miss him. I could drone on. I miss him a lot.

marapect @ 2005-04-12T20:22:00

2005-04-13T00:22:37Z

Yes that is Tucker taunting Andre with... you guessed it... his balls.