forget your fancy manners, forget your english grammar
Posted in Love and Sex, Photography, Writing, holga, poetry on Jun 14th, 2009
Intimacy breeds expectations
And she just can’t give what they want
Their favorite soul song from the seventies
Are the words that incessantly haunt
The hurt that’s never on purpose
Never seems to sting any less
And her yearning is always fleeting
From the moment that she gets undressed
Inadequacy isn’t a factor
There’s nothing that they could have done
For when she gets up [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Real Talk, Writing on Jun 7th, 2009
One of the many creative projects I am currently working on, is a book called The It Girl Gene. As I have mentioned previously, I have always found the idea of “It” girls completely fascinating. The term was coined in 1927, when English writer Elinor Glynn described actress Clara Bow in the now-classic silent film, “It”.
Posted in Photography, Writing, poetry, polaroid on May 15th, 2009
No real rest for the weary
We all come tumbling down
Posted in 35mm, Photography, Writing, holga, poetry on Apr 24th, 2009
Burning Brightly, originally uploaded by vanessa_q.
Sometimes
I just feel so lucky
For every single little detail
Smoke rings and magazine collages
The sunroof and shotgun
Standing on the highest cliff in town
behind a glass house
Every single light
but we all shone much brighter
I was really afraid
the night sky was going to
swallow us whole and spit out
our stupid haircuts
The windows always down
the [...]
Posted in Writing on Apr 23rd, 2009
Basically, I’m doing this because I feel like I’m at a sort of critical juncture in my life. I turn twenty in July. My teenage years are coming to a close, and the next chapter of my life is beginning. I guess I just want to document that. Over the next couple of months, I’ll move out of my mom’s house for the first time, into a house an hour away with my best friends in Denton, TX. In the fall, I’ll start college. And the way time passes by so quickly, before I know it, I’ll find myself knee deep in the formative years of young adulthood.
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