Concrete & clay...

“What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”


William Least Heat Moon Blue Highways




Ray:Just so you know.



I'm sorry for the way I treated you.



Mirabelle:I know.



Ray: I did love you.



Mirabelle: All right.




As Ray Porter watched his Mirabelle walk away..



..he feels a loss.



How is it possible.. - he thinks.



..to miss a woman whom he kept at a distance..



..so that when she was gone..



..he would not miss her.



Only then did he realise how wanting part of her..



..and not all of her..



..had hurt them both..



..and how he cannot justify his actions..



..except that..



..well..



..it was life.



Shopgirl 2005




“In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.”

Peter Ustinov





She was just so beautiful.
Celia is the stuff
that dreams are made of.
So beautiful, she's almost not real.
It'd be incredible to spend your life
with a woman like that.

I felt the sub-woofer
calmly pounding away.
After all, that's what a boom box
is supposed to do.
That's what it does.
We must like that low tone.
We all want to vibrate.
Celia is the female equivalent
of " the street of ideal proportions."
We're not on earth long, so
that's the street we want to live on.
I could've spent hours,
gazing at a girl like that.
Just watching her live, walk lulled by the swing of her skirt,
inebriated by the fabric
sliding against her body.
I could have lived on that
an entire lifetime.

But can you live like that?
They were right, I had to stop
dreaming and get back to real life.

Hey, bitch!

This street of yours...
Wanna know something?

It's ugly!


Les Poupées Russes 2005