“why are you wearing a cloak at the bowling alley” it’s my bowling cloak you fucking casual
The critical point of withdrawal is not the early phase of acute sickness, but the final step free from the medium of junk... There is a nightmare interlude of cellular panic, life suspended between two ways of being... At this point the longing for junk concentrates in a last, all-out yen, and seems to gain a dream power: circumstances put junk in your way... You meet an old-time Schmecker, a larcenous hospital attendant, a writing croaker...
– Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
Junky by Burroughs is also really good. I returned it late to the library when I was 15 and got a "Delinquent" rating on my account lol. The librarian said pointedly, "it's not personal" - as I also handed over "Small g" by Patricia Highsmith. I proceeded to ask her when Burroughs' book Queer would be available. She told me 'quietly' that she didn't know and I'd have to pay my fines first anyway. So I was like
reblog and put in the tags the earliest songs you remember actively liking as a child (asking adults to play them for you, learning the lyrics, being excited when they came on the radio etc.)
Reblog and put in the tags: a line/quote from a piece of fiction that lives rent free in your brain
I don't necessarily want a higher education, I want a wider education. I want to know everything and experience everything ~
Sixto Rodriguez
Lowkey obsessed with bad iwtv reviews on facebook.
This one especially
Tag yourself, I'm a piece of filth.
I'm the worst, and simultaneously much better
People saying how much worse Armand is compared to Lestat, have you considered he can do whatever he wants?
The only thing he can't "do" is Lestat 😌
Arthur Spear - Sunrise (1921)
L'heure exquise
Art by Edward Hopper, 1923.
Poem by Paul Verlaine, 1870.
Sitting on the arm of the throne combing the kings hair "my liege you should kill that guy for fun"