I read “Suicide Notes” at the Asylum tonight, came home to find my wife watching a movie about a man who can’t bring himself to open the suicide note his wife left behind.
He is addicted to huffing gas.
This is the second movie I’ve watched this weekend that includes gas huffing scenes. The first one centered around a gas huffing man who committed suicide without leaving a note.
It took place on an Indian reservation.
The first poem in the Fugue State poems I’m working on includes the words “Suicide” and “Indian reservation”.
Dark Matter 
January 12th, 2004 at 6:27 pm
Re: Rez snob or no…
I do really like Sherman’s work, all said and done.
It was a comment he once made that the only real Indians are the ones who live on reservations that really got me. My dad’s been off rez for over fifty years; my sister and I were raised totally out of contact with the family, but I certainly think that we had an experience that is similar to many Indian kids’s world, and one that is truly more prevalent than the rez experience, as potent as that is.
I’ve noticed some mellowing in his recent work, so I should likely let it go.
January 12th, 2004 at 6:19 pm
Rez snob or no…
…Sherman Alexie is hands down one of my absolute favorites. He gets bonus points from me for being hilarious when he was the guest on NPR’s Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me and playing the “It’s Not My Job” game.
January 12th, 2004 at 3:58 pm
Re: Apophenia…
It’s my new favorite term. If I ever actually release a chapbook, I think I may call it “Beware Apophenia”.
January 12th, 2004 at 3:56 pm
Apophenia…
Apophenia is the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena.
You mean, like what poets do?
January 12th, 2004 at 3:50 pm
Beware apophenia. Life can be uncanny, no?
January 12th, 2004 at 3:20 pm
Re: LOVE LIZA with Phillip Seymour Hoffman
I knew that, and in my hurry to get to the synchronicity bit left it out.
For the record, the other movie was Sherman Alexie’s “The Business of Fancydancing”. I have to say, I preferred it to “Smoke Signals”.
I know any self respecting Native is supposed to like Sherman Alexie, and I do, but he always leaves me a little uneasy. He’s such a Rez snob.
I suppose that’s ok.
January 12th, 2004 at 2:32 pm
Re: Love, Liza
Now THAT’s some synchronicity, too! Thanks for simultaneously posting while I was trying to come up with Mr. Hoffman’s name.
January 12th, 2004 at 2:30 pm
Love, Liza
Depressing movie. Amazing performance by the lead actor (drawing a blank on his name right now).
And apparently synchronicity is alive and well in your life, Tony…
January 12th, 2004 at 2:29 pm
LOVE LIZA with Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Great flick. I think PSH is a god amongst men. Or at least actors. He doesn’t always stretch, but when he does, it’s magnificent!
January 12th, 2004 at 12:49 pm
ummm – cre-pee!