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4.19.09 GMAIL CHAT
TAO LIN & CARLES


4:22 PM me: bro
 CRLS: brooo
  whatsup
 me: chillin in the library
4:23 PM you, bro
 CRLS: damn
  'nmh'
 me: damn
  gotta work on my tumblr

27 minutes
4:51 PM CRLS: bro
  i'm back
  just had grilled chicken and shrimp
 me: bro
 CRLS: grilled vegetables
 me: damn
 CRLS: avocado
 me: had two eggs, cornbread, nachos, 1 pint blue moon, iced tea, and gaucomole this morning
4:52 PM CRLS: dammn

13 minutes
5:05 PM me: i just thought 'poopyschnickers'
5:06 PM going to poop now
5:08 PM CRLS: damn

7 minutes
5:15 PM me: did it

6 minutes
5:21 PM CRLS: tyte

15 minutes
 me: 'jesus'
5:37 PM CRLS: damn bro
 me: damn
 CRLS: The future of poetry?
5:38 PM me: damn
5:40 PM CRLS: will go to NYC in late summer/early fall
  so we can record our EP
 me: damn, sweet

7 minutes
5:47 PM CRLS: dammn
5:48 PM me: pretty 'fucked up'
  watching this video
 me: damn, watching
 CRLS: damn
5:50 PM think it is a 'big song' or something
 me: damn, wtf is this
  pass out at 3, wake up at 10
  wtf
  'are those numbers right'
5:51 PM why would he wake up at 10
  confused
5:52 PM just realized this song seems really long
 CRLS: seems 'really slow'
 me: 'there must be a breakdown' or something
  skipped to end
5:53 PM i'm listening to m.i.a. on youtube now
 CRLS: damn
 me: i feel lost
5:55 PM damn, m.i.a. is 33
  i feel relieved suddenly for some reason
 CRLS: feel like ur not successful 'until ur old' or something
 me: damn she's almost 40
  pretty much
  feel sad
5:56 PM CRLS: feel like we might be 'ahead of schedule'
  according to some artistic standards
5:57 PM me: damn, seems good
  keep thinking she's saying 'suck my dick' in this song
  or 'ill suck your dick' or something
5:58 PM just keep hearing that
  "Arulpragasam's first public exhibition of paintings in 2001 at the Euphoria Shop in Portobello, London, featured graffiti art and spray-paint canvasses mixing Tamil political street art with images of London life and consumerist culture.[18"
  damn
6:00 PM damn
  feeling so lost
6:03 PM is she saying 'nigger' in this song
  feel like i can't ehar anything
6:04 PM listening to a differtnt m.i.a. song, i feel like i'm eating mangos with a chimpanzee
  feels okay
6:06 PM wonder if it's ok to put m.i.ia. in ap oem
  will she be relevant in 10 years

 



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1.13.09 GMAIL CHAT
VICTORIA TROTT & TAO LIN


1:04 AM me: tao lin, high blood alcohol content, possibility of obedience?
  i dunno
1:05 AM what should victoria trotdo. o may be inerupting. alcoholc
  its fu to rollin a chair withewheels'
  tao lin maybe busy
  ryan gosling brother
  drun,
  k
1:06 AM 205 am
  i mean105
  you may be interupting
  ellen kennedy
1:07 AM Tao: what's up bro
  you drunk bro?
 me: jamie german
  noooooooo vodka
  irish whiskey
 Tao: how much did you drink bro
1:08 AM me: too much the most
  thignsare confusing
 Tao: you should make some drunk comments on people's blogs, bro, that'd be cool bro
 me: rbooooobro
  whose blogs
  everyones
  question mark
 Tao: you can start with mine if you want
  a veyr long drunk comment
1:09 AM me: my head feels spinnninh
 Tao: where did you get drunk at
1:10 AM me: in my sisters house, yo
  her bizziasmenet.
  with so many different alchohols
 Tao: she cool with that bro?
 me: for sure no, brizzizzo
 Tao: or you do it secretly bro
 me: secrets are my frizzend
 Tao: what's the deal bro
  oh cool bro
 me: haha
 Tao: that's cool bro
 me: amused bro
  yes
  yes
  yes
  yes
  no in contro'
  not
  control
  bro
1:11 AM Tao: just keep chillin bro
 me: chinese
  CHINK
  hhahaha
  hehe
  hoho
  porn
  its hard
 Tao: yeh bro
  no bro
 me: hehe'
1:12 AM give me commands, please, bro
 Tao: comment sum blogs yo
 me: so drunk
 Tao: bro, you aint listenin me bro
 me: yes ytes i is
 Tao: comment sum fucken blogs bro
 me: listeni
  hehe
  tao says
  i hope i'm not interupgingsa.
  har
  dd
  kenbaumeanns?
  i circle my hadns tolseee
1:13 AM whose blog!1
  more durnk,now
  full blader
1:14 AM hehehahha
  ao is typing!
  social inhibitionsare gone from alcholho
 Tao: that's funny bro i just read yer comment bro
 me: haha, nice bro
  sweet
  hey tao, tell me what you thinkrbo
  no pants, bro
  like my dream
 Tao: yeah bro cool
1:15 AM hey bro
  what's p with yer brother bro
  is he in half nelson or what
 me: hehehe
 Tao: is he ryan gosling or what bro
 me: hahahaha
  i am laughing, hahahaha
  yean mantotally
  i agREEE bro
  bro is funnym it makes me haha
 Tao: what did you eat for dinner bro
 me: ummmmmm
  fajitas! bro
 Tao: shrimp fried rice again bro, you gotta lay off that shit bro
 me: yeah totally
  fucking dead shriping
  shripnp
1:16 AM boshruip
 Tao: lay off that fucken shit bro
 me: correct manipuklatiioinof a drunk barakc pbama, rbo
  manipu;lation
 Tao: dont eat anymore fucken shrimp fried rice bro
 me: why lay off it do you think
  hehe
  haha
 Tao: or i'm deleting yer shit off muumuu house
 me: oh oh
  nono
  career!!
 Tao: i'm goingt o buy kombucha, keep it real bro
 me: all day
  ffull bladder
  oh no
  toa is offline
  i dont know what ot do
  so drunk
  what hsoud
  i do
1:17 AM ohno
  nohno
  ocollapaes
  r7ah nna
  you said
  omment iw il dtty


5 minutes

1:22 AM Tao: im back bro
1:23 AM me: oh thank you
 Tao: you still drunk bro
 me: i was writina ameial
  about aloneness
 Tao: you alright bro
 me: i guess
  oonfused
 Tao: you seem less drunk bro
 me: you alright
  really? how
  better typing
 Tao: yo're not making typos bro
  i think you're not drunk bro
 me: shold i drink ore vodko.
  not drunk
  its still hard to type
  more vodka wuestion
  question
  amrk
  mark
1:24 AM Tao: i don't know bro, you got broccoli bro
 me: nah bro
  garpes
  grapes
  stay ere okay, i have to pee, okay, sta here
 Tao: don't eat grapes, you be mixin food groups if you do that bro
 me: heheheheehehe
 Tao: alright bro
 me: funny brp
  okay
  b e right barkc bro
  no toilet parper bro
1:25 AM !
  hahhh
  qhr HAOUS I shoudl i do
  throw pee paper towerls int he trash
  ?
  where did you go or for homuahcba
 Tao: paper towels flush bro
 me: shoud i drunk more vodka
  they do?
  o dithpgi ji thought they clog
 Tao: yeah bro
 me: okay
  beright back
  more voda?
  ka
 Tao: no bro, you gota rip it up irst
 me: ohoh
  oh oh
1:26 AM vodka
  ?
  bro
 Tao: use yer brain bro
  you gotta pour vodka on the paper towel first bro to loosen up them fibres bro
 me: i nat
  really!
oh
  ewally!
 Tao: that's the british spellin bro
 me: qht ia
  qha tia
  what is
 Tao: rub your ass with vodka i mean
  sorry bro
 me: hehee
  hahah
  hohoh
  huhuh
 Tao: rub your ass not pour it on the towel
 me: with vodka?
  what bro
1:27 AM confusing broi
  muuuuumuuuuuu
  hahahahaahaha bro
  flush paper towels rbo?
  are uyou sober frbo?
 Tao: aunt to my nephew, pour that shit on the paper towel bro
 me: hahaaha
  are you tao lin bro?
 Tao: i'm fucken sober bro
  i'm drinkin fucken kombucha
  i'm sober 'as fuck' bro
 me: you seem super bro ish
 Tao: no bro, what the fuck you talkin about bro
 me: farts smell like fucjk
  ing
  fcking
  bro
1:28 AM hahaa
  bro
  hehee
  pee
  wait i dont remember what to do
 Tao: i gotta go eat some brococli bro
 me: no toilet paper, wait
  what shoud ido
 Tao: have a good night bro, don't clog that shit,
 me: h no
  oh no
  too drunk'
  ohno
  broccoli bro
  oh no
  vodka/? sober bro
1:29 AM i found tissues
1:30 AM al better
 Tao: im back bro
 me: who are you even, who ven are you
  what
  you keep leaving
1:31 AM false hope
  for poor me
  less drunk , perchanve
 Tao: i'm ficlom tao lin bro
  joy williams bro
 me: FICLOM\
 Tao: lorrie moore ya'll
 me: joy wiliamsi sia bit of a bitch
  i read that shit
 Tao: so yer parents live in a mansion bro, what's up bro
 me: ahahahahhaah
  you cause laughter fucking bro
 Tao: you rockin that fucken blender bro
  i mean
 me: what
  who
  sober?
  you drunk>
  too?
 Tao: that shit bro
1:32 AM the q
  i do'nt kno w bro
  i'm fucken wasted on kombucha
 me: hard to concentrate
  hehe
  haha
  hoho
  say some stuff
 Tao: broccoli all up in my shit
  i got broccilo in y shit bro
 me: hehe
  that was good
  now tell me what to do bro
  drunkas a donkey
 Tao: so what's up with salman rushdie bro
 me: hehe
  hoho
  haha
  onlyr esponse
  in my
  gaydar
 Tao: does he eat broccoli or what bro
1:33 AM me: i dont know who that shit is bro
 Tao: you like joy tsing liang bro
 me: naw bro
  tastes like shit bro
  i think
  drunk, you are tao lin, ectra speciaio opoitns
 Tao: iim eating a fuckin organic fig bar now bro
 me: onlty blogs i commented onwas you and z g, rbro
 Tao: what did you eat for the 'fast bro
 me: uh
 Tao: breakfast yo
 me: some banana strawberry saslad hit
  shit
 Tao: i cant use shorthand now bro
1:34 AM what the fuck bro
 me: aight thats cool bro
  i'm cool with longhand bro
 Tao: oh shit bro, banana yeah etc
  oh cool bro
 me: totally bro
  its all cool rbo
 Tao: so waht's up with broken social scene bro
 me: i m maing snises
  i d k
  bro
 Tao: they got like 3 good songs or what bro
  alright, what's up with deryck
 me: never listenend bro
 Tao: sum41 bro
 me: i dk bro
 Tao: deryck and avril bro
 me: still dk
 Tao: wtf do you listen to bro
 me: avril la v
  uh
  i dk
  bro
1:35 AM just ramndom shit people tell me to
  obedient as bitchatss
 Tao: so you listen to beastie boys bro
 me: for sure
  well
  one song
  like,
 Tao: oh shit bro
 me: fight for right party bro
 Tao: my shit's jacked up bro
 me: whatbro
  oh no bro
  what hpaenendded
 Tao: i boiled that broccoli for not too long bro
  i mean i cuda boiled it longer bro
  i'me ating hard as fuck broccoli bro
 me: yeah, is it hot
  bro
  hot hard brocc
1:36 AM Tao: it's cold as salman rushdie's career bro
  you foollow me bro
 me: oh snap nro
  totally
  bro
  i folllow
  like i drunk, mpter, fcker
 Tao: you got twitter bro
 me: i cant remember
  i think
  i dunrememebr my uisername
  you shoudl tell me what to do when i feel bored
  bro
 Tao: my organic fig smells fucken nasty
 me: you seem smart as leonodaro di caropi
1:37 AM dont eat that shitnro
 Tao: i told yu to fucken write more fucken stories for fucken muumuu house
 me: nasty shit, your intuition, is smart, as hshit bro
  too fuckin hard
 Tao: oh shit your check's in the mail (by the way, bro)
 me: sweet yo
 Tao: i mean it'll be in the mail soon
 me: i was gonn ask you bro
  then i gorget
  forget/
 Tao: yeah bro, it's cool bro
  sorry bro
 me: its coool rbo
  were friuedna
  cause i have sper skilz
  i feoret
  i forget
  why are we griends
 Tao: huh
1:38 AM me: i dee kay
  less drunk
  seekin validaitno bro
  keep talkin
 Tao: 'dee kay' that's fucken advanced for a drunk bro
  bro
 me: i kno
  im losin it
 Tao: what's yer IQ bro
 me: idk
 Tao: you rockin the 170's bro
 me: haa
  i dk
 Tao: don't tell me you rocken the 180's bor
 me: what you rockin'
 Tao: don't fucken tell me that shit bro
  i dont know bro, that's private bro
 me: tell me to drunk more vodka bro
  yeah yeah i respect htat bro
1:39 AM ahaha
  hehehe
 Tao: no bro, 'less that shit's made from broccoli or asparagus
 me: hoho
 Tao: you like asparagus bro
 me: asparags is good as hshti bro
  fuckin love that shit, rbo
  so fucin fgood
 Tao: you ever eat asparagus fried shrimpb ro
  you ever shit out an asparagus whole bro
 me: haha
  no
  hahash
  no
  hyou?
  ??
  ????
  !!!
 Tao: fuck yeah bro
 me: whoa shit!
  bro!
 Tao: that shit came out pristine bro
  you know that word bro
 me: hahaha
  pprisitne?
1:40 AM ficl uyo
 Tao: yeah bro
 me: ruck yeah
 Tao: cool bro, i knewy ou would bro
 me: ahahah
 Tao: fuck yeah
 me: tell me whats goingon
  please bro
  haha bro
 Tao: comment more bor
  bro
 me: should i drikn more vodka
 me: whereb r?
  kay
 Tao: comment there bro youll get mad hits
  you comment a drunk comment you'll get fucken mad hits bro
 me: really? sqweet bro
  i love hits man
 Tao: i got mad hits today bro
 me: wait tell me what sgoing on you seem lke you know
 Tao: that nymag shit bro
 me: really why?
  oh yeah
 Tao: i gots the mads hits
 me: wait is that shit out?
1:41 AM Tao: shits going down bro, shits go down when's the hits go up
  you got that bro
  SHITS GO DOWN; HITS GO UP
  chekc that semi-colion bro
  check out that usage bro
 me: totally not
  bro
  good hob bro
  you seem really fukcin smar tbro
 Tao: that's what i get paid for bro
 me: i wish you ould tell e
 Tao: i'll drop some similes on them asses
 me: what 9 hould od
1:42 AM oh fuck yeah
 Tao: tell me bro
  you're trying to say something bro
  just say it bro
  where are you bro
 me: i hear your voice
  here
 Tao: put down that fucken vodka bro
 me: here
1:43 AM Tao: and pick up that fucken stalk of broccoli
 me: yeah? yeah?
  your bassist in private?
  where is that voice
  vomming from
  i have no broccoi
 Tao: and raw ginger (if you have it, bro, if not that's cool)
 me: pripelets nad chords
 Tao: it's fucken tuesday bro
  you like obama bro
 me: fuck i doint know
  he prolly dont exist
1:44 AM FUCKING TUESDAY
  i am fat, tell me how to become sexualy attractice
  i HEAR YOUR VOICE
  i brb i got to get vodka
 Tao: never get the double filet-o-fish
  opt for single
  i got nothing else bro
1:45 AM me: back
  aight
  i keep that in mind
  vodka tastse liek SHIt
  your voice left
  i am only par tof the plan
  hipster runoff
 Tao: you eat arby's bro
 me: uh, one time llast summer i ate their ruely fries yp
  curl fries
  they was gppd
  you bro
 Tao: i fucken want a wok-ful of fries bro
1:46 AM me: yeah?yeah?
  we should be firends. shoudlwe be friends. should i runaway to new rok
  can i life in your apartment
 Tao: i heard the get up kids eat cheeseburgers with extra pickles yo
  oh shit bro i get two rooms in feb bro
 me: extra [ickles rh
  i sleep cohch
1:47 AM Tao: i dont know bro, yeah bor i mean bro
  a
 me: what
 Tao: i'm drunk bro
 me: am i still durnk? yeah
  really what you drnkbro
 Tao: we're fucken brkn bro
  i drank almost an entire kombucha im fuckIN DRUNK
 me: BROKEN? WHAT? DRUNK COUCH?
  chahhahaehe
  kombucha iant alhcocol
  im an alohcoahclic
  my siblings thinkgs i am cool
 Tao: it's .05% alcohol you fucking bro
 me: hehehehe
  hahahaha
1:48 AM oh man bro
 Tao: dont fuck with my i dont know
 me: you durenk as as fucking drunk homelessbro, bro
  its harder to see bro
 Tao: this hsits getting long bro
 me: serious bro, ican i come live in your house bro
 Tao: like salman rushdi'es career
 me: yeah yoy read to quit bro
  yeah i dont know who he is rbo
 Tao: yeah bro, you getting colleg ethough bro
 me: porlly, my pare ts want it bro
  i am obdeident
1:49 AM hard to see ro
 Tao: get that fucken degree, you dont want be digging broccoli out the gristede's trash bro
 me: hhehee
  ckohmbusha has alchohol breally
  what happpened to ellen kennedy
  she is the 'shit'
 Tao: she's cool bro
 me: i like here
 Tao: her shit's coming out bro
 me: 'e'e
 Tao: cool bro
 me: yeah for sure
  yeah
  yeah
 Tao: yeah recycled fucken paper bro believe that bro
 me: hard to understandor mw
  i dunno
 Tao: fucking al gore be shitting his suv
 me: yeah yeah
1:50 AM asshits bookcs
  algore dickeran
  or something
  i hope i'm not interi[tong
  i need to know what to do
  ` 50 am
 Tao: its cool bro
 me: coool bro
 Tao: you like eminem bro
 me: hhawhwta what
 Tao: you like brandon scott gorrell bro
 me: what what
  explain bro
  smart bro
 Tao: be part of the lit scene bro
 me: yo rsmart nro
  smart
1:51 AM bro
  how bro
  tell me how bro
  muumuu
  drunk bro
  fuckin drunk
  richard yates
  offline>
 Tao: salman rushdie doesn't get a fucken fatwa sitting on his ass in his sister's basement drinking vodka ass shit bro
1:52 AM me: haha
  what
  dehydtated
 Tao: my internet's fucking being a updike's career re nymag circa [his last book]
 me: fatwa was my friend from central highschool
  i dont get tit
  tell me what to do
  mabe
  obo, 8
  innobox, 7
1:53 AM Tao: bro
  you emailin g bro
 me: i reallyl llike brandon s gotrreel, smar, ass
  hu?what?
  tell mwe hwat to do, exlcalmationpont
 Tao: comment on that hipsterrunoff shit
 me: drunkest ever
  i dudi i didi
1:54 AM Tao: comment some more shit bro
  you ever shit your pants in a store bro
  i shit myself and flushed my american apparel underware down the nyu library's toilet
1:55 AM me: haha fo real bro?
  i went to americna appaerel but securty seemed toght
  seriusouly wha t shoud i dio
  i thinkhumans are happy in commiunity, working on thingstoketget.
  o am goingto runaway to our house in nw york, okay? os that okay?
1:56 AM bro.
 Tao: i hate humans bro
  yer cool bro
 me: what?
  wjat?
  yu hate us? hay? why iam i cool?bro?
  you qre funnny br
  telll me wyty
 Tao: no bro i fucked up
1:57 AM me: yeah? hoiw? whty?
 Tao: one seond bro
 me: kay
  kay
 Tao: i'm with humans bro
 me: kay
  w here
  how
  ik dmsmironff
  iam smirnoiff
  smironoff
  smirnofff
 Tao: im here bro
  im in my livin room bro
 me: i spelt it riht
  yeah is it good
  bro?
  wes bros.
1:58 AM bro
 Tao: im living it up in fuckin bush wick brooooooooo [all o's except first in high itched voice]
  we're bros
 me: yeah. i will go live in yo aparatement
  . okay bro?
 Tao: fucken brec
 me: huh
 Tao: beck bro
  bro my life sucks bro
  i turn aorund i see broccoli, i turn around again i see a stapler
1:59 AM me: but you rich
  z german
  v trott
  we like you
  what do you want?
  eh
  heheh
  hahah
  ego
 Tao: i'm rich but these jets aint fuckin affecting my happiness level you see bro
 me: jets
  huh
  im drunk
 Tao: i got five jet skis but they fucken make me depressed when i'm riding all five in rotation alone
 me: canilive in you apartement
  mm
  mmm.
  yeah bro
2:00 AM i aint ecpereiencesc. bu tiot ameks sense.
 Tao: you like lizards bro
 me: SO FUCIN DRUK
  ywa sure
 Tao: they're ool bor
 me: they seem good
 Tao: i dont know bro , they seem kinda shitty sometimes
  i gues they okay
 me: an ig o to ur aparemtne and hide from my parwnts
 Tao: dont wanna genrealizat you know
  i guess they ok
 me: so drunk
  eneralize/
  ????!!!!!
  dehyrdrate
 Tao: concrete reality bro
2:01 AM me: most crunkEVER!
  YES
 Tao: concrete rezeality bro
 me: what about it
  tell me what
 Tao: ti's there bro
2:02 AM me: here? here? can i got o your apartement /. tell me wjat ot od
  do tell me whattodo
 Tao: bored of life bro
 me: yeah you izzz bro
 Tao: yah man bmove to nyc
 me: to your apratmenet bro
  16 rs old
 Tao: barnes and nobles here be fuckin wack as fuck
  it's cool bro
 me: hehehahaha
  can i please
  cna i lp[ease
 Tao: those salma rushdies be filling them fuckin shelves like asparagus fills my toilet
2:03 AM me: i cant conctrol myself
  i willm ove tyo yiour partment
  sex with msomeon
  someone
  you okay?
 Tao: i dont have sex yo
  i have fucken toasted whole wheat baguettes
 me: ikno,w i ko, i know, seems obvious
2:04 AM Tao: i boil a fucken broccoli with this shit over it
  (will take too many words to explain)
2:05 AM you comment on hipsterunoff bro, link that shit me bro
2:06 AM why you email me 'what' (subject: 'what') bro i'm on chat bro, you be switchin formats or osmethin bro
 me: tao ling?
  lin
 Tao: yah lin
 me: i have to pee
!
2:07 AM wil ou be here
 Tao: descendent of frank lin of the east chinghua province in upper northeast mogonalia yo
 me: willl you be here in 3 min
  ewLLY
  COOL
 Tao: 95% chance o that bro
 me: ka y
  beirghiback
2:09 AM i would love to live i nyi
  nyc
 Tao: im with humans bro
 me: yeah? wh ois they bro
2:10 AM wh ois
  who is
 Tao: jeffrey and sarah bro
 me: i dynno hte m
  they cool
 Tao: hits arent rising bro
  oh shit i mean sales arent' rising bro
  hits are rising
  scratch that
 me: why no
 Tao: sales arent rising
 me: kzy
  kay
  wh no
2:11 AM m i smart
 Tao: yea
  yeah bro
 me: ahhahhhahhahahahhaaah
  DR YNK
  DRUML DUML REMML DRUNK L
  IO WI L GO LIE WITH YOU
  SMO DRUNK
 Tao: i'm broing it up with some bros
2:12 AM on gchat
  fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk bro
  kmy fucken blog posts aint consistent anymore bro
  shit be inconsisten
2:13 AM i'm going to do somet shit in the ktiche bro
  keep it real, keep those dialogue tags neutral bro

 



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9.30.08 GMAIL CHAT
TAO LIN & ZACHARY GERMAN


4:47 PM me: my leg and hip pain intensified today, i feel crippled by hip pain instead of loneliness now, i'm seeing a doctor
 Zachary: thats funny
  a lot of buttons on m ky my keyboard dont work
4:48 PM like delete
 me: i want to be crippled by loneliness not hip pain
4:49 PM Zachary: thats funny
  i dont know
4:50 PM you hvave a thing
  like a war or cancer
  its different
  i donno
  ou know you will feel better or something
  dont you walike that
 me: i feel uncertain about the future of my hip, some part of me believes it will never get better
4:51 PM st vincent's hospital's website is 'fucking shitty'
4:52 PM Zachary: st vinecnent

5 minutes
4:57 PM me: i now know how people with amputated limbs or chronic pain from cancer feel like, i can write a chronic pain from war injuries post iraqi war novel now

5 minutes
5:02 PM Zachary: do you anticipate your book doing well because fo bulevima ebeing a social issue
5:03 PM me: yes, i think
  i mean
  no
  i don't know
 Zachary: i feel like it will
 me: god
  good
 Zachary: people will think it has social merit
  your book
 me: oh, good
 Zachary: like go ask allice
 me: what happens in it
  what is the social thing
 Zachary: its about drugs
5:04 PM me: i feel my book is really ultimately life affirming
  because the characters are trying to be good
  distinguishing it from other things that involve bulimia or something
 Zachary: i didnt mean ti wasnt that
5:05 PM me: i was just saying other stuff
 Zachary: i just meant for people that usually wouldnt like literary fiction for th reasons you or i would might like it for its social thing or something
 me: yes, i agree
 Zachary: fuck my keyboard
 me: i just thought 'it also has war in it' which isn't true
  i thought it had some war, like vietnam
 Zachary: i just chortled
5:06 PM i ogot second life yesterday i dont nknwo how to use it
  do you have second life
 me: it would be really funny if you wrote a vietnam war novel
  no
  does it have graphics
 Zachary: yeah
  it looks like 2asfadsgsg 5 o r 8 years ago
 me: it sounds shitty, like i dont want to look at it
 Zachary: you get to make the girls take their clothes off
  and fly
  thats all i do
5:07 PM me: i heard you have to buy a penis
 Zachary: oh,
  i dont know

8 minutes
5:15 PM me: i think i'm going to get nyu alumni gym membership and swim regularly in tight swimming short things like the american apparel underwear

11 minutes
5:26 PM Zachary: good
  i want to swim



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10.18.06 GMAIL CHAT
P.H. MADORE & TAO LIN


3:12 PM Madore: Give me your address in PA or let's meet up at some point or something
 me: no, i dont meet people
 Madore: You met fucking Carol Novack
 me: by accident at a reading


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10.03.08 GMAIL CHAT
JAMIE STERNS & TAO LIN


11:58 PM Jamie: hi
11:59 PM me: hi
  am i invisible right now?
  on gchat
 Jamie: um no
  you are not
  i meant to say hi to someone else
 me: oh i thought it said i was
 Jamie: sorry
  but
  hi
  i guess
12:00 AM me: oh ok
  hi
 Jamie: ok
 me: i meant to be on invisible, i am going on invisible
  'good night'


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8.12.07 GMAIL CHAT
NOAH CICERO & BRANDON SCOTT GORRELL


8:10 AM Noah: you are there
  or you not there
  no one is there
  silence
  crickets
 me: mm
 Noah: a rattle snake scurries across the carpet
 me: brandon is here
 Noah: you read that book i posted
 me: oh
  yes
  its good
 Noah: is it okay
8:11 AM me: i read an excerpt to my friend aloud
  i tried to emulate your voice
  he laughed alot
  we could barely get through it
 Noah: no one will publish it because there is no sex and does not list music bands
 me: not because of the voice emulaton
  because of the content
  hm
  write a section on sex
  that would be good
 Noah: they say, "give me sex and music band names"
8:12 AM me: write a section on sex
 Noah: noah cicero eats donkey shit and jerks off on his mother's face
 me: just
  insert sex scenes
 Noah: sex pistols romones
  you spent time with tao lin
  how was thati
  i have spent time with tao lin
8:13 AM me: it was comforting
 Noah: yes good word
  he doesn't talk much
 me: how did you like spending time with him
  no he doesnt
 Noah: it was nice
  he doesn't talk much
 me: i was a little scared
  but i understood
 Noah: he told me my feet smelled and i will never get laid because my feet smell
  and then he sprayed perfume onm y feet
 me: he told me
8:14 AM i had nice shoes
  we watched a movie
  on my couch
 Noah: like the whore in the bible
 me: mary
 Noah: no
 me: mary magdeline
8:15 AM Noah: when jesus goes to see the sanhedren, a random whore comes in and washes jesus' feet with perfume
 me: that was mary
  and then she dries his feet with her hair
 Noah: who knows
 me: i think i remember
 Noah: yeah,, that is really dramatic
 me: i always thought
  that was strange
8:16 AM Noah: there is some really dramatic shit in the bible
  campy
 me: there are good battles
  there is one
  where someone, a guy, he has to hold up his arms
  and wherever his arms are pointing, the soldiers in that direction will start winning
8:17 AM but if he drops his arms or points them in another direction they will start losing
 Noah: i dont' recall that part
  old testament
 me: i dont know where it is
 Noah: ?
 me: maybe its there
  i just remember being taught things
 Noah: are you jewish
  i'm not jewish
 me: i am nothing
8:18 AM but, my parents made me go to church as catholic
  when i was young
  it was stupid, they
  they didnt even believe in it
  but they made me go for some reason
 Noah: you live in seasttle
  correct
 me: yes
 Noah: have you been to eugene oregon
 me: no
 Noah: i've been there like four times
  i like it there
8:19 AM me: should i go there
 Noah: have you fucked any of the suicide girls
  i don't know
 me: mm
 Noah: seatttle might be nice
 me: i kissed one i think
 Noah: that is awesome
 me: it was before suicide girls got big
  so
  its not as cool now
 Noah: no itis cool
 me: seattle is ok
  i dont know
8:20 AM taos post about me gave me like 5000% increase in hits
 Noah: he gets 800 hits a day
  he is like blog god
 me: i know
8:21 AM that is crazy
  insane
 Noah: do you have stat coutner
 me: yeah
  i am looking
  i get like
  20
  a day
  on average
 Noah: i get like 200 to 300
 me: i saw yours
  tao showed me when he was here
8:22 AM Noah: i'm not blogging until soft skull tellls me if i am goiing to be famous or nott
 me: who
  who is that
 Noah: soft skull
  that indie press
 me: where did you get the diet pill speed
  where did bernice get it
 Noah: mega t
  from bernice
 me: i cant fined it
  i went to like
  3 stores
 Noah: rite aide
 me: rite aid.
  ok
 Noah: you like diet pills
 me: i will go tehere
8:23 AM i dont know
  i am bored
  filling a void
 Noah: do you work or go to college
  what do you do
 me: i need to finish my novel
 Noah: to fill the days
  you are writing a novel
 me: i go to work writing bullshit things
 Noah: what is it about
  what is your job
 me: writer
  the novel excerpt
  its on my blog
  tao
  tao made a post
  look at his blog to see more
8:24 AM my job is to write things like
 Noah: okay
  i have two days off
 me: "discover the feeling"
  thats good
 Noah: i work today
  then two days
  i work to make the money
  to get the lap dances
  to get the boners
8:25 AM me: i dont know
  what about
  that you cant fuck them
  i got mad
  about a lap dance
 Noah: no that is good
 me: i dont like them for that reason
 Noah: fucking people can get complicated
  they are in your house
  and saying stupid shit
 me: ha
 Noah: you don't want to hear
8:26 AM me: forget the other things
 Noah: and you are like, "fuck, this bitch won't shut up." or they are fucking you and they start talking about when their uncle fucked them
 me: you have a boner
 Noah: and a lot of people want to ahve an emotional investment
 me: you can not act on that boner
 Noah: not right now
  the boner will go away
 me: but
  it was there
  for a reason
 Noah: go home masturbate to inernet porn, it is a lot safer
 me: to have sex
 Noah: internet porn cannot get pregnant
 me: the boner doesnt think that
8:27 AM i dont know
  lap dances only make me frustrated
  i only had like
  2
 Noah: i've had many
  they get better as time goes by
8:28 AM you realize you are getting older and it is safer to pay for love than actually to deal with it for free
  i'm weird though, and i gotta go,
  it was nice talking to you
  thank you for reading my book
 me: have a good day at work
  yes
  yore welom

11 minutes
8:40 AM Noah: i read the excerot
  excerpt
  i like it
  do you read kathy acjer
  acker
8:41 AM me: mm
  no
  what did she write
  thank you
  for the compliment
 Noah: black tarnatula
  she is good
  she is dead now
 me: i havent heard of it
  shes dead
  i will get it
  i will steal it
8:42 AM Noah: yeah
  i'm goiing to read your blog more
 me: ok


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