I'm not really going to bother with an introductory post at this point in time. Who says time has to be linear?
I will be in Madison on the seventeenth of August. It will be like living on campus all over again because there is a designated move-in time. "You know what's a great idea?" "What, unnamed coworker?" "Let's have everybody move in at the same time so a thousand U-hauls can be parked outside at once as everyone tries to move their things upstairs!" "Brilliant! *toasts champagne that's real Champagne, not sparkling wine*"
I'm afraid of losing everyone so I'm doing the cutting off process now and mentally crawling within the wallpaper.
I have a request of you. Yes, you. I want to listen to poetry as I fall asleep, and YouTube just isn't cutting it. I need as many recordings as possible of people who know me, even if it's just knowing me through Flickr or something similar, reading poems for me. Any poem will do. I just like knowing that it was recorded for me. I don't mind accents but I do prefer a smooth read. If you pick a poem that has a word you know you have a tough time pronouncing, it's alright, pick another one. This is a bit much to ask, I realize, but I would really enjoy something like this, and if it's something you would like to do, I would genuinely love you and the recording forever.
In particular, I really want a calming male voice to do the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll. It's so beautiful and rhythmic, I really need it in my life. Here's a good link to it: http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/walrus.html
Actually, I want as many submissions of that as possible. And I would also like someone to tell me a story or two, your own or someone else's. I really don't care what you read to me, just so long as it comes from your heart at least a bit. Perfection doesn't exist, so don't second-guess sending it to me.
If you do this, please tell me who you are in an email, and if you're on Flickr I will send you a free print of your choosing, upon the receipt of a recording. I will also thank you publicly here and elsewhere. I don't want to depend on sleeping pills to go to bed easily, so yeah.
I also love the works of T.S. Eliot, e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, and Sylvia Plath.
Oh, and if you speak another language, please send me something in the other language! You will get two prints if you do both English as well as another language you know fairly well.
Thanks!
Ashley
email [written so that spam bots don't pick up on it]: Owls[you know, the birds]Are[to be, plural]Raptors[classification of Birds of Prey; a play on words since we think of raptors only as the dinosaur]ATgmail.com
So, uh, no spaces or anything. Just those three words in a row, then the '@' symbol, then 'gmail.com.'
It's nearly 7am. I didn't really sleep last night, just during the day a bit. I haven't had a "good night's sleep" in many days.
Okay. Thanks!
