March 2010
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February 2010
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The White Stripes - Good To Me
Highway tunes....
“For an instant I looked away, and an ocean
blossomed between us, 3000 miles
of...”
– Summons (or This Won’t Hurt You A Bit, And It’ll Cheer Me Up) by Mary Karr
Chapter Five
The state of Heechul, or how I see him, from stun-gunning his way into Hankyung’s heart the first time they met, to the party where they were both secretly misfits. I love the idea of, deep down, how Hankyung must have known the moment he saw him that this was the man he was going to marry.
Chapter Five
All right, I said I’d be exploring their past, but frankly, their future is coming up too fast and I don’t want to fall too far behind. Laura often asked me what I thought during the course of the writing, and naturally I’d romanticize EVERYTHING. The way I see it, this is ideal Hanchul. People who look and talk like them, it’s almost like you automatically want them to be...
“Who am I? I’m just a writer. I write things down.
I walk through your...”
– Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out by Richard Siken
“I thought about it, Hankyung, while you were being a moron and freezing yourself...”
– Chapter Five
Chapter Four
This chapter was like a hub for me, an etoile circle, where everything came together. The past colliding with the uncertainty of a future. Babies and building a family juxtaposed with anger and fear, the ugly truth coming out. But what I loved best was Heechul’s unquestionable (at first, anyway) submission to Hankyung’s demands. I don’t think it makes him weak, I’m not...
Johnette Napolitano & Danny Lohner - The...
Spider Lilies OST - 旭茉莉
I love this song, like...
“No duties. I don’t have to be profound.
I don’t have to be artistically...”
– Good Night by Czesław Miłosz
Chapter Three
I was corrected: they’ve been together for six years. Which is fine with me, since four is an unlucky number anyway. One of the many reasons why I love this world is because it’s a life already built. They’ve weathered through the worst (or so they think) and there are no surprises anymore — except, you know, when there are. And I mean that like, they will always be best...
Heechul's reading shortlist
The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
This is the Way to the Moon by M. Sasek
Greg Laswell - And Then You
Hankyung to Heechul.
Chapter Two
The thought of wedding bands on two people always gives me immense satisfaction. Granted, it might not mean much in this day and age, but it still means a lot to me, to the household I grew up in, the wheres and hows of learning about family, about what it means to have a home. And rings have always been an important sort of jewelry, I think. My dad has two rings: one for his marriage and the...
“Hankyung stood there for a moment or two, reflecting in the astonishment he...”
– Chapter Two
Chapter Two
The Notwist - Consequence
“Our life is one catastrophe after another. Disaster dogs us. I’m the...”
– No Other Life by Gary Young
Chapter One
I remember how I wrote all my college essays on Hong Kong based on my father’s stories of his childhood, and how I felt nostalgic for a place I’ve never been to. This, I think, is exactly like that. It’s like, Hanchul belongs here. Together. Married. Secure. And no one gives a fuck because they’re just ordinary people. Sure, problems will ensue, but the important thing is...
