"See I've got my eyes on the skies,The heavenly bodies up highAnd if you're in the mood to take a rideThen strap on a suit and get inside."- *NSYNC "Space Cowboy"In 2002 *NSYNC's Lance Bass nearly had his boy band butt blasted into orbit. Los Angeles based television studio Destiny Productions offered the Russian Space ... Read more »
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FREEDOM SONG
From a den of wolves Music sneaks out into the morning sun. It has left the sinister pack sleeping to make its escape. Music moves swift and light over scattered branches and wet leaves, each step a great risk. After a long captivity its first moments of freedom are filled with electric ... Read more »
November 18, 2007
one word : 2 : evermore-so
and yet I felt evermore-so. Hello morning, hello life. Onto bright paths I glided. The grass was swaying in the Sun's spotlight. Each blade fluttered and whispered in the perfection of its presence. I could hear the shots ringing out already, like a memory of the future. My heart ... Read more »
November 17, 2007
one word : 1 : chalupa!
one word : exploding expressions of instant impressions i asked some pals for a single word to launch fun phrases. i glanced at the surprise vocabulary and wrote little lift-offs. the first word comes courtesy of my elevated pal Farmer Dave and it is... CHALUPA the dust storm swirled in from outside. across the window ... Read more »
November 16, 2007
ONE LINERS : VOLUME I
Dear Reader Wanna know my hobby? Like a peg-legged explorer i've meticulously scoured the globe for unheard words that if widely known would surely stop the universe in its tracks, shift brainwaves and create tsunamis of the third eye. Please dig on "One Liners Volume I." These diamonds in the rough shall ... Read more »
November 12, 2007
WAITING WILL GET YOU NOWHERE
He sat on stacked cinder blocks and waited. This concrete kept shopping carts safe inside the Thrifty Bin parking lot but had a higher purpose, to border the sidewalk that cradled her perfect feet. She glided this path daily from school to her front door. Oh that front door! He had ... Read more »
February 21, 2007
frosty’s guide to procrastination…
As I pondered what words to write for this installment of the glorious and riveting RE:UP Magazine my mind exploded with possibilities. Hmmmmm what ambitious, journalistic undertaking shall I tackle this time around? I could dive deep into my local library’s microfiche collection and spend days tracing the arc of illuminated thought in ... Read more »
January 31, 2007
FROSTY’S EURO ADVENTURES – baby’s on fire!
Tommy D and I rode into Paris with heat beating through the car's windshield. On sweat we streamed to our destination. The catalyst for the jaunt was a rendezvous with the LA crew. Carlos Niño, Dwight Trible, Lil Sci, Gaby, and Andres were in town to perform at le Triptyque. With ... Read more »
January 31, 2007
FROSTY’S EURO ADVENTURES – manufacturing Z’s
The chump who coined the phrase, "You'll have plenty of time to sleep when you're dead," is probably already in the grave. If you're a 9-5 worker bee you might want to look away. All others, let's study some scientific data. Over the past week the earliest I have woken up is 1:30pm. The ... Read more »
January 31, 2007
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UNKNOWN PORTRAITS – top of the morning
They had been trekking through the mountains for 17 days, chewing on coca leaves and their tongues. Fog covered the path so thickly that every step was a great risk. Those in the lead fell first thus the human train was a hierarchy. The hopeless twelve led with bulky items expendable as their flesh. ... Read more »