Excerpt from The Virgin Suicides

I didn't enjoy The Virgin Suicides. It's a beautifully poetic book, but the romance of it was destroyed from having seen the cult classic film multiple times prior to reading. I enjoyed the following passage immensely though, particularly the last line.

From p. 235 of my copy:

Inside, we got to know girls who had never considered taking their own lives. We fed them drinks, danced with them until they became unsteady, and led them out to the screened-in veranda. They lost their high heels on the way, kissed us in the humid darkness, and then slipped away to throw up demurely in the outside bushes. Some of us held their heads as they vomited, then let them rinse their mouths with beer, after which we got back to kissing again. The girls were monstrous in their formal dresses, each built around a wire cage. Pounds of hair were secured atop their heads. Drunk, and kissing us, or passing out in chairs, they were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived - bound, in other words, for life. 

Behind Closed Doors #2

I explained Rob Meyers's project in this post. I explained it and included snippets of Phil's room at Bathurst and College. He probably doesn't live there anymore. I haven't seen him in over a year so I wouldn't know. The city isn't big or small. You just have to be where people are, I guess.

Here is snippets of my room around August 2016, photographed not with a disposable camera but a Konica Z-Up 60 that I got from a Bunz trade.

Jordan

PLAYING DIRTY NOT CLEAN

What were the highlights? 

1. NXNE x Belgian Moon party 
2. Seeing Daniel Caesar play an acoustic set at Trinity Bellwoods
3. Spending so much time with Adam, my favourite dude and one of my best friends
4. Wonderland with my girls, even though the wait times were so terrible
5. That bonfire by the highway amongst strangers
6. Spending time with friends
7. Bringing a Tinder boy from Chicago around Toronto for an innocent and fun adventure
8. Getting to 100-yoga classes
9. Discovering Kinton ramen
10. Making new friends 

What would've bumped this summer up a notch? 

1. Travelling anywhere- I had promised myself that I would at least make it to Montreal, but none of that happened
2. A summer romance 
3. A more satisfying job 
4. Always more time on the Islands, especially some time on the clothing optional beach

What sucked? 

1. The heat, the humidity
2. Boys who say one thing and then another; heartbreak 
3. Not enough art
4. Not enough reading

Was it better than last summer?

1. Infinitely. I was pretty depressed about things last summer.

Pictured above: Marcello, Teddy, Christian, Devonte, Eden, Sarah, Mishi, Charlotte, Adam, Will and myself.