Wedge a stone in the gears of the clockworks, try to keep us from acting our age

[kleenexwoman]

Maybe it's the stress from finals and the dread of working at Taco Bell for an entire summer, maybe it's the encroaching food shortage and oil crash, maybe it's all the Mischief Brew I've been listening to or all the Baudrillard...but after I graduate next winter (okay, the spring afterwards, since it's going to be cold and snowy), I really do want to be some sort of anarcho-primitive gypsy and see if I can live off the land. Just live in a little shack in the woods and have a garden and spend my free time reading and writing. Dig out my typewriter. No computer. Phone for emergencies only. Learn to play the guitar or some ridiculously easy instrument instead of listening to CDs. Maybe see if these people have openings for 2009. Even if it's just for a few months.

Comments

[drworm.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD THAT FARM THING OR WHATEVER SOUNDS AWESOME

I have this ridiculous idea that I want to travel, which is probably that impulse to run away from everything kicking in.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

LET'S GO BE WRITER FARMERS TOGETHER

or we could buy a caravan and take a road trip across the U.S. and land up in California

or go to Europe and backpack and hitchhike like good little college grads

Now is the time when we need to chuck it all and just go off someplace new.

[sir-dave.livejournal.com]

This is so like my own feeling. I can't face ditching the meat, and I want to shoot photos, so an RV and nowhere to return to is my own bag. Someone pay me for gas ---

I wonder if any of those poets in residence can match 20,000 words edited to death per year, which is the rate I'm going at?

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I bet having 20 hours a day to write kicks up the productivity a notch. I'm seeing cabins littered with words, sheaves of poetry stuck on bare branches...

[drworm.livejournal.com]

I would if I thought I was thinking healthily. But I think I'm thinking neurotically, which is less... um... good. :/

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

so am I, sadly. But I still want to travel.

Maybe in a year or so we can get our heads together straight and take off healthily.

[mcpreacher.livejournal.com]

not much land to live off of so i'll wait for the apocalypse and become an insane bible thumping vigilante because that would kick ass

[sir-dave.livejournal.com]

Why wait? I think I'm there now. Prophesy your own apocalypse, and get it in first! ;)

[mcpreacher.livejournal.com]

i'll go hunt down rich people and be like "when i'm done with you partner, you could fit through the eye of a needle"

[sir-dave.livejournal.com]

It's quicker with the poor folks, they're thinner.

[mcpreacher.livejournal.com]

they're armed though, they're allies

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

No, not always. A consistent diet of cheap starch and grease has made the American underclass as chubby as Eskimos.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I just wanna found Bartertown and make mutated freaks and scruffy dudes with guns fight each other in huge steel cages for my amusement and scraps of food

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

My sister is moving back to Traverse City in a few weeks to do her own Thoreau/Kaczynski thang. I did something sorta like it during my hermitage in SLC. And now you. There must be something in the air.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

My brother keeps trying but it doesn't quite ever work out for him.

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

My cousin Pete actually went all out, moved to Alaska for a few years and spent a bunch of time hitchhiking around various parts of Asia. Don't know how some people are able to get all that done. Maybe you and I can set up a pup tent in my backyard next time you're in town? We can have hot dogs and Jiffy Pop and everything! Mnnn, yes, we are adventurous!

[anivad.livejournal.com]

A shack still counts as civilisation. We should go find a forest. With no supplies whatsoever except maybe a knife and some water. Then wander about and have fun, and die of starvation or murder by intended-food. :D

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

omg count me in. There's tons of unexplored woodland in Michigan, and the forests are both bountiful and deep. We could wander for months without seeing any company besides the occasional deer hunter.

[anivad.livejournal.com]

And then we could film the deer hunter and win an Oscar. \o/

...Okay, so make that knife, water and camera.