Hey Raymi,

I thought in my inebriated state that I would let you know this right away.

I thought you might find it interesting.

tho i did want to address the last email u wrote, ie the one i posted on my blog

i wanted u to know that the mania is yes worth the art one produces

but be careful

im 21 now and i have had it with myself and how i am now

a drunk everyday and i how i deal with it is by glamorizing the places

i frequent and act pathetic and cute

i have been in a psyche ward brandi

and that aint any kind of fun

i cant smoke weed anymore because my brain is super sharp and connects

things that are ridiculous and i have/had severe post traumatic stress

from living in nyc during sept. 11 and from dating two drug dealers

who were very abusive

and now the antidepressants i am on are making me manic and i am just

fine with it and i drink coffee everyday and i have all these

brilliant ideas and i never finish one project i begin and i whine and

complain for help with these projects i want to come to seed but then

we just end up going to a play and to the bar and reading my email for

nice messages from people like you

and i think i will never ever be satisfied with my life

and i also have body dismorphia and eating problems and i am broke all the time

so…

today i hope to accomplish/put-off the following:

laundry

shower

shave stray eyebrows

find earphones

take pictures of raymi posessions and put them up at raymistore

write a book

be nice to people

be mean to people

be pleasant

turn into a unicorn

write another letter to megatouch about how we should get more points for this one game we play

start a megatouch blog

get help for megatouch addiction after i

get help for my drinking problem

learn how to speak to people again

invent new ADD/ADHD medication that also aids social ineptitude

and self-loathing

draw pictures of cigarettes

?

yesterday i decided to get pissed-off and dissappear out of the place and then you called and asked if that was me in that mysterious car around the corner because you followed and i said no i am alone in the dark spying on the lake

harold cut my hair for free yesterday when we came in and were talking business and i said i need all the help i can get, this dry-ends shit is out of control

and we talked about how he is the token black dude in town and i said he must get a lot of pussy and he is like yeh i do but i don’t live here and i said i had noticed him several times at the coffeeplace and i had wondered about him

and i told him about the time me and tyranny walked around all hung over and he was wearing his new york fuckin’ city t-shirt and all the white families were shocked and appalled

harold has a motorcycle club and two chillens

when the girl was shampooing my head i was laughing like a moron and her face turned into a big question mark and i said please don’t be alarmed i am always weird like this and when water goes over the left side of my head something strange happens to me

and her eyes were tearing up because she was laughing at my hysterical giggle-attacks and feet stomping and grabbing the sides of the chair like arnold in total recall when they are going to shove that needle in ‘em

in other news

i watched new york minute, last nite, and now i am thinking of dying my hair blond

raymi needs a change

and then i can say that i did it because my idol ashlee simpson dyed hers blond and everyone would believe it

because they are special

valerie said no way jose don’t dye it blond keep it dark it suits you i will destroy the universe with my electronic pitchfork if your hair is blond and all the guys were like yeeeeh heeeeer doi blond hair droool swoon i like blooooooond

horny toad hang-out

> Dear Raymi

> I’m 18. I live in the Midwestern United States. I don’t actually think that

> I am a headcase any more than anyone else, especially since I watched Oprah

> ce matin avec celebraties who were strapped down in mental institutions, and

> then there’s good ‘ol Anne Heche. But really, crazy celebs or not, I

> shouldn’t set that as a standard. I just said that because I was being

> self-critical and I wanted you to realize that I realize these things about

> myself. I am, though, generally depressed or extremely unhappy, which

> watching commercials and things, I’ve gathered that I have manic-depression

> and also sociel anxiety disorder, although, I am well past that teeny-bopper

> stage in my life where one reads all about mental illnessess and frets over

> them and believes that they are so unique. I have never been to a therapist

> and never intend to, because (I don’t know how it is in Canada) the United

> States drug companies are cruel pill-pushers who desire profits, and while I

> know that some people find manic depression unbearable, I quite like it. At

> times I am incredibly creative and do not ever stop writing. I feel that the

> manic state is well worth the later consequences of depression. I should

> wonder what the world would be like if Van Gough or someone wonderful was

> medicated. And besides, Sylvia Plath was treated, and it apparently did not

> serve her well. Do you ever wonder, dear internet friend and distant

> relative to Jack Kerouac, how many lost artists are out there, living day to

> day life as ‘normal’ zombies because of medication, all the while their gift

> of creativity is living an obscure, dorment existance because it is being

> repressed with prozac/paxil/zoloft? Sanity is not statistical.

>

this is a poem by raymi

you notice when people stop caring

and trying

when summer is over the food in the refridgerator is less happy

and there are less bottles of beer to smuggle

and everything is dark

earlier

and everyone gets fatter

women think about how fat they are every three minutes

men think about their penis and women’s asses every three minutes

if i sit still for a very long time

and concentrate really, really hard

i can turn into stone

and then fizzle away into dust like kirsten dunst and that woman in Interview with the Vampire (awesome movie)

and it is only my fingers that are moving over the keyboard

and i can smell my armpits

and i hope that no one comes near to smell me

hannah came near and said are you wearing perfume and i said no i washed my hair today, i may look dirty but i am actually clean

it’s ‘cos i put so many toxins into my body i think

i just, turn all pungent?

i’m so friggin’ wired. two coffees. all this talking and music-editting and website-maintenance and robot-tasks brings me back to the internship in days of yore ‘cept this time i am smarter and bossman is like, impressed by simple things i do and i am all, look, i hyperlinked and he does a cartwheel.

basically.

because i am connected to the computer i have been putting off a cigarette since i got here and good for me.

jord emailed and said he is installing a card in sal’s ‘puter and i said well when you are finished with that dumb whore you should come to town and i can tell you about emails i get and maybe he will actually bring his unicycle this time.

hotmail finally upgraded my account to 3 quatrillion gb.

me!

my aunt has an art show tonite but we’re going this weekend instead and i was all, dad, free booze will be at it the opening nite not three days later, doi, and he is all yeh whatever your uncle is coming to town for the weekend, that is when we all go and i am like fine then.

i think it is time for a smoke soon.

and a bowel-movement, perhaps, if i am lucky.

anyone who is reading this and turns to their friend and goes, woah, too much information raymi and then you do a hand-gesture that is all talk to the hand – you are old.

the late late show had that funny black dude on it last nite and i go, is that one of the wayans brothers and fil goes are you serious or joking and i said i was half-joking and i only asked that because i didn’t know the comedian’s name and so to cover for it i made a har har he looks like a wayans brother comment.

and now i just look racist.