Cat Skinner Club

Cat Skinner June 1, 2009

Swiping at the Firmament

Today was a very, very challenging day at work. I tried to hold tightly to the high from last night’s successful show, but with the collective stress of my office-mates as we banded together to trouble-shoot, it was more than challenging. I want so badly for this to turn out well, because so many people have worked so hard. I’m blowing on the dandelion fluff of prayer right now… Arthur left tonight, which I’m usually ok with, but this time it feels a bit heavy. Despite a snoring Toulouse, my apartment feels really empty without him. I’m trying to sit…

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Cat Skinner May 29, 2009

Before I Fall Into Exhausted Sleep

i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite a new thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like,, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes over parting flesh….And eyes big love-crumbs, and possibly i like the thrill of under me you…

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Cat Skinner May 26, 2009

Frostbite and Sunburn

A long, long day today, with lots of thinking. Here’s what I came up with: If you haven’t seen the movie ‘Once’, you should do so straight away. Here are the lyrics, in cast you’d like to follow along: I don’t know you But I want you All the more for that Words fall through me And always fool me And I can’t react And games that never amount To more than they’re meant Will play themselves out Take this sinking boat and point it home We’ve still got time Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice You’ll make…

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Cat Skinner May 24, 2009

The Massacre of the Innocence

Is it ok to enjoy someones company if you have a nagging feeling that there is no potential for anything lasting, or substantial? If in your gut you feel like they are just not on the same page, or that their own personal “stuff” will prevent them from meeting you halfway? Is it ok to ignore these things for the sake of appreciating the now, and “seeing what happens”? No, it is not. I already know what’s going to happen. What is ok, absolutely ok, is to feel exactly as I did yesterday afternoon, as of about two pm. Perfectly…

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Cat Skinner May 21, 2009

High Holy Days

It’s ten o’clock. I’ve just come home after an action-packed day at the office followed by a lucrative production meeting which only served to make me love my business partner that much more. As I walked home from where the donated cab ride ended, I knew two things; I wanted to sit on my terrace, and I wanted to smoke a cigarette. The former I do frequently, the latter not so much. I fetched my dog from the main floor of my almost two hundred year old house, dropped off my things and took a pee break in my stifling…

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