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Can’t Hardly Wait …under a week away

Hi! So, as you know, it’s been a serious dream for me and my friends to one day play movies we want to watch in really amazing theaters…and to be able to share that with all of you. That dream is taking its first fledgling step next Thursday (2/2/12) at the Clairidge Theater in Montclair, New Jersey

We’re going to be screening Can’t Hardly Wait …a coming of age classic (if you haven’t seen it, you need to show up). The screening starts at 8pm and it’s only $6 at the door. The money will go back into funding not only this site and the writing here, but also the art of Abby Resko at fearofbears.net and the work of Dylan Wise at tellmesomething.org

After the movie, we’re all going to be hanging out …I’ll have books for sale and hard copies of Bruce Willis with Hair, my first poetry book, to give away. If you’re in the area, try to make it out!

Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/123270807792450/

Article about the screening: http://tellmesomething.org/pl/cant-hardly-wait-the-screening.html

I am never happy because I am happy all the time.

Someone asked me if I saw life in timeline view

…with a headline picture and some videos.

A history of auto-refresh and reminders of the

years we pass…updating and populating from

popular kids in our class. A picture blurs edges

and works some Polaroid effects in…but at its

core, just another street and city seen before.

Someone asked me if I saw my life in feeds…

people leaving you more of the internet to read.

Stories that turn waves back on waves and leave

drowned public figures floating on a foamy wake.

One article under another, like covers over children

set forth on indoor camping trips. Post another

photo, just make sure the filter is applied to it.

And what about making a profile? Talk more about

your likes…the things that make you different and

all that makes you feel all right. Maybe you’ll make

a connection..maybe no more connections in this life.

I am never happy because I am happy all the time…

how can I not be when I’m the only one on my mind?

bewitchingly asked: For Valentine's day, I asked my beau to gift me Two Wrongs Make a Vice. He asked me what I wanted, and I couldn't think of anything I wanted more than your book. :)

oh god! I don’t want your boyfriend to hate me …I should send it to the both of you and I’ll write something really, really romantic in it…wishing you and him all the best, etc etc. You know what? go to www.twowrongsmakeavice.com and order my book, and I’ll put some real sappy words in there for anyone. The book is $10 (includes shipping!) and it comes with all free stuff…including a printed copy of Bruce Willis with Hair:) my first poetry collection.

Thanks for all the love and support! And if you have a Valentine this year, just enjoy the night…eat good food…have meaningful conversation…make that person laugh, even if they aren’t your boyfriend or girlfriend or whatever. Oh …and read them some poetry. That’s always romantic. If you need some poetry, I hear this site is a decent place to get it.

The Feel Bad Movie of Your Life

Nights like tonight make me wonder what I’m doing. I miss too many things and too many people to feel functional. I’m sick of not fixing the things I need to fix…instead leaving them in pieces to go do something else. I feel like a parasite …just taking and never seeing fit to give any of myself. I miss the foreign city. I miss burying my pot.

I miss nights ending in bedrooms instead of bars …I want to smell the air through a screen over a window…to sit on a bed and say something worth saying instead of making jokes that aren’t worth their weight in winter breath. I feel unimpressive in a town where everyone looks the part. This is dumb. I want to change a thing worth changing, not something worth leaving there to rot.

Just another pair of pajama pants …and a cloudy head to apologize to my best friend for dragging him along on my attempts to feel young and better about myself. We are the most worthwhile men I know…and we will forever be products of an inability to properly function socially. We never needed it. We were just always good being the way we’ll be.

Goodnight to the dark …bring on the sunrise. Credits attached to the movie of your life.

Anonymous asked: Dear Nick. I may or may not have just downloaded the poetry from your book you linked ( I did ). You are as lovely as ever with words and I found your title very humorous. Kudos to the artist as well, even though you've got that covered. Splendid as always, and a beautiful read! I find your words to be so flexible to my imagination. I always paint the most beautiful pictures in mind thanks to the accompaniment of your words :) Stay Golden!

The artists who worked on Bruce Willis with Hair are two of the most talented girls I’ve ever encountered. They turned that book around and believed in the project…I owe them so much.

As far as the beautiful pictures…I just give you the colors …the things you make with them belong to you. Thanks so much for all the kind words:)

And for everyone interested, you can download my poetry book, Bruce Willis with Hair …for free here:

http://twowrongsmakeavice.com/2012/01/17/bruce-willis-with-hair/

ivebeenwaitingforeverandaday asked: Hi there. I just wanted to say how much I love your writings. I go through your archives and read things when I'm supposed to be listening to any given teacher's lecture (probably something I shouldn't do, but I can't help myself xD). I read all of Bruce Willis With hair and loved it... Never stop doing what you do. Your poetry makes me feel less alone in this world. And I know I'm not the only one... Oh, and John Cusack for the win. <3

hi:) Thanks for bringing my poems to class with you lol… hey, you aren’t alone in the world…it just feels that way sometimes. I got a lot of messages about that last poem …and you know what, never settle for anything. Just because you get older doesn’t mean the best parts of you have to die off.

John Cusack for the absolute win. He’s a hero and a national treasure. I’m glad I can be your poet …I’ll always try my best to be that…to say worthwhile things …to express things we all feel. Thanks for reading Bruce Willis with Hair …that was a really fun book to make. One day, we’re going to look back at all we do and know that the choices we made…the projects we threw ourselves into …those are the most important things. We believe in them so much that to case them down, for as much as it hurts and exhausts us, is the best thing we can do.

You’re really kind. I’m always here for you.

At the Bottom of the Everclear

www.twitter.com/nickorsini …give me a follow…i’d like that :)

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she asks if we can listen to So Much for the Afterglow

and cook pasta out of a steamer bag…like we used to

do in college …back to beginnings of a fat romance.

We grow out of songs and shirts …we pretend that odd

feeling in our guts isn’t the hurt that comes with the

comfort. I noticed my hair starting to thin during the

winter I tried to grow it again …I noticed the holes in

my belt moving in reverse …what was tight is now loose.

Sometimes she calls me the absolute worst like when

I elected to follow her grandfather’s hearse instead of

riding with her in the limo, jockeying her purse. I just

wanted some of my own music …something to place me

in that moment. And her mom’s lipstick scowl…her dad’s

furrowed bushy-brow…her brother’s crossed arms and sunk

shoulders all let me know that all was lost in an instant.

People say my poems have gotten better since I met her…

I say my poems have gotten better because I keep more in.

When it’s time to let go, it’s a shot put throw into a shallow,

rocky lake. “My daddy gave me a name…then he walked away.”

Bruce Willis

Hi. So I wanted to give you something for free. My first poetry book, Bruce Willis with Hair, is available for free download here:

http://twowrongsmakeavice.com/2012/01/17/bruce-willis-with-hair/

Download it, print it out, send it to people …just get something out of it …and give it to someone not on this site. It was an absolute journey to get this book done…and I owe so much to the two artists to helped me through the process.

Enjoy it …hard copies will be available at the Can’t Hardly Wait screening in Montclair, NJ on 2/2/12

http://www.facebook.com/events/123270807792450/

I owe a huge thank you for the encouragement and the well wishes. It means so much to me:)

-nick