book : The Road

Dear tom,

title: The Road
author: Cormac McCarthy
page count:

basic summery: My favorite relationships to read about is the unbalanced friendship (like A Separate Peace and The Kite Runner) and the Father-Son relationship. I fucking love Dads. This book is about my favorite kind of hero, hero of humanity, compassion and love. A hero who is otherwise your everyday background and is only different by his extreme heart. None of the characters have names but it follows a man and his son in a post-apocalyptic world. It's pure day to day survival. Reading it makes me question my own personality. It makes me wonder if I'm capable of being as good as the man and how I could be more like him. He needs to be everyone's fucking role model.

There's also lots of spooky stuff and cannibals to keep you on your toes.

other comments: The post apocalyptic world is in dire need of Operation Vacuum.

love,

kristen

book : Into Thin Air

Dear tom,

title: Into Thin Air
author: Jon Krakauer
page count:

basic summery: This is a book about a man who climb Everest but how the majority of his team died during the decent. This was my attempt to branch out my reading library. This book is polar opposite to everything else I read and my personality. I'll list some of the reason now:

1. This book is non-fiction
2. This book is about sports
3. This book is not about dark comedy, satires, murder, cynical nature of human being or imagination.

With an adventure stand point, it's pretty exciting. He details the process you would take if you were to climb Everest really well. I may not be a sports buff but climbing Everest is something I believe to be cool to just about anybody. I spent most of the book cold with frostbite on the behalf of the people involved in the climb. I think I didn't enjoy it as much as others would because I get really stressed when suspenseful and awful things happen to characters in books. (Which is why I only read Stephen King during daylight)

other comments: If I climb Everest, it'll be with you. (And we'll become best friend popsicles at the top)

love,

kristen

book : Snuff

Dear tom,

title: Snuff
author: Chuck Palahniuk
page count:

basic summery: A bunch of men are gathered because this porn star is going to break the world record for the most people fucked in a porno. That's 600 fucking people !! Three men alternate telling chapters. Most of the book is just the waiting room and the men interacting with one another while they wait their turn. All the men have different reasons on why they want to screw Cassie Wright (the porn star) and their reasons are all kind of fucked up.

other comments: This is the author of Fight Club and one of my favorite books, Rant. This novel however, despite having over 600 implied sex scene is so sub par compared to the rest of his novels. Highly unrecommended for a Palahniuk book.

love,

kristen

book : World War Z

Dear tom,

title: World War Z
author: Max Brooks
page count:

basic summery: Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! People call it a fad but I am so glad that zombies are so popular. They are the only supernatural creature that make for excellent horrors and comedies. I don't know if you've ever read a book written as an oral history but it's one of my favorite formats. It makes for quick reads and a "straight to the point" page turner. Every line is action. You get all kinds of perspective here; people from different countries, different ages, and different power (government or otherwise). You learn about the start of the outbreak to the many ways people found to survive. It keeps you interested because it covers so many scenarios. It's like the SAW of zombie survival.

other comments: Brooks also wrote the Zombie Survival Guide. (But I didn't read it)

love,

kristen

book : Perfume

Dear tom,



title: Perfume
author: Patrick Suskind
page count:

basic summery: This book is something to get excited about. It's about this man called Jean-Baptiste Grenouille and his cynical outlook on life. His sense of smell is extremely developed and it's the strangest fictional "super power" I have ever read about. Human nature is completely dissected in his sardonic voice. Grenouille kills people in search of the 'perfect perfume' and the whole read is extremely excellent. This book has convinced me you don't need mind control or X-men powers to be a complete badass. It's as simple as being about to smell.

other comments: I told you there's murder. It's not a spoiler. The book cover tells you that much.

I also own it so you can borrow it if you'd like.

love,

kristen

gay day may fay

Dear tom,

Here are some poems I found and like.
They are about love because I love you.

6:59 AM by Shane Koyczan

I’ve been told
that people in the army
do more by 7:00 am
than I do
in an entire day

but if I wake
at 6:59 am
and turn to you
to trace the outline of your lips
with mine
I will have done enough
and killed no one
in the process.

Love,

kristen

photomanip

Dear tom,

I want to find a niche in photomanipulation. Maybe I'll give it a try this summer. Here's some stuff by Jeanette Woitzik I found. You can see more here if you'd like but the two below are clear winners.










































Love,

kristen

before i die

Dear tom,





























































[Become a Bollywood star]


They have my dreams too !!

Love,

kristen

weather

Dear tom,

I took a picture when the sky was pretty.














And here's a picture of Calgary winter at my bus stop.














Miss you.

Love,

kristen

sssSSsss

Dear tom,

Bwahahhha.




















And I'm touched about your comic. I love you.

Love,

kristen

miss you

Dear tom,

I miss you. I miss you.



Love,

kristen

eat words and hear food

Dear tom,

This is our distopian world.



Love,

kristen

stocked fridge

Dear tom,

I found out how to get myself a black woman.



and kill bugs


Love,

kristen

fag pride

Dear tom,

I found this picture about gay guys holding hands. Here it is now since that's kind of "your thing".

love,

Kristen

book : One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Dear tom,

title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
author: Ken Kesey
page count: 272

basic summery: It's told in first person narrative of a guy who's committed to an asylum. A new patient (McMurphy) comes in an reeks havoc on the ward, creating uprising among the crazies against the staff. I developed crazy empathy for the looneys and their victories really do feel like your own. McMurphy is the quintessential contemporary fiction hero. Also, the narrator is a lunatic so his reactions and thought process' are really unique compared to other books but not in a "hard to follow" sort of way nor an "overdone and confusing" way.

other comments: Kesey (the author) went to Stanford on a scholarship. In 1959, he volunteered in a CIA-financed clinical trial of psychoactive drugs (acid, mushrooms and DMT to name a few). Later in life, he drove a bus with his friends, "The Merry Pranksters", all around the states and showed people how to expand their minds with psychedelics. There are other books and movies about this adventure. When I read one, I'll tell you.

It should also be noted that Kesey died of diabetes, not insanity brought on by losing his shit.

love,

kristen

bulk chips

Dear tom,

Like 5 cent candies, I've found a way to answer the age old question, "what should I eat now that I'm too stoned to move?"

I am going to start rallying people together to create high demand to buy chips in bulk. This way several flavours can be combined into one action-packed-snack-attack. Where else can you get cheetoes, ketchup chips and ruffles sour cream and onion? Where else will all your deep-fried potato fantasies come true? Nowhere ! At least, not unless my idea gets marketed.

love,

Kristen

sex offender shuffle

Dear tom,

Hey, check it out, I'm in a commercial!



love,

Kristen

mac and ed hardy

Dear tom,

I heard someone say the only Microsoft product that won't suck will be the Microsoft vacuum. I think mac users go out of their way to be mean.

People should boycott macs like they boycott ed hardy; not because of the fault of the product but because owning the product stereotypes you as being a complete condescending shit.

With that being said, I might want a Mac for my next laptop since mine always crashes and my mom receive ed hardy perfume from one of her friends. Hypocrisy is beautiful.

Love,

kristen

book : The Rules of Attraction

Dear tom,

I thought it would be nice if I wrote quick reviews of the book I read to entice you to read them too. It makes me really happy that you actually do read my recommendations. So here's the first one of the year !

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title: The Rules of Attraction
author: Brent Easton Ellis
page count: 282

basic summery: Apathetic college art student sleep around and do lots of drugs and partying told in Ellis' beautiful satirical and apathetic tone. This is the same guy who wrote American Psycho (which you are currently borrowing !)

other comments: I also recommend Less Than Zero by the same author. The sequel to Less Than Zero comes out this May (Imperial Bedrooms) !! I do not recommend The Informers by Ellis because it sucked until the ending which is usually the opposite for books. All his novels have been made into movies but I haven't seen a single one and I would suggest never to see one. If you read his books, you'll know what I mean.

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Love,

kristen

anime for winter semester

Dear tom,

If you're lonely and looking to waste some time Higurashi no naku koro ni has 26 episode of multidimensional excitement to keep you occupied. Unlike my last suggestion, which turned out only to be good when you're stoned and clueless, this anime delivers !














At least, I hope it does because I actually got sidetracked and stopped watching.

Love,

kristen

school supplies

Dear tom,

Why don't they make thicker pens with white out rolls at the ends so we can have the comforts of erasing while using ink?

If you hit rock bottom, try to sell this idea for food and booze.

Love,

kristen