bat out of hell

yesterday there was amazing mist and fog here in maine. i was in the car with ariella, my stepsister, and her boyfriend charlie. they go to school at reed, and we all agreed that it felt like temperate rainforest.

i want to move back to portland oregon.

anyway, so ariel said that aurora (her sister) was visiting someone in new york who goes to bennington with her, and the girl was like, "oh, you want some milk? go ahead into the kitchen." (this is in a fancy nyc loftish place). so she goes into the kitchen and meatloaf is standing at the counter, and aurora's like, out of the kitchen again, whispering "holy shit, meatloaf's in your kitchen!" (can you do an exclaimation point when it's whispering???) the girl's says, "yeah, that's my dad." it's really a better story if you hear the meek way she said it was her dad, but WOAH wouldn't that be so awesome to have him as your dad.
i would wear his pirate shirts. i would have people come over and unknowingly run into him in the kitchen!!!
ariel brought it up because we were listening and having a sing-along to the long, better version of Meatloaf and Bonnie Tyler singing "total eclipse of the heart." that song is brutal:

Once upon a time I was falling in love
But now I'm only falling apart
There's nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart

i don't know how to make my voice all scratchy and smokey, like b.t., but ariel can.
on the topic of dark romanticism, did you know that Ted Hughes destroyed the last three years' worth of Sylvia Plath's journals after she committed suicide? I really wonder what she wrote about. i heard that the contents of her disappeared writings are concealed symbolically within his childrens' book, "The Earth Owl and Other Moon-people." If you can get your hands on that book, let me in on it and we'll solve the mystery. actually, all his children's books look pretty crucial:

Fangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth
Shaggy and Spotty
Nessie the Mannerless Monster

talk about crypto-LumberGoth!

ok, well, more to come. i took lots of pictures in maine.