more denis johnson stuff

But everything is like we think it is, don't you get it? Out of the million little things happening on this beach, you can only be aware of seven things at once, seven things at any given time. ... We never really get the whole picture. Not even a microscopic part of it. ... Our delusions are just as likely to be real as our most careful scientific observations. - Denis Johnson

an old one from Salon.com talking about why he home schooled his kids:
http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/1997/10/01school.html

and here writing about a boy scout camp in the phillipines...
http://www.salon.com/dec96/jungle961223.html

in the New Yorker a long while back writing about his "lowest ebb" which is a pretty good read (though short), including the following which holds a certain nostalgic resonance to some of us....
"My highest ambition was to put together enough capital to get a quart of beer, a joint, a sandwich, and some kind of room for the night, all in the same day. On one occasion, I did grub up enough change to get drunk on discount beer and still pay for lodgings at a youth hostel, but its atmosphere felt very much like a jail's—homoerotic and quivering with suppressed violence. Still, as a young man convinced that everything that happened to him was something he'd someday write about, one night in such an atmosphere wasn't too horrible."
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020422fa_FACT5

and a decent i/view from the SF Reader that includes this piece of genius:
"A recent review in the New Yorker about writing under the influence describes the whole genre of drug literature as remarkable only in its mediocrity—with one exception: Jesus' Son. I was straight when I wrote that; I didn't write it under the influence. I don't know how you can. I mean, your hands get real big. How could you type? Did they say I was under the influence? I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it. "http://www.sanfranciscoreader.com/interviews/denis%20johnson.html

and here's a girl who's on "hot or not" and like denis johnson.
http://meetme.hotornot.com/?pickNew=1&state=vote&votee=926851&vt=36&kwMode=1&rand=896&keyword=denis%20johnson&kw=462295