Me Reading Stuff

"You workin' hard lady? I don't believe you." - Kool Keith"Are you an original? I don't believe you." - MeLINKS:Kool Keith's "Matthew": https://koolkeith.bandcamp.com/album/matthewListen to "I Don't Believe You" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH4Y16Hb6RMBuy The Fran Lebowitz Reader here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/99063/the-fran-lebowitz-reader-by-fran-lebowitz/Head to my shop and use your Coupon Code!: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMy Website: https://www.robynoneil.comMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"You should know this: that feed is your poem.” - Anne Boyer"You should know this: that thing you casually do is probably not your art. But it actually might be your art. Totally depends on the person." - MeLINKS:Buy Garments Against Women here: https://www.mobythegreat.com/books/anne-boyer/garments-against-women/9780141990217?gclid=CjwKCAjwtfqKBhBoEiwAZuesiNrZKfmdDm3cfsCp_4cA3ysYNXTUAvX3YEHFst5LXVIBjpTnI2LkUxoCXXUQAvD_BwEMy Website: https://www.robynoneil.comMy Shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"Beauty is as rare as mass murder." - The School of Life Dictionary "I need better bras, but refuse to wear good bras anymore." - MeLINKS:Buy the new Dave Eggers book The Every here: https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-every?taxon_id=1 or here: https://electric-works.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-every-by-dave-eggersBuy The School of Life Dictionary here: https://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/us/tsol-dictionary/My Website: https://www.robynoneil.comMy Shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"She had no horses but thought she did." -Keaton Patti's Bot"Garlic powder is prob the most important thing to me." - Yours TrulyLINKS:Buy "I Forced a Bot to Write This Book" here: https://linktr.ee/IForcedABotMy Website: https://www.robynoneil.comMy Shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeilBuy Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion: The Poetry of Sportstalk here: https://www.powells.com/book/-9780983186342/7-2?gclid=CjwKCAjwy7CKBhBMEiwA0Eb7auLscGfwGsSozQGpn_i3kClSEhUk6NJ8ow_qAxkX0Fqxf40Cf5U0VhoCKTwQAvD_BwE

"The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself." - Etel Adnan"The books I'm reading about demons are making me nervous." - (Catholic) MeLINKS:Buy The 2 volume Etel Adnan reader here: https://nightboat.org/book/to-look-at-the-sea-is-to-become-what-one-is/Support me and my shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopCheck out the show I'm in with the Studio Archive Project: https://studioarchiveproject.comSunglasses? Readers? Check this place out! https://www.sunglassmuseum.comMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

“Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.” - Marie Howe“Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love… Life always says Yes and No simultaneously. Death (I implore you to believe) is the true Yea-sayer. It stands before eternity and says only: Yes.” - Rainer Maria RilkeLINKS:Buy Marie Howe's What the Living Do: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393318869Buy Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/154356/duino-elegies-and-the-sonnets-to-orpheus-by-rainer-maria-rilke-edited-and-translated-by-stephen-mitchell/Check out Tyler Bright Hilton's work here: https://www.tylerbrighthilton.com and here: https://www.instagram.com/tyler_bright_hilton/Caddis Reading Glasses who are PRO AGING - YAY!: https://caddislife.comSunglass Museum: https://www.sunglassmuseum.comPrive Revaux: https://priverevaux.c

"I am raising a fly with wings of gold" - Songs from the Quechua"I want to be on The Young and the Restless." - MeLINKS:Buy "Looking for Poetry, Translations by Mark Strand: here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375709883?aff=penguinrandomCheck out my website here: www.robynoneil.comShop my shop here: www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"Garbage collectors pick up 6,424 pounds of your trash a year." - Spike Carlsen "Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain." - Robert Gary LeeLINKS:Buy Spike Carlsen's "A Walk Around the Block" here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-walk-around-the-block-spike-carlsen?variant=33021712793634Check out Reader's Digest here: https://www.rd.comIf you're worried about someone else's drinking: https://al-anon.orgCheck out my website here: www.robynoneil.comShop my shop here: www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"We are at a party that doesn't love us." - Tomas Tranströmer"We sure the fuck are." - MeLINKS:Buy Tomas Tranströmer's "The Great Enigma" here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-great-enigma/My shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Recommendation Corner: rest, relaxation, television, couch time, fun foods, salads, the right amount of water, markers, stamp collecting, sticker collecting, sleep schedule, walking, isolating. Not Recommended: overuse of smartphone, beating yourself up, expecting, ignoring your body, snapping, irregular bathing, forgetting to eat, isolating.LINKS:Buy Claudia Rankine's Plot here: https://groveatlantic.com/book/plot/Buy Great American Prose Poems here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Great-American-Prose-Poems/David-Lehman/9780743243506Check out my shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopFollow me on Instagram (and be there for the Live event on Monday the 16th): https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"I've been stuck with a smelly, actively decaying body that I never asked for and am constantly on the receiving end of confusing, overwhelming messages for how to properly care for and feed it." - Samantha Irby"What she said." - MeLINKS:Buy Samantha Irby's books here: https://www.booksoup.com/search/site/samantha%20irbyCheck out my website here: www.robynoneil.comShop my shop here: www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

Shade I've Dealt With Today: Shade inside my trash can full of dark chocolate wrappers, shade in my new lip balm box, on whale skin scars, shade inside my own stomach, shade in between my lips and those blankets, fuzzy shade forcing its way out from under my dying dill plant, shade under my mouth on the phone, shade under a printout I made of Louise Lasser, shade beneath lost items. LINKS:Check out my show at Moskowitz Bayse Gallery in Los Angeles: http://www.moskowitzbayse.comCheck out the profile of my life in the studio during the pandemic: https://inglettgallery.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/My shop! https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/

"Hubbard explained to his agent that he ultimately decided to withdraw the book from publication because the first six people who read it were so shattered by the revelations that they had lost their minds. The last time he showed Excalibur to a publisher, he said, the reader brought the manuscript into the room, set it on the publisher's desk, then jumped out the window of the skyscraper." - Lawrence WrightLINKS:Buy "Going Clear" by Lawrence Wright here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/212925/going-clear-by-lawrence-wright/Get tickets for Damien's show here: https://damienjurado.comCheck out my shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"My head is as big as the world. A river of the color red and real shiny." - Arnaldo Gomez"I bought myself a glazed donut." - MeLINKS:Buy "Wishes, Lies, and Dreams" here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wishes-lies-and-dreams-kenneth-kochron-padgett?variant=32131028549666Email me your Swan of Bees poem here: mereadingstuff@icloud.comMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"Who's with me sitting alone at a moonlit window? ... Just this amazing thing, all grief and worry, that I am. My very own grief and worry: amazing!" -Li Ch'ing-chaoLINKS:Buy Classical Chinese Poetry here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374531904Check out my shop and use "SPRING" in the BOOKS section for 25% off: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"It is certainly true that the larger and older the living thing is, the harder it is to know how to care for it." - Lydia Davis "A sure sign that someone's about to have a full mental breakdown is when they start obsessively juicing." - MeLINKS:Buy "The Collected Stories" by Lydia Davis here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312655396Shop my stuff here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopListen to Damien Jurado's new single here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq_fZ2r4cj0Check out Damien's shop here: https://damienjurado.bigcartel.comThe Dash Rapid Egg Cooker!: https://bydash.com/products/rapid-egg-cookerMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket." - Charles Simic"I like watching people listen." - MeLINKS:Buy Charles Simic's "The Horse Has Six Legs" here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/horse-has-six-legsMy shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"For most of my adult life, I drove through Central Park every morning going to work." - Susan Lucci"Give me a part in a film, and I'll show you I'm not just a heartthrob." - David Charvet LINKS:Lifetime Movie Club: https://www.lifetimemovieclub.comMy shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms." - Werner HerzogLINKS:Buy The School of Life Dictionary: https://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/us/tsol-dictionary/My shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil

"Form your letters slowly and well: making things well is more important than making them." - Antonio Machado"Brie is a 90's cheese. I'm going to go buy some right now." - MeLINKS:Buy The Winged Energy of Delight by Robert Bly here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-winged-energy-of-delight-robert-bly?variant=32130617704482Check out Devon from Young and the Restless here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk1CHo3xJ3UCheck out my Shop! https://www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=enHandwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittennotesontv/Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Robyn_ONeil