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bodega dreams

03/05/2011

Rufus Mangrove

you need dreams to keep you going, because when you’re waking up at five a.m. everyday to do pushups and situps and jump rope and then running outside when it’s thirty degrees out, you need an incentive. you need that ‘if’ to make you work just a little harder so when you do finally get that match to get you to the next level, you’re not going to fuck it up because someone out there was hungrier than you. i think some people are wrong when they say you only got one chance. you always have another chance. but if you fuck up your chance, you get used to fucking up. you come to accept it. and once that happens, the game is over.

a.m. new york

03/03/2011

Rufus Mangrove

sometimes it pays to buy news.

getting ready

03/03/2011

Rufus Mangrove

when i sleep, i imagine doing horrible things to sarah ferguson, duchess of york.

my limo

03/03/2011

Rufus Mangrove

a marvel in stainless steel technology. each car weighs about seventy two thousand pounds. it uses a wabco air supply and brake system. each car costs one million two hundred fifteen thousand four hundred and sixty six dollars. there are five cars in a number four train so in total, the train costs about six million seventy seven thousand three hundred and thirty dollars. and this piece of shit is all yours for 2.50.

stand clear of the closing doors please

03/03/2011

Rufus Mangrove

move out the way

addiction

03/02/2011

Rufus Mangrove

addiction is this fucking man right here. he is always there. leaning against the wall. out of focus and in the dark. waiting for you to go running into his arms again.

brave

03/02/2011

Rufus Mangrove

believe

i heart flatbush avenue

03/02/2011

Rufus Mangrove

in that wishy washy time between winter and spring, i prefer beaver as opposed to fox or alligator or eagle. beaver has a certain je nous se qua about it. you know, the way it nibbles on your skin when the wind blows through the buildings at fifteen miles an hour. or sometimes, when i’m at home and after i’ve taken a shower, instead of using a towel, i use the beaver. it’s keeps me warm. i can spend the whole day in the beaver.

packing

03/02/2011

Rufus Mangrove

i was never really a lights man. but it’s the only one that doesn’t give me the shakes when i’m off it for a few hours. i grew up on hontashan before coming here so i’m used to smoking straight nicotine. i grew up smoking that since i was maybe ten or so. everyone was doing it. that’s what you did. over here, it’s a little bit like that but i think the young ones do it just to be cool. do some fucking labor in a farm for a few months. live in a place where food is rationed. then you can start smoking at whatever damn age you please.

ginger root

03/01/2011

Rufus Mangrove

the toughest part about ginger root is making sure it’s the real deal. the american stuff is alright but the real ginger comes from larnalkas. it’s a small island a few miles off the coast of chile. the only thing capable of growing there is the most powerful ginger in the world. i went there a few times. you can hire a guide to take you. the guide has a rope attached to his torso and he swims across with you in a rowboat behind. you have to make sure you bring a paddle though because if your guide goes down, the current will sweep you through the hexiboric current before you even know to try and swim back yourself.