like i said, nothing new to report really. Megan's
visit was great, we mostly stayed in bed and on the couch and drank too many beers and smoked too much and watched Season 5 of Curb Your Enthusiasm...we also left the neighborhood once to go see Why? at the Great American Music Hall. oh yeah, we had lunch at my parent's house albeit without the parents. i have some new photos on flickr, mostly taken by Meg and hijacked by me.speaking of hijacking...a pet peeve: when people with blogs do that whole "i'm sick of the form [blog], it just doesn't do it for me, this will be my last post for a while if indefinitely, it's been fun, but i need to concentrate on my real life..." blah blah blah...and then maybe a week 1/2 later (at the most) lo and behold, a new fucking blog post about whatever the fuck...it's like those people who announce through Myspace bulletins "i'm quiting Myspace" hoping for a barrage of responses from all their friends begging them to stay...just do it! drop out and spare us the "i'm over it" rigamarole...don't post a bulletin! bulletins function as mass email pleas for new comments and messages...seriously, that's what they're for, i should know, i do them all the time...no one cares, just quit, stop fishing for attention...
David Harrison Horton is going to publish a bunch of translations from Demosthenes Agrafiotis's Chinese Notebook in his new mag WORK! ("a year long project")...i think they'll appear in issue #3...
Gary Sullivan reviews book covers...i think Gary's blog has been pretty fantastic lately, maybe the only blog (i'm linked to) worth reading of late...
i'm currently reading Sulfur #2 having just finished The Grand Piano #1...i wrote a short review of the latter on Goodreads mostly talking about how David Highsmith sold me the book and how i didn't know David Highsmith was David Highsmith at the time...i like David Highsmith...
i recently finished Raymond Carver's
complete poems...don't ask why i read it, it has to do with OCD...but yeah, it took me a good 5 months to get through the 300 pages of drivel...definitely the worst book of poetry i've ever read...i also wrote a review of it on Goodreads, i'll paraphrase "this book made me hate Carver, hate is wife(s), hate his fucking children, hate his cigarette smoking epiphanies, hate his interest in fishing etc. don't read this book..." something like that...apropos, i read this book every morning on the toilet
...
my brother booked a ticket to Greece, we'll be in Greece together for about 2 weeks, i'm really excited about this...Pireaus then Athens then islands then wherever then Paros for the Symposium...we've talked about going to Greece together for as long as i can remember...me and my brother gots melanin in Hellas or, hella melanin in Greece...
i watched Gus Van Sant's Gerry last night...i didn't hate it but definitely didn't like it either...i'm not sure it was about anything more than two dudes getting lost in the dessert...i don't really buy the existential reading of the flick...if you can tell me what's existential about this movie please do..."hey man, this movie is giving me that existential feeling..."...speaking of Van Sant, he was in my neighborhood the other day shooting MILK (Haight and Fillmore)...he looks like he does on the Gerry special features DVD...bushy hair, boyish face. Sean Penn was there too, Penn is more handsome (and taller than i thought) in real life...
my sister's birthday is on Monday, my mom is making cornbeef and cabbage and carrots...my car is in the city so i'll drive there...
i forgot to mention i got busted by MUNI the other day for riding the train without a ticket...the fine is 50 bucks, the MTA dude told me that they recently reduced it from $150, why would they do that? he asked me if i would mind if he let Megan go without a ticket...i said "no, i don't mind..." why would he ask me that?
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