Addiction used to be the national plague. Everybody was joining twelve steps this, twelve steps that. Torture has become the new paradigm. Suddenly, the IRS and IDES are both auditing me. Everything is excruciating, minute, in depth, impossible. Old FBI files surface. Lies abound.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
hora de nadar
Just delete this.
I'm almost finished reading Obama's new book. The foreign policy chapter is the best. Not very narrative or inspiring, but it does feel good.
Halfway through Melville's The Confidence Man. Love crawling around in that strange century's mind.
Stack of plays here to read. Might be a spoiler upcoming in this paragraph. I guessed the secret audience-shattering ending of the new Neil LaBute play by reading reviews in the New Yorker and the New York Times. It's called "Wrecks" -- punning on the Greek classic play -- and it concerns a man (played by Ed Harris) at the funeral of his wife. Apparently the ending is very shocking, but when John Lahr wrote that the woman had been fifteen years older than her husband, well, I am sure I just spoiled it for everyone now. I'll still read it when it's in print. That guy cranks them out.
Gave up on watching The Nine after two episodes. Still staying with Lost, happily. Haven't missed an episode of Ugly Betty yet -- what's not to love? There's America Ferrera, for one thing. Real women have curves. But Studio 60 is what I especially like, it's smart, too smart for network TV so it probably won't last long, and it's about writers, TV writers but I guess that counts. I should write Mark Roberts, the producer of Two and a Half Men, now that he's talking to me again, and see if the show bears any relation to reality.
The new Lindsey Buckingham album is very good, especially the first song and the Stones cover, I Am Waiting. I posted the lyrics to Not Too Late on The Last Good Name. He could have been singing about me.
Watching old Mexican movies. Criterion just released the first Alfonso Cuaron movie, Solo Con Tu Pareja, on DVD. Also watching and rewatching L'Auberge Espagnole and the new sequel Russian Dolls, which follows the same batch of international students in their romantic quests. Really love these movies. I don't even know what language it's supposed to be in, there are so many.
Speaking of Russia, the music download site has gone through some changes. Visa and Mastercard decided not to allow them to use their cards, so you can't buy songs any more. To retaliate, AllofMP3 has decided to offer their catalog for free, if you download and play the music on their online player. I still have about six bucks of credit on the site, so I'm still going to download some Incredible String Band and X-Ray Spex. Basically, though, you can hear anything for free now.
Snow just came in at the library, by Turkish Nobel novelist Orhan Pamuk. It's too long. Maybe I'll skim it.
They did Leonard Bernstein's Mass at Krannert over the weekend, with dance and everything. I didn't go. Maybe I'll download it. The newspaper reviewer was ho-hum. Dannie was anything but. Sorry I missed it. Anna Russell died. And Jane Wyatt. And the old guy on my route. I had just put up a new tube for him.
I'm almost finished reading Obama's new book. The foreign policy chapter is the best. Not very narrative or inspiring, but it does feel good.
Halfway through Melville's The Confidence Man. Love crawling around in that strange century's mind.
Stack of plays here to read. Might be a spoiler upcoming in this paragraph. I guessed the secret audience-shattering ending of the new Neil LaBute play by reading reviews in the New Yorker and the New York Times. It's called "Wrecks" -- punning on the Greek classic play -- and it concerns a man (played by Ed Harris) at the funeral of his wife. Apparently the ending is very shocking, but when John Lahr wrote that the woman had been fifteen years older than her husband, well, I am sure I just spoiled it for everyone now. I'll still read it when it's in print. That guy cranks them out.
Gave up on watching The Nine after two episodes. Still staying with Lost, happily. Haven't missed an episode of Ugly Betty yet -- what's not to love? There's America Ferrera, for one thing. Real women have curves. But Studio 60 is what I especially like, it's smart, too smart for network TV so it probably won't last long, and it's about writers, TV writers but I guess that counts. I should write Mark Roberts, the producer of Two and a Half Men, now that he's talking to me again, and see if the show bears any relation to reality.
The new Lindsey Buckingham album is very good, especially the first song and the Stones cover, I Am Waiting. I posted the lyrics to Not Too Late on The Last Good Name. He could have been singing about me.
Watching old Mexican movies. Criterion just released the first Alfonso Cuaron movie, Solo Con Tu Pareja, on DVD. Also watching and rewatching L'Auberge Espagnole and the new sequel Russian Dolls, which follows the same batch of international students in their romantic quests. Really love these movies. I don't even know what language it's supposed to be in, there are so many.
Speaking of Russia, the music download site has gone through some changes. Visa and Mastercard decided not to allow them to use their cards, so you can't buy songs any more. To retaliate, AllofMP3 has decided to offer their catalog for free, if you download and play the music on their online player. I still have about six bucks of credit on the site, so I'm still going to download some Incredible String Band and X-Ray Spex. Basically, though, you can hear anything for free now.
Snow just came in at the library, by Turkish Nobel novelist Orhan Pamuk. It's too long. Maybe I'll skim it.
They did Leonard Bernstein's Mass at Krannert over the weekend, with dance and everything. I didn't go. Maybe I'll download it. The newspaper reviewer was ho-hum. Dannie was anything but. Sorry I missed it. Anna Russell died. And Jane Wyatt. And the old guy on my route. I had just put up a new tube for him.
Chat con Andres
9:04 AM Andres : hola estas ally
| 9 minutes |
9:13 AM me: ahora si
9:16 AM pero ahora me voy
9:21 AM Andres: a
luego hablamos.
me: tengo un minuto todavia
Andres: yo tambien tengo q irme-
me: ok
todo va bien?
Andres: bueno,
9:22 AM si pero estaba esperando a cate para hablar con ella y no se conecto.
me: lastima
y el estomago y la comida?
9:23 AM como he escrito en un email, puedes sacar unos $25 US de la cuenta.
ciao.
Andres: a gracias
9:24 AM pero dime de q banco lo puedo hacer.
nose aqui de cual.
me: yo no se tampoco, pero espero que cualquiera
Andres: jajaja
bueno yo haberiguo.
9:25 AM me : bien
Andres : gracias de nuevo.
saludes a tu familia.
me: por nada. ojala que puedo hacer mas
bien. llame por telefono a los martinez-kopp recentemente.
Andres: yo estare conectandome denuevo mas tarde
9:26 AM hora de colombia 9 pm
me: me gustaria llamar a su familia tambien. si hay algo que puedo decirles, digame
Andres: espero poder hablar con tigo tambien
si.
me: ok, trato de conectarme entonces tambien
9:27 AM Andres: que yo les boy a embiar el paquete esta semana.
me: muy bien
Andres: y q a ellos les llega la proccima.
gracias, y muchos saludos.
me: esta bien. entiendo
Andres: yo creo los estare llamando en unos 15 dias
me: les llamo hoy o manana
9:28 AM Andres: como tu quieras y sea mejor para ti.
me: ok
Andres: para mi es igual, pues yo embio el paquete manan
y ellos aun no saben cuando.
asi q esta bien manana
9:29 AM me: ok entonces. hasta luego, mi companero guarapero
Andres : jajjaja
te cuento q ahora aqui e probado muchas cerbesas
9:30 AM y aun me faltan muchas
chao.
me: claro. es alemania. cuidado. no seas un borracherito.
Andres: tambien espero algun dia bolber a tomarme un guarapo con tigo.
jajja
9:31 AM no au no soy un borrachito
me: YO TAMBIEN. Guarapo contigo. es un sueno.
Andres : si
tu biajaras a colombia de nuevo?
espero q para el procimo ano.
para encontrarnos.
9:32 AM bueno site tienes q ir chao. y mucha suerte.
me: pues, pienso en venir en el año 2009. espero que mas antes. te escribire mas sobre esto otro tiempo
ciao
Andres: chao
Monday, October 23, 2006
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