A new blog post

I’ve been so bound up in this project with my WRITING PARTNER that I’m just kind of now coming up to gulp some air. This is going to be a big week – George is coming! – and there are lots of events, starting with a screening of my most-anticipated fall movie tomorrow night. And wow, Gifter is going great too, some exciting developments on that front as soon as, you know, we can get a certain fruit company to see us as the bright unique star we are rather than an extra in that 1984 commercial.

Music: All I listen to is Disfear on repeat (I hear Matthew Barney is a fan) and Tony Carey’s Explorer album to cool down.

Movies: as above. I also saw Tout est Parfait which I thought was extremely boring. I remember when I was younger I used to love movies that kind of dwelled in landscape and determinedly represented place – well, maybe they were just better. Like George Washington or Reach The Rock. Those were excellent films. Annnnnyway.

Books: I’ve been using the Kindle quite a bit lately and wow, it’s awesome. Reading The Night of The Gun which is like a literate episode transcript of Cops and The Bottom Billion is next, after which I will buy some fiction – something cheerier than Oliver Kitteridge, hopefully. Anyone who knows my taste knows that I am a devoted student of Haruki Murakami but jesus his new memoir was dull. Dull and repetitive. I thought hm, the book is about marathon running, maybe the repetition is meant to structurally mirror the sameness of running all those miles but even if that was his intention, bad choice. HM has published lots of non-fiction in Japan although so far not much of it has been translated; Underground, about the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway was, and even in abridged form* I found it pretty god damn fascinating.

Theater: ha ha ha ha ha

*Murakami’s best novel, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle was abridged in its English edition and it kills me. Seriously Jay Rubin/Knopf, what were you thinking?