- Personal grooming: my brother was here yesterday and he was like THE WAY YOU LOOK IS A REFLECTION OF HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT YOURSELF hippie so get a haircut, shave and wash your car. Ok ok!
- Movies: let down by Visioneers (although Mia Maestro is so fine, wow), loved loved loved Shotgun Stories, didn’t understand the ending of Daytime Drinking, admired the camerawork of Ima, Boku wa but otherwise thought it was boring, Tokyo Sonata was great and more than made up for Kairo, liked Moon although it left me with questions. Soon I will hunt down Frownland and I very much want to see Bobcat Goldthwait’s World’s Greatest Dad.
- TV: The 2009 version of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is predictably rad, although they’ve done something structurally daring I think is amazing that is driving the fans insane. I watched the first season of Durham County from Canada and it was surprisingly fun. True Blood is obviously kicking ass – I realized part of the reason I love the show is because it has no subtext of any kind, at all – and I couldn’t be more psyched for Mad Men to come back.
- Books: Reading Kapuscinski’s Travels With Herodotus and actually bought the Grene translation of The History to go with, but frankly I’m more interested in Kapuscinski’s travels than his extrapolations about what Herodotus was leaving out of his ancient narrative. Looking forward to William Vollmann’s Imperial. Also, my Kindle is on eBay for obvious reasons – DRM is fine but memory holes are not. Update: Jeff Bezos’ apology is sufficient, I think. I’ll start using the iPhone app again.
- Music: Not engaged with the scene at the moment, although I would like to point out that the new U-God record is significantly better than that Wu-Tang Chamber Music album. Also, in a fit of missing the 90s, or something, I found Mad Season – Above. River of Deceit is kind of a great single? slash horrible?
Catching up
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