Monday , November 16, 2009
Snapshot: Listening, Watching, Reading, Wearing, Wanting
+ Kat
Listening: Michael Jackson, obviously. Also, Crystal Antlers, Magnetic Fields, Company Flow, Swell Maps, an Ethiopian 60s blues compilations.
Watching: The thoughts flitting across the absorbed face of a young Berliner. And "South Park," season four.
Reading: I have been reading Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, which I admired but did not enjoy. It is rather strange -- on the page, you would think I'd like this, but I found myself oddly distant from the book. I felt like I were reading about a landscape with people moving through it, rather than people moving a landscape. This is theoretically interesting, but it makes for a book in which the characters barely registered with me. Now I'm reading parts of Chuck Klosterman IV on the subway, and I just started I Am Charlotte Simmons, which I read ages ago and am re-reading again. I am also reading the new manual for my new Blackberry, which I had to get because my last phone got smashed. I think this device is really changing my life, and for that I'm grateful.
Wearing: The Seattle-esque weather that graced New York City these past few weeks is sadly coming to an end, so now I'm just wearing a super-old Vanessa Bruno dress I got at Beacon's ages ago and a cardigan, because super-cold air conditioning is making me feel icky.
Wanting: Mit der wahren Liebe ist's wie mit den Geistererscheinungen: alle Welt spricht darüber, aber wenige haben etwas davon gesehen.
Inmates in a Filipino prison performing the dance from "Thriller" -- a YouTube classic:
+ Liz
Listening: First Bruce Springsteen's Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. all the time, then all kinds of Michael Jackson all the time.
Watching: Recently finished up Weeds season 4, which rattled my nerves but mostly in an exciting way.
Reading: L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad. I like a challenge.
Wearing: Lately I'm into wearing these halfway ratty cutoffs with my plaid flannel and Vans and really big hair piled on top of my head and white-framed cheap sunglasses and very red lipstick. It feels good.
Wanting: I want to read some really crackerjack commentary on season 4 Weeds that does not involve the writer unironically addressing Nancy Botwin as a "dirty whore," as Salon's Heather Havrilesky did in her really irritating finale wrap-up.
+ Laura Jane
Listening: The Beatles Anthology
Watching: Last Saturday, I discovered that there was an entire disc of Season One of Mad Men I hadn't seen yet! Which is annoying in the "late fees" department, but cool in every other way. My favorite Mad Men scene of all is when Don Draper gets stoned with his Greenwich Village Bohemian friends, and Don Draper gets up to leave, and the Beat poet dude says "No! You can't leave! The cops are outside!" and Don Draper says "You can't, but I can," and then tips his hat at the coppers and says "Good Evening, Gentlemen," and he is SUCH A CLASS ACT!
Reading: My own Twitter; other people's Twitters
Wearing: I accidentally did this sort of Farrah Fawcett/roller derby tribute look today, it was hot.
Wanting: How could I want anything in the world? Yesterday was the best day I have ever lived! Hella THX to everybody who in indulged me in drawing out my 24th birthday festivities for two weeks (It'll never happen again! I promise!), and my most sincerest THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU goes out to everybody who read what I wrote yesterday, and wrote me a kind and supportive comment or e-mail (or txt, or Twitter @ message). I have spent my entire life making up stories in my head about having that kind of thing happen to me, and yesterday, it did! In the future, I will remember these days, and I will wish that today could be yesterday.
Oh, "George Harrison's sitar-lesson with Ravi Shankar"- will I ever tire of boredly watching you while bumming around on the Internet?
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Don Draper, George Harrison, Laura loves the Beatles, Lauren Conrad, Mad Men, Michael Jackson, Nancy Botwin, Ravi Shankar, sitars, THANK YOU, Twitter, Vans, Weeds
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