1. Bound for Glory - Woody Guthrie
2. Shock Doctrine - Naomi Kline

I'm an unashamed dirty TV watcher.

Current TV, almost exclusively. It is a relatively new network, with neat programs like infoMania and Vanguard. I like Vanguard the most. Young reporters dispatched around the world, reporting on social justice issues that the major networks know won't make them any money. I have an enormous crush on Adam Yamaguchi and Mariana van Zeller.

Typically, I don't watch TV. Now I often find myself turning it to Current and watching four (!) hours at at time. I have two books sitting on my coffee table, half read, glaring at me anytime I notice them. They're jealous books.

I also watch LOGO. I enjoy Rupaul's Drag Race, as well as PopLab NewNowNext.

These networks have me wishing my life were set to a clubbier version of this. Oh, and to take lots of X.

Look at the world, it's waking up.

Last weekend there was:
-Hahna
-McCoy's Public House
-The Brooksider
-Amazing microbrew
-Blood
-[almost] Hypothermia

This weekend there will be:
-Hahna & Hallie
-The Elders
-Even better beer
-No blood
-Lots of sleeping in
-Chubby's for breakfast

Approaching

How about the feeling when you just finished an amazing book, and you are utterly without the capability of doing anything afterward. Where you walk around your room, kind of fanning your face with your hands (maybe just me), and because of what you just read -you can make anything seem beautiful.

"Well and good.
How to explain, then, that, with his foot actually on the bridge over the creek, George suddenly turns, chuckles to himself, and with the movement of a child wriggling free of a grown-up -- old guardian Cortex -- runs off down the road, laughing, toward the ocean?"

I want to dance on stage with aliens, santa clause, space wo\men, and WayneCoyneWayneCoyneWayneCoyneWayneCoyneWayneCoyne.

Oh, and I really like the NYT One in 8 Million project. Especially this one.

doublechin

She makes my truck getting stolen (and slammed into a tree and two parking meters) seem less significant.