Currently
Browsing
Stupid Creatures.
Worse than sock monkeys and therefore better.
Glarkware. I can not wait to order some of these t-shirts.
The Ellen Degeneres Show. I haven't seen the show yet, but I love the
way she draws attention to getting free tickets.
Watching
American Splendor.
This movie is about Harvey Pekar, the star of comic books with the same title
about his life as a file clerk in Cleveland. Pekar gained a lot of
national attention in the Eighties due in part to frequent appearances on Late
Night with David Letterman. The movie weaves the real life Harvey with the
actor's portrayal (a career high performance for Paul Giamatti) and animated
versions of the comic book Harvey. Sound confusing? It's not
really. It's a very original film with an unusual composition that is
completely mesmerizing, very funny and despite real life Harvey's warning that
if you are "looking for some kind of fantasy figure to save the day, you
got the wrong movie," it's still pretty heartwarming at the end.
Reading
Natural Health and Organic
Style. I think I'm turning into a granola head. Someone offered
me a candy bar yesterday and I scrunched up my face and said no as if they had
just offered me a plate of raw octopus with a side of steamed bile. The
more I read out what additives and chemicals do to our bodies, the less I want
sugar, processed food (Organic Style is more of a chick magazine
than Natural Health, but I suppose I won't hold that against them.)
Dry by Augusten Burroughs. I am
very impressed by this man's writing. It's very honest and brutally honest
and of course, brilliantly hilarious. When I finished the book, his story
stayed with me for several days. I read somewhere he said he wants to
crank out a book every year until people get sick of him. I don't think
that will be anytime soon.
Please
Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. Lou Reed. Iggy
Pop. Nico. Patti Smith. They are all here in all their frank
nihilistic glory. What isn't here is a consistent narrative to add
cohesion to the text. Its absence made it hard for me to keep track of
what I was reading and I ended up just skipping around a lot.
Loving
LizzFizz. These lip balms
rock! Buy some.
