a perfect fall day today. perfectly warm with the dry leaves falling all around. went for a walk down to the antique store and picked up some vintage postcards. to nice a day to spend in a dark movie theater ( Read more... )

it really is november now. that means i have to write stuff. fortunately, i have no idea what i'm writing about, except for a few characters. this will work to my advantage since i will not be limited by silly things like plot. and the letter i is out ( Read more... )

carnivale is getting better...

yesterday i went to the library in the rain. probably my favorite thing to do. saw a lady with a tot in a stroller. i had an umbrella, but she was toughing it out with just a hood. the kid didn't care. he was loving it. i came home with a truckload of cd's. the library is now my favorite place to check out music. it ( Read more... )

went to the sackler today. they had an exhibit of an aesthetic voyage through the himalyas. lots of buddhist stuff on hand. but the crowning item in my book was small statuette of chamunda. there was lots of overlap between buddhism and hinduism in this region, and chamunda is some kind of equivalent of kali--and this little copper figure was so ( Read more... )

finally got around to watching episode six of carnivale. that show gives me hope for television. besides public television that is.

i've decided that national novel writer's month must be the nerdiest thing i've ever undertaken (and this is my second year). in my desperation i went out to meet some fellow participants. perhaps i will avoid such ( Read more... )

been on such a classical kick lately. stuff with orchestration works, but kronos quartet and penderecki have been what i truly crave. next, ligeti... man it irritates me when people say they like classical music, but not 'contemporary classical' or somesuch. in the days before the 19th century, dissonance and discordance were considered of the ( Read more... )

richmond was lovely. plan 9 records got far too much of my money and i got a masonic signet ring. plus the museum of fine (not rough) arts is very well stocked. i was impressed.

having found some mysterious panes of glass in my basement, i am commited to creating an edward gorey ouija board. or some such thing. i think it's a halloween mood that ( Read more... )

so i'm preparing to go to richmond. getting my chumbwamba tunes ready for the bus ( Read more... )

i have completed the club dumas and am so thrilled with it. 9th gate is such a dumbed down version. totally missed the point.

i hope arnold wins that damn cali recall election. it'll reveal the spectacle for what it really is. a sham. and a joke that calls up sickening belly laughs.

signed onto the nanwrimo challenge today. if you could do ( Read more... )

a brief stop in the bookstore led to seeing a ghost. if i hadn't stopped (thanks k. thor) i never would have seen her... prihti (?) from the solar haus of many years ago passed me on the street in du pont circle. i swear it was her. (the faces on the street often look like people i used to know, from high school, california, dc, blacksburg, etc. i' ( Read more... )