So, things are pretty damn good! Pink Banana rehearsals are going outstandingly well, and there are some pretty interesting people involved. I've been doing push ups, and I have a new muscle! It's pretty exciting in my world ( Read more... )

I've been pretty useful, in a totally useless way lately. I'm almost done with Kafka on the Shore and I've started learning American Sign Language. I just seems like something useful to know, plus it would be pretty killer to be able to work as a translator. However, someone should definitely learn it with me so we can talk though stuid movies and ( Read more... )

Ok, so I'm seriously thinking of getting a tattoo of mtDNA, preferably something like this picture. It would be SUPER dorky, but also kind of hot, since all human beings technically share one female ancestor who gave us all our mitochondrial DNA. All extant variation is due only to mutation from a single sequence. I wish I could get the whole damn ( Read more... )

Ok, I'm kind of obsessed with Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. It is truly one of the most fascinating, engrossing books I've encountered and now I want to go to Savannah, Georgia and visit her graveyards. Anyway, it's been a lovely few days, ghosts may have been exorcised, coffee has been drunk (or drank), movies have been seen and a job ( Read more... )

Big Daddy- Then why don't you kill yourself?
Brick- Because I like to drink!

The title of this post is from Susan Sontag, who is my new spiritual goddess. Yeah, she's kind of a bitch, but she's a brilliant bitch who can tear your soul out without pausing to think about it and makes everything even better than it is. I would suggest you read "Against Interpretation." Also: Yes, I do still read that, if you read this. You ( Read more... )

Hm. This weekend has been fascinating, to say the least. I was outrageously lucky on Friday and yesterday there was a celebration of the Derby (my horse took third) and then I saw The Shining which was fantastic. However, today, I am left rather drained and remarkably behind in my work, possibly screwed. Who can tell these things ( Read more... )

Last night I had two ridiculous dreams! First of all, I spent a billion hours before I went to bed reading anthro books, so I woke up in the middle of the night STILL READING AN IMAGINARY BOOK THAT I HAD DREAMED OF READING AND WHICH MADE NO SENSE ( Read more... )

Today, I had a Small Revelation while I was in my Human Evolution class. I realized that EVERYTHING we discussed was actually just a subtle term for sex. Every single unit of time was just a disguise for years of people having sex, because in Anthropology that's really all that counts. It was absolutely brilliant! We are about 4 million years of ( Read more... )

ATOMIC GHOSTS send LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET, DAMIEN. KAFKA ON THE SHORE of PATTERSON paints A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN in FORBIDDEN COLORS, while THE CATCHER IN THE RYE uses HAMLET'S MOUSE TRAP to capture KING LEAR. AFTER THE QUAKE, I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND during THE TEPEST in HIROSHIMA, but ORLANDO only EATS, SHOOTS AND LEAVES. ( Read more... )