snapshots

— Reading Game of Shadows at last. I’ve had it ever since it came out – but now is the time to read it- what with the whole career homerun brou-haha that’s going on right now. I won’t even type his name because I still get occasional hate mail from the piece I wrote about him in 2003 when I called him a racist. I stand by that remark, but I don’t want the psychos bothering me anymore. I took the old post down but people still find it thru Google cache. It sucks. Being a racist is the least of his issues – but whatevs. I can’t put the book down, by the way. (Gladwell blogs about it here. I’ve been on a renewed Malcolm Gladwell kick … spurred on by my conversation with David the other night.)

— There is nothing I like better these days than to hang out on Quantum Leap fan sites and message boards. I love all of those people. I’ve still only re-watched season 1 and season 2 – (I mean, since they were first on) … so I’m excited to keep going. I love the show. And the “leapers”, as they call themselves, are a passionate bunch, I tell ya. I fit right in.

— Cashel, Siobhan and I stood by the side of the road and watched the parachuters filling the air from the hovering helilcopters. It was pretty cool. Like the beginning of Red Dawn. Cashel filmed it. He seemed pleased with his footage.

— Laughed so hard in the car with Jean and Siobhan that I thought I would die from lack of oxygen. I was in the middle of telling a story and boom. The laughter hit. They had to wait for me to stop HOWLING – but it took FOREVER. It had to do with Little Shop of Horrors and renting the video back when we were kids.

— the following article fascinated me, for various personal reasons I won’t go into. Really interesting.

— Music listened to in the car so far: Timbaland, High School Musical, LEO (a genius goofball rock-opera idea – a takeoff on ELO – by 3 dudes we all LOVE), Little Shop of Horrors, Grace Potter, Dr. Dre, Mike Viola singing Paul Simon’s “American Tune” (my God), and then a segue to Paul Simon (natural progression). Oh and I listened to Queens of the Stone Age and also Olivia Newton-John.

— Great night out with David before I took off. Spur of the moment. Topics covered: kickboxing, the Dalai Lama, neuroscience, facial expressions and Paul Ekman, auditions and the agony thereof in some cases, Law & Order vs. Wal-Mart – agony!!, leaping off the Olympic diving board at his public pool and that whole experience, breakthrus in perception in regards to reality, masturbation, Patrick Hughes, the Red Sox, Dean Stockwell in Psych-Out (hm, who brought that one up?), acting, growing older, marriage, sex, liquor … I’m not even coming CLOSE to scraping the surface of what we talked about. It was awesome – a well-needed touching base.