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— Reading <Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West<\/a>\"\"<\/i>. Holy shit. Let’s see. Who has begged me to read this book? Uhm, how about everyone on the planet? Keith M<\/a>. My father. Bren. And now David. And it was David’s email to me about Blood Meridien<\/i> that made me finally pick it up. The writing is superb. Terrifying. I’m only 30 pages in but I can already feel it is going to put me through the wringer.<\/p>\n

— Finished my 4th of the Master & Commander series – The Mauritius Command<\/a>\"\"<\/i>. I am in love with the series.<\/p>\n

— Watched Eastern Promises<\/a><\/i> last night. Very good. Viggo Mortensen is riveting. There were some cliched moments in the plot – it was a little bit too “neat” for me (Naomi Watts’ character had lost her baby – so she becomes obsessed with the orphaned baby! And etc. Too neat.) – but he was amazing. You can’t take your eyes off him. I also loved the set design of the Russian restaurant “Trans-Siberian”. Awesome awesome atmosphere.<\/p>\n

— I have become addicted to the Canadian television series Slings & Arrows<\/a><\/i>, which I have been watching on DVD. More to come. I won’t write any more until I finish the whole thing (3 seasons). Kate sent me the first two seasons … not for any reasons, just because … and I can’t thank her enough for introducing me to this wonderful series. Mental Multivitamin has been raving about it for a while<\/a> and I totally agree with her assessment: “Perfect and brilliant and perfectly brilliant”. It’s laugh out loud funny, but also poignant, and also gets – totally gets – what it is to be in the theatre. The absurdity (“Everyone<\/i> cries when they get stabbed. There’s no shame in that!”) – but then the moment, the magical moment, when things come together … and the play comes to life. Marvelous. I can’t WAIT for season 3.<\/p>\n

— I had sent a kind of yowl-of-loneliness email to Michael, telling him what’s going on right now, and normally I resist those yowls, but whatever, if you can’t let your friends in on what you’re going through, what good are they as friends? I got home last night and noticed he had called and left a message. Picked up the phone and his message not only brought a huge (almost embarrassingly huge) smile to my face – but it also made me cry. So I stood in my kitchen with a Humpty Dumpty smile and tears on my face. Awesome. Michael said, “I am here to give you a big voice-hug. Are you ready? Here it is.” There was a pause. And I then heard him hugging himself<\/i> and making big “oomph” grunting noises – as though he were hugging me and squeezing me tight. It was hysterical!! I felt<\/i> hugged, if you know what I mean. Michael also referred to his own voice<\/i> as “sonorous” (“I figured you needed to hear my sonorous voice …”) and I just love him for being such a jagoff. He also said, “I’m coming to New York soon, so you will be able to see my rapidly aging face …” I love him.<\/p>\n

— I have discovered the unbelievable pleasures of River Road – the road that goes along the bottom of the cliffs on my side of the Hudson. Much exploring to do. Not only that, but there’s a Target along that road. As well as a Whole Foods.<\/p>\n

— I’m kind of obsessed right now with Dan Fogelberg’s song “The Phoenix”. Can’t stop listening to it.<\/p>\n

— I went a little insane over the weekend and impulsively bought about 30 books on Amazon – all used, many of them were only one cent. Of course I have to pay for shipping and handling, so it added up – but not TOO much. I got 30 books for about 30 dollars … and now they have all started arriving. It’s like I went into a fugue state as I ordered the books … and forgot what I ordered. So it’s fun to open up the packages because I have no idea what’s inside. I bought all of SE Hinton’s books. I realized that it is just not right that I do not have a copy of Tex<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, The Outsiders<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, Rumble Fish<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/i> and needed to rectify that. I also bought all of the Paul Zindel books that I do not have, and that is surprisingly a lot. I have read all of them – like Harry and Hortense at Hormone High<\/a>\"\"<\/i> (hahahaha), and I Never Loved Your Mind<\/a>\"\"<\/i> – so I bought all of them. Very happy! Then there were random books I came across – in book reviews, or mentioned in blog posts – that I ordered. I got The Female Thing: Dirt, envy, sex, vulnerability<\/a>\"\"<\/i> – very excited to read that … I bought a couple of Paul Berman’s books = and I read 3 pages of his A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968<\/a>\"\"<\/i> book and am already blown away. I finally got my own copy of Hitchcock\/Truffaut<\/a>\"\"<\/i> (for 65 cents – love Amazon!) – as well as a copy of Lectures on Shakespeare (W.H. Auden: Critical Editions)<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, which I can’t WAIT to dig into. I also bought a biography of Jennifer Jones<\/a>, and the second volume of Shelley Winters’ autobiography<\/a> which I adore beyond measure – and lost somewhere along the way in all of my moves.<\/p>\n

— I’m sleeping pretty good. So for that I am grateful. Knock wood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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