{"id":8062,"date":"2008-05-13T18:56:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T22:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8062"},"modified":"2022-10-15T08:53:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T12:53:34","slug":"culture-snapshots-and-emotional-snapshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8062","title":{"rendered":"Culture Snapshots"},"content":{"rendered":"

— I’m reading A Widow for One Year<\/a>\"\"<\/i> by John Irving and also The Fortune of War<\/a>\"\"<\/i> by Patrick O’Brian. Awesome counterpoint. Both superb writers in their own way.<\/p>\n

— Thank you, dear Siobhan, for introducing me to the amazing pleasures of L.E.O. – I cannot get enough of them right now. (Website here<\/a>) Mike Viola and the Candybutchers<\/a> are pretty much a required course if you are an O’Malley – kinda like the Foo Fighters – you at least have to give them a chance … otherwise we won’t take you seriously. It’s kind of non-negotiable. Sorry. Anyway, L.E.O. is sheer liquid joy floating through the atmosphere. The song “Make Me” is my current fave. (Explanation of what L.E.O. is here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

— Thinking a lot about Jeff Bridges these days. More later.<\/p>\n

— Went to a screening last week of Mongol<\/a><\/i>, the sweeping Russian epic about Genghis Khan. Big plush press screening room on 57th Street, it was great. Everyone (myself included) blackberrying throughout the film, stepping outside to take a phone call, whatever … and also scribbling on notepads throughout … totally different atmosphere from seeing a movie out in the real world, but fun and interesting. My review will be on House Next Door<\/a> eventually – I’ll point you that way when it launches.<\/p>\n

— Totally consumed by something I’m working on now. It’s causing me a lot of stress, there are not enough hours in the day, but I find a deadline ultimately very freeing.<\/p>\n

— Oh, guess who I heard from randomly (God bless Facebook) … the guy I gave a photograph of my eyeball to for Valentine’s Day<\/a> ‘lo those many years ago. Hysterical. It was good to catch up. I didn’t bring up the eyeball. It’s still too embarrassing.<\/p>\n

— I miss all of my friends right now.<\/p>\n

— Cashel wears a fedora to school now. He calls it his “trademark”.<\/p>\n

— Allison’s going to Italy for 10 days with her aunt to take a vacation in Tuscany on a horse farm. She’s going to be riding horses the entire time. I’m so happy for her, although I will miss her.<\/p>\n

— Oh, and I’m also reading Patricia Neal’s autobiography<\/a>\"\" (thank you, cousin Mike!) and damn it’s making me fucking SAD. She had one love. Gary Cooper. And she never recovered from the loss. Never. And Roald Dahl was a son of a bitch. But what a life, what a career, what strength … but she ends the book with thoughts of Gary. She never got over it.<\/p>\n

— I crossed 2 or 3 pretty major things off my To Do list which have been haunting me. I actually cried when I crossed the last one off. It had been tormenting my mind, and giving me stress dreams.<\/p>\n

— Watched Stranger Than Fiction<\/i> last night for, oh, the 10th time, and had to mop the tears off my face at the end. Slowly it’s becoming one of my all-time favorite movies. (“You’re never too old for space camp, dude.”)<\/p>\n

— Last week I said the following sentence to Patrick, “My fallopian tubes are unfurling.” Patrick still has not recovered.<\/p>\n

— My entire consciousness is now consumed by the bridesmaid dress I will wear in September.<\/p>\n

— I find office supplies immensely relaxing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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