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This very enjoyable video that Jordan Castro just now posted on Facebook reminded me, if I needed reminding, which I didn’t, that summer is more or less over–whatever summer means in our iPhone-addled times. (This last phrase I have lifted directly from Ryan Mazer’s really hilarious piece in Monkeybicycle.) To me, summer, this summer–what the hell was it? It was Baltimore, a house of twelve anarchists, sweating while sleeping (what do you do when your fan generates hot air?), reading Faulkner. In the end it seems like all that I read this summer was Witz and Faulkner, with exceptions here or there. It feels like I was lazy, and maybe I was. After I finished “The Bear,” I walked around the house doing stuff, and every couple of minutes I would think about “The Bear” and, without mediation, whisper to myself, “What the fuck?” The gumption it must have taken to write that novella!–which is at first a linear bildungsroman or whatever (even though it’s never simply that), and then once that plot ends abruptly with the bear’s death, the narrative halts and interrupts itself to become this entirely fucked history of the bind between race and religion in the south, which is at the same time a history of… the post-Fall earth, or something? Jesus. How did someone begin to think like that? Fucking Faulkner. What did everyone read this summer? What did everyone do? I want to hear about it.
i read or am reading
8/15 –
Revolution
Deb Olin Unferth
8/05 –
Cocaine: a drug and its social evolution
Lester Grinspoon & James B. Bakalar
7/29 – 8/13
The Trouble With Being Born
E.M. Cioran
7/28 – 7/29
if i wanted to feel happy i would feel happy already
Jordan Castro
7/22 – 7/27
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man
Bill Clegg
7/19 – 7/26
The Prehistoric
Clancy Martin
7/05 – 7/16
Smothered in Hugs
Dennis Cooper
6/30 – 7/01
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
6/26 – 6/27
Imperial Bedrooms
Bret Easton Ellis
6/19 – 6/21
The Gospel of Anarchy
Justin D. Taylor
damn dude, do you have like a ‘master copy’ of all the books you’ve ever read? that’s a metric shit-ton of handiwork just to keep track of one’s own reading habits. maybe you can sell this kind of personal data to advertisers? or academically-minded biblio-psycho-researchers looking into the effects of reading on one’s writing?
Hey, look at those fucking hipsters.
Seriously, I’m glad you had fun. It looks like a nice crew that enjoy each other. Just beware the self-congratulation virus.
i read or am reading
8/15 –
Revolution
Deb Olin Unferth
8/05 –
Cocaine: a drug and its social evolution
Lester Grinspoon & James B. Bakalar
7/29 – 8/13
The Trouble With Being Born
E.M. Cioran
7/28 – 7/29
if i wanted to feel happy i would feel happy already
Jordan Castro
7/22 – 7/27
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man
Bill Clegg
7/19 – 7/26
The Prehistoric
Clancy Martin
7/05 – 7/16
Smothered in Hugs
Dennis Cooper
6/30 – 7/01
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
6/26 – 6/27
Imperial Bedrooms
Bret Easton Ellis
6/19 – 6/21
The Gospel of Anarchy
Justin D. Taylor
@M what?
and faaauck. forgot to answer the question: IJ by DFW, Sayonara Bar and The Orientalist and The Ghost by Susan Barker, and now Brothers by Yu Hua. wait, when did summer begin and end?
Faulkner. What a wild man that guy was, huh? Didn’t he write As I Lay Dying in six weeks or five minutes or something? This summer I spend more time googling (according to Spell Check this isn’t a verb) “nip slips” than I did writing, which was not my plan. In between the nudity I was able to read:
Stoner by John Williams
Citrus County by John Brandon
Shoplifting from American Apparel by the man who (whom?) posted on this first
Wise Blood by Flannery O’ Connor
The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Independence Day by Richard Ford
Sorry there are no dates attached to them. Also, I discovered the sweet croons of Gucci Mane.
i worked on/completed my full-length poetry manuscript (see tao’s comment above), i printed a second edition of my chapbook (see http://smokingonanemptystomach.blogspot.com/2010/06/products.html), i released a CD (see http://smokingonanemptystomach.blogspot.com/2010/06/anti-american.html), i worked on stories/essays/music, i went to michigan, i went to new york city (see video above)
here’s a list of things i remember reading during the summer, in the order i remember them
Richard Yates by Tao Lin
Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates
The Collected Stories of Raymond Carver
Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
Shoplifting From American Apparel by Tao Lin
Eat When You Feel Sad by Zachary German
during my nervous breakdown i want to have a biographer present by Brandon Scott Gorrell
sometimes my heart pushes my ribs by Ellen Kennedy
All Of Us – Raymond Carver
Second Marriage by Frederick Barthelme
the blueprint 2 by Andrew James Weatherhead
@waller, sweet re gucci mane
Someone else should write a list of what she or he didn’t read this summer. I’m too tired. Like the second part of “The Man Without Qualities” and whatnot. Or David Markson’s “Wittgenstein’s Mistress.” But there’s still time. Autumn is only a rumor.
Hey, look at those fucking hipsters.
Seriously, I’m glad you had fun. It looks like a nice crew that enjoy each other. Just beware the self-congratulation virus.
Fuck. The Man Without Qualities. Always start that, then think: I could read fifty other books in this time! (Luckily, Young Torless was pretty kick-ass…)
This summer I read Obscene Bird of Night. It was as good as they say.
Is The Prehistoric Clancy Martin’s memoir?
The Confusions of Young Torless is a brilliant, short novel. As is Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass. I’m surprised they don’t appear on more “lists.”
lived inside an air-conditioned library cubicle writing, hating myself for my discipline and envying the world for what i imaged were the fun, road-tripping, outdoorsy summers they were experiencing. i’m glad i did this, but still, this felt nothing like the summer of my youth or my fantasies. when i fantasize about summer (the season, not a hippy chick with that name) i can taste orange juice, smell exhaust from the highway i should be barreling down, and picture me and my special lady swimming in a random creek and having sex in a waffle house bathroom. please someone upload their summer memories into my brain. getting old sucks.
i read some good shit too. but tao’s list is better.
fuck autumn. (that’s my hippy cousin’s name.)
06/02/10 – Palace of Ice – Tarjei Versaas
06/07/10 – Elvis Road – X. Robel & H. Reumann
06/08/10 – Fur – Liliane Giraudon
06/09/10 – The Body – Jenny Boully
06/12/10 – The Descent – Jeff Long
06/13/10 – Move: Sites of Trauma (Pamphlet Architecture 23) – Johanna Saleh Dickson
06/19/10 – pourous, nomadic – Chris Daniels
06/20/10 – Yann Andrea Steiner – Marguerite Duras
06/24/10 – House of Stairs – William Sleator
06/25/10 – The Log of the SS the Mrs. Unguentine – Stanley Crawford
06/26/10 – Against Language? – Rosemarie Waldrop
06/27/10 – Landmasses & Railways – Bertrand Fleuret
07/01/10 – Project For A Revolution In New York – Alain Robbe-Grillet
07/05/10 – Diagram Diaries – Peter Eisenmann
07/05/10 – The Time of Theory – Patrick ffrench
07/08/10 – From the Book to the Book – Edmond Jabés
07/12/10 – Até – Claude Royet-Journoud
07/18/10 – The Girl Beneath the Lion – Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues
07/18/10 – Toward a New Poetics – ed. Serge Gavronsky
07/18/10 – Singularity – William Sleator
07/20/10 – Mezza Voce – Anne-Marie Albiach
07/21/10 – Larry Eigner Letters – Larry Eigner
07/21/10 – The Free-Lance Pallbearers – Ismael Reed
07/26/10 – Hotel as Home – Gary Chang
07/27/10 – Sert: Mediterranean Architecture – ed. Maria Lluise Barras
07/28/10 – People I May Know – Johnny Dark
08/04/10 – The Coming Envelope Issue 01- [four authors]
08/06/10 – Collapse Vol 1 – ed. Robin Mackay
08/07/10 – Chicago Review 55:2
08/08/10 – The Drowned World – JG Ballard
08/08/10 – Wilson – Daniel Clowes
08/11/10 – Viderparis – Nicolas Moulin
hi chris
how long until someone publishes a book whose eponymous protagonist is named tao lin
i got more done than i thought this summer dang
reread:
sixty stories
in the heart of the heart of the country
capital & althusser’s reading capital
oblivion, dfw
read:
mean free path, ben lerner
poemland, chelsea minnis
tsim tsum, sabrina orah marks
the seaside! heather christle
what he’s poised to do, ben greenman
broom of the system, dfw
theory of the novel, györgy lukács
can you relax in my house, michael earl craig
motorman, david ohle
You reread all of Capital this summer? Jesus.
Faulkner. What a wild man that guy was, huh? Didn’t he write As I Lay Dying in six weeks or five minutes or something? This summer I spend more time googling (according to Spell Check this isn’t a verb) “nip slips” than I did writing, which was not my plan. In between the nudity I was able to read:
Stoner by John Williams
Citrus County by John Brandon
Shoplifting from American Apparel by the man who (whom?) posted on this first
Wise Blood by Flannery O’ Connor
The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Independence Day by Richard Ford
Sorry there are no dates attached to them. Also, I discovered the sweet croons of Gucci Mane.
The Moviegoer is sooooo good.
Also, Gucci Mane is soooo good. Both in such different ways.
Alright, here goes (most recent to beginning of summer):
William H. Gass – Omensetter’s Luck
Philip Roth – The Ghost Writer
David Markson – Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Rainer Maria Rilke – The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
William H. Gass – The Tunnel
Thomas Pynchon – The Crying of Lot 49
Shane Jones – Light Boxes
David Markson – This is Not a Novel
David Markson – Reader’s Block
Harry Mathews – The Conversions
Jonathan Lethem – The Fortress of Solitude
Steve Erickson – The Sea Came in at Midnight
Knut Hamsun – Hunger
Don Carpenter – Hard Rain Falling
Also, the first 250 pages of Witz and the first 250 pages of The Recognitions. Get back to those soon, hopefully. It was a good summer.
Went to the beach. Swam. Found a dead cat in the water.
Read:
Tons of stuff online
Tree of Smoke – Denis Johnson
Cakes and Ale – Somerset Maugham
Inside Madeleine – Paula Bomer
New Short Stories 4 – ed. Stephen Moran
Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Darkmans – Nicola Barker
A bunch of books by Philip Pullman
A bunch of short novels by Tolstoy
Soul Circus – George Pelicanos
Ghosts of Spain – Giles Tremlett
The Family Arsenal – Paul Theroux
Loved Darkmans. I kind of want to read it again right now.
i worked on/completed my full-length poetry manuscript (see tao’s comment above), i printed a second edition of my chapbook (see http://smokingonanemptystomach.blogspot.com/2010/06/products.html), i released a CD (see http://smokingonanemptystomach.blogspot.com/2010/06/anti-american.html), i worked on stories/essays/music, i went to michigan, i went to new york city (see video above)
here’s a list of things i remember reading during the summer, in the order i remember them
Richard Yates by Tao Lin
Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates
The Collected Stories of Raymond Carver
Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
Shoplifting From American Apparel by Tao Lin
Eat When You Feel Sad by Zachary German
during my nervous breakdown i want to have a biographer present by Brandon Scott Gorrell
sometimes my heart pushes my ribs by Ellen Kennedy
All Of Us – Raymond Carver
Second Marriage by Frederick Barthelme
the blueprint 2 by Andrew James Weatherhead
@waller, sweet re gucci mane
I want to read Obscene Bird of Night but have an impossible time starting books longer than 300 pages.
Someone else should write a list of what she or he didn’t read this summer. I’m too tired. Like the second part of “The Man Without Qualities” and whatnot. Or David Markson’s “Wittgenstein’s Mistress.” But there’s still time. Autumn is only a rumor.
Fuck. The Man Without Qualities. Always start that, then think: I could read fifty other books in this time! (Luckily, Young Torless was pretty kick-ass…)
This summer I read Obscene Bird of Night. It was as good as they say.
Is The Prehistoric Clancy Martin’s memoir?
http://bobstlibrary.com
no, novel
The Confusions of Young Torless is a brilliant, short novel. As is Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass. I’m surprised they don’t appear on more “lists.”
lived inside an air-conditioned library cubicle writing, hating myself for my discipline and envying the world for what i imaged were the fun, road-tripping, outdoorsy summers they were experiencing. i’m glad i did this, but still, this felt nothing like the summer of my youth or my fantasies. when i fantasize about summer (the season, not a hippy chick with that name) i can taste orange juice, smell exhaust from the highway i should be barreling down, and picture me and my special lady swimming in a random creek and having sex in a waffle house bathroom. please someone upload their summer memories into my brain. getting old sucks.
i read some good shit too. but tao’s list is better.
fuck autumn. (that’s my hippy cousin’s name.)
Mostly I re-read this summer. Some things I read or re-read:
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Stoner, John Williams
Absalom! Absalom!, Wm. Faulkner
a bunch of Jane Smiley books
Wittgenstein’s Mistress, David Markson
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
The Amaz. Adv. of K & C, Michael Chabon
Disaffections, Cesare Pavese
In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O’Brien
Kaputt, Curzio Malaparte
Culture & Imperialism, Edward Said
The Age of Reason, Jean-Paul Sartre
biographies of Deleuze, Guattari, Robert Penn Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Delmore Schwarz
The History of the Siege of Lisbon, Saramago
some books about Gypsies/Romanies/Travelers
a bunch of books about Haiti
Rime, Cecco Angiolieri
The New Valley, Josh Weil
“A Wilderness Station,” Alice Munro
The Writer as Migrant, Ha Jin
Shoplifting at American Apparel, Tao Lin
The Adderall Diaries, Stephen Elliott
AM/PM, Amelia Gray
I Saw the Church, Merle Strege
several apocryphal testaments, such as the infancy gospels, etc.
The Gilgamesh Epic
The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, Frank Stanford
The Name of the World, Denis Johnson
Kaddish, Leon Wieseltier
The White King of La Gonave, Wirkus and Dudley
The Broken Estate, James Wood
Witz, Joshua Cohen
some of Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky biography
06/02/10 – Palace of Ice – Tarjei Versaas
06/07/10 – Elvis Road – X. Robel & H. Reumann
06/08/10 – Fur – Liliane Giraudon
06/09/10 – The Body – Jenny Boully
06/12/10 – The Descent – Jeff Long
06/13/10 – Move: Sites of Trauma (Pamphlet Architecture 23) – Johanna Saleh Dickson
06/19/10 – pourous, nomadic – Chris Daniels
06/20/10 – Yann Andrea Steiner – Marguerite Duras
06/24/10 – House of Stairs – William Sleator
06/25/10 – The Log of the SS the Mrs. Unguentine – Stanley Crawford
06/26/10 – Against Language? – Rosemarie Waldrop
06/27/10 – Landmasses & Railways – Bertrand Fleuret
07/01/10 – Project For A Revolution In New York – Alain Robbe-Grillet
07/05/10 – Diagram Diaries – Peter Eisenmann
07/05/10 – The Time of Theory – Patrick ffrench
07/08/10 – From the Book to the Book – Edmond Jabés
07/12/10 – Até – Claude Royet-Journoud
07/18/10 – The Girl Beneath the Lion – Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues
07/18/10 – Toward a New Poetics – ed. Serge Gavronsky
07/18/10 – Singularity – William Sleator
07/20/10 – Mezza Voce – Anne-Marie Albiach
07/21/10 – Larry Eigner Letters – Larry Eigner
07/21/10 – The Free-Lance Pallbearers – Ismael Reed
07/26/10 – Hotel as Home – Gary Chang
07/27/10 – Sert: Mediterranean Architecture – ed. Maria Lluise Barras
07/28/10 – People I May Know – Johnny Dark
08/04/10 – The Coming Envelope Issue 01- [four authors]
08/06/10 – Collapse Vol 1 – ed. Robin Mackay
08/07/10 – Chicago Review 55:2
08/08/10 – The Drowned World – JG Ballard
08/08/10 – Wilson – Daniel Clowes
08/11/10 – Viderparis – Nicolas Moulin
hi chris
hi mike. fur hole
i knew my cat was a bad night swimmer
Between the chronic masturbating and the alcohol poisoning, I read some Seventeen magazine back issues and wasted weeks on “Farmville” on FB. Man, my farm rules, but my right hand is sore and I lost my tan. I read Eat, Pray, Love too, just to piss people off. (I hated it.)
June:
Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting An Icon–Wayne Koestenbaum
Poems For Teeth–Richard Loranger
Politics Is Not A Banana: What Are You Doing After The Orgy Or The Insurrection Or Whatever–The Journal of Vulgar Discourse
Where We Going, Daddy?: Life With Two Sons Unlike Any Others–Jean-Louis Fournier
July:
I No Longer Believe In The Sun: Love Letters To Katie Couric–Derek Fenner
The Communist Hypothesis–Alain Badiou
How To Skin The Moon–Reynard Seifert
The Philosophy Of Andy Warhol (From A To B And Back Again)–Andy Warhol (or somebody)
The Value Of Nothing: How To Reshape Market Society And Redefine Democracy–Raj Patel
August (so far):
The Young Girl’s Handbook Of Good Manners: For Use In Educational Establishments–Pierre Louys
An Attempt At Exhausting A Place In Paris–Georges Perec
The Diary Of A Young Girl–Anne Frank
Loose Girl: A Memoir Of Promiscuity–Kerry Cohen
http://www.artgarfunkel.com/library/list1.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkNSjyTCovM
how long until someone publishes a book whose eponymous protagonist is named tao lin
i got more done than i thought this summer dang
reread:
sixty stories
in the heart of the heart of the country
capital & althusser’s reading capital
oblivion, dfw
read:
mean free path, ben lerner
poemland, chelsea minnis
tsim tsum, sabrina orah marks
the seaside! heather christle
what he’s poised to do, ben greenman
broom of the system, dfw
theory of the novel, györgy lukács
can you relax in my house, michael earl craig
motorman, david ohle
You reread all of Capital this summer? Jesus.
@magic mike: don’t believe the incredibly small amount of info on the ‘net. It was not a difficult read. Doesn’t spoonfeed you very much, and poss. confusing at first, but all in all, pretty swift. (And I’m a very slow reader of fiction these days, always pausing to ask, Ooh, how did they do that?)
@Rene: Thanks for the tip! Picked up the Grass book today; am very excited.
All right, I meant!
The Moviegoer is sooooo good.
Also, Gucci Mane is soooo good. Both in such different ways.
Alright, here goes (most recent to beginning of summer):
William H. Gass – Omensetter’s Luck
Philip Roth – The Ghost Writer
David Markson – Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Rainer Maria Rilke – The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
William H. Gass – The Tunnel
Thomas Pynchon – The Crying of Lot 49
Shane Jones – Light Boxes
David Markson – This is Not a Novel
David Markson – Reader’s Block
Harry Mathews – The Conversions
Jonathan Lethem – The Fortress of Solitude
Steve Erickson – The Sea Came in at Midnight
Knut Hamsun – Hunger
Don Carpenter – Hard Rain Falling
Also, the first 250 pages of Witz and the first 250 pages of The Recognitions. Get back to those soon, hopefully. It was a good summer.
sweetness
THIS SUMMER ZZZZIPP HAS TRAVELLED TO ALL CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. IN EVERY CORNER HE FOUND TUCKED BEHIND WALLS AND LOCKED WITHIN CAGES PUZZLE PIECES THAT HE IS BEGINNING TO ASSEMBLE. IT IS FORETOLD THAT THE FINISHED PUZZLE WILL BE SO GOOD THAT IT WILL REQUIRE SUPERIOR MOUNTING AND WILL PUT AN END TO THE AGES.
MANY BOOKS WERE READ IN THE TIME BETWEEN COLLECTING. AMONG THEM TRISTRAM SHANDY WHICH ZZZZIPP CANNOT BE SURE HE IS NOT STILL READING. EVER WAS ANOTHER FINE BOOK READ SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH ACKER’S GREAT EXPECTATIONS. IN THE SHADE OF A TALL MAPLE ZZZZIPP LIVED IN THE LABYRINTH OF JOYCE’S PORTRAIT.
sounds nice, ZZZIPP
Went to the beach. Swam. Found a dead cat in the water.
Read:
Tons of stuff online
Tree of Smoke – Denis Johnson
Cakes and Ale – Somerset Maugham
Inside Madeleine – Paula Bomer
New Short Stories 4 – ed. Stephen Moran
Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Darkmans – Nicola Barker
A bunch of books by Philip Pullman
A bunch of short novels by Tolstoy
Soul Circus – George Pelicanos
Ghosts of Spain – Giles Tremlett
The Family Arsenal – Paul Theroux
Loved Darkmans. I kind of want to read it again right now.
I want to read Obscene Bird of Night but have an impossible time starting books longer than 300 pages.
http://bobstlibrary.com
F.
what rock have i been living under that i didn’t realize what a “hot topic” it’s been for at least a while now (since art gar) to document what books you’ve read… do people (other than the one doing the reading) really care about that kind of stuff?
no, novel
Truth, thanks Kyle
Mostly I re-read this summer. Some things I read or re-read:
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Stoner, John Williams
Absalom! Absalom!, Wm. Faulkner
a bunch of Jane Smiley books
Wittgenstein’s Mistress, David Markson
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
The Amaz. Adv. of K & C, Michael Chabon
Disaffections, Cesare Pavese
In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O’Brien
Kaputt, Curzio Malaparte
Culture & Imperialism, Edward Said
The Age of Reason, Jean-Paul Sartre
biographies of Deleuze, Guattari, Robert Penn Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Delmore Schwarz
The History of the Siege of Lisbon, Saramago
some books about Gypsies/Romanies/Travelers
a bunch of books about Haiti
Rime, Cecco Angiolieri
The New Valley, Josh Weil
“A Wilderness Station,” Alice Munro
The Writer as Migrant, Ha Jin
Shoplifting at American Apparel, Tao Lin
The Adderall Diaries, Stephen Elliott
AM/PM, Amelia Gray
I Saw the Church, Merle Strege
several apocryphal testaments, such as the infancy gospels, etc.
The Gilgamesh Epic
The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, Frank Stanford
The Name of the World, Denis Johnson
Kaddish, Leon Wieseltier
The White King of La Gonave, Wirkus and Dudley
The Broken Estate, James Wood
Witz, Joshua Cohen
some of Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky biography
hi mike. fur hole
i knew my cat was a bad night swimmer
Between the chronic masturbating and the alcohol poisoning, I read some Seventeen magazine back issues and wasted weeks on “Farmville” on FB. Man, my farm rules, but my right hand is sore and I lost my tan. I read Eat, Pray, Love too, just to piss people off. (I hated it.)
June:
Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting An Icon–Wayne Koestenbaum
Poems For Teeth–Richard Loranger
Politics Is Not A Banana: What Are You Doing After The Orgy Or The Insurrection Or Whatever–The Journal of Vulgar Discourse
Where We Going, Daddy?: Life With Two Sons Unlike Any Others–Jean-Louis Fournier
July:
I No Longer Believe In The Sun: Love Letters To Katie Couric–Derek Fenner
The Communist Hypothesis–Alain Badiou
How To Skin The Moon–Reynard Seifert
The Philosophy Of Andy Warhol (From A To B And Back Again)–Andy Warhol (or somebody)
The Value Of Nothing: How To Reshape Market Society And Redefine Democracy–Raj Patel
August (so far):
The Young Girl’s Handbook Of Good Manners: For Use In Educational Establishments–Pierre Louys
An Attempt At Exhausting A Place In Paris–Georges Perec
The Diary Of A Young Girl–Anne Frank
Loose Girl: A Memoir Of Promiscuity–Kerry Cohen
http://www.artgarfunkel.com/library/list1.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkNSjyTCovM
@magic mike: don’t believe the incredibly small amount of info on the ‘net. It was not a difficult read. Doesn’t spoonfeed you very much, and poss. confusing at first, but all in all, pretty swift. (And I’m a very slow reader of fiction these days, always pausing to ask, Ooh, how did they do that?)
@Rene: Thanks for the tip! Picked up the Grass book today; am very excited.
The Lost Books of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason
Firework by Eugene Marten
The Enigma of Al Capp by Alexander Theroux
The Strange Case of Edward Gorey by Alexander Theroux
The Great Wheadle Tragedy by Alexander Theroux
Master Snickup’s Cloak by Alexander Theroux
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Locos by Felipe Alfau
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee by Sarah Silverman
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
Dear Everybody by Michael Kimball
Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler
Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolaño
Light Boxes by Shane Jones
The Ask: A Novel by Sam Lipsyte
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
The Possessed by Elif Batuman
Lowboy by John Wray
Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Memorial by Bruce Wagner
The Suzanne Collins and Colum McCann books were three good reasons to quit my office book club.
did we have identical summers, or what?
Mark Baumer needs to do a guest post to discuss his trip across the u.s.
also, i miss his videos from Brown.
Yeah, I liked Cat and Mouse
I also liked The Tin Drum
This summer I read Giants In The Earth
Magister Ludi
Notes From Underground
Walter Benjamin At The Dairy Queen
In A Narrow Grave
Gourmet Rhapsody
The Quiet American
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
I also finished writing a novel that takes place in Austin
This summer I read Frances which made me quit reading for a while and all I did was roll around on my bed and sort of make noises and roll around on the living room floor and make noises and try to nag other people into reading Frances.
Then I quit that phase, and I read The Razor’s Edge and The Sound and the Fury.
All right, I meant!
sweetness
Went to Chicago
Went to my computer chair, more than once
Went to my bedroom, more than once
Went to concerts, some very conceptual, some very mainstream (indicated by crowd-surfing pink polo-wearing LaCosters)
Went to the state fair (Nubian goats carry a certain majestic/hungry presence)
Went to the vet because my dog tore his ACL
Watched a neighbor’s wiener dog for $200
Went to a professional soccer game, blew on a vuvuzuela obnoxiously, didn’t feel any cultural rush or connection to the game in doing so
Went to a lot of too-tame parties
Sliced my leg open at one of those too-tame parties
Watched fireworks
Wrote what I wanted to call a poetic novella but might be a collection of sentimental love poems
Compiled a poetry chapbook with my sister, should be coming around soonish
Insomnia struck
Conquered insomnia
Insomnia relapse
Read ~15 books so far, feel like everyone is essentially comparing dick sizes by listing all these titles and how long it took for them to complete them
Not organized in relation to time or importance
THIS SUMMER ZZZZIPP HAS TRAVELLED TO ALL CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. IN EVERY CORNER HE FOUND TUCKED BEHIND WALLS AND LOCKED WITHIN CAGES PUZZLE PIECES THAT HE IS BEGINNING TO ASSEMBLE. IT IS FORETOLD THAT THE FINISHED PUZZLE WILL BE SO GOOD THAT IT WILL REQUIRE SUPERIOR MOUNTING AND WILL PUT AN END TO THE AGES.
MANY BOOKS WERE READ IN THE TIME BETWEEN COLLECTING. AMONG THEM TRISTRAM SHANDY WHICH ZZZZIPP CANNOT BE SURE HE IS NOT STILL READING. EVER WAS ANOTHER FINE BOOK READ SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH ACKER’S GREAT EXPECTATIONS. IN THE SHADE OF A TALL MAPLE ZZZZIPP LIVED IN THE LABYRINTH OF JOYCE’S PORTRAIT.
what did people think of the video…
no one has said anything about the video…
‘were we on drugs’ / ‘what were we… doing,’ idk
Fuck, summer isn’t over is it?
sounds nice, ZZZIPP
11:14 pm: 5.5″
11:15 pm: 5.7″
11:16 pm: 6.1″
11:17 pm: 6.3″
11:18 pm: 6.4″
11:25 pm: 3.5″
ahahahahahahahaha do you knoq ho q w many people i illlkillled tonight
N O IT I NSS NOT
i LOVE THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD
ZZZZZZZZZZZ DO VYOU KNOW HOW MNAY RACCCON S IN MY LIFE I HAVE MET AND LOVRD
SEVERA; L SS O MANY SIPER RACCOON THEY HAV E HOT BODS AND I LOVE TO LOOK AT THEM WHEN THEY EAT THE KIBBLE
1. Puppet Bones- Zhang Er translated by Rachel Levitsky
2. Parade Odes- Horace translated by Brandon Brown
3. Life Of Diogenes The Dog/ Cynic- Diogenes Laertius translated by Brandon Brown
4. Transfer #87
5. Habits Of The Heart- Robert Bellah
6. The Blue Book- Logan Ryan Smith
7. The Poker #5
8. The Satanic Verses- Salman Rushdie
9. Singularities- Susan Howe
10. The Vertical Interrogation Of Strangers- Bhanu Kapil
11. The Maids And Deathwatch Two Plays- Jean Genet
12. Groundwork II In The Dark- Robert Duncan
13. “How I’m Fast” or “Beaux Zapruder” and also “Write This In Your Diary Or Staple It To It, Oh So I’m Fast”- Matthew Arnone
14. This Is Affront You Pig- Logan Ryan Smith
15. Something Gorgeous- Junior Burke
16. Mirage #4/ Period(ical) #119
17. all of William Blake’s poetry up to “Milton A Poem In 2 Parts”
18. The Negros A Clown Show- Jean Genet
19. Rules Of The House- Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
20. The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures Of Jack Spicer- edited by Peter Gizzi
21. Response- Juliana Spahr
22. Fuck You Aloha I Love You- Juliana Spahr
23. Sleeping With The Dictionary- Harryette Mullen
24. The Letters Of Mina Harker- Dodie Bellamy
25. Arnones #4
26. Metamorphopsia- Norma Cole
27. Small Town #4
28. Stinkbug Barbiturates- Jennifer Rogers/ Michael Koshkin
29. Velocities- Stephen Dobyns
30. For Love Of The Dark One Songs Of Mirabai- translated by Andrew Schelling
31. My Bird Book- Norma Cole
32. Tender Buttons- Gertrude Stein
33. Conduit- Barrett Watten
34. How To Read, Too- Benjamin Hollander
35. The Voyage Of St. Brendon- Brandon Brown
36. Out Of Body Adventures 30 Days To The Most Exciting Experience Of Your Life- Rick Stack
37. Passing Freaks And Graces- Reed Bye
38. Black Box Cutaway- Susan Gevirtz
39. Songs Of The Sons And Daughters Of Buddha- translated by Andrew Schelling/ Anne Waldman
40. Hourglass Transcripts- Susan Gevirtz
41. Littlemen- Kevin Killian
42. The Sandman Endless Nights- Neil Gaiman
43. Clyde Fans Book 1- Seth
44. Series- Robert Grenier
45. Phantom Anthems- Robert Grenier
46. A Day At The Beach- Robert Grenier
47. Nike- Carla Hoffman
48. Linen Minus- Susan Gevirtz
49. The Blue Book- Anna Moschovakis
50. Spicer’s City- Laura Moriarity
51. This Connection Of Everyone With Lungs- Juliana Spahr
52. House Made Of Silver- Elizabeth Robinson
53. Chain #8
54. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely- Claudia Rankine
55. Syrup Hits- David Larsen
56. The Thorn- David Larsen
57. Nuclear- Juliana Spahr
58. The Vulgar Tongue- Norma Cole
59. The Un/Written- Max Regan
60. Mutual Aid- Stacy Szymaszek
61. E Podes- Brandon Brown
62. Bombay Gin #31
63. Babel-17- Samuel R. Delany
64. Empire Star- Samuel R. Delany
65. Harrow- Elizabeth Robinson
66. Drill #5
67. The Cane Groves Of Narmada River- translated by Andrew Schelling
68. 300- Frank Miller
69. Kildare- Stacy Doris
70. Jimmy Corrigan- C. Ware
71. Neon Vernacular- Yusef Komunyakaa
72. Fourteen Hills vol. 5 #2
73. Orbiter- William Ellis
74. Persepolis- Marjane Satrapi
75. Goya’s L.A.- Leslie Scalapino
76. American Splender Unsung Hero- Harvey Pekar
77. The Fixer- Joe Sacco
78. The Sandman Preludes And Nocturnes- Neil Gaiman
79. Radi Os- Ronald Johnson
80. The Sandman The Doll’s House- Neil Gaiman
81. Small Town #5
82. BOTH BOTH August issue edited by me
83. Batman Hush Vol. 1- Jeph Loeb/ Jim Lee
84. Batman Hush Vol. 2- Jeph Loeb/ Jim Lee
85. Paramour- Stacy Doris
86. Transmission Summer Writing Program Anthology #31
87. From Hell- Alan Moore
88. Road To America- Baru
89. Insuring The Wicker Man Shadow Created Delusion- Joseph S. Cooper/ Jared Hayes
90. Good-bye Chunky Rice- Craig Thompson
91. War’s End- Joe Sacco
92. Vigilance- Benjamin Hollander
93. Hounds- Alli Warren
94. The Plot The Secret Story Of The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion- Will Eisner
95. Beg The Question- Bob Fingerman
96. Elektra Lives Again- Frank Miller
97. David Boring- Daniel Clowes
98. Subject- Laura Mullen
99. Summer Blonde- Adrian Tomine
100. BOTH BOTH september issue edited by me
101. The Dormant Beast- Enki Bilal
102. Conference- Stacy Doris
103. Contract With God- Will Eisner
104. Drawings Of William Blake 92 Pencil Studies- edited by Sir Geoffrey Keynes
105. The Watchmen- Alan Moore
106. The Playboy- Chester Brown
107. Mirage #4/ Period(ical) #121
108. Mirage #4/ Period(ical) #122
109. Moira- Norma Cole
110. Bombay Gin #26
111. Transmetropolitan Lust For Life- Warren Ellis
112. Argento Series- Kevin Killian
113. BOTH BOTH October issue edited by me
114. The X-Files Collection- Stefan Petaucha
115. Eunoia- Christian Bok
116. Sliding Uteri Summer Issue
117. I’m Not Thousand Furs- Sarah Menefee
118. Brushstroke Mind- Kaz Tanahashi
119. Simulcast: Four Experiments In Criticism- Benjamin Friedlander
120. Drill #6
121. New And Selected Poems- Mary Oliver
122. Palomar The Heartbreak Soup Stories- Gilbert Hernandez
123. From The Warring Factions- Ammiel Alcalay
124. BOTH BOTH November issue edited by me
125. Leap Year Day- Maxine Chernoff
126. Maus- Art Spiegelman
127. Bombay Gin #29
128. Maus II- Art Spiegelman
129. BOTH BOTH December issue edited by me
130. Mirage #4/ Period(ical) #124
131. Batman Black And White- edited by Mark Chiarello
132. Streaming- Larry Kearney
133. Fourteen Hils vol. 7 #1
134. The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner- Samuel Taylor Coleridge with 42 illustrations by Gustave Dore
135. The Sandman Dream Country- Neil Gaiman
136. In The Shadow Of No Towers- Art Spiegelman
137. Bramble- Jospeh Massey
haha. just kidding…what video?
Truth, thanks Kyle
Agreed on both accounts!
hahahaahhahahaha
thanks stephen
The Lost Books of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason
Firework by Eugene Marten
The Enigma of Al Capp by Alexander Theroux
The Strange Case of Edward Gorey by Alexander Theroux
The Great Wheadle Tragedy by Alexander Theroux
Master Snickup’s Cloak by Alexander Theroux
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Locos by Felipe Alfau
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee by Sarah Silverman
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
Dear Everybody by Michael Kimball
Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler
Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolaño
Light Boxes by Shane Jones
The Ask: A Novel by Sam Lipsyte
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
The Possessed by Elif Batuman
Lowboy by John Wray
Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Memorial by Bruce Wagner
The Suzanne Collins and Colum McCann books were three good reasons to quit my office book club.
did we have identical summers, or what?
Mark Baumer needs to do a guest post to discuss his trip across the u.s.
also, i miss his videos from Brown.
Yeah, I liked Cat and Mouse
I also liked The Tin Drum
This summer I read Giants In The Earth
Magister Ludi
Notes From Underground
Walter Benjamin At The Dairy Queen
In A Narrow Grave
Gourmet Rhapsody
The Quiet American
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
I also finished writing a novel that takes place in Austin
This summer I read Frances which made me quit reading for a while and all I did was roll around on my bed and sort of make noises and roll around on the living room floor and make noises and try to nag other people into reading Frances.
Then I quit that phase, and I read The Razor’s Edge and The Sound and the Fury.
I’m sorry, man. I was scanning through the comments and I saw the K in your name and I guess I thought the Alright was in my post, which is why I wrote “All right, I meant!” I wasn’t trying to scold you — I just sometimes type that by accident, too. Thanks for being cool about it.
Went to Chicago
Went to my computer chair, more than once
Went to my bedroom, more than once
Went to concerts, some very conceptual, some very mainstream (indicated by crowd-surfing pink polo-wearing LaCosters)
Went to the state fair (Nubian goats carry a certain majestic/hungry presence)
Went to the vet because my dog tore his ACL
Watched a neighbor’s wiener dog for $200
Went to a professional soccer game, blew on a vuvuzuela obnoxiously, didn’t feel any cultural rush or connection to the game in doing so
Went to a lot of too-tame parties
Sliced my leg open at one of those too-tame parties
Watched fireworks
Wrote what I wanted to call a poetic novella but might be a collection of sentimental love poems
Compiled a poetry chapbook with my sister, should be coming around soonish
Insomnia struck
Conquered insomnia
Insomnia relapse
Read ~15 books so far, feel like everyone is essentially comparing dick sizes by listing all these titles and how long it took for them to complete them
Not organized in relation to time or importance
what did people think of the video…
no one has said anything about the video…
‘were we on drugs’ / ‘what were we… doing,’ idk
Fuck, summer isn’t over is it?
11:14 pm: 5.5″
11:15 pm: 5.7″
11:16 pm: 6.1″
11:17 pm: 6.3″
11:18 pm: 6.4″
11:25 pm: 3.5″
It’s like point-scoring in a very slow video game.
ahahahahahahahaha do you knoq ho q w many people i illlkillled tonight
N O IT I NSS NOT
i LOVE THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD
ZZZZZZZZZZZ DO VYOU KNOW HOW MNAY RACCCON S IN MY LIFE I HAVE MET AND LOVRD
SEVERA; L SS O MANY SIPER RACCOON THEY HAV E HOT BODS AND I LOVE TO LOOK AT THEM WHEN THEY EAT THE KIBBLE
1. Puppet Bones- Zhang Er translated by Rachel Levitsky
2. Parade Odes- Horace translated by Brandon Brown
3. Life Of Diogenes The Dog/ Cynic- Diogenes Laertius translated by Brandon Brown
4. Transfer #87
5. Habits Of The Heart- Robert Bellah
6. The Blue Book- Logan Ryan Smith
7. The Poker #5
8. The Satanic Verses- Salman Rushdie
9. Singularities- Susan Howe
10. The Vertical Interrogation Of Strangers- Bhanu Kapil
11. The Maids And Deathwatch Two Plays- Jean Genet
12. Groundwork II In The Dark- Robert Duncan
13. “How I’m Fast” or “Beaux Zapruder” and also “Write This In Your Diary Or Staple It To It, Oh So I’m Fast”- Matthew Arnone
14. This Is Affront You Pig- Logan Ryan Smith
15. Something Gorgeous- Junior Burke
16. Mirage #4/ Period(ical) #119
17. all of William Blake’s poetry up to “Milton A Poem In 2 Parts”
18. The Negros A Clown Show- Jean Genet
19. Rules Of The House- Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
20. The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures Of Jack Spicer- edited by Peter Gizzi
21. Response- Juliana Spahr
22. Fuck You Aloha I Love You- Juliana Spahr
23. Sleeping With The Dictionary- Harryette Mullen
24. The Letters Of Mina Harker- Dodie Bellamy
25. Arnones #4
26. Metamorphopsia- Norma Cole
27. Small Town #4
28. Stinkbug Barbiturates- Jennifer Rogers/ Michael Koshkin
29. Velocities- Stephen Dobyns
30. For Love Of The Dark One Songs Of Mirabai- translated by Andrew Schelling
31. My Bird Book- Norma Cole
32. Tender Buttons- Gertrude Stein
33. Conduit- Barrett Watten
34. How To Read, Too- Benjamin Hollander
35. The Voyage Of St. Brendon- Brandon Brown
36. Out Of Body Adventures 30 Days To The Most Exciting Experience Of Your Life- Rick Stack
37. Passing Freaks And Graces- Reed Bye
38. Black Box Cutaway- Susan Gevirtz
39. Songs Of The Sons And Daughters Of Buddha- translated by Andrew Schelling/ Anne Waldman
40. Hourglass Transcripts- Susan Gevirtz
41. Littlemen- Kevin Killian
42. The Sandman Endless Nights- Neil Gaiman
43. Clyde Fans Book 1- Seth
44. Series- Robert Grenier
45. Phantom Anthems- Robert Grenier
46. A Day At The Beach- Robert Grenier
47. Nike- Carla Hoffman
48. Linen Minus- Susan Gevirtz
49. The Blue Book- Anna Moschovakis
50. Spicer’s City- Laura Moriarity
51. This Connection Of Everyone With Lungs- Juliana Spahr
52. House Made Of Silver- Elizabeth Robinson
53. Chain #8
54. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely- Claudia Rankine
55. Syrup Hits- David Larsen
56. The Thorn- David Larsen
57. Nuclear- Juliana Spahr
58. The Vulgar Tongue- Norma Cole
59. The Un/Written- Max Regan
60. Mutual Aid- Stacy Szymaszek
61. E Podes- Brandon Brown
62. Bombay Gin #31
63. Babel-17- Samuel R. Delany
64. Empire Star- Samuel R. Delany
65. Harrow- Elizabeth Robinson
66. Drill #5
67. The Cane Groves Of Narmada River- translated by Andrew Schelling
68. 300- Frank Miller
69. Kildare- Stacy Doris
70. Jimmy Corrigan- C. Ware
71. Neon Vernacular- Yusef Komunyakaa
72. Fourteen Hills vol. 5 #2
73. Orbiter- William Ellis
74. Persepolis- Marjane Satrapi
75. Goya’s L.A.- Leslie Scalapino
76. American Splender Unsung Hero- Harvey Pekar
77. The Fixer- Joe Sacco
78. The Sandman Preludes And Nocturnes- Neil Gaiman
79. Radi Os- Ronald Johnson
80. The Sandman The Doll’s House- Neil Gaiman
81. Small Town #5
82. BOTH BOTH August issue edited by me
83. Batman Hush Vol. 1- Jeph Loeb/ Jim Lee
84. Batman Hush Vol. 2- Jeph Loeb/ Jim Lee
85. Paramour- Stacy Doris
86. Transmission Summer Writing Program Anthology #31
87. From Hell- Alan Moore
88. Road To America- Baru
89. Insuring The Wicker Man Shadow Created Delusion- Joseph S. Cooper/ Jared Hayes
90. Good-bye Chunky Rice- Craig Thompson
91. War’s End- Joe Sacco
92. Vigilance- Benjamin Hollander
93. Hounds- Alli Warren
94. The Plot The Secret Story Of The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion- Will Eisner
95. Beg The Question- Bob Fingerman
96. Elektra Lives Again- Frank Miller
97. David Boring- Daniel Clowes
98. Subject- Laura Mullen
99. Summer Blonde- Adrian Tomine
100. BOTH BOTH september issue edited by me
101. The Dormant Beast- Enki Bilal
102. Conference- Stacy Doris
103. Contract With God- Will Eisner
104. Drawings Of William Blake 92 Pencil Studies- edited by Sir Geoffrey Keynes
105. The Watchmen- Alan Moore
106. The Playboy- Chester Brown
107. Mirage #4/ Period(ical) #121
108. Mirage #4/ Period(ical) #122
109. Moira- Norma Cole
110. Bombay Gin #26
111. Transmetropolitan Lust For Life- Warren Ellis
112. Argento Series- Kevin Killian
113. BOTH BOTH October issue edited by me
114. The X-Files Collection- Stefan Petaucha
115. Eunoia- Christian Bok
116. Sliding Uteri Summer Issue
117. I’m Not Thousand Furs- Sarah Menefee
118. Brushstroke Mind- Kaz Tanahashi
119. Simulcast: Four Experiments In Criticism- Benjamin Friedlander
120. Drill #6
121. New And Selected Poems- Mary Oliver
122. Palomar The Heartbreak Soup Stories- Gilbert Hernandez
123. From The Warring Factions- Ammiel Alcalay
124. BOTH BOTH November issue edited by me
125. Leap Year Day- Maxine Chernoff
126. Maus- Art Spiegelman
127. Bombay Gin #29
128. Maus II- Art Spiegelman
129. BOTH BOTH December issue edited by me
130. Mirage #4/ Period(ical) #124
131. Batman Black And White- edited by Mark Chiarello
132. Streaming- Larry Kearney
133. Fourteen Hils vol. 7 #1
134. The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner- Samuel Taylor Coleridge with 42 illustrations by Gustave Dore
135. The Sandman Dream Country- Neil Gaiman
136. In The Shadow Of No Towers- Art Spiegelman
137. Bramble- Jospeh Massey
haha. just kidding…what video?
if my reading habits were a video game, it’d be ‘A Boy and His Blob’.
Agreed on both accounts!
how’s that mcmurtry?
can’t seem to finish the glass bead game, seems okay
hahahaahhahahaha
thanks stephen
i can’t seem to update my goodreads, too many things only sort of being read, nothing more than fondling sometimes, while others get swallowed fast, its like a guy taking polaroids of every girl he sleeps with on tour, maybe i’m lazy
moved from oakland to the city. haven’t been to the damn beach yet. my roommate/landlord is an asshole. i didn’t have an office chair for a while. this new one sucks. partying kind of a lot. did some readings. working five days a week like a sucker. ducking out. coming in the backdoor. put some things on backburners for to make them simmer and sparkle with a little time to spread the wings of this duck i just killed in my mind. going to the park a lot. going to shows. reading a lot. thinking a lot about stuff and things and people and get myself into sticky situations and losing some friends over things that mean very little in an objective sense. saving up to buy a car before october, gonna drive to marfa. went to colorado. want to camp more before the cold comes. dreaming of berlin and sometimes enchiladas. procured some long books for winter: our lady of flowers, witz, the book of lazarus, tropic of cancer, maybe gonna reread ulysses soon
I’m sorry, man. I was scanning through the comments and I saw the K in your name and I guess I thought the Alright was in my post, which is why I wrote “All right, I meant!” I wasn’t trying to scold you — I just sometimes type that by accident, too. Thanks for being cool about it.
It’s like point-scoring in a very slow video game.
seemed like “hips kids having fun” and “didn’t wanna forget the summer” so “made a video montage to remember 4ever”
book of lazarus is sweet, also doesn’t actually take that long to read (i.e. is maybe not necessarily a “long book”) despite being a fat book
how’s that mcmurtry?
can’t seem to finish the glass bead game, seems okay
i can’t seem to update my goodreads, too many things only sort of being read, nothing more than fondling sometimes, while others get swallowed fast, its like a guy taking polaroids of every girl he sleeps with on tour, maybe i’m lazy
this summer i saw spiritualized play ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space in its entirety, at radio city music hall, for the last time ever in the US. the rest i can’t remember.
moved from oakland to the city. haven’t been to the damn beach yet. my roommate/landlord is an asshole. i didn’t have an office chair for a while. this new one sucks. partying kind of a lot. did some readings. working five days a week like a sucker. ducking out. coming in the backdoor. put some things on backburners for to make them simmer and sparkle with a little time to spread the wings of this duck i just killed in my mind. going to the park a lot. going to shows. reading a lot. thinking a lot about stuff and things and people and get myself into sticky situations and losing some friends over things that mean very little in an objective sense. saving up to buy a car before october, gonna drive to marfa. went to colorado. want to camp more before the cold comes. dreaming of berlin and sometimes enchiladas. procured some long books for winter: our lady of flowers, witz, the book of lazarus, tropic of cancer, maybe gonna reread ulysses soon
I like the video, everyone seems happy. The next time I’m in a hotel room I will jump on the bed in remembrance. The next time I ride the subway in NYC I will ‘travel back to a special time and place’. This summer I read As I Lay Dying for the nth time (‘As I Lay Dying’ for the nth time, that is, not ‘As I Lay Dying for the nth time’) Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Girl with Curious Hair, The Log of the USS the Mrs. Unguentine, Bed, Ray, A Partial List of People to Bleach, The Surf Guru and The Adderall Diaries. On HTMLGIANT I feel like a midget. Think of me as a green sprout. I don’t remember what I ‘did’ this summer.
magick, sweet
mimi, sweet / read “green sprout” as “gleen spout”
gleen splout
meli kalikimaki
seemed like “hips kids having fun” and “didn’t wanna forget the summer” so “made a video montage to remember 4ever”
book of lazarus is sweet, also doesn’t actually take that long to read (i.e. is maybe not necessarily a “long book”) despite being a fat book
The Protestant Ethic- Max Weber
Destiny and Fate- Glenn Tinder
Kenneth Waltz-Man the state and war
Politics Amongst Nations- Hans Morgenthau
Philosophy and The Mirror of Nature- Richard Rorty
Elementary Logic- Quine
Plutarch Lives- Plutarch
Several books of Livy
The Art of Rhetoric- Aristotle
Edith Hamilton’s Greek Mythology
Democracy in America- Alexis De Tocqueville
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals-Kant
Language, Truth and Logic- A.J. Ayer
Erskine Caldwell- Greta
Winter of our Discontent- John Steinbeck
Miami and The Siege of Chicago- Norman Mailer
Currently reading The End of the Road by John Barth
feels good to know i had company, damon. i guess my local half-price books doesn’t buy used copies of seventeen with “water”-damaged pages. whatever. i just threw eat pray love away since i already had toilet paper. happy end-of-summering
i like it when ZZZIPP misspells his own name and adds an extra Z. what a dddork
i’m still reading the box of wheaties, i’m so stoned
this summer i saw spiritualized play ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space in its entirety, at radio city music hall, for the last time ever in the US. the rest i can’t remember.
ZZZZZZZIPPP CAN SPELL HIS NAME ANY WAY HE WANTS
david for the win
I like the video, everyone seems happy. The next time I’m in a hotel room I will jump on the bed in remembrance. The next time I ride the subway in NYC I will ‘travel back to a special time and place’. This summer I read As I Lay Dying for the nth time (‘As I Lay Dying’ for the nth time, that is, not ‘As I Lay Dying for the nth time’) Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Girl with Curious Hair, The Log of the USS the Mrs. Unguentine, Bed, Ray, A Partial List of People to Bleach, The Surf Guru and The Adderall Diaries. On HTMLGIANT I feel like a midget. Think of me as a green sprout. I don’t remember what I ‘did’ this summer.
magick, sweet
mimi, sweet / read “green sprout” as “gleen spout”
gleen splout
meli kalikimaki
The Protestant Ethic- Max Weber
Destiny and Fate- Glenn Tinder
Kenneth Waltz-Man the state and war
Politics Amongst Nations- Hans Morgenthau
Philosophy and The Mirror of Nature- Richard Rorty
Elementary Logic- Quine
Plutarch Lives- Plutarch
Several books of Livy
The Art of Rhetoric- Aristotle
Edith Hamilton’s Greek Mythology
Democracy in America- Alexis De Tocqueville
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals-Kant
Language, Truth and Logic- A.J. Ayer
Erskine Caldwell- Greta
Winter of our Discontent- John Steinbeck
Miami and The Siege of Chicago- Norman Mailer
Currently reading The End of the Road by John Barth
feels good to know i had company, damon. i guess my local half-price books doesn’t buy used copies of seventeen with “water”-damaged pages. whatever. i just threw eat pray love away since i already had toilet paper. happy end-of-summering
i like it when ZZZIPP misspells his own name and adds an extra Z. what a dddork
i’m still reading the box of wheaties, i’m so stoned
ZZZZZZZIPPP CAN SPELL HIS NAME ANY WAY HE WANTS
david for the win
Haha no worries, I legitimately was thanking you—pisses me off to no end when I do that.
Haha no worries, I legitimately was thanking you—pisses me off to no end when I do that.
zzzzzip issss a ddddork(kk)
zzzzzip issss a ddddork(kk)