Part 3: The Part About Fate
... I'm a wuss but the story is getting intense. A reporter from Harlem goes to Santa Teresa to report on a boxing event, but he somehow gets involved with reporting of the murders of hundreds of women that have been occurring in the town.

Feeling creepy.

Doing nothing

..with that break I read...

which made me horribly uncomfortable to the point I had to keep reading until things settled down (around chapter 16 when Camilla scores pot). Arturo is a straight edge writer barely making it by in 70's LA, borderline obsessive and more so compulsive over a mexican waitress named Camille, it's a constant hatred to be loved game between then, except that Camille is more obsessed over Sammy, who wants nothing with her. Arturo still goes life and limb for this chick and its dreadful... ahhh

Bukowski wrote the foreword, apparently this was his author god, and you can notice the resemblence (except Fante is sober than ever... denying a free beer for coffee). Another worthy mention are the Filipino danceclubs and a Filipino guy with a pimp suit to compensate for his inch short of height to his woman hoe.

Saturday was a stay at home day, which consisted of above and below:
First attempt at faces... from the back cover of 'the Island'


Now back to 2666 Part 3... owweee. Best book of 2008...we'll see.

Sincerly,

(by Pavel)

2666

1: The Part About the Critics
2: The Part About Amalfitano
... I found to be tedious to read, but the constant tangents, side- stories, etc
is still interesting all in all.

The book is more like 5 parts = 5 novels, but they all tie together somehow, where one minor character in one part, becomes the main in the next.

Part 1 of 4 literary snobs/ critics who study German literature and are on the quest to find Archimboldi, their beloved writer who they travel south to find him, but really never do.. I guess that's where 5: The Part About Archimboldi comes to play (err like six hundred blah blah pages later). More like a love triangle with off set dreams and travels from Paris to London, Madrid to Paris, etc, references to Spanish lit, its not a bad way to start the book.

Part 2 I found easier, with a philosophy professor from part 1 that becomes the main character and why he seems to have gone mad, drama with a wife that has left him and their daughter to follow a poet, then comes back to find him; an unowned deteriorating book plus philosophy geometry diagrams; hearing a voice of someone who ends up not who he originally thinks to be...

Yea this book is all the hype and it really deserves it (well for the 200+ pages I've read at least...) err ah..yea Im taking a break.

eating meat

I'm really into this..really really. Gordon (the main guy) is anti money; he believes 'making good' ($$ success) is the root of evil in all mankind and is determined to surpass it. Being the youngest son of a middle class family who never did anything to better themselves, they always supported him financially for a good education, but as 29 yr old going 30, he's quit 2 'good' jobs to work at a bookstore, live in poverty, write poems, eat bread and margarine... he loses his cool when he finally gets paid, treats his friends out, blows all his money on expensive food and champagne, gets drunk, tries to rape his girlfriend. That's not all, but awesome for a book written in the 1930's.

Birds & Batteries splurge:

I'll Never Sleep Again"
Birds & Batteries; Audio CD; $0.06

"Nature vs. Nature"
Birds & Batteries; Audio CD; $0.52

plus -
,
piles of solid wood blocks to paint on,

and Good Hustle on a Friday is a good day.

under One Month Old

Our first little baby tank. Progress updates TBD.

Finished reading a fic memoir from Diane Di Prima... a female beatnik-er living in NY.
First half of the book is all cunt, cock, balls, and ass - group sex, free sex, gay sex (did I just pick up some erotica?) but more towards the end, it was more a lifestyle then anything - I began to appreciate her pov, values and lack of sometimes, enough to pick up her other memoir book..nehaaaj1iheuhlafhaelfjdshfja

Tuesday is the big day

...and Obama's grandmother passed the eve of.

Saw my mother on her day off that really was a 'lay off' from a mall laser treatment job she took on part time/ for fun that had to close its one of many doors because of the good ol' economy. Her answer to this economic state 'God will provide', but the God worshiping sons of bitches in office for the past 8 years is what the hell sent us down and out. I havent seen my mother as much as I should and used to, and I miss here really. I hate cutting the time we spend together short, but the moment I jump into the car is Christian radio with discussions of Yes on Prop 8 with a testimony from a gay man who married his partner when the prop was passed a couple years ago and regretted it cause it was too early; then another story about the teachers who took their students to city hall to watch her and her partner get married...etc. 'We have a creator and he provided a life manual..'. I'm telling you its difficult. Then asking "how is your living situation" seemingly expecting (probably praying) that its the detrimental situation her religion predicts to be.
3 hours is all I can stand..then hearing about my older brother now attending church... I need to go home...I need to be in my comfort in my immortal scientific human adulterous life. I'm jealous. Really jealous of others who did without this sheltered childhood that shunned me from reading, listening,seeing, learning anything that was out there. At 25 I feel I'm late in the game...I have too much to catch up on...

...from reading:


I felt better. Chianski continues his wino, perverted, can't keep a job, gambling antics. (Like a continuation of Post Office) Not much I can say, except I respect his thought of the white collar life as the real down way to live. Travels cross country by bus, no emotion with the things in life that would make us depressed, instead its drowned by port wine. Out of a house, a woman, and a job his last dollar is spent at the strip club.

Sunday night I also picked up: Joan Didion's non fiction collection of work - We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live..and honestly haven't been able to let it go

I guess she's more popular now for her novels, but she did write articles in her early years. The first book in particular Slouching towards Bethlehem is of events and people pertaining to California in the 60's. The Miller case in San Bernadino, Joan Baez School of NonViolence in Monterey, Howard Hughes as heroic and his empire, marriage in Las Vegas, etc etc... yea I haven't even dented the thing....