Pre 2009

ph: markos
My old g ride.

Xmas week isn't quite over yet. Thanx to my lover for an easel, my family for college monies & corporate gift cards, pav's fam for pajamas and a matching ramen bowl set for the two of us (blue and pink)...

I've been sleeping more than reading... read halfway "Kafka was the Rage: a Memoir of Greenwich Village" wear the author actually attended new skool college of social research after fighting in WW2.. and reminded me of my old dreams to live in the city and study in that program. weep weeep

Instead I picked up..

which was overall a good plot... overpopulation in Britain, so everyone is limited to one child (excess children are fined), the bible is an ancient smut book from the past, homosexuality is encouraged, contraceptives are mandatory from the Ministry of Infertility, cannibalism is a last resort when rations are out, war is a government scheme to kill off the Darwin award cases and at least make them have a proud patriotic death. Still it was a drag.

Now its Henry Miller's Quiet Days in Clichy

, which unfortunately I saw the movie first, but still a good story of erotic bohemian France from the perspective of an American man whore.

2 more weeks until I have to hit the books seriously...er.

To Nevada City..

Finished this sucker last Wednesday...am I happy with the ending? ahh errr..not satisfied really. I did like how Bolano tied the characters together, but 2666 never made sense to me, nor the ending of a flavor of ice cream an author was named after, who know one remember, but is eaten on its most popular seasons of spring and summer. From reading I guess 2666 makes more sense in the Amulet and seems to be some cryptic code of a message (what my boss mentioned today)...ugh.

For a change I picked up "A penal colony" which includes 'the metamorphosis'..again a story I was sheltered from for years... because the family value factor is missing?

Today, we got in Bukowski's 'Women"
... and I will be happy and free, and admire the smut that I have put in front of me.

Part 4: The Part About the Crimes - had detailed descriptions of each of the murders in Santa Teresa, never really determining who are the serial killers, even though with the same themes of murder (rape, strangulation, left nipple bitten off, clothed, etc), you can never really pin point who did it...it sounds more like a an overall male dominance issue, where some husbands confess to the murders of their wives, while others sound like a pimp or client that has murdered his whore.
Some really grotesque incidents (i.e a raper in jail who gets a shiv in his rectum, new fish's ball sac sliced open)...I made it a point not to always read before I slept.


120 plus pages isnt anything, but as Burroughs first it's one of his easier novels - mostly about 'H' and 'M', sometimes 'C'...but his travels from city to city (new orleans to mexico city) trying to score and avoiding the pigeons, going through rehab, the junk withdrawels, etc. They even talk of hipsters haha... yea the same as ones now that talk about wanting to do drugs and once on em needing to be babied. I finished this last night then had bad dreams about being in a car with people jabbing each other with needles to death...