I am such a weirdo
I have developed an extreme hatred of driving in the fog at night. Because it makes me fuckin' ILL. Literally. I'd considered heading home from work a little early tonight so I could drive in the light, but when I went to look at the weather, it didn't look all that foggy. So I stayed. When I left it was dark and foggy. Don't know what it is, but that kind of drive has made me all clammy and nauseated twice now--the time before this I also got a powerful case of vertigo on top of it. This time it was just the clamminess and nausea. Bleh.
So I had Triscuits and seltzer for dinner, whee.
Do I do anything but complain here? I think I do, but it may have been a while.
So I'm currently back on a podfic kick (listening, that is), after some audios. I listened to most of David Byrne's "How Music Works," which is interesting, densely packed, and not exactly what I expected. It's not so much music theoryish as what things have historically affected what's going on in the music world (like the technology, and the sort of places where music was/is heard), businessy stuff, stuff about Byrnes' own creative process. Where it really sort of fell down is not taking advantage of the fact that it was on audio--I'd have loved to hear the songs he was alluding to at the point where he was talking about them. I don't know all that much of his/Talking Heads' work, so I didn't have an instant mental playback as particular works were discussed. Pretty interesting in general, and he seems not to have a bloated ego, at least it doesn't seem so to me. I loved that he quoted a line from a review, not meant to be complimentary, that he'd "collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos." It's narrated by a reader, not Byrne, but the guy is pretty good. I need to go back and listen to the last couple of chapters, since I put it on one night when I had insomnia, so of course I fell asleep and missed 95%.
I've also listened to part of Sarah Vowell's "The Partly Cloudy Patriot," which I intended as light listening between chunks of the David Byrne, but the chapter on the election of Bush II over Al Gore kinda depressed the fuck out of me, particularly in light of things that are going on at the moment. It's very good, though, and I loved her remarks about Al Gore as a "big honking nerd" (which she, as a big honking nerd, means as a compliment). Her particular insights on how media shapes a narrative it has already delineated really depressed extra fuck out of me.
Speaking of things that are going on at the moment, I implore you to read this piece on Donald Trump's hair, at Vanity Fair. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/12/donald-trump-mark-bowden-playboy-profile#1
The main article is interesting, though not at all surprising--I had not expected to learn that Donald Trump has hidden depths, so finding out that he's exactly the repulsive vulgarian he seems wasn't particularly shocking. But it's worth a read to learn a little more about what a terrible human being he is. No, the (as an editor of mine used to say) piss de resistance is the slideshow on Trump's hair over the decades. I wish I knew who wrote the captions, which are gloriously mean and hilarious. (For example, the suggestion that at one stage his hair products were "rubber cement and snot," which made me honk like a Canadian goose.) So scroll down and behold the glory that is world-class snark. (As VF put it "Warning! Don't Read Before Lunch!")
ETA: And for legal snark: http://abovethelaw.com/2015/12/an-awesome-response-to-a-cease-and-desist-letter-from-donald-trumps-lawyer/
Do read the whole letter. (And the original letter from Trump's lawyer has some comedy gold, stating that an attempt to make attack ads regarding DT is "fool hearted.")
I don't think I have shared this story here, so sometime I really need to regale you with my actual brush with Trump, in which he WINKED AT ME.
But I should really get to bed now.
So I had Triscuits and seltzer for dinner, whee.
Do I do anything but complain here? I think I do, but it may have been a while.
So I'm currently back on a podfic kick (listening, that is), after some audios. I listened to most of David Byrne's "How Music Works," which is interesting, densely packed, and not exactly what I expected. It's not so much music theoryish as what things have historically affected what's going on in the music world (like the technology, and the sort of places where music was/is heard), businessy stuff, stuff about Byrnes' own creative process. Where it really sort of fell down is not taking advantage of the fact that it was on audio--I'd have loved to hear the songs he was alluding to at the point where he was talking about them. I don't know all that much of his/Talking Heads' work, so I didn't have an instant mental playback as particular works were discussed. Pretty interesting in general, and he seems not to have a bloated ego, at least it doesn't seem so to me. I loved that he quoted a line from a review, not meant to be complimentary, that he'd "collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos." It's narrated by a reader, not Byrne, but the guy is pretty good. I need to go back and listen to the last couple of chapters, since I put it on one night when I had insomnia, so of course I fell asleep and missed 95%.
I've also listened to part of Sarah Vowell's "The Partly Cloudy Patriot," which I intended as light listening between chunks of the David Byrne, but the chapter on the election of Bush II over Al Gore kinda depressed the fuck out of me, particularly in light of things that are going on at the moment. It's very good, though, and I loved her remarks about Al Gore as a "big honking nerd" (which she, as a big honking nerd, means as a compliment). Her particular insights on how media shapes a narrative it has already delineated really depressed extra fuck out of me.
Speaking of things that are going on at the moment, I implore you to read this piece on Donald Trump's hair, at Vanity Fair. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/12/donald-trump-mark-bowden-playboy-profile#1
The main article is interesting, though not at all surprising--I had not expected to learn that Donald Trump has hidden depths, so finding out that he's exactly the repulsive vulgarian he seems wasn't particularly shocking. But it's worth a read to learn a little more about what a terrible human being he is. No, the (as an editor of mine used to say) piss de resistance is the slideshow on Trump's hair over the decades. I wish I knew who wrote the captions, which are gloriously mean and hilarious. (For example, the suggestion that at one stage his hair products were "rubber cement and snot," which made me honk like a Canadian goose.) So scroll down and behold the glory that is world-class snark. (As VF put it "Warning! Don't Read Before Lunch!")
ETA: And for legal snark: http://abovethelaw.com/2015/12/an-awesome-response-to-a-cease-and-desist-letter-from-donald-trumps-lawyer/
Do read the whole letter. (And the original letter from Trump's lawyer has some comedy gold, stating that an attempt to make attack ads regarding DT is "fool hearted.")
I don't think I have shared this story here, so sometime I really need to regale you with my actual brush with Trump, in which he WINKED AT ME.
But I should really get to bed now.