moving back, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and mix tapes
After a great conversation with Holly, I have concluded that I will move back to Twentynine Palms after my lease is up in one year. I initially moved to Palm Desert to attend the satellite campus for Cal State San Bernardino. Since I have dropped out and I have never liked the area, it makes no sense for me to live there at all. I am happiest in Twentynine Palms, where I hope I can write more and concentrate on my photography as well. I figure that I can live on my own in Twentynine Palms or Joshua Tree just as well as I have in Palm Desert (given their different cost of living). I am excited, but I must be patient. In the next year I will try to line up a job either in the Park or the libraries or even my old job at Superstar Video (call it lazy or easy, which it truly was, I still had a lot of fun there). This is my hometown and I believe this is where I should be.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy remains a great read still. I am nearly 3/4 finished and I am waiting to watch the movie. I am reading this as a great space tale as well as a philosophical piece; its comments on perception, existence and identity are lining up in my head as I read each page. Also, I am finding references to the guide in my music that I had never noticed before: Coldplay's opening track to Parachutes is titled "Don't Panic," the same words that appear on the cover of the book-within-the-book; Marvin, the Paranoid Android is fairly obvious, but also the same song's line "when I am King/ you will be first against the wall" is paraphrased from the mid-book joke that a weak race would be "the first against the wall" at the first sign of a revolution; (a bit of a stretch, but) Zaphod Beeblebrox says to the on-ship computer, "Okay, computer..."; I am waiting, but I have a feeling that the will be a planet named Planet Telex, which could possibly make my head blow up all red like.
Also, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has given me a theme for a mix tape: space. For the past week or so I have been finding my space rock, wandering songs and astral pieces. I am probably going to name it "Have space suit, will travel," after the children's book. Just when I discovered this theme, it also led me to revamp my Britpop mix tape, which I abandoned last year for many reasons, mostly emotional. Regardless, I have been stock piling my Britpop CDs and now I am waiting for my Primal Scream and Verve order from Record Alley and then I will attack. I think I will turn this into a two tape massacre.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy remains a great read still. I am nearly 3/4 finished and I am waiting to watch the movie. I am reading this as a great space tale as well as a philosophical piece; its comments on perception, existence and identity are lining up in my head as I read each page. Also, I am finding references to the guide in my music that I had never noticed before: Coldplay's opening track to Parachutes is titled "Don't Panic," the same words that appear on the cover of the book-within-the-book; Marvin, the Paranoid Android is fairly obvious, but also the same song's line "when I am King/ you will be first against the wall" is paraphrased from the mid-book joke that a weak race would be "the first against the wall" at the first sign of a revolution; (a bit of a stretch, but) Zaphod Beeblebrox says to the on-ship computer, "Okay, computer..."; I am waiting, but I have a feeling that the will be a planet named Planet Telex, which could possibly make my head blow up all red like.
Also, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has given me a theme for a mix tape: space. For the past week or so I have been finding my space rock, wandering songs and astral pieces. I am probably going to name it "Have space suit, will travel," after the children's book. Just when I discovered this theme, it also led me to revamp my Britpop mix tape, which I abandoned last year for many reasons, mostly emotional. Regardless, I have been stock piling my Britpop CDs and now I am waiting for my Primal Scream and Verve order from Record Alley and then I will attack. I think I will turn this into a two tape massacre.