(no subject)
I slept in Crookston on Saturday, Minneapolis on Sunday, Chicago last night & Arlington tonight.
Cleaned out my old room at my mom's farm house, which they are selling in the spring. It was extremely difficult to sort through everything without disappearing into the hundreds of letters and thousands of photographs, covering about 1988 to 2006. Stacks of zines, comics, and drawings made by my friends. I've completely lost contact with so many people, even in the f-book age. It's left these brilliantly colored bands in my past, sunken ships from which I'm the only survivor. Evidence in the words of lost friends of how emotionally intense some of these experiences were. I've forgotten so much. The photos and letters are the closest thing proof that that I didn't just dream it all.
---
Favorite books read this year, sort of kept to ten:
Cesar Aira - An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
Ryunosuke Akutagawa - Rashomon & 17 Other Stories
Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida
Roberto Bolano - Distant Star, The Savage Detectives, Last Evenings on Earth
Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red
Jean Genet - The Thief’s Journal
Knut Hamsun - Tales of Love and Loss
Yasunari Kawabata - Snow Country
Alain Robbe-Grillet - For A New Novel
Philippe Sollers - The Park
Favorite comics released in 2010:
5. VA - Mome #19
4. Dash Shaw - Body World
3. Chris Ware - Acne Novelty Library #20
2. Jim Woodring - Weathercraft
1. Lars Martinson - Tonoharu: Part Two
Cleaned out my old room at my mom's farm house, which they are selling in the spring. It was extremely difficult to sort through everything without disappearing into the hundreds of letters and thousands of photographs, covering about 1988 to 2006. Stacks of zines, comics, and drawings made by my friends. I've completely lost contact with so many people, even in the f-book age. It's left these brilliantly colored bands in my past, sunken ships from which I'm the only survivor. Evidence in the words of lost friends of how emotionally intense some of these experiences were. I've forgotten so much. The photos and letters are the closest thing proof that that I didn't just dream it all.
---
Favorite books read this year, sort of kept to ten:
Cesar Aira - An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
Ryunosuke Akutagawa - Rashomon & 17 Other Stories
Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida
Roberto Bolano - Distant Star, The Savage Detectives, Last Evenings on Earth
Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red
Jean Genet - The Thief’s Journal
Knut Hamsun - Tales of Love and Loss
Yasunari Kawabata - Snow Country
Alain Robbe-Grillet - For A New Novel
Philippe Sollers - The Park
Favorite comics released in 2010:
5. VA - Mome #19
4. Dash Shaw - Body World
3. Chris Ware - Acne Novelty Library #20
2. Jim Woodring - Weathercraft
1. Lars Martinson - Tonoharu: Part Two