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Tom Waits!
I have not updated in a while. There is no reason for not having done so, other than another of those periods of being distracted from livejournal by other things, mostly Facebook, which is addictive.
In June, I went up north to visit family, but mostly ended up sitting around at my sister Christine's house, doing nothing, for many days, and ( Read more... ) -
George Grosz
I found this quote some time back and then forgot about it. I post it here because I find Grosz inspiring, even if what he saw and what he drew is horrifying ( Read more... ) -
Weimar Noir song list - version 7.5
The theme for this song list is of a speculative and imaginal Weimar, a collage, if you will, combining a variety of disparate elements, amongst which are the following:
the true and historical Weimar of the Berlin Dada Club, the Munich Soviet, the Wilhelmshaven mutiny, the Spartacist Revolt, the Kapp Putsch, and the street battles between the ( Read more... ) -
pg. 23, line 5
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence and post it.
4. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
5. In a new post, copy and paste the previous entries and instructions and add your new entry from Page 23 from ( Read more... ) -
Why I left, and may leave again...
I really have a love-hate relationship with this place, this journal. I have to wonder at times why I continue to do it. The things I write here are sometimes deeply embarassing to me afterwards (like the entry from last Monday), or just seem stupid or self-indulgent. Maybe this has just been a bad week---actually, there's no maybe about it, ( Read more... ) -
This evening...
Looking around at Soma for someone, I ran into an acquaintance named Peter. All that I know of the man is that he is a professor in the law school, and refers to himself as an "old opera queen". He and I have acquaintances in common, and are both habitues of Soma. At any rate, after talking about music for 10 or 15 minutes, I excused myself, and ( Read more... )
