As my journal entries have become less frequent and more banal, this can be a wrap-up of the month... which has been, for the most part, reading. I hope not to sound as uninteresting as Nick Hornby often presents himself in his column in The Believer...

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I will die if this painting gets sold to a fucking private owner. Art should be public, and this is honestly the most beautiful Picasso that I have ever seen. I still remember the wall upon which it was placed at the Frick, the strokes, the colors. I despise that art is an investment for stupid rich people. Art prices, unlike everything else, don't ( Read more... )

And Christmas is over.

I have a new pot and pan; I have a box of chocolates from L. A. Burdick; and I have a new digital camera!...I miss vin chaud. And soon I'll miss galettes des rois. With cidre fermier. Brut. ...The windows at Printemps, and Galleries Lafayette. ...The smell of the metro. ...That warm Christmas day whereupon I sat outdoors in ( Read more... )

Other Music has posted (or at least e-mailed) their best of, so I guess I should now.

And now, for the third year, my best of:
(bold, being the absolute best)
(and: 2002; 2001)

Best albums of 2003:

Adult. : Anxiety Always (Ersatz Audio) : This was fun while it lasted.

Autechre : Draft 7.30 (Warp) : I still love Autechre, even if they are ( Read more... )

The boy on whom I have had a crush since August, who works at the local café, just gave me a free coffee.

If he didn't have a girlfriend it might give me hope. It just might.

...lyubov sent me a holiday postcard!!! xoxo.

And... last class for the semester was this afternoon. Two papers to go!

In a fit of procrastinatory angst, I sat down to watch TV, and, finding nothing of interest but the Chinese music program "HEY!HEY!HEY!," I started to watch it. In a matter of seconds, Japanese girl duo Puffy came on, subtitled in Chinese and all, doing a medley of three of their songs separated by a terrible same from some 80s song... They were so ( Read more... )

My medieval literature professor is inflicting all the agony of A Knight's Tale upon us... It pains me. I don't think I have seen such a terrible film in a long time. A very long time. On a positive note, I think he's canceling the final exam and I passed in my paper on Tristan et Yseut today ( Read more... )

I saw Harold and Maude with a friend and his sister last night, that film is really amazing, just so incredible. Harold is probably 17, Maude is 79, and they fall for each other after having met at a few different funerals... it's much more complicated than that, but that's the gist of it. She's this radical anti-establishment old lady, and he's a ( Read more... )

Issue nº 8 of BUTT magazine came today. God must love me. Matthew's CD has yet to arrive; therefore God supports Dutch art-pornography, but not gay marriage ( Read more... )

southpawgrammar and I are getting married, we've decided. Crate and Barrel gift registry and Paul Smith formalwear, here we come! Hehe,...

...so yeah, marriage is now legal in Massachusetts. I still don't know what that means or what I think of that... crazy, isn't it?