beauty

beauty is gilda radner as lisa loopner making a theatre of people sing along to "the way we were."

monday

friend marc and i drove out to kerrville last night to meet friend ET and watch trout fishing in america. we sat on grass, drank expensive lone star, watched jugglers, looked at people. three songs into trout fishing's set, a huge storm cloud rolled into the kennedy outdoor theatre and the wind started whipping dust into everyone's eyes. trout fishing kept on; there wasn't much rain, just scattered ice-cold drops; the electricity went out for a second and we lost one of the mics for a song and a half, but trout fishing kept on. as soon as they finished their set the rain started coming down a little bit more, but soon let up again. marc and i walked around in the slightly surreal atmosphere then drove back home.
legs are aching like hell as a result of working out with new friend thad.
inspired to download some richie havens today. ET was wearing a richie havens t-shirt.

the bomb of gnarly confetti

hey wow, it's summer. and i have had a week of pure relaxation, culminating in a crescendo of enjoyment!
i have slept in late, drawn, listened to music, washed dishes, thrown shit out, cleaned my dining room table off, repositioned my computer for more effective usage, pet my cat, sat on my back porch smoking, lifted weights (yeah really!), made new friends, rehearsed a play, drank margaritas with a friend, cried, laughed... jeez, it's all been lovely.
and as the crescendo, this morning i woke up at 5:45, having had a night of creatively-charged dreams. all this positive creative energy enthusing through my dreams all night. i mean it's not stopping! it's flowing! it's going!
i even found myself down on the floor studying a bug with my cat. this was at 5:53 this morning. we looked intently at this bug. and it put me on a level to see the bottom shelf of my bookshelf, upon which was sitting a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, and i'm reading that now.
reading it reminded me of the existence of mcsweeney's, upon which i found this pretty funny list.
ps. i can't take credit for "culminating in a crescendo of enjoyment;" that's from the tracey ullman show, circa 1993.