If I lay here. If I just lay here.
I’ve decided that this is a week where nothing happens. Nothing moves. Nothing changes (at least by my own hand). I just want to be quiet. Observant. Open. Take it all in, read, listen to music. Go see movies. I’ve been working too hard, trying too hard. It’s time to be still and let things work on me.
I’m going to see a double-header of Rear Window and On the Waterfront tonight, two movies I’ve always wanted to see and yet never have. They’ve been on my Netflix queue for ever, but somehow I never seem to get down to them. So how could I pass up the opportunity to see them both on the big screen? It may be a long night, but I think it'll be good. I’m psyched.
As always, there are a million books piled up on my shelves, waiting to be read. I tend to go through phases, and lately I’ve been in a heavy reading phase. So I’m just about finished with The Stand, and I definitely need my next read to be something a little shorter. A little less...epic. So I’m thinking next is going to be either Things Fall Apart, or In Cold Blood. Last night, I also picked up borrowed copies of Neverwhere, Tropic of Capricorn, and a collection of Zora Neale Hurston stories. The flow of books into my life has always been much heavier than the flow of books out of it...
On the music front, I’ve been doing a lot of listening lately. (This also goes in phases.) There have been many happy discoveries, but I’d say that most recently my world has been sufficiently rocked by new songs by Sufjan Stevens and Jeremy Enigk. Sufjan is no big surprise—I’ve been semi-into him for a while. I find some of his stuff breathtaking, and some of it not so much. This new song “Sister Winter” is definitely the former. I came across it online a couple of weeks ago, and I can’t stop listening to it. It’s actually from a Christmas-themed project, but you wouldn’t really know that from listening to it. Well, until the end when he sings, “And my friends, I’ve returned to wish you a happy Christmas...” It’s gorgeous. So yeah, I’ve been rocking out to a Christmas tune in September. Whatever.
Jeremy Enigk, on the other hand, I wasn’t really familiar with. I mean, I was marginally familiar with his band Sunny Day Real Estate, but wouldn’t have called myself a fan. Then I downloaded “Been Here Before,” and once again, my world was rocked. I’d say that at the height of my obsession I was listening to it maybe 5-10 times a day. That has since cooled to a more reasonable once or twice, but goddamn it’s good.
And that’s all I have to say right now. Excuse me while I return to my books and music.
I’m going to see a double-header of Rear Window and On the Waterfront tonight, two movies I’ve always wanted to see and yet never have. They’ve been on my Netflix queue for ever, but somehow I never seem to get down to them. So how could I pass up the opportunity to see them both on the big screen? It may be a long night, but I think it'll be good. I’m psyched.
As always, there are a million books piled up on my shelves, waiting to be read. I tend to go through phases, and lately I’ve been in a heavy reading phase. So I’m just about finished with The Stand, and I definitely need my next read to be something a little shorter. A little less...epic. So I’m thinking next is going to be either Things Fall Apart, or In Cold Blood. Last night, I also picked up borrowed copies of Neverwhere, Tropic of Capricorn, and a collection of Zora Neale Hurston stories. The flow of books into my life has always been much heavier than the flow of books out of it...
On the music front, I’ve been doing a lot of listening lately. (This also goes in phases.) There have been many happy discoveries, but I’d say that most recently my world has been sufficiently rocked by new songs by Sufjan Stevens and Jeremy Enigk. Sufjan is no big surprise—I’ve been semi-into him for a while. I find some of his stuff breathtaking, and some of it not so much. This new song “Sister Winter” is definitely the former. I came across it online a couple of weeks ago, and I can’t stop listening to it. It’s actually from a Christmas-themed project, but you wouldn’t really know that from listening to it. Well, until the end when he sings, “And my friends, I’ve returned to wish you a happy Christmas...” It’s gorgeous. So yeah, I’ve been rocking out to a Christmas tune in September. Whatever.
Jeremy Enigk, on the other hand, I wasn’t really familiar with. I mean, I was marginally familiar with his band Sunny Day Real Estate, but wouldn’t have called myself a fan. Then I downloaded “Been Here Before,” and once again, my world was rocked. I’d say that at the height of my obsession I was listening to it maybe 5-10 times a day. That has since cooled to a more reasonable once or twice, but goddamn it’s good.
And that’s all I have to say right now. Excuse me while I return to my books and music.
posted by P/O at 9/19/2006 10:12:00 AM
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