I am not officially back. I just want to keep here a list of books that I've read. So, now I am playing catch-up - they are in reverse chronological order.
The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami
A History of the World in 6 Glasses - Tom Standage
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Watership Down is probably the first book I read start to finish... Read More
Continuation of the journal entry below. The blog layout really isn't very conducive to reading things in order. Iif entries were designed to be continuations of each other, you have to skip around quite a bit to read everything in the order it was written. Anyway, after Disney On Ice, I came back to the city, had a Texas Burger at Paul's (2nd ave between... Read More
The Astor Place cube is back! It's cleaned and repaired - the NYC government didn't actually lie last summer when they said that they were just taking it for a cleaning - everyone thought that they got rid of it because it festroyed the 'properness' in front of the "sculpture for living" building which is an ugly fucking piece of shit of a highrise. It's... Read More
Today, I saw a funny off-broadway play called Jewtopia. It was low-brow funny... to a point that after the first act an elderly gentleman got up and went to the concierge and demanded his money back. But you know, it was enjoyable.
One of the actresses that had the funniest role was this girl. She fucking rocks my world.
I just had a very long conversation w. my roommate about what we call "the existential void", what my life is like now that I feel it, and what my life was like when I didn't feel it.
So, uhm... the conclusion that we came to was, the last time that I _really_ didn't feel an existential void was with my first girlfriend, when I... Read More