When I am not procrastinating I am either...
taking pictures
reading
playing piano
watching baseball
watching movies
trying to write
thinking of things to write about but never actually writing anything.
MOVIES
Amelie
Rushmore
Juno
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The Third Man
Psycho
Shaun of the Dead
Roman Holiday
A Fine Frenzy
The National
Sondre Lerche
Jolie Holland
The Shins
Rufus Wainwright
Okkervil River
St. Vincent
French music, Judy Garland, Enrico Caruso, Frank Sinatra
BOOKS
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Euginides
Just read...
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (good)
Disgrace by JM Coetzee (rather disappointing)
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell (awesome)
White Noise by Don Delillo (Amazing)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Depressingly Great)
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (meh)
The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe (Really really really good)
After Dark by Haruki Murakami (GOOD!)
Hey! The job is going alright. I enjoy going to work, but the tasks I'm assigned are pretty brainless and boring. But a couple of the people I work with are really great and make it so much more bearable.
I'm glad you have an easy commute. That's the number one reason that I want to move to the city, but I haven't really started looking for an apartment yet. I'm incredibly slow-acting when it comes to big decisions like that.
Anyway, now that I'm on high-speed internet, I can appreciate your playlist; it's great. I noticed that you like The National -- are you going to Lolla this summer? I would like to, especially to see Radiohead, but I'm not sure if I can afford it yet. :(
Wow, so you witnessed the infamous "Steve Bartman Incident" live? Don't feel too bad; I listened to the Sox blow their 5-2 lead in game 7 to the Yankees right around that time. Who knows, maybe a Sox-Cubs World Series is in the makings.
Actually the last movie I saw was "Amelie" since I saw it was on your list and some other people's lists. I liked it. I just looked up the Machinist on imdb and it looks really interesting, was it good? Any psychological thriller goes to the top of my list. I also have Magnolia and He Was a Quiet Man in my Netflix queue. I really want to see 1984 but for some reason they don't have it!?!
I'll be reading Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground at the recommendation of a friend. And some philosophy books by Bertrand Russell, how about you?
Massachusetts is nice and hot this time of year! The weather's been good for growing my plants. How are things in Chicago?
