Wednesday, February 19, 2003
i'm kinda annoyed i can't catch this: http://www.quartzfilms.com/invitation.htm
I've seen one of the films there, and I was seriously impressed. She's only 5 years older than me, and has already made all of this great work? Shit.....better hit the books.
Seems to be interest in the apartment, i've schedueled like 3 people to come see it in the next few days, and one guy sounded really interested.
I started Descartes's "Discourse on Method" and Erich Auerbach's _Mimesis_ today, don't know which to stick with. Methodological investigation is so interesting....I could spend all day about reading about philosophical method/scientific method, modes of inquiry....sometimes it feels like it doesn't even matter what you come up with if you find an interesting way to get at it.
a really good webjournal: http://www.waggish.org/
i was trying to figure out why i keep writing in the dammed thing, and came to the conclusion that it's just so i'll keep writing, even the littlest bit helps. even if it's about trite shit, helps keep the fingers limber
Florida seems more and more inviting by the day, and not just because of the weather. i wonder if i enjoyed things more over there; even though i wasn't coming across work of such quality as i am here, maybe having to put more into the work that i came across was actually more rewarding. when i read gravity's rainbow 3 years ago, it took me about at least a week or two to read what i read in 2 days this week, a fair chunk on the subway. i miss the radio, i miss wfit, i miss the beach.
the research paper looks like it's going to be an analysis of "Sans Soleil".....i almost feel like i could write *anything* about that movie and have it apply, it's like the universe is in that movie. randy still has my tape of it, and hasn't called me back......might have something to do with all of the hassle he's been though, so i don't blame him.
pretty strange: i found out that this person that posts to the forums is from vero beach, and that she dated drew for a while! so bizarre.....wonder what natalie's up to nowadays. wish i had her email addy, ah well, i'll dig it up from somewhere.
should i proofread this before i post it? nah.
oh, this also also exceedingly incredible. just read it: http://www.brandonvedas.com/internet.html
I've seen one of the films there, and I was seriously impressed. She's only 5 years older than me, and has already made all of this great work? Shit.....better hit the books.
Seems to be interest in the apartment, i've schedueled like 3 people to come see it in the next few days, and one guy sounded really interested.
I started Descartes's "Discourse on Method" and Erich Auerbach's _Mimesis_ today, don't know which to stick with. Methodological investigation is so interesting....I could spend all day about reading about philosophical method/scientific method, modes of inquiry....sometimes it feels like it doesn't even matter what you come up with if you find an interesting way to get at it.
a really good webjournal: http://www.waggish.org/
i was trying to figure out why i keep writing in the dammed thing, and came to the conclusion that it's just so i'll keep writing, even the littlest bit helps. even if it's about trite shit, helps keep the fingers limber
Florida seems more and more inviting by the day, and not just because of the weather. i wonder if i enjoyed things more over there; even though i wasn't coming across work of such quality as i am here, maybe having to put more into the work that i came across was actually more rewarding. when i read gravity's rainbow 3 years ago, it took me about at least a week or two to read what i read in 2 days this week, a fair chunk on the subway. i miss the radio, i miss wfit, i miss the beach.
the research paper looks like it's going to be an analysis of "Sans Soleil".....i almost feel like i could write *anything* about that movie and have it apply, it's like the universe is in that movie. randy still has my tape of it, and hasn't called me back......might have something to do with all of the hassle he's been though, so i don't blame him.
pretty strange: i found out that this person that posts to the forums is from vero beach, and that she dated drew for a while! so bizarre.....wonder what natalie's up to nowadays. wish i had her email addy, ah well, i'll dig it up from somewhere.
should i proofread this before i post it? nah.
oh, this also also exceedingly incredible. just read it: http://www.brandonvedas.com/internet.html
Monday, February 17, 2003
fucking crazy snow action here.....like a zillion inches, you can't even see the tires on the cars parked on the side of the road.
spent the day reading and aimlessly wandering around my apartment, found some more great quotes in the Confessions, "Place, there is none; we go both backwards and forwards, and there is no place."
and
"To such an extent prevails the illusion of the image, both in my soul and in my flesh, that the false persuade me when sleeping, to that which the true are not able when waking."
i find that when i spend the day sitting around, inertia inevitably takes over....i don't feel like going to class tomorrow, i don't feel like finishing school a year early, i don't feel like doing anything, i just want to sit around and listen to records. That RLW cd, "14" is pretty great, i listened to it for the first time today and was pretty dazzled, Hazard's "Wind" is also good, but makes me sleepy, especially listened to when reading.
the christian teleology and evolution seem not to apply to me....often i feel that i'm not really growing, or moving, just treading endlessly over the same territory....that i'm worrying about predestination again like in 8th grade, and still fretting about inertia, and isolation.....i wonder sometimes if i should move to brooklyn, so that i'll be closer to most of my friends....ah well, spending tomorrow in the library will be nice.
what was it that jim said to me about livejournals? i forget....hmmmmmm.....zines......i'd like to look at that cometbus anthology.
oops, time to get back to reading.
spent the day reading and aimlessly wandering around my apartment, found some more great quotes in the Confessions, "Place, there is none; we go both backwards and forwards, and there is no place."
and
"To such an extent prevails the illusion of the image, both in my soul and in my flesh, that the false persuade me when sleeping, to that which the true are not able when waking."
i find that when i spend the day sitting around, inertia inevitably takes over....i don't feel like going to class tomorrow, i don't feel like finishing school a year early, i don't feel like doing anything, i just want to sit around and listen to records. That RLW cd, "14" is pretty great, i listened to it for the first time today and was pretty dazzled, Hazard's "Wind" is also good, but makes me sleepy, especially listened to when reading.
the christian teleology and evolution seem not to apply to me....often i feel that i'm not really growing, or moving, just treading endlessly over the same territory....that i'm worrying about predestination again like in 8th grade, and still fretting about inertia, and isolation.....i wonder sometimes if i should move to brooklyn, so that i'll be closer to most of my friends....ah well, spending tomorrow in the library will be nice.
what was it that jim said to me about livejournals? i forget....hmmmmmm.....zines......i'd like to look at that cometbus anthology.
oops, time to get back to reading.
Sunday, February 16, 2003
i'm leaving "The Case Worker" halfway through (not because it's bad, just not really in the mood for it) and started "Gravity's Rainbow." This'll be my 2nd time through....I think it's my favorite book, and i'm realizing that it had a really big impact on me the first time through.
i'm almost tempted to stay home and just read tonight, but i think i'll brave the cold- it's 15 degrees outside!- for the show. Devendra Banhart plus Young People plus Guy Blakeslee/Entrance plus Animal Collective: Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist & Deaken. Should be a lot of fun.
I want to see the Jean Cocteau Reperatory Theater's production of "Uncle Vanya"....it's closing in two weeks, and I dearly love Chekov, and tickets are only $10 for NYU students ($40 for real people) and I haven't seen any theater since I've moved into the city.
The Markopoulos films were difficult, but I'm glad I saw them, especially "Twice a Man" and "Ming Green." I'm excited by the prospects of going to law school, it seems that I'll be following in Kapil's footsteps, really should talk to him soon.
i'm almost tempted to stay home and just read tonight, but i think i'll brave the cold- it's 15 degrees outside!- for the show. Devendra Banhart plus Young People plus Guy Blakeslee/Entrance plus Animal Collective: Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist & Deaken. Should be a lot of fun.
I want to see the Jean Cocteau Reperatory Theater's production of "Uncle Vanya"....it's closing in two weeks, and I dearly love Chekov, and tickets are only $10 for NYU students ($40 for real people) and I haven't seen any theater since I've moved into the city.
The Markopoulos films were difficult, but I'm glad I saw them, especially "Twice a Man" and "Ming Green." I'm excited by the prospects of going to law school, it seems that I'll be following in Kapil's footsteps, really should talk to him soon.
