per Dan’s suggestion, I will resume blogging
So, I’m not very good at keeping commitments like this. Like, you know, updating a blog all the time. I’m just not. I thought having a very obvious theme, like what I eat every day, would keep me at it, but alas. It also doesn’t help that I do not own or work with a computer. I have plenty of computer access but it never seems appropriate to blog on another’s computer.
Anyway, last week I performed in a thing called Church, which is run by The Leader at a place called Superfine
I decided not to do music, and instead to read or perform something. I have a preoccupation with the idea of the coffeeshop and the commodification of coffee, also the fact that coffee is loaded with all these cultural and countercultural and intellectual association when really, coffee is about the least radical drug on the market. It’s a drug you take so you can work and be bored all day and not go to sleep.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the stuff. But you know. So that’s sort of what I read about, and I felt really good about reading something I wrote. Also, Dan came over before the thing and read a paper version of it, and laughed, and having someone laugh at a joke in something I wrote also feels really good.
The whole experience served to remind me that, until about midway through college, I identified very strongly as a WRITER and a JOURNALIST. That was my schtick, career plans and all. Somewhere along the way I figured out that music is much more fun but I do miss using words more. So once again I will attempt to keep a blog, this time with a looser theme perhaps.
I would also like to note that I finished Season 2 of Twin Peaks last night, and the ending of that show was one of the greatest disappointments of my entire life. Seriously. So many loose ends and presumptions to make. And Agent Cooper becoming a villain? Come ON. I wasn’t expecting a fairy-tale ending from Lynch but they coulda thrown us a bone here.
I guess I just have to watch Fire Walk with Me ASAP. There might be some redemptive information. I gotta say tho, I really wasn’t psyched about that ending.
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:40 pm
You didn’t tell me you finished the Twin Peaks!
You should post the piece you wrote for Church, I’d like to read it.