books books books

mall book sale left me with these four beauties (all for $8 i might add! bargain!)

-European Paintings in German Art Galleries (lol it sounds like the most random book ever. i bought this one because i needed to use the debit machine and i could only use it if i spent more than $5, so i grabbed it caz it was $1 [i'd bought the Guinness one, earlier])
-Guinness Book of World Records 2003, $3
-Art Masterpieces from the Renaissance to the Present Day, $2 (when i opened this one a second ago to take the webcam pic, a bunch of dusty crud fell out...hmmm)
-Life Smiles Back, $2 (a collection of classic pictures from life magazine)

hurray books. i don't understand when people tell me they don't read. i get it if you don't have time during the school year or something, or if you work ridiculous amounts, but still. for me as soon as summer hits, the first thing i do is go to the library.

book update:
distant star by roberto bolano, i'd give it a 3/5.
An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile. In the early 1970s Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was a little-known poet living in southern Chile. After the military coup of 1973 that brought in the dictatorship of General Pinochet, he embarked upon a new career that involved him in committing murder and other brutalities, and subsequently led to his emergence as a lieutenant in the Chilean air force under his actual name, Carlos Wieder. Some time later the narrator, now held in a prison camp, looks up and sees a World War II airplane writing the first words of the "Book of Genesis" in smoke in the sky. The aviator is none other Carlos Wieder, launching his own version of the New Chilean Poetry. Roberto Bolano's novel is a chilling investigation of the fascist mentality and the limits of evil, as seen in its effects on a literary sensibility, as well as a gripping intellectual thriller. It shows a great writer at the height of his powers.
it was pretty anticlimatic, but i still happened to like it. i'm not sure if i would reccommend this book or not, it depends on who was interested. ya, i liked it.

right now i'm in the midst of the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde. so far it's ok. one thing i dislike about stories based in the 18th (or 19th?) century is that everyone meets and then says they're in love. someone just got engaged to an actres he spoke to once. oh the good ol' days. bascally the story is about this young handsome man who has his picture painted, he sees his beauty in the picture and wishes that the picture would age instead of him and that he would stay young and beautiful forever. and so that happens i guess (i haven't gotten there yet). we'll see.

update on free chocolate on my no chocoalte month:
i saw half of a chocolate bar lying on the sidewalk. i guess the chocolate gods think i must be desperate.


p.s: i bought a lomo camera off ebay for under $20 (^ that one actualy). kinda pumped. and i got time off for folk fest so tickets will be bought asap. cool.

i know it's kind of old news...

...but, i think andrew vanwyngarden is a major babe. i know two guys who, if you molded the guys together, the result would look like andrew.

bacon land?

i don't know when signed up for bacon lover websites, but stumbleupon has taken it upon themselves to constantly show me bacon and barbecuing websites. i hit a bacon of BBQ website at least once a day now if i'm using stumble upon. i've never even been that big of a fan of bacon...

bacon website of the day.

:)

-i've been sneezing like mad all morning (interesting i know)
-i heard two stories yesterday about people puking so much they broke blood vessels (one person all over their face so it looked like they were constantly blushing, and another person in their eyes so it looked like they were...very scary?)
-only 15 days left as being part of frockstar, 10 more shifts
-last night i was so tired i went to bed at 9:30, after napping from 8 until 9. i think that was the first time in years (besides when i've been sick or jetlagged) that i went to bed before my mom.

i'm still thinking what i would like for a second tattoo. everything i think of though, i can see myself thinking it was silly and regretting it when i got older. i still love hemingway, my first tattoo. the only other tattoos i can think of that i would like, have to do with birds still. i'll hold off. i'll turn into a crazy bird tattoo lady if i'm not careful. i was going to get a verse or a line from one of my favorite poems, but i couldn't pick just one, and it's not a short poem. by the time i'd chosen a phrase, it was half the poem. or i would like a tiny little picture. no bigger than a toonie. but i don't know of what, so that's silly. i shall just be patient and wait. tattoos are permanent and i have to remember that they will be there forever, so no rush.


eek. this is really well done. i hate spiders. if this girl was my friend i'd probably always forget it was a tattoo and scream girlishly every time i saw it. iiick.

i've said it before that i write in code sometimes. in the sense that i say something that sounds very random, but it really isn't. i'm just seeing if anyone picks up on it i guess. it's like..the only way someone would pick up on the code (for lack of a better term), would be if they listened very closely to me in person, and then used what they heard me say to pick up the hidden meaning in my writing. i know that is really...odd, and makes no sense. i'm so confusing. my brain works in mysterious ways. i'm so so curious if people pick up on it. i don't think they do. most people just think i'm being odd when i say certain things. i'm alright with that. i can wait.

hmm, funny. i just looked down at a paper beside my desk where i'd written "come find me" and "stop waiting". they seem kind of contradictory.

in other news. i quit my job, and start my new one on tuesday. my last day of now old job is may 10th. it was so sad to quit, i almost started crying when i handed in my notice, like i actually choked up for a sec.

i'm going to go to folk fest this year. i still need to buy tickets though. i'm just waiting to make sure i can get the days off from new job now. if the weather is lovely, it will be a guaranteed amazing time.


hey here's a song i just heard a few minutes ago. shhh by denora. like it or not, it's up to you.

weirrrd

i watched the wacknes today (decent movie) and the whole time i was trying to figure out where i knew the actor from who played luke. i realised after a while that he looked like an actor who used to be on the amanda show and nickelodeon way back when (he was also in mean creek ) , but then i thought, nah, it can't be him, he looks so different. turns out it was him! WEIRD.