Thursday, March 5, 2009
List of things I'm into
Saltine crackers. I'm eating them right now!
Lesley Arfin. I just finished Dear Diary and she's a Vice contributor but I don't care if people are supposed to be too cool for that or whatever. Stuff like this is my dream reading material when I'm fooling around on the internet. Reading about her writerly hopes reinforced my secret writerly hopes when people like DFW and Nabokov dash them. Which is to say: there's more to lit than unattainable genius and thick cross-referencing. Her book is entertaining, it's about drugs, I relate to her adolescent problems, and I learned a lot about rehab. out of 10, it's 8.3.
David Foster Wallace. oh baby, the real star of my dream! I was watching Lost last night and one of the characters looks like him (if only Horace would pull his hair back and put on a bandanna) and that's when I realized I have a tiny lil' fixation on DFW. I'm only 100 or so pages into Infinite Jest but so far it is astounding. I was sad when he died in September and I'm even sadder now. Infinite Jest is so far a 9.4.
Not drinking alcohol--I've had some drinks since Lent began but overall I feel like my liver is thanking me for giving it a break. I tried to give up coffee at the same time and switch to yerba mate but yesterday I gave in and made some at home in the morning. When i got to work i drank yerba mate as has become my habit and I was wiggin' out! But it felt good, sort of like the time freshman year I went to Tate St. with Aislinn and drank a bunch of espresso at 10 pm without thinking, and spent the rest of the night fighting with my boyfriend and writing a paper. and I think there was also a meteor shower that night that I watched on the soccer field.
Making plans for spring. As you can see! I'm excited to jog outside again and sleep in my room without 50 layers of blankets and thermalwear. It's also fun to be wearing clothes that you like, like colorful skirts without leggings. And everyone's in a good mood!
Gay beach. Is always good somehow (only the best for american apparel, i guess!). so nice to listen to at work and at home. you might have to just go to the viva site and find "gay beach" in the contributors.
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have you read the article on DFW in the new yorker? i haven't read infinite jest, but in the article they talk all of his works including the one he was working on until his death. it sounds like an interesting idea for a book and it's a shame that he couldn't finish it. i think they're publishing as much as he completed next year.
yeah, i read as much as i could handle. the article spoiled a lot of Infinite Jest that i haven't gotten to yet, so i had to skip that whole section.
usually i'm unsure about novels published posthumously, but it sounds like he would have wanted The Pale King to be out there from the way it was packaged for his wife to find.
i can't stop feeling sad about it, which is weird for someone i didn't know personally.
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