week 26.08

call-and-response/kick-and-scream, vol. 2 = punk lives/jazz thrives

food: crackers with marmite & olive tapanade
drink: yogi detox tea
video: bill gates' last day (2008 CES)
sleep: 44 hours
fires: no fires or floods this week... other than iowa
film: carnival of souls (harvey)
website: punk77
reads: a man without a country (vonnegut)

quote: my goal is not replacing a corporate rebulican with a corporate democrat and then calling it a day. we did that last time with bill clinton, and then look what we got. (jello biafra)

week 25.08

we’ve got the river, some cheese, a bottle of wine and our mobile phones… let’s make popcorn!

food: lenôtre macarons
drink: thé glacé
video: mobile phone popcorn - pro
video: mobile phone popcorn - con
sleep: 55 hours
fires: no fires, but iowa is underwater
film: das cabinet des dr. caligari (wiene)
reads: mindfucking (mcginn)

quote: if four separate homemade videos on youtube are to be believed, it's now possible to cook popcorn using the energy emitted from ordinary ringing mobiles. (johnny dee)

week 24.08

money in pocket, but not enough to buy the luxury of anger (spider pig remix)

food: wheat toast with marmite
drink: coffee
video: superman & the mad scientist
sleep: 40 hours
fires: holding steady at zero...
film: the last man on earth (ragona)
openings: tereza buskova
website: brit bound
reads: still reading four million (o. henry)

quote: i can't afford the luxury of anger. anger can make me vulnerable. it can destoy my reason and reason's the only advantage i have over them. (robert morgan, from 'the last man on earth')

week 23.08

in metaphor and out, some days are sunnier than others

food: minestrone soup
drink: water with lemon
video: the victory speech
sleep: 36 hours
fires: zero...
film: jules et jim (truffaut)
website: zipporah films
reads: four million (o. henry)

quote: change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. we are the ones we've been waiting for. we are the change that we seek. (barack obama)