week 09.09

...more poets, more painters and more trustworthy accountants

food: marmite on toast
drink: pg tea
video: concert à emporter - sidi touré (touré)
video: mykonos (fleet foxes)
video: untitled (the ex)
sleep: 35 hours
floods: flash floods all over the city!!!
film: sherman's march (ross mcelwee)
reading: rogues, rebels and rubber stamps (simpson)

quote: two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. the wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. it is the same with us and God. every separation is a link. (simone weil)

week 08.09

another year = same war, and a new global depression

food: baba ghanoush
drink: old speckled hen... and the greene king
video: such great heights (uMass dynamics)
video: billie jean (um gMen)
sleep: 32 hours
floods: no flooding
film: encounters at the end of the world (herzog)
reading: rogues, rebels and rubber stamps (simpson)

quote: a self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. (simone weil)

week 07.09

i'm beginning to feel tha acapella feeva, again

food: stir fry with soba noodles
drink: naked juice
video: star wars a tribute (moosebutter)
video: gangsta's paradise (overtones)
video: gay bar (electric six)
sleep: 32 hours
floods: still celebrating the anniversary
film: topper (mcleod)
reading: rogues, rebels and rubber stamps (simpson)

quote: human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. (simone weil)

week 06.09

post-impeachment, and thinking he might stay in New York

food: spinach croissant
drink: redhook esb
video: and she would darken the memory (the twilight sad)
sleep: 39 hours
fires: holy name cathedral caught on fire
film: taken (morel)
film: flow (salina)
reading: rogues, rebels and rubber stamps (simpson)

quote: if we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. but there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. (simone weil)