MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN HAT ANAGRAM REMIX

so, yea...

procrastination will do some strange things.

in this case:

a TRUMP Make America Great Again Hat anagram remix of sorts...

thanks photoshop.

courtesy NGO BERLIN

Ticket-Vorverkauf für STAR WARS – DAS ERWACHEN DER MACHT Star wars The Force Awakens presale tickets Cinestar Berlin Sony Center Star Wars Episode 7

UPDATE: "Cinestar verspricht, das heute ab 19.00 in allen Cinestar-Kinos" - www.kinofans.com DISCLAIMER: This post is me at my most American huffy-geekiness possible, but shoot, man IT IS STAR WARS - (I have basically been waiting 32 years for this!) and I am now fully dorking out like crazy. ANyhow: Since yesterday I have been madly googling thing like "Ticket-Vorverkauf für STAR WARS – DAS ERWACHEN DER MACHT" and "STAR WARS TICKET VORVERKAUF" and the results have been pretty much nothing but dead ends. I also have the day off, therefore plenty of time to spend on OBSESSING over this huge FIRST WORLD PROBLEM;). SO, I wake up around 7 and start my real search for a viable Star Wars The Force Awakens pre-sale ticket buying option and am instantly... going a whole lotta nowhere. One site called Digital Leinwand (digital screen) reported: "am Montag, den 19.10.2015 um 9 Uhr." Ok, so... apparently if that were the case then no one told the cinemas. Berlin's CINESTAR Original at SONY CENTER (WHere we see every worthwhile blockbuster Hollywood film) has next to nothing on their website. Not only that but the only search result for the new Star Wars results in this page - with a fan-made poster, not the actual film poster:

(granted everything is closed in Germany on Sundays, maybe they didn't get back to work on it til this morning... but the link was even offline for a few hours, and even after it returned they had only added a few more videos, no mention pf pre-sale tickets or new trailer announcements:

SOOO (keep in mind I have the day off and nothing better to do) I get on my bike adn RIDE to Potsdamer Platz to ask in-person about tickets. They know nothing. Wow. Ok... So... I registered online to receive an email update about tickets for the film... hopefully at least that will do the trick? In the meantime I am just going to wait til the new trailer comes out and at least enjoy that. IF anything pops up I will update this post. TTFN.

Nina Persson solo show at HeimatHafen Neukoelln, Berlin (and theCardigans on youtube)

Just saw Nina Persson play solo at Heimathafen Neukoelln in Berlin, which was strange and ultimately really good but a lonnnggg time coming. 

Here are a few images from my phone: 

 BRIEF HISTORY: In 1998 (or early 99?) I had tickets to see the Cardigans at the King Cat theater in downtown Seattle but then ended up acting in a play that night. Although I rushed to the theatre as quickly as possible after the show I only really caught the last half of the last song. In 2003 (or was it 2004?) we had tickets to see the Cardigans (also in Seattle) on the Long Gone Before Daylight tour but then the show coincided with the opening Gala of the Seattle International Film Festival - my gf's mother's bf was one of the sponsors so it was jsut too good to pass up and we ended up - very reluctantly - stopping by "the 411 house" where we often hung out (also where J. Tillman aka Father John Misty was living at the time) and giving the tickets away to some lucky folks there. So, yea, fast forward to 2014 - Nina Person solo isn't the Cardigans - and I'll admid for the first 4-5 songs I didn't know what I was seeing or if I liked it at all BUT by the second encore I was sold- she's good and she's still got it, it is just different now. THe Cardigans have a small, but very loyal cult following and that's comething I have never really been able to figure out, but every now and then you come across other people wo just love the band and have for years. For me that started when I bought the album "Life" on a whim in 1995. THe doo-woppy pop and milk and honey vocals were nothing link anything else I was listening to a the time (NIN, WEEN, Smashing Pumpkins, etc.) that that was entirely ok.. So, thanks to the magic of the internet - here are a bunch of songs that made me fall in love with the band, Nina Persson's voice and their evolution throughout the 90s and 00s- also realized that - oddly - because I mainly just listened to this band on CD and didn't have MTV that many of the videos which I've never actually seen before posting this): First off, a link to their Official Music Videos on Youtube: HERE And then jus ta whole bunch of other stuff, but do yourself a favor and play it through headphones or fancy speakers: Erase/Rewind The Cardigans - I Need Some Fine Wine And You, You Need To Be Nicer You're the Storm The Cardigans Black Sanbbath IRON MAN cover The Cardigans GRAN TOURISMO (FULL ALBUM) The Cardigans FIRST BAND ON THE MOON (FULL ALBUM) Emmerdale FULL ALBUM The Cardigans - You're The Storm (Live "At Sen Kvaell Med Luuk" 2003) Also apparently they were rehearsing nov 2013...?

Lesser-known science: Houston's Hierarchy of Wants

Courtesy used universe / nothing modern, Berlin

Miss you, bro.

email sent an old friend:

"awh, someone left a Staropramen in my fridge and I got all nostalgic for the days when you'd come up here for the weekend..."

Response:

"Hedgehogs in the back
Party in the front
Berlin all night
Kase fruhstuck all day
Stuck in Austin
Not as awesome
As they all say
I'll be back again one day

Doktor Logarhythm"

Berlin Art Prize

Berlin Art Prize sponsored by Mumm sekt quickie promo at a part of used universe / nothing modern 's post-doctorial Uferological studies ;)

UPDATE

And a few shots from the opening on June 22, 2013:

Fitter, happier, used universe

fitter, happier by all.the.used.universe on GoAnimate

Animation Software

fitter happier text by radiohead
Animations arranged by used universe

Long lost tree stump library in prenzlauerberg found

I have been on Dr Reecard Farché (aka Anklepants )'s ever since seeing him perform at the network awesome party last summer. A few weeks back he had posted some interesting shirt designs so I wrote back saying I'd like one- alas I have no idea how to buy things on the Internet and I didn't want to give any money to Deutshe Post (especially since they recently sold the c/o Berlin building (aka postführamt) to an Israeli who is turning it into an wffing luxury hotel- blah blah- anyhowwwww) so: basically I want I buy a hand made shirt and give 100% of the proceeds to the guy who is selling it- but as it turns out there weren't any left in my size so the email exchange went back and forth for a few weeks until yesterday when I actually had the evening free after work and just trekked my arse up north in the snow getting off the U2 at senefelder Platz (sighing at the sight of cafe Chagall where we used to feed hangovers with their cheese breakfast platters back before the Pfefferberg was renovated- or eat borscht and drink beer by the fire in winter... Ja, I walked up kollwitzstrasse a few bloks and realized that I hadn't been in that exact part of town in YEARS- and it suddenly reminded me that I
Might be getting Near that tree stump library I had randomly found circa 2008-9, checked out the hobbit from
And then NeVER been able to find again- when when turning the corner onto Sredzkistraße suddenly - there it was! Long lost tree stump library! Now I can finally return the Hobbit!

St.Agnes: HOLY SHIT vs. hello vertigo!

The new Johann Koenig space at Alexandrinenstraße 118-212 is juST sick! (Well, dizzying - and sick.)
Or maybe I am just in love with it now because it is still an abandoned 1960s church? Empty and virtually untouched?
johann koenig st agnes
ALL Photos: USED UNIVERSE

ignorant art

all new ignorant art images here: http://used-universe.tumblr.com/
USED UNIVERSE BERLIN 2012

study for
prophet machine # 4 performed feb. 7, 2012 at eschschloraque
coreographed by patrick faurot

"Faurot's work shifts between theater and dance, the abstract and the mundane,
the esoteric realms of the sacred and the hard rationalism of mathematics. It
searches for contemporary performative method of narrative and expressiohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifn in
order to build new resonant meanings, necessitated by the dearth created in the
contemporary scene by the philosophical and aesthetic deconstruction following
post-modernism and the usurpation of art for mass consumer culture. In this way,
the contemporary aim of Faurot's work is primary -- that from the ruins of dance and
theater, new work can be conceived and performed that utilizes traditional theories
and techniques but adapts them to have significance today. His artistic investigation
is influenced by his experiences as a mathematician and musician, his travels through
South America and Eastern Europe, the avant garde of Berlin's underground, and the
many painters, sculptors, dancers, and madmen he has encountered throughout the
world ."
there will probably be much better photos here at eriko khalesi's blog

USED UNIVERSE art kitchen
this is your kitchen full of art on iPad.
berlin 2012

PREAMBLE(ABOVE: karmanoia, Dec.4, 2008- stoll/scroll down for more)
Post Titled:
National Goober and Weirdo Gallery
Post Subtitled: Koons and Klee at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
AKA: Non-Fiction, Dec. 4, 2008
So it is freezing cold, I get out of the u-bahn at potsdamer platz and wander towards the river where the Neue Nationalgalerie. Really cold.
Reasons for going: it is opened late on THursdays, is is supposedly free, and I love Jeff Koons' sh*t.
Realities: The museum is free only in that the permanent exhibit is free on Thursdays. There was no permanent exhibit on display, therefore: nothing was free. To see the entire show (Jeff Koons and Paul Klee) it would cost 18€ (sorry, unfortunately I had to cancel that sellmyblackmarket kidney appointment this morning.)
So, we loitered, wandered, watched the flatscreens w/ German tv interviews with Koons and spent a long time in the book shop sucking up a mini art education. (I woke up this morning with the (just hardly faintly barely legible) word Franz Gertsch written on my hand. NOTE: By the way, that's what happens when you leave the house without a permanent marker.) (and I#m still not convinced that that is the right name) his postcard was sold out so all their was left was a neon green photocopy of the postcard pt there as a placemarker. Not expecting that i think I commented "this one looks like it fell out of a zine."

Flipped through BANKSY's WALL AND PIECE book which is just jam-packed with masterpieces of street art, and laughed. out loud. a lot. on the back cover:

“There’s no way you’re going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover.”
-Metropolitan Police Spokesperson

(However I am still a bit disappointed that the book is copyrighted.)

Upon leaving the museum we were asked for out tickets TO EXIT, I guess the gallery is so effing expensive that this is a preventative measure to prevent those who prevent the gallery from making the most they can on ticket sales.
"Uhm, wir haben keine karten."
The security door guy is looking at me with a semi-blank don'tbullshitme stare, especially since we'd been wandering around for well over an hour.
"Aber ihr wart unten" he lobs the evidence of guilt.
"Ya, aber wir haben nür die Gift Shop besucht und die filme angeguckt, -wir sind eigentlich hirhergekommen weil wir dachten das es heute aben kostenlos war, und haben kein Geld mitgebracht- also- deswegen haben wir eigentlich keine karten gekauft, wir sind einfach herumgelaufen..."
This is clearly beyond his range of understanding, four people show up to the National Gallery, abuse the complimentary coat check by holding the Koons flyer as if they'd bought a ticket (at least I did) and then spent over an hour standing on the main floor (where you can actually see the entire Koons sculpture exhibit, but if you want to be 20-30-40 feet closer then it costs 8€, and then loitering downstairs the +200 Klee (ok, props to Buck who slipped past the docent when he was distracted by a large group who had just arrived and actually saw the Klee show. Meanwhile, Jessica, Joe and I just goofed off in the gift shop, -which is actually just as interesting and playful than the Koons show itself.
"Aber... ihr..."
"Nee, wir haben uberhaupt keine eintrittskarten"
Well, if wir haben keine katen then wir haben keine karten and there's nothing to scan, issue resolved- we go out into the COLD, hit up the Weinachtsmarkt with its über-kitschy Christmas music which would put Mr. Jeff Koons to shame, he'd wet his pants in shock and awe at the German Christmas Market beast. (well, not really, but it'd make for a great short film.)

Went home, dropped off sh*t, went to Karmanoia briefly:








... returned home, slept well. Sometimes (more often than not) I really love my life...

p.s. hey Berlin/Xberg- look familiar??! click:

Seeed - Dickes B
(spotted Dresdner str. by Gorgonzola Club / babylon!

Post Titled: (none yet)
Post Subtitled: Double-Pronged weekend-o-failure ahead whcih I am not aware of at the time I am writing this...
I am soo soo tired, like delusionally tired, like seeing-shit tired because I spent all night keeping the fire going, and alternating between writing the book (which has now gone back to being called "FORCEFIELD") and watching Battlestar Gallactica - season one. Yesterday WIRED had an article titled : "Internet Porn: Worse than Crack?", BUT, dear readers, I would venture to say that in actuality TV on DVD is the True New Crack. (and if I had a really / real / fast internet connection adn a computer that wasn't an old man river then the New Crack might easily be TV on the Internet, but noooöö it is still TV on DVD) I rarely get ahold of quality sh*t, (i.e. shows I can get sucked into) but when I do- well, it is a binge. I just could not stop watching the humans vs. the Cylons... the badass handheld camerawork, the ridiculous characters, and the fact that they are in such a much much harder place in their lives than I, what with fighting to save hunamity from extinction and all - it's all very comforting, epic and thouroughly addictive, especially when it is freezing cold outside.

Anyhow, YACHT plays tonight at West Germany, I am not sure whether or not I will go- but his performance at the David Shrigley's "Worried Noodles" show was hilarious. He is a one-man band with a laptop, really Sesame Street meets- Prince and the Sex Pistols or early Muppet Nine Inch Nails or something, and I would definitely go if I know he would have a similar multimedia intro (letÄs see if I can find that online somewhere... ...nope) Including the rapid-fire witty and absurd Q&A. It is like "This is me, see, ok, let's go and- and - whAAAaaagh!!!" transparency. Reminds me a bit of Hawny Troof, but helful rather than vulgar.

Bio on his site starts: "Jona Bechtolt is a technological multi talent: his band, YACHT, is an amalgamation of self-taught dance moves and anthemic electro-power jams all played backwards and covered in cherry cola. YACHT shows are uncluttered, inspiring sessions of improbable dancing and synchronized crowd-waving; the songs shudder happily into the air, and any preconceived notions of what makes an energetic performance are shattered by Bechtolt's own strain of shamanistic bombast."
Q&A in Anacortes, WA:

(and then think, imagine, and plop this into another context: the German audience really did not know how to react to this sort of playful Q&A, well- neither did I, especially since it is inbetween loud erratic song and dance)

SCHEISSE! Monday follow up titled: Double-Prongued Failure
Note: don' depend on technology. plz.
Because we switched internet and phone service at home I was conveniently Firewalled out of my own internet connection all weekend. No rhyme or reason to it, but I missed the email reply from Yacht agreeing to an interview for Electropeasant AND couldn't figure out where the gallery is where I was supposed to meet people because I am shoing work there in late December... because the addres was in my email... connection was cutting in and out - so, hah! Idiotic. Would be so helpless if communications technology were to actually go down. So helpless.

Post Titled: Just give me simple sentances this morning, like: "Nobody calls my dog a faggot."
Post Subtitled: This post is long and full of text with a side of Monday Morning Venom
I love the clock radio, I just figured out how to program it to be my alarm
and instead the screeching of my mobile phone I awoke to Radiohead's High and Dry
thinking "High and Dry, -is it really that bad, warm in bed high and dry- like, if there
was a flood- and you were on a big rock, safe, or... OR is that the problem, that you are on a
big rock stuck in the middle of a flood..." some radio stations here are actually good, like, I can flip through and there
is piano´/classic then some live daft punk remix from some club then some ABBA or (blanking out here
that band Stevie Nicks was in... Mc... So.. Mc.. whatever, it will come soon.) If that .. well, variety
is what you are looking for.
although I do gravitate
back to NPR - listened to almost all of Car Talk yesterday...
waste of a perfectly good 50 minutes. I should write them.
In a half-sleep state I thought Warren Ulney said "Lawmakers in most states, however, are trying to surpress their childhood memories..."
Disclaimer: skip the followin paragraphs where I rant and sorry to my German readers but I just have to vent now and then, nothing personal- ok:.
Dad and I got into a discussion about the German TV/Radio/Internet tax bill I got in the mail-
"How can I prove that I am a full luddite? can I send a signed manifesto and a video of the apartment
where i tour and show how I benefit from none of their services-? Oh but then that would be video... already well we'll see. I mean I donät want to just throw money at this thing whic I don't believe in / have no say in, it isn't like they are supporting MY unsolicited creatively with monthly payments, now are they-? I know, a bit childish... I guess the only nice thing (when we had tv briefly) was the lack of advertising (in comparison to American TV) and the kids - like, how they aren't being marketed to constantly and therefore you don't see them screaming for things they want as nearly as much as is apparent in the states-"
"But they are being taught how to think."
"Oh, shit, yea, there is that creepy conformist-robotic aspect of it all..." Why is it that the Germans are always seeking the perfectly ordered society? Am I just paranoid? Seems like the über-goal is everything and everyone in its right place, everything clockwork and anything that doesn't fit into that... well... dunno... it defies explanation.
I prefer a healthy amount of chaos... Chance, risk, uncertainty, possibility, danger. (Maybe this country has seen too much of that-? And this is the backlash?) Dunno.
Ironically, the chaos here is also extremely controlled. Let#s take the insanely complex bureaucratic chaos for example, you could've PLANNED that better if you tried. and, it definitely defies explanation... it IS and it MUST BE and is and must be andand and


The lying liar Weather lady on the radio this morning lied, she said that the air we
breathed out of our lungs outside this morning today would turn instantly into frozen ice crystals, which it did not. AH-. Fleetwood Mac!
I was too late to take the U-Bahn so I hopped on NK's girly-ass Ossi-Commie bike (it is sky-blue with big chopper-cruiser handlebars and
rainbow and silver stars, like a poor man's My Little Pony) and rode along the canals of
our fair city with my masculinity in-tact... THis is something I would've never worried about before I moved here, but somehowww (whether it is the territorial feeling I get from the young men in and around our neighborhood or just NK being old-school crazy about gender roles and sticking to them) ugh. Neanderthal dorfmeister shit. Nevertheless, in the back of my mind I am somehow now a bit concerned about masculinity these days, or the idea and illusion of it here in this more primal environment... and it is annoying, but, the longer we are here, it is growing rather than lessening.
mhmf.
I definitely like saying 'Canals of our City' because it is a Beirut song -and what else are they but
canals of our city...?
I keep watching Berlin Berlin and it keeps getting more and more ridiculous...
there is most likely more complaining to be done but--- it can wait.

Regarding masculinity:
Last night I went upstairs and crossed my fingers that I might help our neighbor Vikingur with his oven (to heat the apartment) -I brought some of our compressed sawdust wood and paired that with matches, small chopped-up pieces of wood and newspaper and low-and-behold 20-30 minutes later we were able to get the coal going on top of all that.
I was a bit surprised because Vikingur is from Iceland and I just figured that anyone from the cold cold north would know more about this stuff than I, but then I remembered that Iceland gets its head from thermo-whatever-harnessed volcanic heat and whatnot, so actually the concept of building a fire to keep warm must be farm more obsolete to him than me, even. Winter warmth is just something we take for granted...
However, my inner Boy Scout has been let out just a bit, finally coming in handy.

oh, and somehow, over the weekend as I was trying-out this new half-ass hardly checking internet luddite-ness, effing Norman Mailer died.
from SLATE by Christpoher Hitchens which includes the Mailer quote "Nobody calls my dog a faggot."

Post Titled: Art Investment.
Friday. Hot. Unkept teenage chain-smoking Tourists from the Mediterranean and France are clogging the sidewalks below again. I make a sign that says "HUP VERBOT wegen buro" and taped it to the construction site below since it has been incessant honk-rage for a week straight, hope that will change something... I think I -. well, yes, I accidentally spammed a bunch of email addresses with a blank email "art investment" JUST LIKE THE ONEs I GET with the title: Hot INvestment tip! and a childish crappily assembled graphics attached about the Frankfurt Börse.
On the subject of art investment, however, what can I say- I do mull it over. Back when I had a real job, disposable income and a decent art collection myself I was only buying work here and there because I actually liked it. Since then there have been a half a dozen artists who I am kicking myself for NOT having bought when I like their work and it cost 1/10 what it does now... scheisse. Ok, more on that later.

Post Titled: The Box Talks! (and I don't know if I like what it seems to be saying...)
Went to the Mauerpark Flohmarkt yesterday (a huge outdoor flea market) and returned with two old East German
school posters (roll-out scroll style of paper-on-canvas, like and old map), one is a very abstract and colorful Leger-esgue cross-section of the inner gears adn chambers of a milking or
milk-processing machine. THe other is a detailed skeleton of Waterfrog. Not the friendliest posters, but fascinating.
Also bartered for a digital tv reciever, so we get a few channels now, although it burps digital squeaks and confusion from time to time, and sometimes can't find channels.
I watched Spongebob in german, which was pretty hilarious, and then a very intimidating documentary about how the Ausländerbehörde Polizei (Foreign Authority Office Police) follow people, interview all their neighbors and interrogate you intensely about your life if you marry a foreigner in Germany.
I mean, peraps there is a similar process in every country, but this was straight-up Stasi
how the Beamter interrogated the couple (separately), for example they asked:
"What did you do on Sunday?"
"Uhhm... woke up and had breakfast..."
"Did you cook for your husband?"
"Yes"
"What did you cook?"
"Eggs."
"How were the eggs cooked? Fried, poached, -?"
Etc.
Then they bring the other spouse in along and ask the same questons. Over the next days they interviewed all the neighbors in the apartment building with a photo of the couple:
"Have you seen this woman? Does she live here? How often does she come and go? Do you see her kissing this man?" ETC.
THEN they show up randomly to their apartment at 7 am to see if the
couple is really living together, they go through the bathroom, bedroom, closets to see
what kinds of things both people have there that validate thier both co-habitating the same space, i.s. toothbrush, clothing, personal hygene products,
clean and dirty laundry... pretty freakish, really.
IN some cases it was determined that the marriages were fake for purposes of citizenship,
hope things go more smoothly for us- as I noted we have 9 years worth of fotos and letters to back things up...

German television (or at least the dozen channels we get) thus far seems to be quite educational, documentary-style programming, arts and political content, good stuf- a bit dry at times.

Post Titled: Forced relaxation SUnday
I Was going nuts alone in the apartment so I took my camera and went for a walk talking photos along the way... for 6 hours:

(add photos)

The Jewish Museum looks like something out of Return to Oz


About two hours into the walk Helen called and we met up for a beer at this little gem of a timewarp called Yorkschloesschen, where there was "no photography allowed"... now I have an ethical dilemma because as I waited for Helen to arrive I took video and several fotos... do i post these? Oh, heck:

This was actually a nice place to talk, I felt out of place but not uncomfotable for the first 20 minues sitting alone at a high round table, looking around and realizing that I was the only person under 50 except the waitress. I just strarted fotoing and noticed out of the corner of my eye the dagger-glares I was getting, then- hanging next to a spotlight which was wearting glasses- (why didn"t I fot o that?!) on the ceiling in the middle of the room I also noticed a very old painted yellow aluminum sign that said "Fotografieren Verboten" or something like that. Conversation wiht Helen was much needed, covering all maner of obscure subjects as well as odd expatriate peculiarities- on a great note I learned of the origins of the open-source culture: Euro geeks mixing and sharing and celebrating their own programmed video game creations. Also unusual GRAPH and statistics remniscent of the ones tha David Byrne had in his EEEI Powerpoint tour a few years back. Goood stuuuffff!
And now the week. Lugged another 25 kilos of coal and now... I want to build something. I feel useless.
Oh hey- you can see that sign at the top right of the foto:

Post TItled: Too good to be legal.
SO, Peekvid is very cool, watch tons of movies and shows online FREE- wonder how long it will last. IN the meantime it will do. Even if the don't have the second season of Lost. (grumble grumble)

In the meantime I am taking the weekend to do a while lotta nothing. Did finally finish editing a short story called GORKY MURPHY INDUSTRIAL presents DELIA s if anybody wants to read it just write and I'll send a copy. It is too long to post here, although I had considered it.

Admittedly I have had a bit of schadenfreude over the past few days because of the stock market drops in the US and Asia and because of Airbus' difficulties. (I think that stems from some obscure loyalty to Boeing after having lived in Seattle.) Anyhow, like that kid on the Sinpson's says "HAaa-hah" Airbus, what a bunch of losers.

There was a crazy art opening last night at the bottom of our building for the Crystal Ball Galerie, complete with the artist's band of theramin-accordion-trombone players, you could hear if from 2 blocks away, and lemme tell ya- the Turkish Culture club nextdoor had its feathers ruffled. (It is a quiet place where middle-aged and old men gathe to smoke and talk and watch football.) I tried to take a foto, but my camera battery died.

I got the BETA BAND's album HEROES TO ZEROES at the library and have been pleasantly surprised with how good it is- one of those albums that gets better the more you listen to it, too bad they broke up.

Meanwhile I am trying to write a few blurbs for book recommendations on the Seattle Univerity Library site, this is what I have thus far:

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
This book is great, read it before you die- or better, read it now! Even though it was written in the late sixteenth century, it is far more clever, funny and relevant that most contemporary novels being printed today. The antics of the two main characters, Don Quixote and Sanco Panza, present to reader the complex absurdities of life through the painfully funny pursuits of meaning and love in thier lives. Sure, it has been often credited as "the first modern novel" but, in my humble opinion, it also ranks among the best and most entertainitng. I have honestly never laughed out loud while reading as much as I did with this book.

The Ice Strom by Rick Moody.
"This book is a and gorgous read as well -and could be soncidered as a warning on what to do and not do with your life. Set in the New England in the Mid-70's, this novel turns the quiet comfy misery suburban mid-life crises and adolelcenct confusion into a beauticul read, not to mention it is embedded plenty of Nixon and Fantastic four references.

A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle
As Al Gore has presented and predicted- in the near future the weather and environment may go bezerk, and what might it be like to actually live with that? T.C. Boyle presents a thouroughly entertaining novel which follows the life of an aging environmental activist during the onset of the Global Climate Crisis, and creates a delightful out of a world gone mad.

I have never written a book recommendation before, so I find it hard to say something besides "READ IT, IT IS AMAZING!"

Post Titled: Sit this one out.
John McCain (if that is how his name is spelled) just announced that he is entering the Presidential race... and I just thought "Shouldn't the Republicans just sit this one out?" They have no chance of winning. ANY of them.

Random BLOG of the DAY that is really, well- something else.

You know those days (the ones that happen every once in awhile) when you are cold and tired andend up drinking 7 cups of coffee? Yea, that is today and now the lesser imps and demons are fighting about who gets to claw ther way out through my eye sockets first.

just created a feed for my blog, not sure what that means yet (idiot).

Meanwhile, apparently there is an art gallery opening at the bottom of my building.

And LASTLY: another good reason to join a CULT, uh- I mean, Dianetics/Scientology just sent me this amazing video