I'm not really sure what to write tonight. Nothing much happened today. I woke up. I watched a little Star Trek TNG (thats "The Next Generation" to you non nerds). I did a little laundry. I went to school and heard an excellent lecture about the rise of liberalism and socialism after the French Revolution in my HST 324 class. I went to Lauri's and played some GTA (it was a day of three letter acronyms) when Lauri came home she was really tired and I hadn't had any lunch so we didn't go hiking, we went to Carmine's instead. Naughty, naughty. After that Lauri started watching America's next top model so i went to Hollywood Video to get some movies. Good Company and Team America. Then we watched Good Company. It was alright. Then Lauri went to bed and I went home and here I am. So thats that. I ripped some songs onto my computer so I'm gonna just keep writing while I listen to them.
I talked to Randy last night and he said basically that he no longer had time to watch movies because his time was so consumed with watching recorded TV. I don't know I think that DVR is a blessing and a curse. I reckon eventually the novelty will wear off and his life will return to normality.
Alex called tonight. He wants to borrow Batman: Year One the best comic ever written and i'm including the Dark Knight Returns in that assertion. Any of you fanboys that don't agree with me can shove it. (I'm going to continue to act as if someone actually reads this blog.) He also wants to borrow some tape for his costume for a shoot he's doing...something about a Mad Max costume.
I had some coffee at like 8pm tonight so I'm pretty wired. At this point I'm considering staying up all night and coming to terms with my life. Staying up all night always sounds like a really good idea but in the morning you just feel sick in the head and unable to deal with menial tasks so I'll probably just take a sleeping pill and bugger off.
Frankly, sometimes I wonder if I wouldn't be better of being one of those guys who follows Phish or the Grateful Dead around and just be a hippy. But now Phish are broken up and Jerry Garcia is dead. Truly, conservatism has won the day. Perhaps we liberals should acceot defeat and get business degrees and become corporate raiders...whatever that is.
What I really want to do is write. I want to write a story. If I'm being honest, which I shouldn't do...I want want to write the great American novel. an unrealistic goal of course but fuck it. It will start like this:
"Frankly, sometimes I wonder if I wouldn't be better of being one of those guys who follows Phish or the Grateful Dead around and just being a hippy. But now Phish are broken up and Jerry Garcia is dead."
See what I did there I just repeated what I just said. The next line wouldn't be the same as the one before of course. maybe what I need to do is think about what I want to say in the novel. Then again, do I really want the novel to be didactic? The best novels are the ones that are open to interpretation. You start to tell people exactly what you think and there's no reason for people to keep studying it. If i were going to wtite a didactic novel it would be about how we worry to much about materialism and tradition. In other words we work to hard trying to aquire things while the beauty of the world and our lives are passing us by. The critics will criticize me by saying that my conclusions are unrealistic and not truthful, but it will only be because they are so indoctrinated with capitalism that they are unable to see past thier assumptions. It will only be later in the 24th century that my work will be appreciated.
Man I got a shit load of songs left to listen to. I now have 41 songs on this computer. I can't put anything on Tom's iPod though because this computer has a slew of viruses that will infect the iPod. Thats it. When you listen to songs on iTunes the songs fade into one another. Thats pretty cool.
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