The this and that of the world from newsworthy to interesting to the mundane.
Saturday May 22, 2021
The 90s were fun and the music was the best. Matthew Sweet's Sick Of Myself rocks.
Saturday December 12, 2020
I see I have not written
one of these in over a year. Work is coming along nicely on the short
story collection. I am pleased and eager for people to read them.
Sitting here at my big wooden desk this gray December morning.
Wednesday August 21, 2019
I noticed today that all of the high school yearbooks from when I was in school have been uploaded to Classmates.com. Scary stuff. I had never seen my senior year book since I did not purchase one. It was mildly heartbreaking looking through it; such bad memories buried in it. I almost wish that I had not looked at it. Third Eye Blind's Jumper fits that time.
Thursday April 11, 2019
It was nice tonight to sit out and watch the crescent moon weave in and out of out the clouds on this warm night. Moonlight Sonata.
Friday March 29, 2019
A splendid and satisfying day. I managed 4,500 words today. Another chapter complete I believe. It's warm today 70 and it is spring. Supertramp's Take The Long Way Home is my song today.
Thursday March 28, 2019
I wrote over 5,600 words for the book today. I hope they were words in meaningful sentences. Emotionally drained after that marathon writing session. I had to get those words out to take the load off my mind about that chapter.
Morrissey's going to relax me with The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get while I shop hotels.
Thursday March 21,2019
I dislike the smell of old newspapers. Yuck!
Saturday March 16, 2019
This piece in Harper's is wonderful reading.
Wednesday March 13, 2019
It took me eight years to track down what happened to a person behind one of my characters. Now I keep trying to find this other person. I have opened the file I had of him in my mind and I need to complete it.
Friday March 08, 2019
I've regained an interest in Swatch that I haven't had since 1990.
Monday March 04, 2019
I had thought it time to put the gloves and scarves away for the season, but the winter cold has returned.
Saturday February 23, 2019
This fog we've had for the last straight five days would be great for filming a horror movie.
Wednesday February 20th, 2019
The lightning is so intense tonight. I cannot remember lightning like this ever in February.
Tuesday February 19th, 2019
It is currently 37 degrees this afternoon with thunderstorms booming overhead. You don't see that combination often. Odd weather.
Saturday 06/23/2018:
I've been so busy planning the trip of a lifetime the past couple of weeks. I've never done a trip quite like this and so it is taking so much planning. Thankfully I have plenty of time as I don't leave for this trip until late July. It's exciting.
I've been listening to Max Richter's Blue Notebooks often.
Monday 05/28/2018:
Watching the rain from the storm named Alberto has been relaxing. I hope it is a wet summer.
Thursday 05/17/2018:
Standing outside tonight enjoying the rain was so nice.
Monday 05/07/2018:
It's official I love James Bay. Pink Lemonade is hot.
Saturday 05/05/2018:
I woke up at 5:30 this morning with plans to write and my mind was buzzing with thoughts. After breakfast and a shower I sat down to write and then I couldn't think/focus. I hate when this happens. It will come or it won't. Song for the day.
Monday 04/30/2018:
This is still one of the sweetest songs ever recorded. The good thing about writing a book mostly set in the 1980s is rediscovering all this great music.
Wednesday 04/25/2018:
My head has spent so much time in the 1980s with this book that I feel like I've lost touch with 2018, but I have been in a groove over the last week and I'm so happy with what I am writing. Go 1980s!
Tuesday 04/24/2018:
Work is going extremely well on the book. I remember "Peter", 1985, the cold, the heat and everything else.
Wednesday 04/18/2018:
It has been a productive week editing and rewriting chapters in my book. I am determined to see this through despite the dark tunnels it takes me down.
The best song Kenny Loggins ever recorded is, Meet Me Halfway. I like to think of it when I look at the stars and dream.
Wednesday 04/11/2018:
I am thinking about my book tonight. I was thinking of rewrites that I might make and then I became fixated on the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion in 1986 and my memories associated with that day. I can remember that day perfectly thirty-two years later. My mind is working hard tonight.
Monday 04/09/2018:
I had heard this song a million times on the radio but then yesterday I listened to it for the first time. James Bay...wow.
Tuesday 02/27/2018:
This was one of the top songs of 1981 and I had completely forgotten about it until tonight; I was eight years old when it came out. I love this song. Gino Vannelli, Living Inside Myself
Saturday 02/24/2018:
Peter Hujar's photography was wonderful. I had seen the Candy Darling photo plenty of times before, but never knew who shot it. Link 1, Link 2 I wish I could see the exhibition in person but I have no plans to visit NYC before the show closes in May.
Thursday 02/15/2018:
It seems spring has come early again. It was 68F (20C) this afternoon. I spotted a guy on a sidewalk today wearing only shorts and a tank top. This is too early for shorts and I'm not ready to give up my scarves and jackets just yet.
Tuesday 02/06/2018:
I'm remembering my trip hop period tonight. Many good times and late nights were had listening to 2Wicky by Hooverphonic back in the day. This song is still fine.
Monday 02/05/2018:
I need to hike soon. I can feel the craving building inside me to hit a new trail and see new places. Maybe this Saturday if the weather is okay. A song for the trails.
Saturday 02/03/2018:
Song For You by Alexi Murdoch is a sweet song for a Saturday. There's too much political strife in the world so I'm looking at the sweet aspects of life today. I was reading the poetry of Walt Whitman this morning, I hadn't read any of his work in many years and that's a shame. No serious thinking for me today.
Friday 01/26/2018:
Roads is still one of the best songs ever recorded and I'll never change my mind on that. I just lean back, close my eyes and listen to Beth Gibbons break hearts.
The PNYC live version. The studio version. Such sweet, sweet sorrow. When the strings come in at the midway part of the song they just soar...
Tuesday 01/23/2018:
Ok I may be several years late but I'd always wanted to check out The Strokes but never got around to listening to them. Now I'm digging The Strokes. They remind me of Television.