It's cool today, and the once short skirts that hung like washrags from girls wasteline have elongated into some horrible thing they call a capri. Not that I have anything against the capri (I think that Audrey Hepburn sported them charmingly) it's just that they tend to get in the way. Did the capri originate on the island of Capri? God, this blog is getting stupider by the moment. Anyway, it's cold today... went out looking for jobs, even considering putting my name in at Starbucks. Every single day that I spend out of work is horrible, I can't enjoy the extra time, I just sit there thinking about what a dreadful state I'm in. On top of it I'm faced with the same problem Henry is in "Barfly." That being, "There's so many things I don't want to do... like go to the doctor, get my teeth cleaned, save the whales... I don't understand that kind of thing." Though, admittingly I wouldn't mind working to save the whales as long as I didn't have to do any of the fundraising side of it... and the more I come to know about it's all about fundraising.
Summer reading... well, I read the last Harry Potter book over the last three days, in preparation for the next installment coming out in July. Other than that I recently finished a book by Erik Larsen titled, "The Devil in the White City" an interesting nonfiction book based on the live of two men living and thriving during the 1893 Worlds Fair in Chicago. It's a good book if you are interested in either architecture and or serial killers... It won the national book award, and I daresay it deserved it.
As for summer music... as I stated previously I am still enjoying "Guaro" However, I have picked a few songs that I feel best convey my childhood. In fact, I have them in my playlist right now and listening to them brings me straight back. One thing I noticed about the first few of these selection is that they all feature a pipe organ... or some synthesizer trying to sound like one.... I don't know what that has to do about summer or my childhood... Anyways
1. Dire Straits- Walk of Life
2. J Geils Band- Angel in a Centerfold
3. Bruce Springsteen- Glory Days (I'm starting to enjoy the old Boss, does this mean I'm gettin' old?)
4. John Fogerty- Centerfield
5 Anything by John COUGAR Mellencamp (fuck all that John Mellencamp shit... I want the guy that punches at the camera in the video for "Jack and Diane)
Send in if you know any other good eighties summer hits that I haven't included here. But right now, I'm going to go and worry the rest of the afternoon away.....
Cheers,
Matthew
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