The weekend was a nice mix of the eventful (party at my house, jiu-jitsu tournament) with the restful (drinking beer brewed with orange peel, writing this) notable also because an old friend visited all the way from NYC.
We stayed up late drinking and talking.
He admitted he didn't like seeing me in this situation, by which he meant still working some crap job and going about life, unrealized. I admitted there was some truth here, but also told him that I still lead a better life than many people, and probably am happier than your average person. I went off on a drunken litany of what I encountered daily, not to counter his impression but just to give it variance: friends, training, music. When the comedy works, it is uncommonly funny. The drama is both serene but despairing.
In some ways, it's a problem of categorization, and the terms have yet to be worked out. In the meantime, there is much to savor.
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Listmania.
Discs ripped to computer this evening:
Boards of Canada "geogaddi"
Dntel "Dumb Luck"
Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Billy "Superwolf"
Deftones "Saturday Night Wrist"
Klaxons "Myths of the Near Future"
Lucinda Williams "West"
Thin Lizzy "Vagabonds of the Western World"
Robert Palmer "Pressure Drop"
Spoon "Gimme Fiction"
Andrew Bird "Armchair Apocrypha"
Entombed "Unreal Estate"
Neil Diamond "In My Lifetime"
and at least part of the Hank Williams 10 disc boxed set.
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