friday, august 30
congratulations carl! you guys were awesome. and very very funny.
11:54 PM
thursday, august 29
i have a new favorite restaurant: Gonzo's. thank you for dinner christopher!
10:43 PM
wednesday, august 28
i bought my plane tickets for september 10th - 22nd. i've decided to celebrate my birthday in Oakland, CA with AJ. she starts her new job in october and i feel like this is our last chance to take a roadtrip before we settle down into the typical 2 week vacation a year regime. i've been meaning to post longer entries but when i get home i am tired and not in the mood to write. one realization this week has been that at least half the people in NYC yoga classes have severe mental problems. i'm sure they are there to heal their psychosis. some of the teachers are nuts too. i had been under the impression yoga centers are havens of peace and serenity. not so! quite the contrary. one of my pet peeves: yoga teachers who do Not adjust students. this is closely linked to teachers who do adjust but have a Bad touch. is there anything i am 100% sure about? ----- arranging steven's new room under feng shui principles should be fun. he has to get rid of some clutter. he's been complaining about having lived under insanely messy roofs for his entire life. i never realized he himself is messy. ----- i'm behind in my phone calls and emails. where is that personal assistant?
2:08 PM
sunday, august 25
"Did you know there ain't no devil, it's just God when He's drunk."
-- Tom Waits
8:32 PM
friday, august 23
hello
6:55 PM
tuesday, august 20
the words we choose determine our lives. are deaf mutes happier?
12:39 AM
sunday, august 18
ps: andria - pupi rocks! i wish we lived closer together... it was so good to speak with her on the phone even if both of us have had rough weeks. i cannot wait to go on vacation. the choices are: alaska, costa rica, mexico, or vancouver. the dates will have to fit within sept. 9 - sept 27. maybe i can manage to be away during my birthday. that would be nice.
10:53 PM
watched Flatliners last night. it had been years and i forgot the plot. it was disappointing. i remembered the movie being more spooky. instead, it felt like a christian after school special. nothing wrong with that except why is it that no one knows 100% what happens after death? then again, people may "know" but be unable to provide "proof". how do we know anything is what it is? ----- i ate too much ice cream tonight. maybe this is all i need to know.
8:58 PM
friday, august 16
"The modern ideal has its model in art, and its means in science. It is through science that we shall realize that august vision of the poets: social beauty. We shall reproduce Eden by A + B. at the point civilization has reached, the exact is a necessary element of the splendid, and the artistic sentiment is not merely served, but completed by the scientific organ; dream must calculate. Art, which is the conqueror, must bear on science, which is the mover. The solidity of the base is important. the modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India for its vehicle: Alexander on the elephant." - Les Miserables by victor hugo
i have been reading this book off and on for 2+ years. has it been 3 already? the rectangular burn on my arm hurts. time for some ice. i remember one of our family friends, elena. she was/is an italian girl who dropped some hot water on her arm when she was little. her simple mother immediately put olive oil on her burn which proceeded to cook the poor girl. she had a huge oddly textured scar. i wonder what she remembers about me, if anything. she was the last person i played Canasta with. people don't seem to remember this wonderful game. maybe steven and i need to broaden our repertoire...
5:26 PM
wednesday, august 14
i find the Food Channel a calming influence. last week i caught the 30 Minute Meal show and today i made it's first recipe: spinach mushroom lasagna roll-ups. it took me about 1.5 hours because i actually like to Wash my mushrooms and spinach. the lady on tv cuts the most awful corners. "wipe mushrooms off with a damp towel"... eeeeeew. i managed to burn my other arm. i put an icepack on, then some burn salve and now i've got a layer of salt (romanian cure). i don't want to scar. ----- tobyDog is ill. 8.40 AM tomorrow he has an emergency appt. at his good doctor in chelsea. battery park has One animal hospital and they are so very very bad. there are tons of dogs here and no one to treat them. nyc is a strange place. ----- i'm watching 48 Hours now, about a couple (very annoying space cadets) who decided to have conjoined twins. they did not terminate the pregnancy. i do believe everyone has a choice. i don't understand many of the choices people make though. then again, i don't have to.
10:11 PM
tuesday, august 13
happy 30 charleen!
happy 32 adam!
3:04 PM
sunday, august 11
there are batches of incredible peaches at the near-by supermarkets. i have been eating 3 a day. they are too delicious to cook a pie. plus i've never liked most pies. otherwise, it's been a frustrating surreal week. mom and i are struggling againt too many people and too many events which seem outside our control. so much is unfair. i want to take some people and rub their noses in their unfairness. will there ever be justice, in this world or the next? will we have another chance?
11:34 AM
thursday, august 8
mom and i saw Ray Charles tonight. he is amazing. willie nelson now shares a compatriot on his number one spot on my music concert list. ray charles. he is incredible. his voice - so strong and saaaaaad and harmonious. he played one hour. he is unique and that doesn't even start to describe hearing him live. i wanted to stay there forever. maybe when i die i can have beautiful Live music playing in the background. music can transcend "this". dad would have loved tonight as well.
12:09 AM
monday, august 5
the Mystery series on PBS make me want to pledge a donation to the channel. these are my favorite Tv shows. ----- this heat is draining. maybe if i melt i will generate some liquid which will evaporate and perhaps i can contribute to some refreshing rain.
8:10 PM
sunday, august 4
blogger has been really really tough to use. i suspect they are trying to have users pay for their Blogger Pro. is Nothing free anymore?
9:55 PM
the sun is huge, round, soft purple-red with slivers of clouds across and i am AWARE of floating in space on a planet. we live on a planet! in like... outer space! we ARE aliens. we are in a huge and possibly tiny by comparison galaxy. this IS star trek. and yet i always come back to my "problems".
today i had brunch with a. it was nice hanging out with her. we also went to see My Big Fat Greek Wedding which is a Long Lame Superficial Movie. if i was greek i'd be offended. there was a little ancient old greek woman sitting infront of us and she was laughing and laughing. the basic plot (STOP reading if you plan to see the movie because i am going to give it away) is of a dowdy 30 year old greek girl who finally meets and falls in love with totally hot-beautiful man who falls in love with her and so they get married. before that happens he has to convert and become greek orthodox so her huuuuuuge, loud, tacky, obnoxious, yet full of zest and love family will accept him. she asks him to elope and he says No, they are part of you, your family so we have to deal with them and i want them to be happy with us, blah blah blah. he's a spineless walt disney character. he's played by super hunk boy from Northern exposure and he also was the carrie's carpenter in Sex and the City. anyway, of course his parents are uptight very white and upper class dry country club people and there's an entire painful scene of both families meeting. i felt sorry for his parents. oh man. i did not enjoy the film. of course after i came home i did an IMDB search and the actress is also the mediocre writer and she used to do stand-up comedy and rita wilson - tom hanks' wife - saw her show and since she's greek she loved it and tom and her produced the piece 'o crap. this only makes me hate the movie more. how can you singlehandedly reduce a culture thousands of years old to a bunch of loud, manipulative, nasty, ugly, dumb people?
i think the message of the movie was that IF you "love" each other, any obstacle is surmountable. that may be true But this movie still sucked Big time. i have to rent Zorba the Greek so i can wash my eyes and brain out.
8:34 PM
saturday, august 3
happy birthday andie and nigro (:
brunch consisted of poached eggs on english muffin with hollaindaise (sp) sauce and apple chicken sausage plus potatoe and fruit. very very good. half a french toast from steven. cranberry tonic juice, no ice. we went to an obviously good place called Danal. it's too close to Banal but so far it's one of my top two brunch places. oddly enough there aren't That many good food restaurants in nyc. i wonder if i'm in a much lower price bracket. or maybe i've become more picky. i remember being more excited about nyc food. what happened?
8:29 PM
thursday, august 1
my mom has a summer flu. my throat hurts. misery all around. finally renewed and got a NY driver's license. it only took one hour. i was very serious in my picture. i hope i don't look too old. i've been craving chinese and japanese food. ok, i'd take korean as well. do i need more sodium in my diet? if you had to come back to earth as a fruit, which one would you choose?
8:44 PM
