Weapon of Massive Consumption

Today I am "organically composed to sizz, / lushly explosive into a thick dense of smoke"--at least that's what I wrote at 2 in the morning. Don't worry. It doesn't really make sense to me either.

So. I spent all day/night/day before & finished Rock Bottom: A Novel. It was a book sent to me in the mail by GoodReads (thank you, dear), and they kindly suggest readers to review in order to perpetuate the program. I have to say.. it was weirdly engaging and hard to put down, but I'm not sure if I liked it. A self-proclaimed dark comedy, it was more dark than comedy, but that may be my lack of taste. Although, I do love a good black comedy. Wes Anderson is a goddess.

Either way, I was totally absorbed in it, and it's a torrential frescacity of change compared to Milton & the bible (current class reading)--that's for sure.

Meanwhile, education is brightening my reform-craving horizon.
Music is consuming me. Struck up correspondence with a few producers recently, but I've been dropping them like dead matches. They have been surprisingly kind lately (but just as forgetful). How fresh that bloom, and soft its dropped petals!


My hands are cold.

Tengo que empezar leer BBC Mundo. Olvidé por que razón paré.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/latin_america/newsid_7863000/7863732.stm
It seems as though the air never moves. Coriolis effect?

Zach Condon/Beirut is brilliant. I would have given anything to have attended this:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/12/inlets_w_zach_c.html
I like the cute crossed arms. haha. They look so unhappy. Posers (in the modelesque way, of course).
[Where's Waldo edit: bonus points if you can spot the guy on his blackberry while a musician is playing. ouch.]

So, why is Mr. Condon so brilliant?
He wrote this and recorded it at age 15. I cannot tell if envy is the blood-substitute right now or if it is happy awe. Perhaps a glorious mixture to spur me into action?
http://kitsunenoir.com/blog/2008/01/06/beirut-the-joys-of-losing-weight/

I would also love to move to Europe and osmosically emerge as a Balkan musician.
Dropping out of school would pose a problem (like the little model arms of those Brooklyn attendees).

(Cover photo: Parkeharrisons -- Check them out! Gorgeous masters of photographic magical realism)