Wednesday, November 19, 2008

I do this I do that

Yesterday:

- Wake up at 2 in the afternoon.

-Smoke

-Drink coffee

- Watch a David Shapiro reading (thank you U of Chicago Poem Present)

-Smoke

- Eat spaghetti for late lunch/early dinner

- Watch a lecture by Robert Kehew on his anthology of Troubador poetry "Lark in the Morning" (thank you Library of Congress)

- Drink coffee

-Read more of the anthology "Iraqi Poetry Today"

- Stop to rent "Batman Begins" & "Transsiberian" on the way to my awake overnight shift

-Watch "Batman Begins"

-Drink coffee

-Smoke

Midnight/ Today:

- Eat "dinner" about 1 a.m.

- Watch "Transsiberian" (fantastic)

- Read more of "Iraqi Poetry Today"

- Smoke

-Once my shift is over I consider staying up until I finish the anthology

-Fall asleep around 7:30

- Wake up at 3:30 this afternoon

- Make a list of things that need to be returned to the library

- Get an iced mocha (english toffee)

- Check out quite a few things at the library...Yau's "Borrowed Love Poems" (thank you ILL), the Jodorowsky dvd set, season 1 of Henry Rollins talk show (highlights will be interviews with Werner Herzog, Eddie Izzard...performance highlights will be Thom Yorke, Sleater-Kinney, Daniel Johnston), the 2 disc special edition of Joy Division's "Closer" (second disc is a live performance), "Epic of Gilgamesh", critical study on Jarry, Sam Truitt's "Vertical Elegies" (Ugly Duckling) & more

- Now I am going to watch an eighty minute reading of Linh Dinh! (thank you Holloway Series)

1 comment:

William Keckler said...

This sounds like a perfect day.

Even a poetry Borg would envy your data streams.