here are some things that i’ve been consuming lately:
“those who save us” by jenna blum: i read this while on my bus trip to new york to visit miss lorrie. it’s pretty engrossing. i like reading about the holocaust anyway, but this gave a little different view of it. kind of gross in some parts. designwise, the cover is lacking of anything interesting, although it does reflect the story fairly well. overall grade: a solid B.
“the science of sleep”: i like michel gondry. i love his music videos. i loved eternal sunshine. this movie, however, i did not love. only liked. it had a charming story, and i loved the special effects. things looked very crafty. but i think i was expecting another eternal sunshine, and when that didn’t happen, i wasn’t impressed. grade: another solid B.
“love is a mix tape” by rob sheffield: this book, i loved. since i was 14, i’ve had a tiny writercrush on rob sheffield from reading his rolling stone column. reading this book broke my heart. and it made me fleetingly mad at my boyfriend because i know that should i die at an untimely young age, my boyfriend will not be able to write about me as rob sheffield wrote about his wife. if you like music and love and feeling sad, then you will like this book. grade: A.
“deadwood” : marques and i finally finished off the sopranos (did anyone else think the 1st part of the 6th season ended kind of.. lame?) and we’ve moved on to yet another violent HBO show. we’re only 6 episodes in and already i think i’ve heard more cussing than pretty much at any other point in my life. so far, it’s been pretty entertaining. i get a little confused sometimes — despite my grandfather’s constant western watching when i was a young child, i never retained any of that knowledge. and thanks to wikipedia, i learned that the people? in the show? are based on real people. so that ups the appeal of the show a bit. as of 6 episodes, i’m going to grade it a B+, if only because calamity jane is really annoying.
“the commitment” by dan savage: i’m reading this right now, so i can’t really give an accurate grade. i just added it in here because last night, marques turned to me and said, “why are you reading a book called the commitment? it doesn’t sound like something you’d read.” and i was confused because it sounds exactly like a book i would read — nonfiction, dry humor, slight memoir-feel. then i realized that he thought it was like a self-help book, one of the books called “so you want to save your marriage” or something. and i laughed and had to explain to him that this was a book about two gay men and the issue of gay marriage, and i wasn’t trying to cook up any tricks to get him to marry me. no grade, because i’m not done with it yet.
the arcade fire “neon bible”: marques and i got this when it was leaked so i’m pretty well-versed in the songs. i don’t think it’s quite as good as “funeral” but it’s still enjoyable. i’m still in love with “intervention” and also “black mirror” and “windowsill”. marques and i originally toyed with the idea of going to see them in asheville, but the day wouldn’t quite work out for us. still. buy this cd on tuesday. grade: A-
cadbury mini eggs: my favorite candy. of all time. ever. the end. this is why i love easter, these sweet little eggs with a crisp matte sugar shell and milky sweet chocolate. i want to marry cadbury mini eggs. last year, after easter, i bought 6 bags out of the 75 percent off bin. and then i hid them so i wouldn’t eat them all in the two weeks after easter. but now i can’t find them. this includes us moving from apartment to apartment. somewhere, there’s a target bag with 6 bags of unopened mini eggs, and when the day comes when i find this bag, well, the lord will be smiling down upon us all. me especially because i found the mini eggs. grade: A+++ (tripleplus A, in orwellian)
