Wednesday, October 15, 2008

SOMETIMES EXISTENCE BITES. HARD.

Or, as I put it in a text message the other day, "Some days it feels like life is fucking you in the ass with a lawn dart."

Just for a kick, let's do an old-timey blog entry intro, fashioned after the delightfully obsolete livejournal.com

Current Music: 'Moya' by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Mood: Hide the razor blades.

Or to put it another way: I was at a rock show last night with a friend of mine from my former company Maverick Wines, who's one of the more misanthropic and morose people I know. He couched it perfectly:

"I don't love anything. There are just some things in life that I hate marginally less than everything else."

Bingo.

Some things I hate marginally less than others:

Achewood

M83

Vittorio Zecchin

Wallace Stevens's The Idea of Order at Key West

The Cocteau Twins' 'Lorelei'

Aphex Twin's video for 'Windowlicker'

Barolos from
Giuseppe Mascarello and Giacomo Conterno

Burgundy from
Jacques-Frederic Mugnier and Armand Rousseau

Riesling from
Robert Weil and F.X. Pichler

The schmaltz and sentimentality of
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

The spare brutality of
Le Samourai

The Foie Dog and Duck Fat French Fries at
Hot Doug's

See now, I feel better already! And I've only just started...

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