Randomness
As an update to my last post about books — I finished reading No Country For Old Men, the weight of the book hit me somewhere towards the end with about fifty pages to go. Until that point it was just a good story, but then it greatly affected me. I was sitting in the patio at Gelato Vero, it was a beautiful sunny morning and they were playing instrumental tango music and this message just hit me. I feel like again, I read this book at a good time in my life — sometimes I wonder if maybe I somehow manipulate the book, or even my moods, to fit so that it feels more appropriate for me at the time, but I really don’t think that could be the case here.
I met some interesting people this weekend and had a good time at a few different parties.
Ryan and I brought back “Garlic Sundays” — for six months in Santa Cruz a housemate/friend and I would cook dinner each sunday evening for all 20 or so co-opers, and we always used a ton of garlic, one time we even made garlic soup. Well yesterday Ryan and I made dinner, we used an entire bulb of garlic for dinner for three people. At one point we were all drinking cheap wine infused with garlic (and it was delicious). Although I’m sure we don’t smell too pleasant today.
We played some games and then watched a movie, which was much different than I expected, not in a good or bad way, but just different. I realized at the end of it though, that ever since I read A Farewell to Arms, I’ve been terrified of child birth. The slightest mention of any sort of complication and I get squeamishly uncomfortable, even with fictional characters (even the ones that I don’t care that much about).
I rediscovered/discovered more of Nouvelle Vague. A French (well it seems to me more international) music collective that covers older punk and new wave songs in a bossa nova style. Its really interesting to hear, and only furthers my interest in Brazilian music. Rumor has it that on their first album, they recruited vocalists that had never heard the originals of the songs before, so that they would not have any preconceived notions about what is should sound like — which I thought was very cool.
