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March 09, 2005

Some Things Slapping Around in My Head

My Sundance Update is soon....

First, here are a few things on my mind.

(1) This past week was my ten-year anniversary with Michael. He confirmed that he is my favorite person on earth. We took a trip to Kent, Connecticut to visit our friends Jamie and Eamonn, who live in the woods nearby, who are wonderful people, who made amazing meals (flank steak! morning porridge!!) for us. In the town of Kent, at a great little bookstore owned by Richard J. Lindsey, Bookseller, we jointly bought an original first-edition hardcover of Richard Yates's REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, one of the most devastating, technically perfect, memorable, and greatest books ever written. (Now I have all of Yates's books on hardcover except ELEVEN KINDS OF LONELINESS.) In addition, the four of us drove to Great Barrington, a cool town I highly recommend to anyone visiting that Massachusetts / New York / Connecticut intersection area.

Anyway. Here are photos of the late Yates, as well as Jamie & Eamonn's beautiful viszla Lilla.

(2) Either Mario Vazquez or Bo Bice deserve to win AMERICAN IDOL. I also like Nadia Turner.

(3) Dr. Phil has now become one of the biggest creeps on the planet, in my view. I've always thought his show was trashy--and this is coming from someone who loves stuff like ELIMINIDATE and MAURY--but now he's totally gone overboard. His recent crap where he smugly interviewed the family of a suspected teenage sexual offender was ultra offensive and way, way, way over the line of tastefulness... this article about "Brad, Kenda, and Mikai" pretty much mirrors my feelings. All in all, I wound up (a) feeling really sorry for the teenage "demon," (b) absolutely hating his celebrity-hungry parents, and (c) wanting to rip Dr. Phil's Texas-twangin', barbecuin', holier-than-thouin', bald head off his neck. These "sexual predator" Dr. Phil episodes join the horrifying episodes of THE SWAN as the worst TV moments of the past 12 months.

(4) My favorite cd so far this year? OUTSIDE CLOSER, by HOOD. I think I might like it even better than the also recent BEFORE THE DAWN HEALS US, by M83.

(5) I am sick, sick, sick of winter. Enough already!

(6) However, I love mochi. And I've discovered a Thai restaurant in Brookline, MA that makes lychee martinis. They are beyond sublime. In fact, I'm going to stop now so I can drive through the snow and have one.