Sun 4, 5, 26.

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 Starting this off with a nerd list with my current top ten novels


1 Stone junction by Jim Dodge

2 Gravity’s rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

3 Ridley walker by Russel hoben

4 Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy 

5 even cowgirls get the blues by tom robbins

6 Alice adventures in wonder land by Lewis Carrol.

7 cat’s cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 

8 Dune by frank herbert

9 buckaroo banzai by earl Mach rauch

10 Shibumi by Trevanian

 

Now I will simply start typing… mostly because I don’t know what to type and I feel like it would do me well to discuss my days of late.


Gave up YouTube and Tv for the most part (trying to watch two or three hours of tv a week). And after a rocky start I can think clearer and my mood seems to be improving. So that is a win I would say.


Last book I read was shibumi. I sat down and read three hundred pages of it yesterday and finished it and loved it… very much in the vein of Suda51 one style scripts or a kind of mash up of James Bond and kill bill… it scratches a very specific itch for me: at once a subtle absurdism and noir kitsch.


I Don’t know if it will remain a favorite but shibumi is for me very impressive an subtlety strange in a way that is satisfying. 


I am going to try to finish reading jitter bug perfume by Tom Robbin’s today and blindsight by peter watts tomorrow.


Got several other book on the go: the power of the of the dog by Don Winslow (made me cry in its first ten pages and had to stop and recalibrate emotionally) and the orphan masters son by Adam Johnson (very intrigued by the diversity of sources for praise the book received). 


While I reserve the right to stop reading and indulging in brain rot (aka YouTube) I am legit happier since I have tried to cut it out of my life.


Will try to write these more casual daily blogs again.


Peace and love.


Be safe out there friends.

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