Fallout Kid (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} falloutkid) wrote,@ 2008-03-04 20:34:00 |
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Helluv hella points
Top Ten:
1. Paid some fines (only $560 to go, Portland Circuit Court)
2. Registered for school. Can't fuck with this.
3. Spent a couple hundred on roundtrip tickets to Oakland. Sent mom some money for airline tickets from OAK to HON.
4. Made good on my word with old roommates (I had to bail when I was broke and unemployed, despite my best efforts).
5. Owen is on the road, probably in SLC by now. I wish I was going, too.
6. I just found out my brother is moving to Washington D.C. after his wedding. What the fuck? I had been wanting to go to the east coast this whole time, until I got bit by the school bug instead. Now my brother, posterchild straight society (love 'em to death, though) is totally going to beat his hobo older brother.
7. Dreams about Blake. We were talking about poetry. Fuck yeah.
8. Falloutkid
9. Got a packet of straight edge zines from Approaching Apocalypse Zine Distro, from Amherst,Maryland/Richmond, Virginia. Cuddle Puddles and Hot Pants #1 &2. Haha, it's all about straight edge kids with mohawks.
10. Coffee at the Red & Black.
Reading List for March:
Anyways, I'll be busy with that for at least a little while. I still have to buy textbooks. I can't believe that I only got into Math 60, which is pretty remedial shit, but I fucking aced Writing and Reading, totally destroying the test. I guess I have an intuitive sense for the rules of college English, and I like to break them a lot.
I gotta get some zine shit done soon, like tonight. I'm considering hiding out in the basement and making it happen. Free time won't exist anymore in three more weeks once school begins. Fuuuuck. Gotta get it done. I almost threw it all away the other day, I was so fed up with it. I've got to push it through.
Over and out.
Top Ten:
1. Paid some fines (only $560 to go, Portland Circuit Court)
2. Registered for school. Can't fuck with this.
3. Spent a couple hundred on roundtrip tickets to Oakland. Sent mom some money for airline tickets from OAK to HON.
4. Made good on my word with old roommates (I had to bail when I was broke and unemployed, despite my best efforts).
5. Owen is on the road, probably in SLC by now. I wish I was going, too.
6. I just found out my brother is moving to Washington D.C. after his wedding. What the fuck? I had been wanting to go to the east coast this whole time, until I got bit by the school bug instead. Now my brother, posterchild straight society (love 'em to death, though) is totally going to beat his hobo older brother.
7. Dreams about Blake. We were talking about poetry. Fuck yeah.
8. Falloutkid
9. Got a packet of straight edge zines from Approaching Apocalypse Zine Distro, from Amherst,Maryland/Richmond, Virginia. Cuddle Puddles and Hot Pants #1 &2. Haha, it's all about straight edge kids with mohawks.
10. Coffee at the Red & Black.
Reading List for March:
1. Atheist manifesto : the case against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
by Michel Onfray ; translated from French by Jeremy Leggatt
2. The Atheist Debater's Handbook
by B. C. Johnson.
3. Farewell to Eden : Coming to terms with Mormonism and Science
by Duwayne R. Anderson.
4. Grace beats Karma : letters from prison, 1958-60
by Neal Cassady
5. As ever : the collected correspondence of Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady
by Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg
6. The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice : first journals and poems, 1937-1952
by Allen Ginsberg edited by Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill Morgan
7. The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists
by Amy Wallace & Handsome Dick Manitoba.
by Michel Onfray ; translated from French by Jeremy Leggatt
I am reading this as a sort of philosophical perspective to complement my prior reading of Ricard Dawkins' "The God Delusion", which was based much more from a background of science and Darwinism
2. The Atheist Debater's Handbook
by B. C. Johnson.
When you take on the Christian Right, you've gotta realize that you can't afford to lose.
3. Farewell to Eden : Coming to terms with Mormonism and Science
by Duwayne R. Anderson.
Apostate Mormon chronicles his own experience with leaving the faith of his upbringing as his education in science, even at BYU, provided him the tools to debunk the myths of creationism and religious superstition
4. Grace beats Karma : letters from prison, 1958-60
by Neal Cassady
The best of Cassady's writing usually was written in prison, or in between visits to lockdown. This particular section is letters to his ex-wife, in which he shows a more domesticated side, revealing the tenderness he felt for "home", in this instance, his fledging family, wife and children on the outs. Of all the Beats, he is decidedly the most romanticized deadbeat dad there ever was. However, despite this shortcoming, I saw him as a lot more than an irresponsible parent. In many ways, he was a catalyst for both Keroauc and Ginsberg. He is known more for his antics than for his writing, but in those sparse moments when he puts pen to paper, the ink flows straight from his soul. I read "The First Third" almost ten years ago, and I felt like I had my hair standing on end the whole time. I am reading this collection, specifically in hopes of reconciliation of my feelings of hostility and anger I have towards some of my friends who have hopelessly diminished in my eyes because of similar choices, sans all pretensions to Beat nobility.
5. As ever : the collected correspondence of Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady
by Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg
I wonder what this will entail. These two were known to have had a steamy love affair in New York and Denver, as noted by Jack Keroauc in "On The Road", (paraphrased from uncensored version: "sordid all day, all night exchanges") I wonder what, if any, of that makes it into their letters to each other from their various locations, including jail, of course. I'm excited to check it out.
6. The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice : first journals and poems, 1937-1952
by Allen Ginsberg edited by Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill Morgan
This book is currently melting my mind. I am lagging in my own writing because I have been reading this instead. It has the personal journals of Allen Ginsberg from when he was 11 years old and his mother first started going to the mental institution. It details all the more pivotal moments of the formation of the Beats... David Kammerer's murder, drugs, the meeting of Burroughs and others. It's a sad, desperate reading of someone gay that is desperately trying to live straight. The envy he has for his out queer friends easily shines through, as he had not yet come out, not even to himself. I haven't got to the parts where he gets locked up in the State Hospital and ends up meeting Carl Solomon, but that's coming up. It's the total formation of him as an artist, 11 to 26! Holy shit. I'm at 1947 right now, where he's out of the merchant marines and going back to Columbia University. As I read his prose and dig on his style, it blows my mind. He refers to works that no 19 year old has any business reading. I guess the world was a different place before TV. He is obviously highly intelligent and well read, but he struggles with finding his own voice. It's like watching someone with delicate tools and machinery struggle to learn how to use them. He fits into the temporarily ineffectual intellectual shtick quite nicely. I find it intimidating, because even in his inexperience, some of his writing goes over my head. Amazing...
7. The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists
by Amy Wallace & Handsome Dick Manitoba.
This could suck really bad. I skimmed it for twenty minutes, and it looks just how it sounds. It's like a list of influential punk's favorite bands and shit like that. On first glance, it reminds me a lot like that lousy Fat Mike publication Punk Rock Confidential, which is a glossy color photo spread magazine that is total punxploitation, pictures of punks drinking, fishing, hanging out at bars, living the dream, whatever. Everything important about punk is cut out, and it boils down to self-interested bullshit and image. The end result is a published item that is "not about anything, it is just about punk". However, this book of lists should be given more benefit of the doubt than that, so I'll spend a couple hours with it and decide how to proceed.
Anyways, I'll be busy with that for at least a little while. I still have to buy textbooks. I can't believe that I only got into Math 60, which is pretty remedial shit, but I fucking aced Writing and Reading, totally destroying the test. I guess I have an intuitive sense for the rules of college English, and I like to break them a lot.
I gotta get some zine shit done soon, like tonight. I'm considering hiding out in the basement and making it happen. Free time won't exist anymore in three more weeks once school begins. Fuuuuck. Gotta get it done. I almost threw it all away the other day, I was so fed up with it. I've got to push it through.
Over and out.
