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My sister said she bought a rural property in South Carolina right next to the waterfall hike I loved so much. She plopped an RV down on it and said it's there for me whenever I want to move down. Rather explicitly she said that she's trying to get my side of the family to become Southerners. I do like to move around and shake things up so maybe when I'm done with school I'll head down there and do the rural life again, for a little while... but I can see myself moving out to Arizona or Wyoming instead. I have friends who are either out there right now or planning to move out there soon.
Today I dragged myself out of bed, praying that class would be canceled (just because I'm lazy XD) -- checked my email, nothing. But by the time I made the drive to class, it WAS canceled! Our instructor has an ear infection. So now I'm just hanging out in the theater near the bagel shop, reading and writing.
Last night I got a truly embarrassing amount of packages, and A. David was already inside and hanging out when I came home XD I showed off my new stuff to him and my roommate -- a few issues of Gay Comics; a 1978 Ohio music newspaper with a David Bowie feature and some neat ads for Lou Reed; the 50th anniversary Blu-ray box-set of Lawrence of Arabia (now incredibly affordable because everyone wants the 4K UHD); a 1927 UK magazine featuring one of the first-ever publications of excerpts from Seven Pillars, with a really gorgeous insert portrait of T.E. Lawrence; uhhh an Italian comic book about T.E. Lawrence as well T__T. And a bolo tie. Somewhat embarrassing to get all that stuff at once, no way to hide my compulsive online shopping XD
Anyway it was A. David's turn to choose the movie. We got takeout sushi and gyoza and settled in for Heavy Metal! I've wanted to watch this for ages, so he basically read my mind. It was excellent. Perfectly suited to my tastes: campy, horrific, tongue-in-cheek, with a great soundtrack. Some of the best animated deaths I've ever seen. After it was over A. David revealed that he actually wants to upgrade to the new 4K release, so he was giving us his Blu-ray copy! Not the only nice gift he gave us, either T__T He found the Criterion editions of 12 Angry Men and The Thin Red Line on DVD, and bought them for us -- he doesn't have them in his collection either, but he's strictly a Blu-ray man.
Meanwhile Reece is also upgrading to 4K for Akira, so he sold me his old Blu-ray for $5.
The next movie night is mine and for now I'm planning to make us watch Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence -- "make" as in, both my roommate and A. David expressed an unprompted desire to see it, and I'm lowkey obsessed with it, so... XD I can't wait to watch it again. I'm really enjoying these weekly movie nights; I even made a Letterboxd account so I can keep track of them, like a diary.
Gilbert, meanwhile, is doing okay. He's been hiding behind the couch but seems honestly fairly relaxed; chilling, doesn't tense up or shy away when I pet him. Ned is more perturbed, and keeps loudly complaining, and demanding that we guard him while he wolfs down his food, like he's afraid it'll get stolen! Gilbert has little interest in food right now due to the meds from his surgery; I left a cup of wet food for him behind the couch this morning, but as I was leaving, I saw Ned tentatively sneaking back there to steal it.
Reading-wise: I'm almost done with Private Shaw & Public Shaw; I read the first lengthy chapter of David Bowie: An Oral History, which was great, with some galling 70s-style stories of sexual predation from the managers and mentors in his life; I'm slowly poking through the e-book for Angels Before Man, only when I'm out of the house and have no other physical books to read; I finished the Bhagavad-Gita, which surprisingly I didn't enjoy very much (I thought the subject matter would make it an instant favorite for me); and yesterday I read Songs of Innocence and Experience for school and "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen" by Tadeusz Borowski for "fun" T__T
I'm still going through the Harvard course for Hamlet. I'm about to start reading Act 3. And for my Ancient Literature class this week I have to read Marie de France and Marguerite de Navarre. So that's where I'm at!
Today I dragged myself out of bed, praying that class would be canceled (just because I'm lazy XD) -- checked my email, nothing. But by the time I made the drive to class, it WAS canceled! Our instructor has an ear infection. So now I'm just hanging out in the theater near the bagel shop, reading and writing.
Last night I got a truly embarrassing amount of packages, and A. David was already inside and hanging out when I came home XD I showed off my new stuff to him and my roommate -- a few issues of Gay Comics; a 1978 Ohio music newspaper with a David Bowie feature and some neat ads for Lou Reed; the 50th anniversary Blu-ray box-set of Lawrence of Arabia (now incredibly affordable because everyone wants the 4K UHD); a 1927 UK magazine featuring one of the first-ever publications of excerpts from Seven Pillars, with a really gorgeous insert portrait of T.E. Lawrence; uhhh an Italian comic book about T.E. Lawrence as well T__T. And a bolo tie. Somewhat embarrassing to get all that stuff at once, no way to hide my compulsive online shopping XD
Anyway it was A. David's turn to choose the movie. We got takeout sushi and gyoza and settled in for Heavy Metal! I've wanted to watch this for ages, so he basically read my mind. It was excellent. Perfectly suited to my tastes: campy, horrific, tongue-in-cheek, with a great soundtrack. Some of the best animated deaths I've ever seen. After it was over A. David revealed that he actually wants to upgrade to the new 4K release, so he was giving us his Blu-ray copy! Not the only nice gift he gave us, either T__T He found the Criterion editions of 12 Angry Men and The Thin Red Line on DVD, and bought them for us -- he doesn't have them in his collection either, but he's strictly a Blu-ray man.
Meanwhile Reece is also upgrading to 4K for Akira, so he sold me his old Blu-ray for $5.
The next movie night is mine and for now I'm planning to make us watch Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence -- "make" as in, both my roommate and A. David expressed an unprompted desire to see it, and I'm lowkey obsessed with it, so... XD I can't wait to watch it again. I'm really enjoying these weekly movie nights; I even made a Letterboxd account so I can keep track of them, like a diary.
Gilbert, meanwhile, is doing okay. He's been hiding behind the couch but seems honestly fairly relaxed; chilling, doesn't tense up or shy away when I pet him. Ned is more perturbed, and keeps loudly complaining, and demanding that we guard him while he wolfs down his food, like he's afraid it'll get stolen! Gilbert has little interest in food right now due to the meds from his surgery; I left a cup of wet food for him behind the couch this morning, but as I was leaving, I saw Ned tentatively sneaking back there to steal it.
Reading-wise: I'm almost done with Private Shaw & Public Shaw; I read the first lengthy chapter of David Bowie: An Oral History, which was great, with some galling 70s-style stories of sexual predation from the managers and mentors in his life; I'm slowly poking through the e-book for Angels Before Man, only when I'm out of the house and have no other physical books to read; I finished the Bhagavad-Gita, which surprisingly I didn't enjoy very much (I thought the subject matter would make it an instant favorite for me); and yesterday I read Songs of Innocence and Experience for school and "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen" by Tadeusz Borowski for "fun" T__T
I'm still going through the Harvard course for Hamlet. I'm about to start reading Act 3. And for my Ancient Literature class this week I have to read Marie de France and Marguerite de Navarre. So that's where I'm at!
