Bowling Goggles

I think the waitress was drunk. Photo by "Pam."

East Beach

Kishi Bashi, Friday at the Norva

FreakFreely is tight.

"I’m well out of high school now and life isn’t like that at all and I don’t entirely want it to be but it still seems romantic. What I long for most is the laziness. Nowadays buddy hangtime often happens in wine bars where everyone keeps his/her smartphone out on the counter and though I love wine and find great value in the Internet, sometimes I get so down about it, the busy-ness of it all. I know a lot of the modern-day lack of laziness has to do with not being a kid anymore, and some of it’s got to do with living in Los Angeles — but I’ve also got an overwhelming suspicion that life was cooler before I grew up, and I really did miss out on something, and the world we’re living in now just gets progressively lamer and duller and grosser and nastier, day after day after day."

By way of http://freakfreely.tumblr.com/

The Shallows

Just finished this book last night. Good read for anyone.

"The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words of the writer act as a catalyst in the mind of the reader, inspiring new insights, connections, and perceptions. And the very existence of the attentive, critical reader provides the spur for the writer’s work. It gives the author the confidence to explore new forms of expression, to blaze difficult and demanding paths of thought, to venture into uncharted and sometimes hazardous territory. 'All great men have written proudly, nor cared to explain,' said Emerson. 'They knew that the intelligent reader would come at last, and would thank them.'"

From The Shallows2010