Bits and Scraps

1. There is nothing on TV except what is on the Premium Cable Channels of HBO and Showtime.  Loving Weeds, True Blood, and Nurse Jackie.  Luke-warm on Hung, but it may grow on me.  Regular network summer offering are so far barely tolerable.  Merlin is full of beautiful boy and considering who will be playing Lancelot I may continue to watch just for the eye-candy.  The Philanthropist is pretty horrible as well.  So this leaves me tons of time to read.

2. I am finally reading The God of Small Things.  Right after I read A Fine Balance, which is the most depressing book I have ever read.  It’s brilliant, but as Maneck repeats so often in the text, Everything ends badly.  And it really really does.  I am looking at literature as world travel.  May need to look for a good book set somewhere in Africa.

3. Movies: You have to see Man on Wire, if you haven’t already.  It’s a masterpiece.  And I stumbled upon The Go-Getter this weekend and really got swept away.  Also Last Chance Harvey is worth seeing.  You may know that I decided this yeah to write down every movie I watch, Netflix, TV, at the theater.  I am up to 84.  Can’t decide if that is bad or good.

4. Music:  I have to have more Gomez in my life.  I’m listening to my iPod today and Gomez always makes me happy.  I have spent lots of time lately trying to clean up my iTunes library.  I am wondering if you can erase just your library and reload it with everything all cleaned up?  Does anyone else find the duplicates and missing songs etc extremely annoying?

5. etc. I have been really slack about taking pictures lately.  I get like this is the summer though.  Too damn hot.  Since I fell on my knee I have not been able to run.  I might be able to try running in October.  In the meantime to try and stay somewhat fit I have been swimming.  I can’t tell you how much I miss running.  I have been seeing a physical therapist a couple of times a week and things seem to be getting better.  Last night I decided to take the stairs down.  Up wasn’t a problem at all.  Down is not going to happen.  It’s really strange to think that I fell in April and in July I still can’t walk down a flight of stairs.  Finally work-wise I am minutes away from being done with the big project.  So I’ll be sharing something about that soon.  (fingers crossed)