This coming Wednesday will mark three years, six months, two weeks, and three days at the library for me. This is significant because it means I will have been a library assistant longer than I was a deli clerk. You're welcome for this meaningless statistic.
Over the years, I can't say I have ever been a big fan of Thanksgiving. I tend to equate it with very dry turkey and a lot of awkwardness. In recent years it's been fun to go to my mom's and eat there; she's always got some ham for me. (I like turkey, but only processed and sliced by friendly deli clerks!!) I don't intend to discount that at all because it's great, and I can't wait to go over there for Xmas. But this Thanksgiving was seriously
incredible. We went to Amber's aunt Debbie's house in Coats, NC... her entire extended family was there, a couple dozen people at least, a total melting pot, and it was just wonderful. Everyone was so funny, smart, nice, open, welcoming, talkative. It was delightfully fun and I feel very lucky to be an accepted part of that group now. In yet another way, my life's been altered by this person who decided to come live with me.
On that note, as an indicator of how serious we are, we are now parents. Kitty parents. We adopted a cat. His name is Wickett. He's big and sweet and three years old. He just came home on Friday and he's not used to the new home and food bowl and stuff yet, and is getting over a cold, but when he feels better we'll post some pictures. We picked him because when we stood up to leave the adoption kiosk, he stuck his paw out of the cage toward us. I haven't had a cat since my cat, Cat, ran away seven years ago. Cat was not very affectionate and didn't like being picked up etc. Wickett seems to really really enjoy people. We're excited.
Books: Uh... I read Woody Allen's "Side Effects." It was pretty typical and had fewer lolz than the last book of his I read, but there was this one part in particular... "You are all my children." The book I'm in the middle of now is outstanding but I'm not ready to talk about it here yet.
Only movie seen the first time since Fantastic Mr. Fox (GO SEE GO SEE GO SEE) is "Saved!" which I found rather surprisingly conventional, given what I recall hearing about it at the time it came out. It had some parts that made me laugh myself sick, particularly the bit about the Lifetime movie and basically every scene with Heather Matarazzo. Aside from that, basically a John Hughes homage, right? But a fun watch.
We watched Notorious last week and egad. Best of so many things ever, especially closeups. Every shot of Claude is chilling in some way. That movie is utter perfection. And Amber sat and watched Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night with me and seemed to think it was as pretty and romantic as I find it. I lucked out basically. I mean, Bergman. Just on an old Simpsons last night Homer referred to him as "some Swedish meatball." I gather Bergmanites aren't easy to come by in my home country. (And to be fair, none of his other movies -- as much as I like them -- have connected with me the way this one did, though Wild Strawberries is close.)
Still making our way through the fourth Donald Duck set and another cool DVD to be discussed next time. Donald got a bit weird in the late years. But Mathmagic Land is the greatest POS there ever was. It had a massive effect on me as a child. Unfortunately this did not translate to any mathematic skills. But thank you for trying, Walt.
Amber's heading up to New York for a few days. :'( She has to go, I'm glad she's going, but it's going to be weird over here... I'll probably mope around listening to ambient music and eating Tic Tacs.
Tonight I intend to try and get some work done on the 'projects' section of my website. I'm honestly quite anxious to get on to the music pages, for which I have big fun plans!!! The awesome thing will be it will give me something easy and quick to work on whenever I have a minute but it will also require me to write, and I need to be doing more of that, as this indistinct blather makes clear. I've finally worked out a format for reviewing musics that I really like, and FINALLY after all these years there will be pages for other artists I'm as happy with as I am with those for the Beatles and Beach Boys.
Hope everybody's doing well. I've been trying to go through everybody's journal and catch up, so if you get an errant comment on a weeks-old entry, that's me, soz!
OBLIGATORY RECORD COLLECTION PORTION OF POST (long and very image-heavy):
( recs (Beach Boys, Beatles, VU, Heads, Coltrane, Otis R, Smokey, James Brown, Clash, Spector, YLT, Love, Shins) )SEE YOU NEXT MONTH. :-/
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