Music

Gloomy Day Shuffle

1. Gold Lion Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2. Alfred Lion Interlude Madlib
3. Bulldog The Fireballs
4. Touch Me With Your Love Beth Orton
5. True Love Will Find You Beck
6. Hey Hippopotamus Justin Roberts
7. Comes a Time Neil Young
8. Natural Anthem The Postal Service
9. Spark Tori Amos
10. Bada Bing Danger Doom
11. Lola Stars and Stripes The Stills
12. Spongbob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy The Flaming Lips
13. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes Crosby, Stills & Nash
14. Only For Me James Taylor
15. Black Water Doobie Brothers
16. The Man Who Loved Beer David Byrne
17. Janine Soul Coughing
18. Christmas Time is Here Vince Guaraldi
19. Morning Dew Grateful Dead
20. I Should Have Known Better Yo La Tengo

Reading

"The Road"

I kept waiting for the hopeful part of “The Road.” Rockford said there would be a hopeful part, and some reviewers on Amazon have called it “uplifting.”

I don’t think so.

It’s the post-apocalyptic story of a boy and his father, and they’re making their way south and everything is ash and terror.

Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

It gave me nightmares, and I think it will continue to do so.

Bandwagons

NaNoWriMo update

I passed the halfway point last night. I’m struggling. I still have no plot. I’m not saying that I’ll be writing “blah blah blah blah monkeys blah blah blah blah tuna fish sandwich” for the next 25,000 words. But I am saying that I just want to string the 25k together in a cohesive manner, with sentences and phrases. That’s all.