Living in a 110 year old rowhouse that is a work-in-progress is still a new experience for me...one that takes my normal everyday level of anxiety to dizzying new heights. I'm trying to get over that for the sake of just Getting. Things. Done. It's not easy, though, when you're picky.
Here's a sampling of the things I'd like to get accomplished this year:
*dining room table and chairs
*dining room lighting fixture
*library hallway bookshelves, lighting and new carpeting
*frame more artwork (and get it up on the walls!)
*work desk and chair
*paint ceilings/fix previous painting boo-boos
*re-do laundry/utility/powder room
One of these things just got moved up the priority list, and I'm sure will be the subject of several posts to come.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Gnosticism III
First line has to make your brain race that's how Homer does it,
that's how Frank O'Hara does it, why
at such a pace
Muses
slam through the house -- there goes one (fainting) up the rungs
of your strainge BULLFIGHT, buttered
almost in a nearness
to skyblue
Thy pang -- Pollock yourself!
Just to hang on to life is why
-Anne Carson
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Thursday, January 01, 2009
December 2008 - the books
Heat, Bill Buford
Shopgirl, Steve Martin
Mythologies, Roland Barthes
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
Swann's Way, Marcel Proust
Proust is amazing. I developed something that I called "The Proust Zone". It's not unlike super careful reading for a class. The sentences were just so dense, so jam-packed with meanings, several of them, which then combined to form a new, subtle direction. I'm going to have to read the remaining volumes of the Search.
This year I read 76 books.
Of course, there's still some started that I have yet to finish:
A People's History of the United States
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Book of Disquiet
..but I think I'll get to them. A new year can include some old books. In fact, I think it should!
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