2. Two weeks ago I decided to start eating a vegetarian diet. No real reason other than needing a change. I'm not calling myself a vegetarian because a. I'm still eating fish sometimes and b. a lot of vegetarians are really annoying, so I'm trying not to identify as one. I'm trying not to talk or complain about it in "real life," so maybe I will on here. (Or maybe I'll take another two month break after saying, "I'm back!".)
3. Books. I'm currently reading The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I'm liking it so far. Before that I read two chick lit books by Danielle Ganek, Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him and The Summer We Read Gatsby. Lulu was okay and Summer was pretty bad and pointless but fun in its way. Before that Jack Kerouac's On the Road, which I'd somehow never read, Lisa Birnbach's True Prep (pointless), Write It Down Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want and Getting It (a self-help book. there's something self-defeatingly sad in requesting a self-help book from the library), Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil (good, but no Rosemary's Baby or The Stepford Wives), and Martin Amis's The Rachel Papers, which I loved and which, I think catches me up to when I last wrote on here.
I've decided to link to to Goodreads when I mention books, because I'm recommending people read them, not necessarily buy them. It sometimes annoys me when blogs are constantly linking to sites to buy whatever. I guess it makes sense for the blogs where they're being given something by the company (true story: I wish this were me) but pointless otherwise.
4. Movies.
4. That'll do for now (I'll need something to post in a couple months).
5 comments:
Self help is a growing booming business, which probably means that no one is really getting better.
Anonymous--True. Also, when I was reading it, whenever the author would talk about her life, I'd look at her picture on the flap and wonder why I was taking advice from this person.
1. Yeay! you're back
1a. I'm going to look up "fartlek" just as soon as I can. I may use it, however, before I look it up.
2.I don't like to mention it, but I was a vegetarian for like two years....never told anyone then I was. Actually, now I like to tell people that I used to be one. It's more fun that way.
3.Mists of Avalon! I read that back a million years ago, in high school. It was long. It was pretty good, but long. I remember The Boys from Brazil on my mother's night stand. It looked dirty. Even then. Not dirty enough to motivate me to read it, but still. Gotta investigate that "Gatsby" thing...after fartlek.
4.Is that from Potiche!? I want to see that so badly. Even in the clips it looks great.
I need to see Last Days, now that I've finally gone to Seattle. I should have seen it beforehand, I guess. Is that Country Strong up there I see with Fishy? What's the one with Ethan Hawke, the young Ethan Hawke?
Jason--1. Fingers crossed.
1a. Use it before you look it up. So many wonderful possibilities.
2. I'm just going with it while it lasts. Part of me wants to cut fish out, but another part wants a hamburger.
3. The Boys from Brazil was good, but definitely didn't live up to the title. I read a bunch more of Mists today--I'm really liking it. And if you're into chick lit, read Lulu before Gatsby.
4. Yes! I wasn't that curious about Potiche when it was out even though I'm an Ozon fan, but I watched it on video and loved it. Last Days was good (and was filmed in upstate NY, which shows, I thought. And it thanks Francesco Clemente in the credits and I want to know why). I was going to have a note warning Fishy haters to keep that nonsense to themselves because 1. I love her and 2. Country Strong was surprisingly good. And have you never seen Dead Poets Society!?
What is it with vegetarians giving vegetarianism such a bad name? I love that you are eating veggie but not telling people. For me, I'm just working on the idea of eating less meat.
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