Lawrence.com

March 15, 1975

cook

seattle

lawrence

my mother took me away from lawrence memorial hospital one spring day in 1975.

reading, travel

-the peculiar memories of thomas penman- bruce robinson
-the tender bar- jr moehringer
-everything by irvine welsh
-the sun also rises/for whom the bell tolls/the short stories- earnest hemingway
-borstal boy/confessions of an irish rebel- brendan behan
-ask the dust/the road to los angeles- john fante
-most of charles bukowski's fiction
-dirty havana trilogy- pedro juan gutierrez
-philip jose farmer's short fiction
-tortilla flat- john steinbeck
-the rum diary- h.s. thompson
-a confederacy of dunces- john kennedy toole
-my guidebook for the yucatan peninsula
-my guidebook for new zealand
-my war gone by i miss it so- anthony lloyd
-etc.

taxi driver/mean streets/one flew over the cuckoo's nest/a history of violence/scanners/dog day afternoon/scarface/and on and on just like the books this gets tedious quickly.

country/punk/metal/instrumental rock 1955-1964/new wave/etc.

the ones on the box yo.

like i'm gonna talk about my masturbation habits here.

haven't looked at one in ages. usually i am working. failing that i am often reading the paper or a book. it's okay though because i still get people's opinions by doing this thing we used to call talking to them.

El Matador Cafe

new york times online, bbc news online, etc.

i don't understand why this has become such a debate. if someone is vacuous they aren't hip. this may contradict current usage and it may be the vacuousness that people object to in those who use the label to refer to themselves, but more often than not folks just don't approve of a style of dress and are criticizing that, which seems, um, vacuous. that guy who was in operation ivy wrote a pretty funny essay about this, actually. you'll have to order the back issue of TMCM that it was in to read it though- that content isn't posted on www.tmcm.com

uh, it's like 500 a quarter in euros. what is that U.S.? but i prefer to bust my ass at work. it's slightly less demoralizing.

i bet it would be more informed if i lived there.

would have voted for it as i did here, but don't think the lack of a referendum seems like a very constitutional thing for the city council to do.

well my dad lives further west than where i grew up (15th and kasold) now so i guess i have to hold my tongue. i just wish they would revitalize downtown kansas city so the "professionals" could live in condos like normal urban drones instead of being imported to the nearby college town.