Tom
12-03-2006, 04:35 AM
Read "The Proud Highway", a collection of Hunter S Thompson letters. Felt a little weird and voyeurish but starved for good flash language and high sense of outrage I picked it up. I recommend it. Nothing changes. His condemnation of the lazy, flabby lap dog press rings ever so true these forty years later. Christ.
Read "Spook". A waste of paper. How this got published I haven't the faintest idea.
Saw good pictures. Mona Lisa is not overrated, Lady With an Ermine has a definite rival. Stand and look for a minute or two and all of a sudden your eye and mind come into sync and you see how good the guy hit it. You could say it was a nice accident if he didn't paint a lot of other really good stuff so I can imagine him stepping back, a little smile on his face saying "This one worked. Heh."
Monet's good, but damn Van Gogh was great. A chromatic system like nobody else's, everything a little bent and twisted. I like his stuff. He was clearly crazy, we share an eye.
You want to cry even if you're not religious? Go to Notre Dame when the choir's practicing. Holy ****. Then you'll laugh out loud when they all whip out their cell phones and take pictures of each other.
You can't eat bad food or find bad wine but the best dinner we had was a plate of cheese and half a loaf of bread and a bottle of cheap red. They don't make cheese in North America. They don't. I don't know what it is over here, but it isn't cheese. A great little place, too, with a door under the bar where they stuck their head in and called out orders to the dwarf in the basement.
Dying to get on the road again but both bikes are up getting new bottom brackets. 6000 miles on a Chorus BB? What the hell am I doing wrong?
Read "Spook". A waste of paper. How this got published I haven't the faintest idea.
Saw good pictures. Mona Lisa is not overrated, Lady With an Ermine has a definite rival. Stand and look for a minute or two and all of a sudden your eye and mind come into sync and you see how good the guy hit it. You could say it was a nice accident if he didn't paint a lot of other really good stuff so I can imagine him stepping back, a little smile on his face saying "This one worked. Heh."
Monet's good, but damn Van Gogh was great. A chromatic system like nobody else's, everything a little bent and twisted. I like his stuff. He was clearly crazy, we share an eye.
You want to cry even if you're not religious? Go to Notre Dame when the choir's practicing. Holy ****. Then you'll laugh out loud when they all whip out their cell phones and take pictures of each other.
You can't eat bad food or find bad wine but the best dinner we had was a plate of cheese and half a loaf of bread and a bottle of cheap red. They don't make cheese in North America. They don't. I don't know what it is over here, but it isn't cheese. A great little place, too, with a door under the bar where they stuck their head in and called out orders to the dwarf in the basement.
Dying to get on the road again but both bikes are up getting new bottom brackets. 6000 miles on a Chorus BB? What the hell am I doing wrong?