Sinister: Anxiety attacks

[Brandt Fundak]

I tried talking to a girl on the train today, but it didn't end up working
out well and I ended up talking to her friend instead.

I brought my copies of Sinister and Tigermilk with me to work today, as
well as my copies of the softies it's love and the masters of the
hemisphere disc. I like to listen to music on my computer when NPR is not
playing the Diane Reim show or Talk of the Nation, which is right now. 

Speaking of Diane Reim, she had Joanne Rowling on talking about the Harry
Potter books. I don't know what to think of it. Part of me wants to see
what all of the stink is about, while another part of me says it can't be
all that good.  But I think she should be congratulated for writing
something that children WANT to read. Maybe I will buy the first one, just
to see what the deal is and so I can have it when I have children some day
and am encouraging them to read.

After J.K. Rowling, Diane has Edmund Morris on.  He's the guy who wrote
the controversial biography of Ronald Reagan, where he created a fictional
character called Edmund Morris to relate the story.  While he stole this
device directly from TIm O' Brien, I think he is clever for using the
device in a work of supposed non-fiction, because it calls into question
the nature of non-fictional works. However I have a disdain for Morris'
assertion that he is an impartial observer of Reagan's life. I think he
wrote it to piss off Republicans and is too gutless to admit it. I think
it is great though.

Morris related a story that Reagan nearly became a Communist but the
American Communist Party thought he had too big of a mouth and wouldn't
take him. Who would have known that this rejection would lead to him
becoming the anti-Christ (politically speaking)

I find it kind of humorous that I read more now than I did when I was in
college. Fight Club (the novel, not the movie) is excellent. I want to see
the movie now just to see how they pulled it off. I have the Best American
Short Stories 1999 on deck and then either a book by Russell Banks or J.G.
Ballard. I haven't decided yet.

Anyone who doesn't think Belle and Sebastian rock out has obviously not
heard I Could Be Dreaming or Me and the Major. 

I think I'm starting to ramble.
 
This one is for Gregory Dole: And he proceeded to dig us a well, and I
screamed, we already got a well! But he kept right on diggin'.

Later,

Brandt

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