Indulgence

scratching the surface

Oscar Wilde
A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.

I'm really digging The Cardigans' latest release Super Extra Gravity. It's so cool. I'm just getting a little pissed waiting anxiously for Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine which has yet to arrive at Tower Records or Music One here. I'm dying here! I need to hear the Mike Elizondo session of those songs, damn it! And Liz Phair's new album hasn't been released here yet, either. I promised to buy that album for my brother. He just absolutely loves Leap of Innocence or is it Leap of Faith? Well, it's one of the two, for sure. I just want some kick ass new music. I'm kinda tired of the stuff I got recently. I like Ashlee Simpson's latest and Lindsay Lohan's as well... Good pop-rock fair but it isn't soul kicking. Super Extra Gravity is doing the trick but I want new stuff, damn it!

There's something I want to talk about but can't. I'm tugged into two extreme feelings. I want to talk about it but it would be bad form on my part. I'll tell all on the 15th of February, I guess. Until then, mum's the word and I have to just think of other things to talk about.

I feel sad that I haven't been able to finish my pieces for the Neil Gaiman writing competition sponsored by Fully Booked. I think I have this really great story in my head and would be perfect for it but I didn't have the time or the energy to write it. And I feel bad because some artists here in the office were waiting for me to write something for them to make into a comic so they could join as well. I really didn't have the time and I feel bad about it. I think I could've gotten at least 3rd place.

I've been filled with all this energy to write. It's playing around in my head, these characters, these stories. I just finished reading Grass for his Pillow which is the second book of the Tales of the Otori which began with Across the Nightingale Floor which I enjoyed. Now I have to find the third book so that I can finish the series. The second book kinda ended in a cliff-hanger. I wasn't satisfied and I want to know how the trilogy ends. So I gotta get that book soon. As well as The Tipping Point which I heard is good.

Back to reading. As much as I love Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies was a heavy read and I don't think I can handle another Winterson book for another couple of years. God I love reading!

posted by wanggo @ 10:10 PM