(Friday Life #7) 10 May 2013

"Then came the five brief, impassioned, jubilant, enigmatic years. At the gates of our own world, there was Vietnam, of course, and the first major blow to the powers that be. But here, inside our wales, what exactly was taking place? An amalgam of revolutionary and antirepressive politics? A war fought on two fronts: against social exploitation and psychic repression? A surge of libido modulated by the class struggle? Perhaps. At any rate, it is this familiar, dualistic interpretation that has laid claim to the events of those years."
Foucault, intro to Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

I wander the "stacks," an insider term for the giant bookshelves that create literary hallways out of giant floors stretched-over with industrial office carpet. This is a familiar haunt. I'm trying to remember phrases from poems I read and wrote in and about my time in a library in my youth.

I was a page for two years and my memories of the place are oddly structured. I've yet to the Madeleine cookie to engage the cerebral flood but there are sketches I can produce.

The break room was downstairs, as was the hub, the offices, the central nervous system. Most of my coworkers inspired, at worst, stoicism and oftentimes much better...

More later
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Work and then some more Work (A Look at the Weekend #10) 2 May 2013

I'm pretty sure most week plans got obliterated.  I'm headed to my dad's to work and pay my stepmom back and try and try and raise money for getting caught up on my student loans.  Fun stuff.  I was planning on seeing Broken Arrow with Marie and more maybe and was also looking forward to hanging with Maddie.

"Coming back around.." (A Look at the Weekend #11) 13 June 2013

Friends are on the move, life is super busy, and I am following suit.

New friend Maddie is headed to Europe for nearly a month, Marie has new, if temporary, digs, not sure what Mike and Angie are up to, and I need to get in touch with Loren and Angie.  

There are some pretty amazing films happening in Eugene this week, new films by the younger Miyazaki (From Up On Poppy Hill), Ken Loach (The Angels' Share), Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers), Susanne Bier - who I am not at all familiar with (Love Is All You Need), Steven Soderbergh (Side Effects), Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha), and Sam Raimi (Oz, Great And Powerful), a new version of the film that brought Sam Raimi b-movie stardom (Evil Dead),  along with a just-missed film, Renoir, about one of my favorite film makers, Jean Renoir.  Also some entertaining movies, The Croods, my first Antoine Fuqua film, Olympus Has Fallen, Oblivion, and 42.

Gotta make a point to see a couple of those this weekend.  I have a coffee date at braille's on Sunday.  Should be a fold weekend.  Going to bring loads to storage as well.  

 

Coda (Weekend Review #9) 7 April 2013

I had breakfast with Jim Friday morning and we talked a good deal about life. I've been reading a lot lately and I want to read even more.

Trivia was nice, as usual, and Saturday brought the final four. No real analytical thoughts here though I am wont to express my dissatisfaction that once again two larger schools made it, and Cinderella died. She has a rough time of it, despite her statistical advantage, rendered through ubiquity.

My computer is on the fritz, no longer starting, so tomorrow I bring it in for repair, after Dylan and I give it a go.


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Location:Kincaid St,Eugene,United States

Character (Friday Life #8) 14 June 2013

We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours. -James M. Barrie, novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1860-1937)

There is much work to be done.  Have no doubt.  "When enough is enough, that's when you know, that you're halfway there."  This was just the first installment of work at my dad's.  How can I characterize my relationship with my dad?

(A Look at the Weekend #9) 21 March 2013

Plans for the weekend? Headed north Sunday to dig a well. Staying through Saturday. Weather? Looks to be good at least Monday-Tuesday :)
Seeing django tomorrow and looking forward to it, then trivia :)
Not sure how I am going to work out gas for my trip north and possibly seeing menace ruine in portland on sunday but I have to figure something out.
Hopefully taxes tomorrow as well.
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(A Look at the Week(end) #8) 3 March 2013

I had brunch with Jim today at Old Pad.  We're certainly regulars there now, I'd say.  

I went and hid books at St. Vincent De Paul (W11th near Albertson's).

It was an interesting week.  Sounds like my move north is going to be a bit more complicated, as we need to research plans for the garage.  I can't believe it is as expensive as it is.  

I plan to really show my dad and Ada that I'm serious business, and I have the free time to do it now :)

Missed Meek's Cutoff at Wildish theater, but I'm hoping to get to that place sometime in the near future.

That's all for now.  Good week.