Mountain Goats joy

Here, my friends, are the photos I promised from our blissful night last night:


The Bowerbirds:

So good.

If you weren't at the concert last night (that would make you one of maybe two or three people who read this) please check these guys out.





The Mountain Goats!




The encore:

handclaps:

This night went by way too fast.


Just so you all know there was a sacrifice that had to be made in order to see the Goats. We'll catch you next time Ice!

I share a birthday with this friend:

Conrad Veidt

Supposedly, Conrad was the inspiration for the Joker and Cesare inspired Edward Scissorhands.

I just finished Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. The book is haunting and I'll tell you why - and in this process you'll find out what I mean by haunting. Yates is an amazing writer, the kind where not a single word is spared. I sort of felt safe reading the book. I knew he wasn't going to disappoint, that he was a master. And this is his first novel. I finished it sitting on a rock in the middle of the natural slides at Ohiopyle among friends. I didn't know what to think of the book other than it was well written and sad. Very sad. I started another book that night, which I am almost finished with and is almost just as sad. But the entire time I'm reading this other book (Richard Ford's The Sportswriter) what am I doing? I'm thinking about Frank and April Wheeler, the main characters in Revolutionary Road. It really stuck with me. And I didn't realize it until later. That's haunting, right? Anyway, it is to me and I recommend it with eyebrows raised and cheeks dimpled.

So why Titanic you ask? I typed in Revolutionary Road on Yahoo, looking for an image of the book. But I don't get book cover shots, nor author head shots. I get pictures of Leo and Kate. Why you ask? Because they're making a movie of Rev Road, and so Leo and Kate are reunited again. This time not on a doomed ship in the Atlantic, or whatever Ocean it was, but on a doomed marriage in mid-century Connecticut. Or as James would say, Connec-a-ticut. Sorry James.