Hello. Elk here.
This past weekend was a pretty swell one. I got to go to a kick-ass party with some of my friends and my two brothers. I think they enjoyed it as well. The next day, I decide to go drive around town with my brothers to get a lanyard or chain for my flash drive (because I almost lost it before). At the local mall, I got a set of 50 chains which never even got to fit into the damn drive. Eventually, my dad made me a lanyard (because he’s crafty). Also at the mall, I went to pick up Animal Collective’s album ‘Merriweather Post Pavillion’ because there were a couple of songs I liked from there. Turns out I really love the album! After that, I drove into a second-hand store to check out any books people might have thrown away donated, and found two I had been looking for: Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America. Granted, none of these I’ll be reading anytime soon as I have a list of other books I plan to read (more on that later).
Then, my wonderful weekend decided to jump off a cliff into some jagged rocks. I got an e-mail from a club where I was to be heading to a Venetian Snares and Wisp concert saying they canceled the stop to Phoenix. Eventually, I found out it was the club’s fault as they wouldn’t accomodate the stage for a proper performance.
To Club Mardi Gras in Scottsdale, Arizona: Fuck you.
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So I was invited to try out Google’s new “revolutionary” communication platform codename: Wave. At first, I was indifferent, but then I started begging for an invite because I had to be one of those cool geeks who can flaunt his invite in the air to those inferior to me. After the invitation, I started to understand the purpose of Wave; it’s a communication tool good for conferences and such. I guess, in the end, it’s not a big a deal as I would’ve hoped for. Maybe I just wanted a Google Voice invite instead?
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As of October 26, I finished JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. I loved the novel and don’t understand why so many of my friends didn’t like it. I loved the writing behind it and the development of Holden Caulfield. That marks book #3 in my series of books to finish before 2010. In my list, there are five books of which I told myself I would finish as a means of reading more (I had to read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for a history report last semester, didn’t finish until three months after, then read Franz Kafka’s The Trial. Before that, nothing much in reading). The list is as follows:
- George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-Four (May – September)
- Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five (Sept. 18 – 30)
- JD Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye (Oct. 1 – 26)
- Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale (Starting today)
- Joseph Heller – Catch-22
I think I’ve been reading very good books; have not been disappointed with any of my selections and recommendations (or maybe I’m just very tolerant). More on my previous books in another blog post, though.
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I love Twitter. It has many good uses. I joined Twitter August 2008, just a few months before the big Twitter explosion. I didn’t officially start using it until October of that year to post random crap to remind myself of. Then it became an addiction in January where I would post crap like every hour on the hour. Somehow, I convinced most of my friends to join Twitter, especially when one of them cut off his phone bill and needed a means to communicate. Now, I’m sure I’m not as hooked on the website as much as I was back then, but now some people use it way too much and to post some seriously crap.
Twitter has become this tool for stupid people to post random crap, spam, and Gostse in mini-URL form. Every time I read the Trending Topics, most of the people just post gibberish and troll. Sometimes, I just wish I could quit Twitter for a more sophisticated form of micro-blogging…but nothing much is out there for the time being.
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My set-up for this blog isn’t really going anywhere but ranting. I promise to come up with more ideas soon.
-Freezing Elk
(It should not be 50F in Arizona this time of the year!)
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