anyway, with that disclaimer out of the way I just wanted to share some recent factoids and trends in my life that are of some small or perhaps no significance.
in the present: kate, my girlfriend is suffering and in a lot of pain as her knee locked up yesterday at about 5 pm and she can't straighten her leg. I am hanging out, helping her when I can, doing stuff on the interwebs as I am wont to do when given half a chance or good reason. I suppose that if I can take care of some important stuff at home or wherever my laptop is, I won't be distracted at work, which is very important. I like having a job, I like my job, and I was unemployed for ten months, which is a long time. I want to keep my job and avoid the distractions of personal interwebs stuff etc. but it's good to take breaks, get up, walk around, breathe. can't do that so well surfing http.
I do want to try surfing again soon, speaking of, the water kind. I want to snowboard too, which is more expensive but fun. trees are fun.
one fun distraction lately is the new cell phone distraction/task. my cell/smart/device/blackjack still works but you know there are so many cool devices of the mobile kind out there. the iphone, yuck, the palm pre, the mytouch. even blackberries have cool features. it is a fun exercise and good practice to be able to walk out of stores without buying anything. how would having a new phone help me? well, I think sprint and t-mobile are cheaper and maybe better than att which is what I have. sprint has unlimited mobile to mobile now and t-mobile blackberries can use wifi for service. pretty cool! the iphone is kinda clunky compared to the pre but it has solid landscape/typing in landscape mode. iphones are heavy, and just not as elegant or cool as the pre, which has multitasking of different apps, like a real computer. the webOS on the palm pre is linux which is cool. gmail is easy to integrate as well as contacts, calendars. I know the iphone has a lot though so it's not a super easy decision. I have used sprint, it's not great. I need to play with the mytouch android and/or blackberry a bit.
what we know is a great new sonic youth song from the eternal.
what happens when you write a relatively long "blog-post"? especially a meandering, catch-up kindof post? is it an essay, self-published, or do they send you back to livejournal or the well? anyway...
post-burning man, post getting my bike stolen, fixing up my dahon, which is cool, I am back at Adobe which is cool. working, getting to know my job, the space, asking about gluten-free snacks at the cafe. the food there is really good, best I've had that was not home-cooked for a job.
the new sonic youth album, the eternal, is very good. grows on me. I do want to get out soon to do some bouldering at ironworks. ride my bike maybe.
some goals today or soon are to promote my art show for saturday the 19th at mina dresden. exciting because it is my first official gallery show, a group show with four other awesome artists. interesting because I am showing prints, not my normal medium but certainly informed by my years of work with color and oil, I suppose.
just made some awesome peets coffee in the cafe press. no milk, great. had a great omelette with salsa, mozz, tomatoes, garlic, sausage. very good. I can cook, really.
aside from the art show, I want to go into the studio soon to do some new work, and do something with my writing. having finished what I believe is a complete novel, after 8 yrs of work, I want to get it out to agents. it's a lot of work so if you know of an agent or small publisher interested in literary, sci-fi, cyberpunk, or experimental fiction let me know. Introductions are welcome.
I am also wanting or needing to re-release my first novel, Blue, on Lulu as Amazon has discontinued it. It's cool as lulu is a great site that allows me to customize it for free and sell it directly through them, which is great, rather than big bro amazon.
I'm also thinking of self-publishing a novella or group of short stories, but I am cautious because I know that these things do require a lot of marketing and promotion on my part, even buying advertising, and creating a publishing arm to add cred. I mean, lulu is great, so maybe I don't need to create Cthulhu Press or something. I'm brainstorming, so be nice, no wrong answers!
anyway if I did do a novella it either be a part of the larger novel (living in the ice age) or something new. I would have to write something like 50-90 pp long I guess. something experimental and cyberpunky like the "land of a thousand suns" idea I had. A guy goes to a planet to escape his past but also because there are many suns there, all magnified and hot if he wants, a bright place always, never dark. maybe I could modify part of ice to be that. that could work. revision and rewriting are tough but not impossible.
antenna is a great new sonic youth song. I'm not putting links in this post I think intentionally because I just want you to read the whole thing, like a new yorker article but shorter. links take you away from the page, and you will notice that many companies do not put outside links on their pages to keep your eyes on them. I have learned this tactic. of course you may be quite bored with my rambings...
Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 8:16PM 
