Git in tha' kitchin an' make me a sammich woman!

(Snake River Conspiracy - More Than Love)

So, you go to make a sandwich. You ask everyone else if they want something while you're up and they decline. You make your sandwich and, as you leave the kitchen with it, everyone is all like "can't I get half?" How annoying is that?! You had you're chance, you were offered. Back off!

Well, I'm not much better than I have been in recent weeks but I'm getting back into the groove of working around it (plus I've cut back on excessive boozing, which is helping). Things are still strange at the moment and I think that, when they settle down, my life might be quite different from how it was.

I recently got a new digital camera to play with, an Olympus Mini Myu, so that's gonna have me occupied for a while. After a discussion with the Purple Man in the Land of Sun and Sand I have a renewed desire to be creative, this camera could be a positive step. I plan to post some pics on here if any strike me as worthy (and I can figure out how).

As far as films go I've only managed to see a couple in what has been a surprisingly good month for cinema lovers (at least according to the reviews I've read). Most recently I watched Mike Nichol's Closer. I strongly recommend watching this film, although I can understand people not enjoying it as much as me (mainstream it aint, despite the cast). I read criticism about how cold the film comes across as being but I disagree, the should not be viewed as a negative, the coldness only serves to reflect that of the protagonists, even Natalie Portman's Alice, who has been described as the most innocent and moral of the four, is shown to be capable of deception and acts of overt detatchment. As usual, there is little point in detailing the plot, its out there for all to find on the very medium you view this. On a related if innappropriate note, I am now in love with Nathalie Portman. Garden State was the appetiser for the main course of Closer, she is undoubtedly an attractive young woman but she has that extra something in both films (amzing that Lucas manages so successfully to stifle it).

I've also picked up a bunch of books (along with the camera, I struggle to ever buy one thing from Amazon). At work I'm reading On The Road by Jack Kerouac, a great book which makes me yearn to live in a more creative community. His writing makes the locations and people he describes come to life so strongly that the people in the room with me at the time pale in comparison. I've also picked up two books by Oscar Zeta Acosta (the inspiration for the Lawyer in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), he has a style much like that of Thompson and I'm reading his work with the same fervour. I have almost finished Revolt of the Cockroach People in which he details his participation in the Chicano Power Movement in L.A in the 60s, again the people and the time seem so alive. After that its The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and then on to yet more Hunter S. Thompson works. I strongly recommend to anyone who cares about politics, journalism or even just hedonism to pick up worls by both these authors.

Well, this has been unexpectedly long. I guess it goes some way to compensate for my lack of posting/sense lately.

TTFN