{"id":5443,"date":"2010-07-19T04:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5443"},"modified":"2010-07-18T20:24:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T00:24:27","slug":"what-it-is-71910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-71910","title":{"rendered":"What It Is: 7\/19\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading:<\/em> Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up<\/a>\"\", Bob Colacello’s bio of Andy Warhol. I found that I couldn’t do much reading on the iPad. The Kindle app is fine, but I was sorta undone by the sheer amount of other stuff that the device can do. I mean, why read an e-book when I can catch up on e-mail, or RSS feeds, or watch a flick, etc.? So I think I’ll bring my Kindle with me on trips, too, just so I can focus on reading instead of multitasking the way the Pad invites one to.<\/p>\n

What I’m listening to:<\/em> Sir Lucious Leftfoot . . . The Son of Chico Dusty<\/a>\"\", the new Big Boi record.<\/p>\n

What I’m watching:<\/em> Thanks to my iPad, I find I’m watching more movies, esp. on that five-hour flight home from Portland on Wed\/Thu. On the way home, I watched (500) Days of Summer<\/a>, Up<\/a>, and about 40 minutes of Once In a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos<\/a>. I rented Greenberg<\/a> from iTunes while I was in Portland, with the notion of watching it on the flight home, but a 7-year-old girl and her dad were in the seats next to me, and I felt that might not be appropriate viewing if the kid sneaked a peek in my direction. And on Saturday, Amy & I went out to the IMAX theater to watch Inception<\/a>. Instant reviews? No chance! You’ll have to wait till tomorrow! (On TV, we watched another 2 episodes of Louie<\/a> on FX, which is so fantastic that it’ll surely be canceled, and the latest Deadliest Catch<\/a>, in which Captain Phil gives up the ghost. And we watched American Splendor<\/a> Sunday night to commemorate Harvey Pekar’s death last week.)<\/p>\n

What I’m drinking:<\/em> Well, now, that’s a story. For some reason, almost every restaurant or bar I visited in Portland turned out to be well-stocked with both local boutique gins and other lesser known brands. So I managed to have G&Ts of Bols Genever<\/a> (the spiciest gin I’ve ever had), Dry Fly<\/a> (the dominant note is Fiji apple, of all things), Organic Nation<\/a> (clean, with nothing else to recommend it), and 12 Bridges<\/a> (is that pine needle?), as well as the local brand Aviation<\/a>, which I’ve had several times already. Given all that, you’d think I was wasted for the whole trip, but I managed to pace myself well, at least until the last day, when I had a little too much time on my hands and no driving to do.<\/p>\n

What Rufus & Otis are up to:<\/em> Missing me, and trying to stay out of the heat.<\/p>\n

Where I’m going:<\/em> Nowhere! Congratulate me! Although I am thinking of taking a day or two off this week and maybe hitting NYC to visit the Frick, Met, etc. I’ll let you know.<\/p>\n

What I’m happy about:<\/em> Getting to see some old friends while I was out in Portland, and also getting to visit Powell’s Books<\/a> and Winn Perry<\/a>, even though the latter was “between seasons” and I had to talk myself into picking up a Hentsch Man<\/a> shirt and a tie.<\/p>\n

What I’m sad about:<\/em> That some of my friends seemed to be almost exactly who they were 15 years ago, in terms of subjects of conversation, art\/books they’re interested in, etc.<\/p>\n

What I’m worried about:<\/em> That they thought the same thing about me.<\/p>\n

What I’m pondering:<\/em> Whether that’s the case. I like to think it’s not, and that I’ve changed in some unpredictable ways since 1993 or thereabouts, both in terms of emotional maturity and in aesthetics. I wonder if it’s possible that I’m more of a snob now but also less pretentious than I was back in my college years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading: Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up, Bob Colacello’s bio of Andy Warhol. I found that I couldn’t do much reading on the iPad. The Kindle app is fine, but I was sorta undone by the sheer amount of other stuff that the device can do. I mean, why read an e-book when … <\/p>\n

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