My goal for 2009 (I hate calling it a new year's resolution), is to read 50 books. You can follow my progress and read my tiny book reviews here:

http://jenreadsbooks.tumblr.com

Hope you are well and having a super 2009!

xoxo
j

Announcement:

I will be in the Greater Rockford and Chicago region from 10:00pm tonight (Thursday, June 5th) to 5:00am Saturday, June 14th in the year of our lord two thousand and eight.

That is all.

file away for melancholy days.

Walking down 8th Street, belly full of noodles and sake, on this warm April night, tiny drops of rain unyieldingly turned into torrential downpour. I realized the umbrella I was shielding us with was useless, we were drenched. Drenched and laughing hysterically, jumping around, taking in the fun of this moment. There was nothing but the overwhelming joy of that moment. I hopped on the subway back to Brooklyn, dripping water like I had just stepped out of the shower. I am open to the possibility that this was my spring awakening, as it were, in the most literal sense possible. (You know, not adolescent spring awakening, not spring awakening the musical, but simply, my burst of joy after what has been a very tough and long winter.)

Nostalgic for the present.

On a somewhat related non-sequiter (oxymoron, right?):
Lou Reed sat several seats away from me at the latest strange Richard Foreman performance [art] last week. I can attest that Lou Reed, does in fact, look like an old lesbian, even if he makes good music.

Are you in New York City?

Then bring a pillow.

“THE PLAN: Meet up this Saturday, March 22 (wear a Neo-Futurist T-Shirt if you have one, and bring a soft pillow) at the cube in astor place at 2:30. We’ll march over as a Non-Illusory Pillow Fighting Machine to union square. Pillow Fight starts at 3 there.This is part of World Pillow Fight Day. We don’t know if there are winners, but either way, let’s win this thing!”

Who the hell are the Neo-Futurists? They put on Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.