uptown livin'
Sunday, June 29, 2008
I'm in my new house. yay! we've spent the entire weekend moving, from the moment I got off on Friday until right now. My wife makes me proud. she's the toughest, hardest-working person I know. I'd be nothing without her drive and determination. So the house... I'll flicker some pictures once we have all of our stuff sorted. It's like I'm living in a vacation house. It's a converted double shotgun, which means it used to be a side-by-side duplex but it's now a single home. It's not HUGE, but it feels very big. In the back of the house is a sort of kitchen /dining room / family room area. Its three distinct areas, but in one large space. We've finally got our dining room table set up again, and we've got the small couch, the big chair and the TV back here. It's quite cozy. In the front we've got these huge shuttered windows down to the floor and a living room that is actually two rooms back to back.The neighborhood we're in... I mean I really enjoyed mid-city; I've been taking walks in the area between Esplanade and bayou st. john for the last few weeks to really get the most out of being there. It's full of beautiful houses with gardens and vines, sculpture and character. But being uptown is unreal to me. It's where my mom grew up, where my grandma grew up. I've wanted to live here for years, all that time that I spent in Milwaukee dreaming abort coming back - this is where I wanted to be.
I had no idea how coming back to New Orleans would pan out, and I've tried to chronicle the milestones in the process to help me remember and reflect on it later. I struggled a lot in the decision to stay here or return to Milwaukee. If I'd have known two months ago that we would end up here, there would have been no decision to make. Our apartment this past year felt temporary, because it was, and any of the others that we saw last month would have too. This house feels like a home to me. I can't wait to get out and walk through this neighborhood.
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tom deininger
Friday, June 20, 2008
I love the idea of having a mass of chaos that, when you see it the right way, you realize that it's all arranged in astounding order. Like Gravity's Rainbow, or what the Matrix could have been if Neo had truly transcended instead of fading out in such anti-climatic fashion. Lost has the potential to be staggering in this sense, too, if it all comes together right and they don't keep leaving these loose ends (like, why was Desmond's time-traveling on the island limited to dreams about Charlie and then forgotten about? HUH?).This morning I learned about this artist, Tom Deininger. You really have to see the video of his Marilyn Monroe piece. I almost wish they didn't show the whole piece as a static image until the video was over. To see this pile of garbage, then pan out and watch it all coalesce... If I have one complaint, it's that I wish the piece were bigger.
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what should i read next dot com
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
http://www.whatshouldireadnext.comJust want to keep this top of mind, really. They should add some more "social" 2.0 aspects to this site -- blog your list, share your list, some better search options, "see other people's comments on this book"... stuff like that. Either way, I can actually see myself using this for recommendations.
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