Illinois

Okay,ignore what I wrote previously-my thoughts were here,there,everywhere and even in that part of your house where even dust doesn't stray into but only devils and dark thoughts rest-was just being the melodramatic electric penguin I can sometimes magically transform into.

Having got my Internet installed a week plus back-I've been on a downloading craze,and managed to find myself a couple of fantastic albums.There are too many to mention,so I'll stick to the really good ones that I must say are just incredible.

Sufjan Stevens-Illinois
Kings of Convenience-Quiet is The New Loud
PJ Harvey-To Bring You My Love
Interpol-Antics
My Bloody Valentine-Loveless

The Loveless album is just unbelievable-although you have to like a particular type of music to appreciate it,I think.If you like stuff like The Radio Dept,J&M,you'll be blown away.Seriously,it's an album like this that reminds me what music can really do,how it can transcend words and definitions and just pierce your bloody heart with something so remarkably profound the only way to react is with awe.Okay,that's my reaction to the album-you might just think it's a whole load of shit.

Oh,and Sufjan Stevens,if you're reading-which is highly unlikely,you have a voice that breaks my heart.It's like I don't want to download any more albums or songs,or go beyond Illinois because this is the best there is for you,and any further it'll just be downhill.I don't know if that has to do with anything,but,here's a magic dot:.

Been reading American Psycho,and I won't recommend it to anyone unless you're able and willing to stomach extreme grotesque(ness?).It's not an exaggeration I assure you-when I say grotesque(ness?),I mean-let you eyes hover past the following red part if you think you'd prefer to not know-I mean there are parts where he literally bites off pieces off a woman's vagina or bites off a nipple and uses a pen to pierce eyes and chews flesh of fingers-ah,that was a pleasant moment wasn't it?The first quarter of the book it just dribbles aimlessly,there's no discernible direction or anything specific really going on.He goes out to dinner and all,impulsively kills strangers and resumes his life as if nothing had happened-it's only after this initial drony part that a reason,an intention,the nature of the character and his tortured mind,surfaces.And as the violence escalates and body count increases,you'll start to finally have a firm hold on the story-things no longer feel pointless,and get really interesting.Some things only start to look necessary after a while in the book,like how he knows what brand of clothing everyone's wearing all the time,what The Patty Winters Show every morning was about,or how he says he's "off to return some videotapes" as an excuse often-these small bits are highly repetitive and impossible to not notice,and present in almost every chapter,at first they seem trite and trivial,but later they provide deep insight into how unhinged he really is.I meant to buy this book at Borders,where they put a 'Restricted to 18+' on the cover (this,naturally,made me more tempted to read it) but found a copy in the RW library instead.

Movies I look forward to watching

Michael Clayton (Okay,premature assumptions aside,critics are wetting themselves over this movie)
Juno
Lars & The Real Girl
Rocket Science
Waitress
Away From Her
Resident Evil:Extinction (I know I'm alone on liking RE,but I thought the first two were great leave-your-brain-at-home-&-let's-watch-some-chicks-beat-down-some-ass film.A specialised genre of dumb popcorn action lead by the Charlie's Angels flicks)

Oh,and the first 5 30 Rock eps have finally finished downloading-and for a few seconds,there is only silence as my poor heart breathes in content.The pilot's unmissable-some funny quotes from there:

Jack (to Liz): I like you.You have the boldness of a much younger woman.

Tracy Morgan (abruptly barges into set to 'rescue' the failed scene): I am from the government,and I'm here to inspect your chicken nuggets!

Tracy Morgan (to Liz,on US Weekly accusing him of taking drugs):I'm not on crack yo',I'm straight up mentally ill!

It's been a terrific & interesting week for me-and I'm feeling hopeful and...