whoops

Did I say tomorrow? I meant "by the end of the week." It's been a flurry of organization and work here, and I've noticed that when I am getting physical things organized (like clothes, yarn, shoes, books) my capacity for mental organization, viz-a-viz getting thoughts down on paper in some sensible way . . . is somehow lessened. So focused am I on getting shit done that my thoughts tend to come out as "shelf together now" and "where put drawers."

Before I left for Minnesota I bought a bunch of organizing aids. A few shelving units, a cheap yet nice wire frame 5-drawer thingy that was the easiest thing I have ever put together, and a set of cloth boxes that will fit into the shelf units and preserve that which is inside from the dust of Brooklyn.

This is the dustiest city I have ever known. Seriously.

Half of my broken dining room chairs are now gone. I've been putting one out with each trash pick up. I'm thinking of starting with just two new chairs, because the ones I want are going to be a little pricey for me right now, if I get them stained to match the table and hutch. And really...what would be the point of an unmatched set? Gothic Cabinet Craft has chairs that closely resemble the ones I have to discard:

I'll have to bring in a broken part of chair to have them match the stain. Ideally I would have the chairs ready by the beginning of the new year, if I can find the time to order them.

In other news, I went to see I'm Not There with Jackie the other night. I agree with a lot of what Carolyn says about it here. Thought Cate Blanchett was absolutely brilliant. Liked Christian Bale a lot as well, and give him major props for appearing not only as the dazzling young Dylan but also the pudgy afroed born-again Dylan. I didn't even mind the Richard Gere segments--it reminded me a little bit of those Fellini films I never saw. Also liked the young boy segments. I thought the scene in the hospital with Woody Guthrie was a bit heavy-handed, but I really liked the scene with the one family at the beginning, where the boy is going on and on about experiencing stuff that happened like 20 years ago, and the mom of the family looks at him and says, "Live in your own time." To me, that matched up well with the Richard Gere part, where he's also bizarrely not living in his own time. But then, no one is. I don't know...it worked for me. It's movies like this that make me love movies.

Comments

[carolyn]

what did you think of pushing daisies. much darker than some of its episodes. i was excited chuck got to wear some new clothes as the episode before that i was like hmmmmm are they cutting the wardrobes so they don't go over their production budget.