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Well, now that I've spent the entire day writing certain irritating things over and over and am nowhere closer to finishing...I'll update.

This town is supremely boring. In fact, I'm probably better served sparing you the details. Today's exciting development was that none of Starbucks' customers were capable of speaking english. We had, and I kid you not, one man come in, point at the counter and say, "I want taste." He repeated it, too, so there was a guy standing at the counter demanding "taste" for several minutes. I also had someone ask if we had coolers. I was like "...for storing cold beverages?"

After work...oh, I did nothing. I can't even find a book to read, so I've decided to reread Kavalier and Clay, at least until HBP comes out.

Speaking of which, I finished

I'd say it was definitely Palahniuk's worst (although I haven't read Invisible Monsters). I could develop an intricate argument replete with specific supporting material, or I could just say, "A guy cuts off his penis and another guy dies trying to swallow it whole" and leave it at that.

Definitely better to treat it as a collection of short stories than a novel, because as a novel...it sucked. It also made me gag, which I guess is an accomplishment. Everything was just blood, blood, blood, and there was scarcely any character development. I couldn't keep track of who'd died, for crying out loud. It's hard to even pinpoint a story I really liked, because all the death got so repetitive. The one good thing about Palahniuk (when he's not making you gag) is that you learn a bunch of interesting and useless facts. So I now got an array of those at my fingertips. The bad thing about Palahniuk is that he utterly destroys my writing style, and I find myself writing things like, "And Alan says, 'Go to the store.' He says, 'Go there now.'" And wanting to add little epigrams at the end of every paragraph.

...and I've always wanted to RP as Carl Streator. Okay, nobody knows who that is. Also, Lionel Essrog! Josef Kavalier! *crickets*

This week's

audiography theme is "the end of the world," which in my sad, pathetic world translates to: "let's find some angsty Alan/Tara songs." (Oh, I also bought Dylan live '75--I'll upload stuff from that later.)

Wise Up-Aimee Mann

Yes, I know I've subjected many of you to rants about having male characters constantly listening to angsty chick music, but...I really like this song. Besides, it's in Magnolia, and the scene it's featured in is just incredible. Magnolia itself is pretty incredible (and Tom Cruise's character gives an interview that reminds me a lot of...Tom Cruise) and funnier than I gave it credit for. It also features the grouchy judge from BL as this asshole who makes William H. Macy cry. ANYWAY.

Peace in the Valley-Alabama 3

This is like country/rap/stuff (yeah, I know), but for some reason it doesn't make me cringe. In fact, I think it's pretty great and have been listening to it obsessively. Because I like crack.

Round Here (Live)-Counting Crows

Very different from the studio version. It's ten minutes long and...man.