ateolf | Books, Date, Wait

Since I got home early, Mary Beth and I went and had lunch. Well, since I'd had that huge, heavy breakfast I waited a little while and it ended up being almost dinner, anyway. But after resting up a while we went out. First to the library to renew our membership cards (mine's missed getting renewed for many many "cycles"). Okay, so we're there and the big book sale is going on so I went over to that and picked up a couple of books: Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel (oh and I already have that one! and I was so confident that I didn't that I didn't bother to check librarything on my phone as I did several times with other books, I had it in my head that this cover I was looking at was different than anything I had, I knew I had the one book (which title I'd obviously forgotten) and the overall design was the same but I thought the picture was different, meaning it was the same series so it had to be a different book not the same book with a different cover...but it ended up being the same book with the same exact cover...I guess I had it in my head that maybe there was a picture of a dog on it since she writes so much about dogs, but this didn't have a dog on the cover and it never did...anyway, it was only $1 so I can just pass it along now), The Lime Twig by John Hawkes, The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy, and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Then I went over to the regular used bookstore and bought a couple for not-quite-as-cheap-but-still-cheap: Grimus by Salman Rushdie, Silas Marner by George Eliot, Barbary Shore by Norman Mailer, News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez, The Counterlife by Philip Roth (RIP), and To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Then we went over to Sear Shack and had some burgers, fries, and shakes. A stop at Target and then back home. Took me a while before I was digested enough to get to exercising but I eventually did. In the meantime I finally finally finally edited down the last regular performances from last year's Memphis Concrète recordings. I got Qemist's two sets finished. I don't know why I had a block on getting back into it. Anyway, I got up this morning and got to work on actualizing the album idea I've had: collaging together the performances and putting 'em together on an album with 4 tracks with different styles. So I've made it through the first few artists. It's quite the undertaking so I'm not sure if I'll finish in time, but we shall see. Oh and then I just got a potentially heartbreaking email. Pharmakon may be cancelling her Memphis Concrète performance. I'd just bought her plane ticket, at least her agent got back within twenty-four hours to avoid any cancellation charges. She's wanting to cancel all her June performances due to other stuff she has going on. He's trying to talk her out of it and I'll know for sure in a few days. Ugh. I've been looking forward to this so much. And we've been advertising the festival already with particular emphasis on Pharmakon. Anyway, I'll try not to think about it until I know one way or the other...