some qwik things to think about and do, and a reading list.

1) there should be some kind of aspie underground training--for how to go to bars, smoke a bong, negiote a bath house, etc--thinking about this wrt flea's kids recent diagnosis and spilling bong water all over erik-- i mean there is a chunk of shit to understand the basic above ground socialiazation skills, but not the qausi legal stuff that comes up in every day life.

2) i saw this woman on the train this morning that looked pretty standard hipster except for a perfect ronnie spector ca 1964 beehive...god was it hot.

3) two movies--big bounce and friday night lights, friday night lights was badly edited, adn was cliched in the the extreme, but it had a lovely and gorgeous performances by some minor actors, subtle, damning and deeply political. big bounce was mostly inscrutable but pretty as fuck, with casual flesh and a freeing attitude towards pleasure--extremely well shot.

4) thomas mertons nurse was named margie smith--this is all we know about her, no scholar has contacted her about merton, or if they have they have been v. discreet, even having her name is strange. i wonder whyt people have been so quiet, now that everyone is either middle aged or dead.

read:
a book on friedlander (his fotos, they are chaotic, badly composed, badly constructed, messy--and im not sure if its a lack of skill or a delibarate aesthetic choice, and if it matters? (one brilliant photo taken in salt lake--with some chemical company in a white modernist facade, with a globe embalzoned on its side froegrounded, obstructing the fake gothic of the temple--a wry comment on the protestant conflation of commerce and evagnleism that the lds are so perfect at.)

a book of joes schaltx (sp) shots of teenagers--even more of the icky lust vibe consiidering her was her teacher for most of that time.

phiadons colelction of interviews with roni horn (i like her work as a writer more then a phtog)

some national geogrpahic america shots, some wonderfully casually corperal.erotic ones of minor leuge baseball, some mennoites and some amish, some landscapes--the essays were good to, because they talked about how much he felt constricted by the aesthetic he found himself in.

and one more i cannot remeber, which i think brings me to 70.

to do
conslidate whitman notes, esp. in light of katz's book
write more on friedlander
turn theology poems into esermons for standford
power point photo realism essay
eek out the idea of labour in early shaker&lds hymns
see if robin is interested in the small sacaremnt peice, shop if not.
follow up on rachel and poloroids.
make love to neville the golourius wombat.