RIP Heath

The Grey Lady sums it up well.

Sometimes I don’t even know what to say…

R.I.P. Heath Ledger.  It’s rare when someone with his looks and talent use them in such interesting ways.  Selfishly, and for his legacy, I hope enough of The Dark Knight and (the Terry Gilliam Movie With The Long Name) were done for his parts to be in the final cut.

a flood

I just posted a lot of photos to flickr, since I finally got a card reader to get photos off my new-used palm phone thingy.  I can’t decide if the photos are better or worse than my old cameraphone.

Also, I found Hrvatski’s Ouiseaux 96-98!  I’ve been trying to find this cd at an affordable price for years – it’s usually ridiculously expensive,  but I found it at Academy Records Annex for $7.

Birds land…

…or come close to the ground, hovering.  The seem about to land, and you anticipate the finality of their little feet touching the ground, talons clacking or whispering; you tense up for it.

The birds have seen something off, something twitchy, and they fly away again, perhaps to a tree, but they never touch the ground.  Tension diffuses through your muscles without satisfaction of release.

lists, because working on my MFA application is overrated

Music recently acquired (that I heart):

-PJ Harvey, White Chalk

-Bruce Springsteen, Darkness on the Edge of Town

-Regina Spektor, 11:11

-Levon Helm, Dirt Farmer

-Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio

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Books recently read… (and found AWESOME):

-Kelly Link, Stranger Things Happen

-Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves (I’m about 50% through, and it’s guh-reat)

-John Kessel, Pride and Prometheus (in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)

(…and found mediocre:)

Erik Larson, Devil in the White City (I found the “Notes and Sources” section thoroughly enjoyable, but the book itself by turns interesting and tedious)

Amy Hempel, Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories (I haven’t read the eponymous novelette, but the short stories did not live up to her hype.  Kelly Link kicks this book’s ass.  I’ll have to read other Hempel work to figure out why people worship her, including Chuck Palahnuik)

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Links to two amazing Kelly Link stories, because I love you that much.  On the second one, you have to click the real small “next” at the bottom – or better yet, buy the issue of Tin House it’s in.  Hey, subscribe to Tin House – or get me a subscription!

I have nothing to do with them, just trying to get some good lit karma.