rainy day monday

I had fun this weekend. I went to the dentist for the first time in two years and I'm proud to say I don't have any tooth decays! Unfortunately, I need a crown which is just as expensive as the ones that go on top of your head. On Friday I had drinks at LITM with BD after he got back from DC. It felt nice to be out and just relax after a long stressful week. Saturday night was full of lmao's with Yoko and Bonnie. It sounds like we have an active social life, but don't be fooled, it was a blue moon.

I wish we could do this more often.

mahalo sarsi

this post is dedicated to J since he's moving to hawaii next week.
coincidentally, i developed ten rolls of film last week & discovered
these pictures in the lot from our southwest road trip in 2008.

this song 'the highway' by peter & the wolf sums up that road trip for me.

"wake up, were driving it's best to keep moving. things are going okay.
eating fruit on the highways, trying to stay healthy.
dreaming of the old days. eye sockets running out in the fields.
the life of the farmer, it always appeals to me.
i wrote on a postcard i may or may not send.
i was keeping distracted until i saw horses and thought of you."

J. was notorious for smoking cigarettes at that time. having learned i was pregnant, he decided he would not smoke around me. i was so proud of him because even though it was so hard for him not to smoke in the car, he was careful and considerate of me the whole way through -- from chicago -- texas -- new orleans -- memphis --and then back to chicago.
however, this might be the reason he decided to gulp down a liter of moutain dew
which turned him into a chatterbox and king of karaoke-in-the-car-while-bella-tries-to-sleep.
nevertheless, it proved to himself that he could quit smoking if he wanted to.
a year later, he did... noting that this trip was a precursor to it all.




now, with the weird air left behind, he will be be taking off in a week to follow the sun & worship the waves.
he'll breathe in a new life and know what lightness feels.

here's to your many many new adventures to come, my good friend.
i've enjoyed our voyages together and look forward to sharing a few more when i see you
in your new home.

aloha.

movies seen in 2010

the exploding girl, bradley rust gray 2009
breaking upwards, daryl wein 2009
peter and vandy, jay dipietro 2008
moon, duncan jones 2009
cracks, jordan scott 2009
the city of lost children, jean-pierre junet 1995
kikujiro, takeshi "beat" takano 2000
good dick, marianna palka 2008
teeth, mitchell lichtenstein 2006
timer, jac shaeffer 2009
priceless, pierre salvadori, 2006
paper moon, peter bogdanovich 1973
ponyo, hayao miyazaki 2008
wendy and lucy, kelly reichardt 2008
long life, happiness & prosperity, mina shum 2004
the station agent, thomas mccarthy 2008
an education, lone scherfig 2008
do the right thing, spike lee 1989
man on the wire, james marsh 2008
toi et moi, julie lopes-curval 2006
the baxter, michael showalter 2005
cleo from 5 to 7, agnes varda 1961

books [2010]

[read]
dress your family in corduroy and denim, david sedaris
naked, david sedaris
when you are engulfed in flames, david sedaris
a freewheelin' time, suze rotolo
blind willow, sleeping woman, haruki murakami
kafka on the shore, haruki murakami
a man with no country, kurt vonnegut

[reading/unfinished]
hardboiled & hard luck, banana yoshimoto
the wind-up bird chronicle, haruki murakami
woman hollering creek, sandra cisneros
the elegance of the hedgehog, muriel barbery
a tree grows in brooklyn, betty smith
tales from outer suburbia, shaun tan
immortality, milan kundera
let the great world spin, colum mccann