"Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly." - Henry Miller

Gysana... I finished reading Jessica's NaNoWriMo novel for a second time, this time getting to read the majority of it in one sitting. It's really good, and funny, and the characters are well developed and I want to know more about all of them. I won't give away vital plot elements (otherwise you won't buy the book) but the novel centers around a girl named Gysana and the people in her life... her dead mother, her estranged grandmother, her lesbian aunt, and her deformed father... I was very impressed with Jessica's novel which she wrote in three weeks! If you would like to read an excerpt, you can find one published in this month's issue of Truckin': Gysana.

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By the way, I have to blog this: the Sopranos SUCK ASS this season!

I cannot believe I actually fork over $10.95 a month for HBO... just for shitty episodes of the Sopranos. I mean I sometimes watch Inside the NFL but I am really getting fucked over by my cable company Cablevision... they are ruining the Knicks & Rangers and at first no YES network, and then overpriced cable channels... but I think I might be getting Fox News Channel & IFC (finally!). Too little too late if you ask me.

This is what my brother, Derek had to say about last night's epsiode of the Sopranos:

"The episode was still kind of lame. Paulie Walnuts is an animal though. You kow what I liked about last night's episode . . . how Paulie finds out that Johnny Sacks has been lying to him all this time about Carmine liking Paulie and what not and being on his side . . . Paulie changes his attitude real quick towards them and is like, 'Fuck Johnny Sacks!' the next time he hears Tony mention his name . . . of course, that's after Paulie gives Tony that fat envelope of cash (with the old lady's savings in it) . . . that shit was so hilarious. He just beat that lady and suffocated her to death. Typical Paulie Walnuts! "

Dark Star Orchestra

Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at The World Theatre, New York, NY
Performing 7/1/1976 Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, PA (Donna Show)

Set 1: Might As Well, Mama Tried, Dire Wolf, Jack Straw, Deal, El Paso, Loser, BIODTL, Friend of the Devil, Dancin> Wharf Rat> Dancin

Set 2: Let It Grow, Mission in the Rain, Playin> Drums> Space> Wheel> Playin Jam> Other One> Comes A Time> Playin Reprise> Sugar Magnolia

Encore: Johnny B. Goode

Fillers: China Cat Sunflower> I Know You Rider

A 4 hour show!!! A review to come later, for sure!

Happy Birthday Woody!

Today is Woody Allen's b-day. And here's one of my favorite Woody Allen quotes:

"I don't want to become immortal through my work, I want to become immortal through not dying."

And the best of the rest:

• "More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."

• "My one regret in life is that I am not someone else."

• "In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."

• "I failed to make the chess team because of my height."

• "Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best"

• "Eighty percent of success is showing up."

• "If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."

• "Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies."

• "You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred."