Telling a friend about 4, 3, 2, 1 over dinner, I said it was romantic and lovely, if you didn’t mind new yorkers in love with new york, ellis island through the 60s, the anti-war movement, and all that shit we’ve heard so much about, which I did not mind.
Later, while my kid was eating pizza and getting sauce two inches up both cheeks, I asked him to fold it in half and the guy at the next table who’d overheard me laughed and said "I’m from New York and it’s really like all of that, you know”
19th book of the year, “4, 3, 2, 1", by Paul Auster ( https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/4321-by-Paul-Auster-10889359.php)
‘4321,’ by Paul AusterWith spare philosophical mysteries such as “The New York Trilogy,” “City of Glass”...SFGATELoved it, spent most of my spare time since I started it with it, will miss it, probably missed a lot in it.
20th book of the year: “Michael Kohlhaas”, by Heinrich von Kleist. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kohlhaas)
Michael Kohlhaas - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org4 3 2 1 was full of writers learning the trade from other writers and hundreds of books are mentioned. I’m sure I’ll thumb through it for more suggestions but this one was the first I chose.
I think probably best to go in completely without any idea what it is beyond: german, written early 1800s, takes place in the 1500s, and Kafka, of all people liked it a lot.
🎼 “Lines form on my face and hands"
Yeah it be like that
🎤 "Lines form from the ups and downs”
ikr?
🎸 “I’m in the middle without any plans"
Aren’t we all?
🤘🏼 “I’m a boy and I’m a man”
Yeah I feel like I’ve I’m on my third mid-life cri—
👼🏼 “I’m eighteen!"
Jesus H. Christ! No! Shut up!
🤌🏼
Youtube is so great for guitar players. Via Norman’s Rare Guitars “Guitar of the Day”, in addition to the hosts, I got into Josh Smith, and from Josh to Bruce Foreman, and also from Josh to Greg Koch.
Got a ticket to finally see Bruce Foreman in three weeks at the Keys Jazz Bistro, hell yeah.