He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back

So, thanks to my friend Lee I joined this website called LibraryThing. It is a website where you can list your books and get in contact with people who are into similar books as you. Anyway, they have this thing called early reviewers where you can get books early and read them and write a review of them. Recently I got a book called "He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back" by Mark Bechtel. It is a book about NASCAR's 1979 season.

Honestly, I really don't like NASCAR at all, but I think this book (so far) is really interesting. I'm about halfway through the book and the characters are really interesting, the story is compelling and the underground nature of the sport at the time makes for a compelling read (so far). I will let you all, whoever you are, know more when I have finished it. I still think it is interesting that I am enjoying a book about something that I really don't give a damn about.

New Semester

So, it's a new semester of school for me. I think this is going to be a really fun semester, but a lot of work. I am taking four classes and am a TA for another one. In my Advanced Logic Workshop I think I might be the only person in the class who has done some modal logic before. Everyone else looks at modal logic like a terrifying thing, it's kind of funny.

The other funny thing is I shaved my beard off and got a haircut and now people don't seem to recognize me. I've had several friends walk right past me without realizing who it is.

Clint Eastwood

So, I just finished re-watching 'The Man With No Name' Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly) and I have to say, I can't think of a better three movies. I defy anyone to name a better trilogy. Clint Eastwood is so badass in these three films. Although, the most badass is Lee van Cleef in the second film, but overall Clint is so bad it is unbelievable. If you haven't seen these three movies you are missing out. My ex, who was completely into those weird, overlong foreign films actually liked The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (a three hour film about violence in the Old West). I will say that Sergio Leone may be my favorite director of all based on these films. Long, slow, cinematic takes; extreme close-ups; beautiful camera-work; amazing scores. If someone can tell me a trilogy more amazing I will be impressed. (note: original Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Alien, need not apply. While I love those films, these are just above and beyond)

Dreams are weird

So, last night I dreamed that I was being stalked by Bill and Melinda Gates. It was in my neighborhood, right near my apartment and I had to flee to the safety of my apartment because they were coming after me. I wonder what this means.

School

So, things are kind of changing. I am now a paid TA for an intro to philosophy class. I will be showing up to talk to the professor and sit in on the class today to see what it is like. It's exciting that I am moving in this direction so quickly. 

The negative is that I am sick and tired from visiting Marla this last weekend. Labor day is supposed to be restful, but mine consisted of driving 340 miles round trip and hiking 12 miles into the wilderness in the Stanislaus national forest. All the hiking and stress and everything seems to have taken my immune system down a notch because I'm a little bit sick. Which makes me even lazier and I feel less like I want to work. Also, I am now single.

Kant

Yeah, so Kant is back on the bookshelf. I've failed to read the Critique yet again. Oh well. It's kind of hard to do this that no one is bothering reading it. It's like the crazy person that talks to themselves sort of. Only I think their conversations might be more lucid and entertaining than anything I put here.

Oh, just heard a great cd. Spin Magazine presents Purplish Rain. In honor of the 25th anniversary of Purple Rain coming out they got 9 different artists to each do a cover of one of the songs. I think the top three are Mariachi El Bronx's cover of I Would Die 4 U, The Twilight Singers' cover of When Doves Cry and Of Montreal's cover of Computer Blue. But really the whole album is pretty awesome.

Speaking of Mariachi El Bronx, their new album is coming out next Tuesday and from what I've heard it sounds pretty amazing. If you like mariachi music.

San Francisco

So, I am now in San Francisco. I have no job, no home, no friends. It's kind of a weird, lonely feeling. I have no idea what to do with myself other than look for apartments.