Constipation

• Well, work had decided a while ago to block WordPress (as well as most blog sites), so I am no longer able to blog during my lunch hour.  Can’t really blame them for locking down websites.  I mean, they’re paying us to work.  Still, the only real time I had to come here was during my lunch hour, so it made my sporadic writing even more so.  My plan for 2009 was to write at least once a month but already missed January – oh well.
• Let’s see – read Jonathan Lethem’s Fortress of Solitude during 2008.  Very good book – makes me want to check out some more, especially Motherless Brooklyn, which sounds really good.
• Was also getting into Goethe’s Faust.  Even inspired me to start writing my own play/poem in the style of Goethe/Shakespeare.  You know, I figured no one wrote plays in rhyme anymore, and I thought it would be fun to start writing one.  I haven’t gotten too far into writing it yet, but I’ve found it funny so far (one of the four projects I’m not really working on right now).  I don’t know what happened, though, with the reading of the book.  Just kind of stopped after I forgot my book for a couple days and eventually started reading World War Z by Max Brooks.  Less than 20 pages into it, though.
• I think the stress at work has made me want to relax my brain on the way home, so I’ve stopped wanting to read on the train to and from work.  Feel like my brain is going to mush outside of work.  Haven’t been reading or writing, which usually starts putting me in a “down” mood. 
• George Carlin is currently on  HBO.  The man can never be replaced.
• Last movie I rented was Return to Sleepaway Camp.  Not even worth linking.  Horrible.  Couple actors from the original film made this intriguing, but it was horrible – and not even in a good way.  Not even the badly disguised killer was really that amusing.
• My wife wants to see He’s Just Not That Into You, which is opening this weekend.  Looks like it could be good.  In linking the film, I see that Fan Boys is also coming out this weekend.  Wasn’t that supposed to be out, like, 15 years ago?
• Next week sees the release of the Friday the 13th remake/revisioning – whatever you want to call it.  I started writing my own remake a couple years ago.  Don’t know why, but I really do like most of those films.  There’s a documentary called His Name Was Jason, which is out very soon if not already.  Figure I’ll pick that up. 
• Haven’t heard much good music lately – except I am enjoying some of the music that my 2  year old comes across on some of his tv shows – especially Jack’s Big Music Show on Noggin.  For Christmas and Birthday #35, Christine got me a new iPod.  Started going to iTunes store and picking out some music – trying to be diverse, getting Tchaikovsky, Sugarhill Gang, Motorhead, Bob Dylan, Sonic Youth, you get the idea.  Enjoying the idea of having music at the ready again.  Also just received notice that the latest Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 album, Goodnight Oslo, has been shipped – Feb 17 is the actual street date - so I’m looking forward to receiving that in the mail.
• I have four projects I’m currently not writing…my little joke to myself.  Working on a project at work, and it’s rare for me to take a break during my workday now, so I haven’t written any of my fiction in a while.  Like I mentioned above, I thought I’d write  a poem/play in the style of Goethe’s Faust.  I’ve also been working on a couple novels – a tribute to my wife and a “horror” novel.  Also, I started writing a screenplay or stage play – not sure which.  Would like to get back to that.  I decided I would take some old short stories and try entering some contests in the meantime – to make me feel active.  Submitted one and have been lax ever since.
• Watching Ethan grow up has been wonderful, as more and more words escape his lips and he continues to be the little weirdo you’d expect from parents like us.  It’s awesome.
• Number Two (Drew) is due to arrive in late May/early June.  It will be great for Ethan to have a playmate cuz he loves being around kids his own age, but we can’t really afford daycare, so those days are few and far between.
• I’m going to try to get some thoughts down and try to publish every couple weeks or so, but we’ll see how that goes.  It’s almost 2:30am, and I really should go to bed cuz, once Ethan is up, I will be up.  I liked how things were going before my blogging lull with the format, so I will try to make this more visually appealing as well, but, for now, you get words.
• Take care – feel free to drop me a line.

~ by Mr Stinky on February 7, 2009.