Poem/Thoughts

Listen

I think I would like to have been a knight,
but sometimes when I'm at concerts I always
think someone is calling my name from
somewhere in the crowd, and if I were a knight
I could have never enjoyed a concert.

I went to the Printers Ball tonight and sadly missed David Berman's reading. I didn't realize he was reading on the eighth floor and by the time I got up there it was too late. It looked like a good turn out and I picked up to past issues of MAKE and an issue of BOMB and many cool informative bookmarks. I also picked up this niffy button:


It was for the next One Book, One City selection for CPL. Everyone is supposed to guess who that guy is, but I got the inside track. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow. Hugh Ingrasci let it slip on the last day of class. I guess they didn't tell him about the button/campaign.

I think most people usually have a song stuck in their heads over a day or week, but I usually have several songs stuck in my head at once. Sometimes, they overlap when they're stuck up their, and I feel like there is a DJ in my subconscious, mixing tracks.

Here's the tracks:

Don't Tremble by The Low Anthem
Before the Devil Knows Your Dead by Delta Spirit
Creature Fear by Bon Iver
Vesuvius by Sufjan Stevens
Killed Myself When I Young by A.A. Bondy
Smith and Jones Forever by The Silver Jews
Black River Killer by Blitzen Trapper

I've been on my toes lately. Trade deadline always makes me nervous. I'm scared the Sox will trade away some of my favorite players. And those Phillies, Christ! Thankfully, over the past week I watched the first season of Game of Thrones. I don't recommend if you don't like horses' (and peoples'- which was less disturbing; which is kind of disturbing in itself) heads being chopped off, incest and the words bastard/gimp being used. Otherwise, it was an intense drama, almost like Deadwood (with all the backstabbings and alliances), but with knights. Poor Sean Bean.  

Next: The long journey, after I finish watching Treme, of watching the first 4 seasons of Mad Men, which was just added to Netflix Instants. This will be hard, as I just started the anvil that is Underworld by Don DeLillo. I loved the first 30 pages, but have about 800 to go.

good night/good day