Ideal Schedule
Posted: May 30, 2013 Filed under: advice, anxiety, bike, bios that might have been, Queens Leave a comment »Anne Lenhart recently suggested the following ideal schedule:
7:30 – wake up
8:30 – 9:30 – yoga
10:00 – 10:30 – shower and breakfast
10:30 – 1:00 – read
1:00 – 1:30 – lunch snack
1:30 – 4:30 – golf/horses/making stuff
4:30 – 6:00 – nap
6:00 – 10:00 – hang out
10:30 – bed
I’d like to counter with the following:
6:30 – Wake up
7:00 – Watch game show bloopers on YouTube
7:30 – Ride your bike
8:00 – Giant Breakfast
9:00 – Morning Nap
9:40 – Reading in the Garden
11:00 – Think about what you’re making for lunch.
11:20 – Start making lunch and calling friends while they make lunch.
12:00 – Lunch
1:00 – See a Movie
3:00 – Too-Early Cocktail
4:00 – Pet the Cat / Afternoon Nap
4:45 – Pick up your friends in your car and drive around to different grocery stores in Queens picking up ingredients for dinner that you can’t find anywhere else like burdock and Shacha.
6:00 – Drink wine and cook and fellowship
9:00 – Some people go home but some people stay
10:00 – Look at Instagram
10:20 – Bed
My First Performance Art
Posted: May 23, 2013 Filed under: archives, art-making, tennessee, the unbearable weight of history, theater Leave a comment »My senior year of high school I did a performance project in which I looked at the life of Andy Warhol and created a piece — I think it was about 25 minutes — ostensibly about his life, but actually (not so secretly) about my own life. Such are the assignments of a theater teacher asking students who are 17 to look into themselves and make something great without making something awful.
I had forgotten about the piece until this fragment of footage showed up. This is only two minutes of the piece, but I think you’ll agree that it’s totally bonkers.
Andy Warhol Piece (fragment) – May 1997 from Lee Houck on Vimeo.
Lesser-Known Kitchen Herb Varietals
Posted: May 16, 2013 Filed under: advice, food, Garden, hilarious, LoTR 1 Comment »- Entrapmint
- Catnipple
- Thyme of Your Life
- Rosemarie
- Rue(d)
- Michael Bay Leaf
- Cara-Me-Away
- Taragorn
Crying Frodo #5 – Wheel of Fortune + Imagined Identities
Posted: May 13, 2013 Filed under: art-making, bios that might have been, Crying Frodo, writing Leave a comment »
Crying Frodo #5 is available now!
“Wheel of Fortune + Imagined Identities” looks at 24 game show contestants and conjures pasts and futures for their potential selves and their winnings. Crying Frodo #5 celebrates the complex and/or straightforward (and/or some combination of both) lives of regular people asked to extend their experience plus intellect to surpass their previous identities.
LOL?
Posted: April 23, 2013 Filed under: advice, ambiguous, anxiety, EXACTLY, modernity, writing Leave a comment »Him: I thought his short stories were too sad.
Me: That’s basically all I care about. Sadness.
Describe Your Writing Routine
Posted: April 18, 2013 Filed under: advice, anxiety, art-making, writing Leave a comment »Identity Theory asked Dan Chaon about his writing routine. I think his answer is the best answer I’ve seen regarding this ever-present question:
Describe your writing routine.
Gaze out window. Smoke cigarette. Write sentence. Walk the dog. Write more sentences. Smoke more. Gaze more. Write more sentences. Feel depressed. Take a nap. Write more sentences. Drink coffee. Surf the internet. Write more sentences. Feel especially depressed. Write more sentences. Consider suicide. Drink a few beers. Write more sentences. Take another nap. Gaze out window.
You can read the entire interview here.
Road Blindness
Posted: April 12, 2013 Filed under: ambiguous, poems, travel, writing Leave a comment »Somewhere along I-95
I finally come to understand
this thing called road blindness,
having centered myself in deep thinking
about what some character would or wouldn’t do,
some mystery of foggy logistics,
for a indeterminate sum of seconds,
coming out of it to
sudden swaths of cadmium forsythia
along the shoulder,
followed immediately by
a road sign for Glastonbury,
which is the hometown
of this one impossible love of mine,
you know the type,
who keeps appearing in my Facebook feed,
and Google Reader, and Email Inbox,
because people send me this shit not even thinking.
