April 11, 2012

• Whole Foods, Upper West Side

     Had to go to Michael's for some canvas board.  There's a painting I want to paint.  I did a drawing a few days ago and got this idea for a painting....

     I had 4 days off for spring break.  I'm bored stiff.  I met a friend here for lunch, as it is near Michael's and she lives nearby and wasn't working either.  The weather is coolish,  nothing to brag about....

     I haven't been painting but did some drawing.

     I bought myself a Nook E-reader,  a reward for filing my taxes on time.   I hate filing my taxes on time and am notoriously late,  like 5 years late.   2 years ago I filed 5 years at a time and then a last year I filed 2 years at a time and this year I am on time.   I've never been penalized because I never owe the government, they always owe me money and there is no penalty for filing late if they owe you money of course because they are making money so they want you to leave your refund with them, and,  as I learned the hard way,  if you are over 3 years late,  they get to keep your refund...

     Anyhow, my accountant moved upstate,  I can't stand him, so it's easier to deal with him through email and through the mail.  No longer do I have to go to his big fancy office and feel intimidated,  I don't know, he just rubs me the wrong way....   I have too much social anxiety to find a new one too... now that I'm used to this prick.

     I read all three of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series....  hard to get into, good, then drudgery about the Swedish government... Was glad when I finished the third, then watched all the Swedish movies and the American version of the fist one.  all very good, but the series is over hyped......  then I read Perfume by Patrick Suskind, one of my very favorite books now.    Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King at his most brutal....

     I read some sexually perverse novel from the 1920s, I think, called The Story of The Eye.... Wow,  what an eyeful,  totally perverse...

    Now the 3 books I want to read,  2 Body Farm Novels and the next Gaslight Mystery Series by Victoria Thompson ( body farm books by Jefferson Bass)  are not published yet but I have pre ordered them...

     What will I do tomorrow,  my last day of vacation?  Should I rent a bicycle?  I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday and saw  The Stein's Collect... the collection of the new Paris art collected by Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo,  several Picassos in there and many others. 

    If you haven't seen Midnight in Paris,  you should,  they are featured in the movie.     Gertrude Stein did a lot to make Picasso famous and a few others...

    Now I am bored of blogging too...

    In my Nook is The Hunger Games which came free with the purchase,  I got 2 books,  the other is called Loose Cannons and is full of myths about wars which I couldn't care much about.   The Hunger Games is juvenile....  I suppose I will finish it since it is short but it is not for me...  at this point it doesn't look like I will read the other two.   I want something better.... I like adult fiction...

    I downloaded a book about Sybil,  not the current one that refutes multipersonality disorder, but one by Patrick Suraci which supports the idea and he actually knew Sybil and has some of her art... this is know first hand...

    Anyway... what else... what to do .... go home and watch the next episode of Awake,  a series about a man who goes to sleep only to wake up in a parallel world,  his sleep life is an alternate life in a parallel world and he sees a therapist in each world and they each tell him the other world is a dream.   It's a pretty good series... I'm really into quantum mechanics and parallel realities...

    Hopefully I'll write again soon.   Facebook is killing this blog....
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