summer reading: what i have read as of 6.29.08

Dry - Augusten Burroughs

172 pages of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers

Killing Yourself to Live - Chuck Klosterman

30ish assorted magazines

First few chapters of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

39 pages and counting of A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas - Chuck Klosterman

nicknames (some unfortunate)

In no particular order...or significance:

babygal

roo butt

rachel roo

sonny (dad's generic name for everyone)

little k

raka

rock

CARACAS VENEZUALA (always shouted)

sex (a complete misnomer)

bootsie

antika

missy

la cucaracha

la cu

karacaracaraca

tiker

teeks

pansa

melons (...dumb boys)

summer reading: what i want to read

Dry - Augusten Burroughs

Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger

Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain

Go Ask Alice - Anonymous

Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

things my dad hates pt. 1

In no particular order:

1. Nachos

2. People who eat nachos

3. Canada

4. Onions

5. "Damn crowds that follow us where ever we go"

6. Old people

7. Loud people

8. People who smoke

9. People who drink

10. People who drink and smoke and eat onions

11. Foods with sauce of any kind

12. Movies made in Canada, by Canadians

13. Bad breath dressings

14. I Heart Huckabees (see #12)(Note: Does not matter if they are actually Canadian or filmed in Canada, they are accused of being Canadian and hated.)

15. Young punks

16. Using your brakes (if you can't coast to a stop in time, you are driving like a young punk, see #15)

17. Liberals

lines i like, out of context: "killing yourself to live" by chuck klosterman

In no particular order:

1. The fact that he could not do something correctly–yet still do it significantly–is all that anyone needs to know about punk rock.

2. I am not qualified to live here.

3. ...I find your ideas fascinating. You are a fascinating Cracker Barrel waitress.

4. I can't decide if I'm impressed or underwhelmed...

5. Art and love are the same thing: It's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. It's understanding the unreasonable.

6. I'm still alive, but I feel myself dying, person by person by person by person.