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June 08, 2010

- Cloverfield on TV. Works so much better on the small screen. The child actors are difficult to distinguish - Lizzie Caplan is the only one with any real personality.
- Yelling at the phone.
- Yelling at email.
- Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Not working yet (see pts 2-3). The chapter on polishing a tile is especially good.
- Nona Hendryx, Nona. Still hard to get past 'Transformation' which still ranks as the best I'll Just Listen To That One More Time track ever.
- Yelling at London.
- For the first time ever being attracted to the idea of a smart phone, the iPhone 4. Considering buying one and yelling at that as having phone and email in same device would halve yelling time req'd.
- Thinking that honestly this is the last time I'm doing anyone a favour ever again.
- Nevertheless have done two massive favours. Karma Deficit: 2.
- How is it possible to make a tile into a jewel? Or even, a Marlena Diamond?
- A: It isn't.
- I relate to Marlena because she is bored, knows no-one at the party, saves someone and then dies.
- I miss Paul, even for the emails we don't send to each other.
- I hate poetry, or rather don't understand it. Hence the numbers.
- 116 is a table number.
- One one eight seven at Unterwasser.
- And it's raining.
- As a background I also recommend Alan Watts, The Way of Zen. In print since 1957 = in print now.
- I'm working on some short stories.
- The short stories are turning into a novel.
- I am polishing a tile.