Life as a Series of Dots
When recounting, the last few days consisted of a lot of drinking, making an abject fool out of myself and having fun doing it. To wit: packing, singing in a cockney accent, a party with teachers, an opening and a 50th anniversary party. In retrospect, it amounted to endings, beginnings and the transitions to other things I guess.
It was fun.
My friends art opening (the Art Opening of Drama) was a blast. The work was amazing, it had a great turnout, I managed to be a subtle asshole to the Enemies of the People and had fun while doing it. The dog rocked the event and made friends with everyone. It ended up with one of the Enemies not attending, and the other being pseudo-cordule, whilst being cliquey with the other Enemie Combatants. I realize this makes art school sound like a Soldier of Fortune convention, but it kind of is. Just with bad haircuts, lack of weaponry, but the same lack of collective irony.
So anyway, after the opening was a party at two professors lofts. This was a fun event, punctuated by good wine, good friends and the slow knowledge of my new job emerging among art faculty, who decided it was something to rub in the face of film faculty (since they get all the Hollywood glory it seems). I had good conversations with people about the tech industry vs. academia, and the culture production industry vs. both. Ultimately, no one has said “why are you doing that?” to my new job, which makes me thing that I’m on to something worthwhile, possibly.
Saturday night was my grandparents 50th anniversary. Outside of the customary moving speeches, etc, was the fact that the WORLDS BEST VODKA was served. It was frozen in a block of ice. It tasted like water. My grandma and I shared three or four shots, just sipping away. I was fairly toasted at certain points, which I gather made me more entertaining (or more caustic, I can’t figure out which).
On the way there we were listening to THE BAND’S live show from two days ago and it got me missing THE BAND. My involvement with them is growing, but I will still miss being the uber-fan. Plus I wish we could go see them. Nothing is more fun than their shows. Music to slit your wrists to, while dancing your ass off.
Tomorrow Apple is announcing something huge, so the entry then will be collective analysis of the announcement. Supposedly it might involve Intel, and I have no clue what to think about that. The Power5 chip is amazing, why ditch it? Unless Intel is going to do something amazing. I would have thought that Apple could go with AMD, but I guess we’ll wait until Mr. Turtleneck Steve Jobs gets on stage tomorrow to announce something “insanely great.”