{"id":610,"date":"2007-10-04T08:40:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T08:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=610"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:06:03","slug":"a_la_super_eggp-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/a_la_super_eggp-18.html","title":{"rendered":"\u00c0 la Super Eggplant, currently, I am&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Making:<\/u> Fucking nothing.  That&#8217;s right, NOTHING.<\/p>\n<p><u>Reading:<\/u> So my dad and I had this conversation about how we both just lovelovelove <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxedquarterly.com\/\"><strong>Slightly Foxed <\/strong><\/a>but we were both falling behind in reading it because every time you read it, you spend half the time you&#8217;re reading it running around looking for books in your &#8220;library&#8221; you&#8217;ve forgotten about and figuring out if you have that book by that author or some other book and going and buying more books because now it&#8217;s reminded you of a book&#8230;.  Yeah and our ultimate conclusion to this long conversation was that sometimes you just have to read them to enjoy reading what they&#8217;re saying about things and NOT let yourself get into a frenzy of adding more and more things to your to-be-read pile.  So last week I read the last four issues.  And then I was at loose ends.  OH NO.  What to do.  Then the Miracle Man came to visit from Hong Kong yesterday and we wandered by a bookstore and Holy Shit, Haven Kimmel has a new book out! Why didn&#8217;t anyone tell me???  So yeah.  Now I&#8217;m reading <strong>&#8220;The Used World&#8221; by Haven Kimmel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><u>Watching:<\/u>  Fucking boatloads of fresh fall TV.  Boatfuckingloads, I tell you.  <\/p>\n<p><u>Listening:<\/u>  New albums from bands I have loved awhile now:  <strong>Athlete<\/strong>, <strong>The Thrills<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/09\/first_impressio.html\">Rogue Wave<\/a><\/strong>.  The awesomely atmospheric <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/09\/album_eddie_ved.html\"><strong>Eddie Vedder <\/strong>soundtrack<\/a>.  New albums from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/09\/1973_you_say.html\"><strong>James Blunt <\/strong><\/a>and <strong>Kanye <\/strong>(I like this one more and more the more I listen to, although I still agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/09\/album_kanye_wes.html\">my initial thoughts that it&#8217;s not as joyful<\/a>)&#8230;  Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/09\/in_concert_ben_.html\"><strong>Ben Harper <\/strong><\/a>hasn&#8217;t left the rotation.  New boys like <strong>Jeremy Fisher<\/strong>.  New (to me) girls like <strong>Meiko<\/strong>, and <strong>Maria Taylor<\/strong>, and <strong>Sara Bareille<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making: Fucking nothing. That&#8217;s right, NOTHING. Reading: So my dad and I had this conversation about how we both just lovelovelove Slightly Foxed but we were both falling behind in reading it because every time you read it, you spend &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/a_la_super_eggp-18.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31,4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-currently","category-tunes","category-tvtvtv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3766,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/3766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}