dang, i haven’t posted any text matter here in a while. i don’t know if
i’ve been busy or apathetic, but i know that the day the foldable keyboard
stopped working is probably the last time i posted here. i might be
getting new gear, though. a new phone/phablet and maybe a new keyboard as
well. i’ve gotten used to hauling a netbook around. it’s cheap and
reliable but slow as hell for most things.

i’m trying to travel. i’m not like most people, it seems. i don’t have any
real desire to travel. i went up to niagara Falls with a friend last week.
we drove in my dad’s old car, which was my car for a while before i sold
it to said friend. nothing weird about that, though i thought there might
be. but the trip, as fun and memorable as it was, just sorta happened. i
didn’t seek it out or endeavor to get out of town for any reason, and now
that i’m back i’m finding it hard to maintain any desire to go anywhere
outside these 5 boroughs. this is a city of cities, where a subway ride
takes one as far from home as a plane ride.

and places are all the same, aren’t they? streets and roads, avenues and
boulevards, grids and maps are all essentially the same, it’s the people
and the innards of a city that differ… or do they? are not all beings
the same at fundamental levels?

i saw Garrison Keillor tonight. i knew i would leave early. it was not a
joyful night. it was tedious and formulaic, as i know GK to be after all
these years, but it was also not really close to the Prairie Home
Companion format that i more or less expected. it was alot of him singing,
and O i hate it so much when that guy sings. and here he was crooning with
the New York Philharmonic.

he was, at one time, an influential voice. i was told he was important, or
somehow i was led to believe he was the F. Scott Fitzgerald for our times.
i’ve since come to think he is bitter and condescending, with a disdainful
attitude toward the subjects in his stories. he is the Hopper of American
storytelling.

i was just kinda curious to see his schtick in person. in the past tickets
to his shows in NYC have been sold out immediately, and at prices of
hundreds of dollars. i got this seat for $55 just 2 nights ago.

he looks and sounds good for 70.

he looks and sounds exactly like he did at 50.

i started diving into a variety of softwares the last week or 2. i bought
the adobe creative cloud, which is a subscription thing for $50/month. i
was planning to finally buy the whole CS6 thing on DVD but then i spotted
this and figured it made more sense, at least for a year. my goal is to
make something productive and substantive with every single application in
that suite. i have accumulated raw material for so long now that i forget
the time had come to actually do something with it all. raw material =
100,000+ pictures, over a hundred hours of audio recordings, stories
and writings, and a desire to make movies.

i have been lazy, though, and i’ve been revelling in it, revelling in the
idea and the concept of laziness, and how it takes a lot of work to stay
lazy without being a loser. i’m still not a loser but i was on my way for
a little while this year.

more later, i guess. gotta sleep.