a lot of singing

today i drove to my parents' home in maryland for thanksgiving break. i probably won't be doing shoe/book posts from here because most of my shoes and books are at my apartment in dc. not that i've been doing them every day anyway hehe. last week i was getting ready for susie anderson to visit and then she was here and we were ustreaming :)

i had tons of fun this weekend with so many lit friends visiting! dj berndt, jess dutschmann, megan boyle, zachary german, michael michael motorpsychle, shaun gannon, will bechtold and jae dyche came down for the reading, along with some new-to-ustream mfa friends of mine (readers included allison wyss, katie herman and anna rowser.) beach sloth blogged about it (<3). the reading was a success. i want to make it into a bi-monthly series, and will be working very hard to get a reading together for late january, because i won't be back from new zealand until jan. 18.

last night, i watched inland empire with jax for our monday/tuesday night date night. this has been our third david lynch in a row and it was the least accessible so far to me. my first introduction to inland empire came from my good friend derek lessard during a hollywood horror film class we both took in 2008. for a presentation in class, derek played the clip where nikki first gets her instructions for looking through the silk (i wish i had the video clip to put here, idk if i'm describing this part well.) reality, film, being a character and dreaming all seemed fluid in this movie. seems like i had quite a few deja vu moments during the film. didn't help that the film seemed to be bleeding into real life as jax and i couldn't get our films to synch up. we'd set our dvd's to the same time and they'd be on different images; we'd synch up the images but then check back in a minute and be out of synch again; one minute, jax would be ahead in his version, then i would be; jax would say 'did you see x' and i wouldn't have seen it; sometimes i saw it later, sometimes the image never came (i never saw any clown.) we took a break and when we came back, i said 'it would be nice to be invisible i think' and jax said if you were invisible, it would be nice to also be able to be silent because otherwise people would still hear you doing loud things. immediately after starting the film back up, one character was not able to see another but could still hear her. very weird things happening during and around this one. if i had to put the three in order: 1) eraserhead, 2) mulholland dr., 3) inland empire. that is also the order we've watched them in. i wonder if this is correlated? next week is blue velvet.

today i got real bored during my drive to my parents' home. to cope, i recorded a series of music videos from songs on the radio, starting with linkin park and ending with nine inch nails. here they are, throughout.