September 27, 2007

• Movie Night

  I’m thinking of watching Match Point this evening. Any of the nearby-living folk possibly maybe interested in coming over and checking out the new couch? I’d be interested in offering dinner though I’m short of ideas at this moment.

  P.S. Bank of Lancaster County, which has been bought and will be merged into some other conglomerate next year, has a sign in the window of their Duke Street branch: Consider a career as a part-time teller. Really? You think that part-timing it counts as a career. You and I disagree on that point.

  I just deleted a piece of spam: “she will be running away from your dick.” was the subject line. I suppose because it will be so enlarged. But I imagine the real reasons will be somewhat other than the incredible effectiveness of the pills they mail you.

  Unsurprisingly, I love the new Springsteen album, which comes out on Tuesday. (No, I don’t think he needs more millions from another album’s sales. I think he, at 58, wants his art to be appreciated and listened to.) It’s his first project with the E Street Band since The Rising. The first track contains a refrain at the end of the song, “I just want to hear some rhythm.” On the surface, not his deepest lyric. But I think it says a great deal about him as a man and a musician. After all he’s done, he still just plain loves music.

  I didn’t buy anything mind-numbingly wonderous at the library’s Harvest Book Sale. (I went Tuesday evening.) Jack Welch’s “Winning,” Marcus Borg’s “The God We Never Knew,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Fitzgerald’s translation of the full Oedipus cycle, and Judith Rossner’s “August,” for about $9.50.

  Also, I have BIG lancaster-county-type announcement to make, but only to anyone I physically see tonight.

  • 12:25 pm
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