Name Ten Things

It's officially saturday for another 25 minutes.
Time for this week's "Name Ten Things"
I've got a big stack of books that I want to read. I own them, but haven't read them yet. Time to put down the comics and do some real reading.

Name Ten Books I'm Planning On Reading Soon
1) A Moveable Feast By Ernest Hemingway (about halfway finished)
2) Silent Bob Speaks By Kevin Smith
3) The Cinema Book No author listed
4) To The Lighthouse By Virginia Woolf
5) This Side Of Paradise By F. Scott Fitzgerald
6) How Not To Write A Screenplay By Denny Martin Flinn
7) The Cantos Of Ezra Pound By Ezra Pound
8) The Red And The Black By Stendhal
9) If Chins Could Kill By Bruce Campbell
10) Talking Pictures By Sylvia Shorris and Marion Abbott Bundy

Moveable Feast

I actually feel like I'm getting better as a writer.
It's because I read "A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway.
Even for a partially non-fiction book, it was pretty great.
Anytime I can hear/read more stories about Ezra Pound I'm happy.

But I learned some things about writing from the book that are really useful.
1) Always stop when there's still something left in the well. That way it fills up in between the times when you sit down to write. It also gives you a starting point, and everyone knows the hardest part of writing is getting started.

2) It's ok to write about yourself. A lot of people say you shouldn't write about yourself because nobody ever finds you as interesting as you do, but Hemingway proves this is bullshit. Sometimes the best stuff comes from personal experience, and a character who you connect with will always have that little extra emotional push because you connect with them.

3) It's funny when you call people bitches. Hemingway was a total dick to most people and it's hilarious to read.

4) Write a lot. This is pretty obvious but it's something I wasn't doing. After upping the amount of time I set aside just for writing I've gotten so much done and so many great ideas.

This is what I've learned from Hemingway the past couple of days. What a guy.
Pretty nice beard too.

Name Ten Things

Saturday again.
It really doesn't feel like the weekend when you have to wake up at 3 a.m. to go to work. But it's time for this weeks Name Ten Things.

Ten things I hate about Thom Yorke:
1) He wrote a song for the fucking New Moon soundtrack. What the fuck man?
2) He's a douche.
3) His face bothers me.
4) His teeth bother me.
5) That weird head shaking thing he does when he sings is annoying.
6) Every time I read pitchfork news I have to sift through at least 10 stories about him..
7) Radiohead is good.
8) He's ugly as fuck.
9) He knows that people will make a big deal over everything he does and is obviously super into himself.
10) Even though he's somehow become this big deal, he still acts like everything sucks. You can't walk around hating the world if you have a million fucking dollars.

Name Ten Things

Just got back from Madison so I'll do 'Name Ten Things' a day late.

Name Ten Things to do when getting home from a road trip

1) Shower
2) Pee
3) Eat
4) Change clothes
5) Sober up
6) Not unpack your shit
7) Listen to too much Alanis Morrisette
8) Stare at a wall
9) Lay down
10) Sleep

Name Ten Things

Every Saturday I'm going to be putting up a list from now on.
I guess I'll call this "Name Ten Things"
Here's the first try:

Ten Albums I Can't Stop Listening To Right Now:
1) The Rural Alberta Advantage - "Hometowns"
2) Harlem Shakes - "Technicolor Health"
3) Plants And Animals - "Parc Avenue"
4) Alanis Morisette - "The Collection"
5) Discovery - "LP"
6) Bowerbirds - "Upper Air"
7) Cymbals Eat Guitars - "Why There Are Mountains"
8) Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground - "s/t"
9) Phoenix - "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix"
10) The Unicorns - "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?"