Should I go fishing or get a friend to hang around? Celebrated GAY Summer 2012

My lack of interest in reading books has only surfaced in the last five years or so, but has become by biggest character flaw.

i blame the internet, i've had to battle this myself - when i actually settle down with a book i love it as much as ever but it's hard to commit to, like, an unspecified length of time away from the screen and just by yourself. i think my concentration span, never a forte, is probably like 10 secs at most these days

(also this is why i have such antipathy to kindles etc - reading is the one time of my life i get AWAY from computer screens)

^^^ why I've resisted "smart phones" too.

i never thought i'd get one but the sheer amount of online reading i have to do for classes is making an ipad hard to resist. who wants to read 50-plus-page pdf files sitting at a computer desk?

I'm sure you have many worse character flaws, Eric!

tabes, you're a doll to have beers with, but I will sulk every time you threaten to visit hated NYC and never do it.

Rev, I could kiss you. (Tho I'm probably just not voting.) Is your aunt's name DJP?

I've never dated anyone, including the boy I'm with now, who reads more than texts

Now I'm just hearing Sotosyn cover Julie Brown's "I Like Em Big and Stupid." And if my manias are so attractive, why can't you bring a phone charger to NYC, beeyotch?

I've asked the thread's resident c*nt not to call me out by name anymore, so the rest of you don't grow bored with how much he and I loathe each other.

oh also: get the fuck off our thread Mr Que, you mad-cow hemorrhoid.

I'm fixin to listen to Swans new album in a minute! Whee!

T, did u know that they're touring w/ Xiu Xiu? Sadly they won't be together for the Swans show I'm going to in Oct. (w/ La Lechera).

I thought I was over Xiu Xiu, but I saw them this spring and they were great.

Swans and Xiu Xiu sounds like a perfect bill to me. "Always" is great.

I'm sure you have many worse character flaws, Eric!

Well, one at least: tolerating entirely too much bullshit from the people in my life.

that is a bummer. One I need to work on as well.

The sad consolation prize: having more friends, not less.

OK, maybe I've worked on it too hard, in that case.

high standards do clear the room...

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Swans and Xiu Xiu sounds like a perfect bill to me. "Always" is great.

I literally yelped with delight when I read that they were touring together and immediately pulled out my wallet at my desk at work before even looking for tour dates.

Michael Gira seems like a fucking awesome person. I had never read interviews w/ him until recently and he seems like he has lots of artistic integrity and woo woo spiritual ideas, yet at the same time he seems really grounded, reasonable, and pragmatic, and he's funny, too. When I saw him here, he said "I love playing Chicago," gazed out at the crowd, and added, "What a fine looking bunch of Pollacks!"

i'm going to see swans/xiu xiu on my actual bday (tuesday), making this the 2nd time in a year i've seen xiu xiu (after never having seen them at all)

think i might be well enough to continue on with bday observances tonight

yay! happy bday

i am very very very excited for the Swans/Xiu Xiu show on Monday. in fact, i am BEYOND excited. christ.

also i spend a lot of time at the computer but if you saw my book collection, well hot damn.

Having a car has been as destructive to my reading habits as having a laptop. It's much easier to read on a bus than behind the wheel.

Not having a car destroyed my music habit. I've never listened to music at home or work and I like ambient sounds too much to regularly use headphones. + I could sing along in the car.

My iPad (surprise free gift from carl agatha!) jump started my long-lapsed reading habit.

oft not getting a seat, and now juggling a cane, makes commuting reads hard.

My lack of interest in reading books has only surfaced in the last five years or so, but has become
i blame the internet, i've had to battle this myself - when i actually settle down with a book i love it as much as ever but it's hard to commit to, like, an unspecified length of time away from the screen and just by yourself. i think my concentration span, never a forte, is probably like 10 secs at most these days

(also this is why i have such antipathy to kindles etc - reading is the one time of my life i get AWAY from computer screens)

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otm and it makes me so sad as I used to read so much as a kid, then I got a pc and bye books forever ... wonder if you can get your attention span again?

i think i only read about two or three books a month nowadays, if i'm lucky.

I used to be a book per week sort of kid up until almost the end of high school. University made that harder. Law school makes it nigh impossible. I still read a fair bit during the summer but I have so much damn reading for school that the pleasure of reading for pleasure is much diminished.

i read the paper because it tells me things

i am going to play tennis today, i am so excited i could vom

tenn makes u vom?

i don't really think about reading as a numbers game. sometimes i read three-four books a week, sometimes i read a book every month. so much depends upon length, other priorities, and what type of book it is. the Agamben book i'm in the middle of right now is quite heady, with lots of footnotes and references that aren't necessarily crystal clear. needless to say, it's taking me longer than a piece of fiction or poetry, but that's okay— it's about absorption, not about how quickly one can get through things.

also, uni and grad school made me read more, if anything, but yknow, both of my degrees are in Writing, so reading a lot (of fiction, poetry and theory) was part of my whole schtick.

tennis made me vom the one time i played it (i got nasty heatstroke)

wish y'all coulda been at my party last night, it was super-fun, except for the gross shot my friends got me (they asked the bar for their "stupidest shot" - from what we could tell there was bailey's and blue curacao in it) and the fact that i'm probably sicker now than i was yesterday

I've barely read any fiction as an adult. :(

lol I'm in trouble with this guy apparently because, as I learned over text last night from NYC, I was a 'selfish' lover last week.

Morbs, if you see him say kapow.

plz send Instagram

and I'll hit him with my cane.

i used to get upset about not having time to read/not spending enough time reading things that are instructive/important/edifying but with school and relationship i see my time not spent reading as simply time spent doing something else. i guess i am moving away from the mindset of "letters" being the sole source of learning.

dr, that sounds like the shot i used to get voluntarily every year on my birthday at the bar in Oberlin! the Shark Attack. grenadine, blue curacao and vodka. delightfully tacky yet strangely delicious, too.

that sounds like something i'd maybe want to drink though. this thing tasted like brownie batter and looked like sewage water.

Brownie batter is delicious!

yes, when it's ACTUALLY BROWNIE BATTER

Certain lube products have destroyed the word "batter" for me.

Oh wait, that's "butter."

I have long thought that their should be a less appealing, debatably healthier alternative to Boy Butter called Man Margarine.

Baby batter is great but calling it that makes it seem far less so.

thank God I use tobacco juice and WD40 instead

Sliquid H20 all the way.

is baby batter a lube or are you just referring to cum, je55e?

Cum.

God, I hope no one has branded a lube as Baby Batter.