Your Boring Saturday Night

I've read all four big ones (disclosure: I quit on The Idiot about a hundred pages from the end). Before I had read the P/V Demons translation. I opted for Magarshack this time bcz I had read his translation of C+P and basically thought it was the best novel I had ever read, and then read some of the P/V translation and wasn't sure I would've come to the same conclusion had I encountered that one first.

Anyways, I have been planning to re-read it ever since difficult listening hour posted a bunch about it some months ago. I was worried that DM might not do justice to its bonkers humor and jagged intensity but I'm only a few pages in and the disorienting satirical tone is still very bracing...

i've never read magarshack but i'll keep him in mind as a translator to check out. i just finished the donald rayfield translation of gogol's "dead souls" and it was okay... but i think i like pevear and volohonksy's rendering of gogol's "voice" in the short stories. maybe i should just stick with them because many of my all-time favorite reading experiences have been their translations of dostoevsky, chekhov, and gogol. their version of notes from underground is much better than whichever one was included in the norton annotated edition.

Didn't P?V re-translate the title for NftU? into something like a Notes from a Dank Cellar or something?

yeah dude I think if P/V are working for you, then keep with them. I had a book of Chekhov's short stories that they translated which were excellent.

it's just called "Notes from Underground" i think, not "the Underground." the chekhov stories they translated are indeed awesome.

i tried to order their translation of anna karenina but amazon sent me louise and aylmer maude instead. i think i might try that one.

Went to The Getty Center in Brentwood around 6pm. It was quite nice.

I had no idea there was a band performing and a DJ. Saw both for a few minutes. Seemed like a cool vibe but I had to go.

The waitress at this Turkish restaurant in Westwood I went to was quite charming.

apparently I won an award for a role I played at a local theatre tonight. not there, tho....cuz I'm out of town to see Sab tomorrow.

ah congrats!

thanks! bummed that I wasn't there to get it, but just happened to be scheduled on an inconvenient evening. Oh well, nice to be recognized at least!

Just chiming in here to say that I really like P/V's translation of Demons, one of my all-time favorite books.

only hours away

At a housewarming parteh

did you warm it?

Im abooouuuuut tooooo

ruh roh

i have: seltzer. two hot dogs. and steely dan.

World Magic Cup on the big screen tv and a hot water bottle on my neck

tidying up the apartment, which was pretty tidy already thanks to a recent cleaning binge. mostly doing dishes, picking things up off the floor, sweeping up. we have people coming over tonight.

exciting. i have cleaning to do but mostly i just want to lie down.

Hanging downstairs in my sister's apartment with the kitten & Orange Is The New Black on Netflix. Party on, Wayne!

Looking at Maine rental properties AGAIN because the dick we're renting from "forgot to update the calendar" when somebody reserved the house from him for our dates back in May.

i put another seltzer in the freezer to cool it quickly

Watching Cloud Atlas. It's quite carnival of silly prosthetics.

that is a terrible movie but the book is aiight

i have my laptop again. it was at the apple store, in repairs, for five days

they fix whatever was fucked up w/ it?

they fixed the main thing that was wrong with it but now the internal speakers don't work, and the laptop only has sound when either headphones or speakers are plugged in. apparently this is an easy fix though, but i am going to need to bring it back in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishima:_A_Life_in_Four_Chapters

watched this movie tonight. it was amazing.

I can't party like I used to. maybe it was cuz I showed up early to help the host get a keg, but like 4 hours in, all the beer/jello shots made me sleepy and they let me 'nap' on one of their guest beds. by 9:30, it was a night. oi. :/

PLUS....now, with my worsening reflux issues, the beer gave me some of the worst heartburn I've had in my life.

still a fun party tho, but I do miss the days where I could party til 3 in the morning...

just saw a dude on the road holding a sign that says

"Jesus Loves You.
Free water with prayer."

i'm not having a bad day.

i am probably going to get some chinese food later.

Thai food for me.

:D

homemade pulled pork sandwiches & beans with my father in-law

parrot is caged today, dogs are chill, all is well

i'm watching kate beckinsale snow mystery. i love snow movies.

my friends are going to bl0ck 1sl4nd tomorrow and have to wake up at four so they went home. i am going downstairs to see what movies are "on demand".

watching the virin suicides. i really like kirsten dunst.

there's fried rice in the kitchen.

stacy can't you see? you're just not the girl for me

Ordered in bad sushi
Doing physical therapy but only the exercises I can while still looking at computer
Mainlining Top of the Lake

Pasta, Immitation of Life, baby girl and J. and I am super hyper.

I could use subtitles for some of the scenes tbh

went to the state beach in ventura and dipped my toes in the water. mostly sat on the blanket and watched the dogs running around. had lunch at a brewery and drank a nice doppelbock. bought souvenirs on main street: a white shawl that looks like a big doily, a cedarwood/thyme/basil soy candle, a copy of the NYT new england heritage cookbook so i can make a nice cape cod style fish stew or seafood chowder or w/e.

now we're home and we're bothering our cat.

Spending Saturday night with Grandma >>>> the patios I should be on

i am probably going to get some chinese food later.

― markers, Saturday, August 10, 2013 7:28 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

misread this as 'i am publicly going to get some chinese food later'

well, i did have to leave the house

who knows

going to a housewarming party, need to do laundry, but roommate is washing his girlfriends underwear right now.