a certain lunatic who gives me headaches/808s/heartbreaks/etc. read me a bunch of essays by joan didion recently and i keep thinking about them. so i'm reading and rereading slouching toward bethlehem and still thinking the 60s were really my era.
books, guys.
BOOKS!
if you're not familiar, it's sorta like a paper blog?
i think she may be the coolest crazy lady around these days.
get on it, feed your brain for a second.
also:
someone buy me this first edition of Joanie D's The White Album..this cover is the dopenesssss
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Why do I not know who she is? Just read the wikipedia page on her and she seems like a cool cat.
weird, I'm on a serious Joan Didion kick right now too. get outta my head!! (jaykay, I love a good mind twin)
Crazy.
Last summer I went to the L.A. area for the first time.... spent a month.... read Slouching Towards Bethlehem while there... finished it on the train home through the desert to Tucson.
LOVED IT!!! hooked.
mmm yes...books...how I do love those things.
read "Play it as it Lays." More didion and so good.
i live in Orange County but there is something magical about summer in so. cal. The light is PERFECT!
I wish she was my mother sometimes. The majority of her life seemed so rich and perfect. The fact that she's somehow still going just blows my mind. Live forever, Joan.
the 60's were my decade too, fer shur. I spent all weekend reading "Hippie".
I am all over Didion as well. She's an o.g., in The White Album she talks about her packing list for her journalism trips, i dig it.
TO PACK:2 skirts, 2 jerseys or leotards, 1 pullover sweater, 2 pairs of shoes, stockings, bra, nightgown, robe, slippers, cigarettes, bourbon, bag with: shampoo, toothbrush and paste, basis soap, razor, deodorant, aspirin, prescriptions, tampax, face cream, powder, baby oil TO CARRY: mohair throw, typewriter, 2 legal pads and pens, files, house key.
For some reason I find this fascinating, and am determined to pack the same. Someday.
Anywho, feeling you on the Didion love.
-B
Can't wait for WL in SF. It will be BANANANANANAS
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