As per usual during my mornings off or so it seems lately I caught a bit of Regis and Kelly; today they were interviewing Dakota Fanning - that's one scary little girl yikes! Anyway, I saw that batman movie last night and seriously, let's just call it spiderman MK2 - same formulaic crap in a can. Unfortunately I was pretty spellbound by the looking through the eyes of an acid trip special effects and did like the move away from the matrix-esque supaslowmo action sequences in favor of a comic bookish quick, indiscernible limbs smashing face in a blur thing. I think I'm waiting to see war of the worlds until it comes out on broadcast television.....looks horrible, plus I'm not sure I can watch with out wretching that scientologist pseudo-pedophile character for the better or worse part of two hours. This week I'm on pace to work about fifty hours and damn, this whole concept of relaxation and sleep is quite all right really. In reading news I'm finishing my second Bukowski book I've read Hot Water Music and am almost finished with Tales of Ordinary Madness. I'm also toiling into this book On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee - it's not a recipe book, basically it's a practical food science text book with a light feel that includes history and epithets and the like a good time spent in non-fiction if you're interested in food at all. I also just finished Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card - don't bother with it unless you've made your way through the rest of the series and like the other series I've read by this funny Mormon allegorist I'd have been better off not following the story though six volumes, but I'll never learn and always follow cool ideas into oblivion. This all brings me to my last issue. What should I read next - vote or some shit and I'll get back to ya...otherwise I'm going to read the copy of Half Asleep in Frog Pagamas by Tom Robbins that I bought used about a year ago and have neglected since - I think I got a martini that day at Tonic(now defunkt) at two in the afternoon.

Keeping it fake,
Erasmus

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I followed a rainbow into minneapolis this evening on my way back from work - it was cool.

over,
Chromeeyes

Quite Right.....

It's been too long my friends, too long since posting and much too long since any content's been set down. Anyway, I got a new cooking job the other day at this pretty hip joint in uptown called Cafe Barbette. Most of the reviews I've seen on the food are negative, but I'll be working for a new chef there who doesn't yet know the blessing he's recieved employing yours truely; new management and chrs on the scene should be a good time. The cool thing about it is there giving me guarenteed hours, a set schedule and bennys (and I mean insurance) which is rare in the cooking gig. Hurrah!

The last few weeks I've been working a ghastly number of hours between the golf club thing and the catering company (I've given these bloody morons notice) and any of you who've seen me in person or talked or not talked to me on the phone might have noticed the fatigue seeping across the rf wave lines. This week on the other hand has been a lot more chill and I'm finally getting back to my groove (this post is a case in point). After finding a suitable apartment in uptown tuesday I took a nap wednesday afternoon for like four and a half hours after work - went to sleep at two-thirty and woke up a little before seven - nice. I've had the last couple of mornings off as well and I'm feeling good except that I slept funny and pulled this muscle in my neck/shoulder/back that only hurts when I check my left blind spot. In other injury news I filletted my left ring fingernail off with my chef's knife about a week ago and it's healing nicely; most of the skin that came off was under the nail so that'll heal without any visible scarring (I'd post a pic, but I'm at the coffee shop so that'll have to wait.

more later and such,
Chromeeyes

post script: anybody got any leads on a good low-end new laptop computer(wireless card ready)? I think I'm going to buy one soon.