i have recently been loving this song by nathaniel rateliff: laughing
i'm also loving my friends' bands louis and the hunt and scattered trees. both come highly recommended.
other things i've been loving lately:
- cooler weather for bike rides.
- living in a mexican neighborhood during halloween. the dia de los muertes murals on every shop window are enough, but the spirit in general is pretty great. i wish i was going to be around during trick-or-treating tomorrow.
- riding my bike around the city during halloween. i'm not a huge halloween person myself, but there's something about these couple days/nights that i love about the city. it's a few days when nothing is unexpected or unexplained. people can look/do almost anything and it can be explained away. it's a little bit like living in a surrealist painting/movie.
- finally really getting into 'atlas shrugged' by ayn rand. it took me almost to page 700 to really get in the groove, but it's been worth it. the most recent underlined quote:
"she felt an odd calm, almost a confident repose; she knew that it was tension, but the tension of a great clarity. she caught herself thinking: she's functioning well in an emergency, i'll be all right with her--and she realized that she was thinking of herself."
and another, since it relates so well to many of my posts in the last month or two:
" 'no one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy'...she did not answer, she felt as if a word would overfill the fullness of this moment, she merely turned to him with a look of acquiescence that was disarmed, childishly humble and would have been an apology but for its shining joy."
- knowing that if and when i finish atlas shrugged, i get to move on to 'the corrections' by jonathan franzen, and i have some great friends and family members to discuss it with!
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