July 31, 2005
Since You Asked
1) Total number of books I've owned
This is tricky. Do you own them if you stole them? Do you own them if you gave them away or left them somewhere as soon as you finished them? What if both stolen and given away later? Do poetry chapbooks count? If yes to everything, I’m going to guess about four thousand.
2) The last book I bought
Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O’Hara by Joe LeSueur, which I was surprised to find in the little EngLang bookstore down the street. I went in looking for The Art of War by Sun Tzu (now the owner tells me I should have looked in “Religion” — umm?)
3) The last book I read
Okay, Karl Marx’s The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.
4) Five books that mean a lot to me (in no particular order)
Hopscotch, Julio Cortazar
A Wave, John Ashbery
Farewell To An Idea, T.J. Clark
Cosmos, Witold Gombrowicz
In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni, Guy Debord
5) Total volume of music files on my computer
I have three computers, but there’s a lot of overlap. Maybe eight or nine gigs. I trash files about as fast as I add them, and I almost never move anything from a CD to my computer if it has more than one good song, which is laziness disguised as “policy.”
6) Last CD I bought
Like Caramanica says: “Bought”? I doubt I’ve paid actual cash for a disc more than ten times this millennium. Anyway, for sure it was that Chamillionaire triple-disc I got in Austin last fall; Joe Gross took me shopping.
7) Album playing right now
The recent album by Camille (no relation to Chamillionaire, as far as I know) that my friend Mireille (who is in fact Kamillionaire's niece) burned for me; I don't know its name.
8) Five songs/albums I listen to a lot these days
Still listening to Ciara’s album; Arular; and the new Nikka Costa, cantneverdidnothin or something. A song called “Vivons pour demain” by one Leslie. And, uh, “City of Blinding Lights,” by U2, about which I actually do feel embarrassed.
[typos corrected 8/2/05, in wake of Brother-Jones]
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